Lin Qiaozhi

On the seventh anniversary of Lin's death in 1990, China Post issued a commemorative stamp to honour her.

Lin suffered from several diseases later in life. She died on April 22, 1983, at the PUMC Hospital. She donated her body for anatomical teaching. Later, her ashes were scattered over the sea. She left money to be used for a kindergarten and to endow a fund to award a young resident.

Lin trusted that "better to be early than late" for the antenatal check-up. In the 1970s, there was once a pregnant woman who delayed her first antenatal check-up to the 7th month. She was angry, and regarded it as a shame for an obstetrician and gynecologist, since she blamed the situation on her negligent manner.

Lin was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955 as the first batch of members and was the only female academician. She also served as a delegate from the 1st to the 5th National People's Congresses. She was a member of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

The effect of respiration stimulants in the newborn infant, Am. J. Obst. & Gynec., 50: 146–153, 1945

Lin took advanced training in London and Manchester in 1932, she went to Vienna in the next year as a visiting scholar. In 1939, Lin went to Chicago University Medical School to continue her research. Meantime, Lin focused on the placenta praevia and placental abruption.

Lin won the Walter A. Hawley scholarship (Chinese: 文海奖学金) to the PUMC as the best graduate in 1929, which was considerable and might amount to the annual salary of an assistant resident.

Lin Qiaozhi or Kha-Ti Lim (Chinese: 林巧稚; pinyin: Lín Qiǎozhì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Khá-tī; December 23, 1901 – April 22, 1983) was a Chinese obstetrician and gynecologist at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital. She conducted research in the fields of fetal breathing, female pelvic diseases, gynecologic oncology and neonatal hemolytic disorders. She revolutionized modern Chinese gynecology and oncology. As an obstetrician, she delivered over 50,000 babies in her career. She never married or had children of her own, but always wrote "Lin Qiaozhi's Baby" on the newborns' name tags, resulting in her nickname "Mother of Ten Thousand Babies(万婴之母)" . She died in Beijing on April 23, 1983.

Lin was born at Gulangyu on December 23, 1901. She came from a Westernized and Christian background, which shared with PUMC, hence she had a desire to be enrolled at the latter. She arrived in Shanghai to take the Pre-Medical Entrance Test of the college in 1921. Conducting the aid of a fainted damsel interrupted completing her paper. Still, the college admired her selflessness and admitted her eventually as a special case.