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Isabella Kerr, n. Gunn (30 May 1875 to 12 January 1932) was a medical missionary who founded pioneering clinics treating leprosy in Dichpali and Hyderabad, India.

Biography
Isabel Gunn was born in Enzie, Banff to Mary Garden and John Bain Gunn, farmers.

Education
Isabel graduated with an MBChB from the University of Aberdeen

Career
Having married Rev. G. M. Kerr, a former joiner turned Wesleyan minister, the couple went out to Hyderabad as missionaries in 1907.

Isabel learned to speak Teluga and set up wayside dispensaries.

Realising how widespread leprosy was in Nizamabad, Isabel established a home for lepers in Dichpali in 1915, providing palliative care. This home was funded by a wealthy Hindu and was open to patients of every religion and caste.

This led to pioneering research applying a curative treatment for leprosy using intramuscular injections of hyndocarpus oil, based on the work of Edwin Muir and Leonard Rogers, in 1921.

She later opened a second clinic in Hyderabad and conducted teaching work in both clinics. Travelling widely, Isabel reached M

For her tireless work in furthering the treatment of leprosy she was awarded the KaiserI-Hind gold medal in 1923.