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, East China, and later became an associate professor at the University Hospital, Tsinan 's Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. After World War II, she settled in London and became Secretary to the Medical Missions Department of the

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Education

Gell graduated from the University of Sheffield, M.B.Ch.B., in 1922.

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