[3] Scottish doctor David Watt Torrance graduated his medical studies in Glasgow in 1883, after which he travelled to Ottoman Palestine where he assisted in the inauguration of the Sea of Galilee Medical Mission.

[4] Back in Tiberias after undertaking further training in Egypt, Damascus and Nazareth, he opened a two-room hospital near the Franciscan monastery, offering services to patients of all religions.

[4] That same year his son, Dr. Herbert Watt Torrance, also a graduate of Glasgow University, was appointed head of the hospital.

[5][3] The Church of Scotland maintained there a resident minister and bookshop in continuation of its missionary work.

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