The textbooks in the North China Medical College
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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
The North China Medical College typically represented medical colleges for traditional Chinese medicine in the 1930s when many of them were set up. It was based on the principles of centring on traditional Chinese medicine, following western medicine and integrated medicine in teaching. This led to the emergence of a great number of people with a high level of traditional Chinese medicine and strong belief in it. In terms of the textbooks and handouts for western medicine, compared to similar
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"Identifying forms and verifying quality" in materia medica
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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
The thinking of "identifying forms and verifying quality'' in materia medica research came from the theory of "treatment based on syndrome differentiation" in traditional Chinese medicine. It refers to an approach to evaluate the quality of materia medica based on their characteristics and external properties in order to clarify the nature of medicinal materials. This paper examined the historical development of "identifying forms and verifying quality'' fr
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Materia medica illustrations related to the regional names in Shandong province in Ben Cao Tu Jing
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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
Ben Cao Tu Jing had 48 materia medica illustrations related to the regional names in Shandong province. It was found that 42 of them were plant medicinal materials, distributed in seven areas in Shandong province. This study examined these illustration of plant medicinal materials and found that 26 species of these illustration of plant medicinal materials were identified with three genera and 11 illustrations were unverified. Most materia medica illustrations relating to the regional names i
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Cheng Zhifan and the Chinese Journal of Medical History
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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
Professor Cheng Zhifan (1922-2018), was a famous contemporary Chinese medical historian and medical history educator, who successively served as the deputy editor in chief, editor in chief and honorary editor in chief for the Chinese Journal of Medical History. He developed the Chinese Journal of Medical History into an important academic journal in the field of Chinese medical history. He had his 46 papers published in the Chinese Journal of Medical History. The papers published in his youth
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The works of Zhang Wenzhong as the Shang Yao Feng Yu in the early Tang Dynasty
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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
Zhang Wenzhong, a famous Chinese medical doctor in the early Tang Dynasty, was granted a particular position as Shang Yao Feng Yu, for the Empress Wu Ze Tian dealing with medication. He was good at dealing with stroke in particular. He also had unique viewpoints towards medical prescriptions and skills. He wrote medical books and developed his own medical theories. All these were recorded in both the Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang. However, most of his works had been lost due to time a
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A new perspective on Su Wen re-collated in the Song Dynasty
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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
The government of the Northern Song Dynasty collated and annotated Su Wen four times from 1026-1118. It examined a large number of errors in the collated edition by Wang Bing, and corrected the edition. However, for reasons of time and conditions, there still existed some mistakes, even serious ones, such as the selection of the original texts and the determination of the titles and many other details as well. Among these mistakes, the one which seriously prevented learning medical classics f
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A Japanese classic book on materia medica Ben Cao Quan
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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
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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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
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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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
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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Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
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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