 Religion was incorporated into Dow’s medical missionary work, and in fact, medicine was, in some ways, a vehicle through which she was able to evangelize others.Several times during her tenure in the North Honan Mission, Dow took furloughs in order to deliver speeches in churches about her missionary work or to enroll in post graduate courses to study the latest advancements in tropical medicine.In 1901, in the wake of the Boxer Rebellion, Dow left Honan China to study Tropical Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine.