NESTLED against the hillside in the beautiful mountains of Scotland forty-five miles north of Edinburgh, in the town of Crieff, stands one of the last remaining bastions of the medical work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the British Isles. The institution is known as the Crieff Nursing Home and Health Institute, and the director is Dr. Gertrude M. Brown. This center of health education and medical care owes its existence to Dr. G. M. Brown and her late husband, Dr. Edward Brown. They started this center after transferring their medical work from Edinburgh following World War II, and in spite of many difficulties which have providentially been overcome, the institution has not only survived but has now been turned over to the British Union Conference.
It was my recent pleasure to visit this institution upon the invitation of Dr. Brown and Pastor Kinman (medical secretary of the British Union Conference). Although Dr. Gertrude Brown celebrated her ninety-first birthday on December 14, 1970, she is still extremely active in the daily practice of medicine in this institution. Dr. Brown may, indeed, be considered one of the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist medical work in Great Britain, and was an early associate of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. She worked in the Battle Creek Sanitarium and Hospital for a number of years. Her forthcoming book entitled I Have Lived is a fascinating saga of modern miracles and the direct leading of the hand of God in her life. No one interested in Seventh-day Adventist medical work or in its historical development will want to miss reading this story. It is soon to be published by the Review and Herald Publishing Association.
