A Japanese classic book on materia medica Ben Cao Quan
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
Ben Cao Quan is an ancient classic book on materia medica compiled by Goku Yoshida, a Japanese scholar in the Edo period (1603-1867). A total of 568 materia medica in 53 categories in Ben Cao Quan came from Ben Cao Gang Mu compiled by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty. These materia medica were introduced with some of his own interpretations of Goku Yoshida. The main characteristics of Ben Cao Quan reflected as follows. It attached importance to the comparison of translation from Chinese into Ja
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Health management in the Southwest District from 1950 to 1952
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
A sequence of essential measures were taken by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the government in the Southwest District, to rebuild social rules, carry out social changes and improve the local health situation in the beginning period of the New China. These measures referred to the construction of an administrative organization system, the recovery and rectification of medical and pharmaceutical administration, the training of health professionals, environmental pollution improvement a
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A Brief Discussion on International Academic Exchanges in Chinese Medical History in the 1980s: An Interview with Researcher Li Jingwei
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
Li Jingwei is the first generation of medical history and philology experts trained by the new China. In 1958, he worshiped Chen Bangxian as his teacher and engaged in related scientific research work. He had many exchanges with Joseph Needham, a famous British historian of science and technology. In the 1980s, as a representative of the field of medical history research, Li Jingwei conducted academic exchanges with scholars from Thailand, Japan, Germany, the United States and other countries
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Takaki Kanehiro and the diet experiments of beriberi in navy in modern Japan
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
Beriberi is a disease caused by insufficiency vitamin B 1 in the body which, if untreated, can cause death. It was the disease with the highest incidence in the Japanese army during the Meiji and Taisho Periods. It was treated with a variety of therapeutic treatments by the Navy and the Army respectively, based on the different therapy systems of Britain and Germany at the time, with an argument about these treatments lasting more than half a century. Eventually, the Navy experimented with di
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Tokyo Bones Find and human experiments by the army medical school in Tokyo
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Chinese Journal of Medical History / Zhong Hua Yi Shi Za Zhi
More than 100 human bones, known as the Tokyo Human Bones, were found at the previous site of the Army Medical School in Tokyo, Japan, on July 22, 1989. They were located on the northern side of the previous location of the epidemic prevention research unit of the Army Medical School, with the discovery drawing a great deal of international attention. It was suggested that these bones might be from the victims of human experiments during World War II. It was found, in 1991, by Professor Sakur
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