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List Of Chinese Physicians
B * Bian Que （扁鹊）(ca. 500 B.C.). – TCM physician C * Buwei Yang Chao (1889–1981) * Dr. Margaret Chan (陳馮富珍) – Current Director-General of the WHO (4 January 2007 – 30 June 2012) * Chen Cheng – 陈承 G * Gao Yaojie （高耀洁医生） * Ge Hong H * Hua Tuo （华佗）(ca. 110–207). – TCM physician * Dr. Kuan Huang (黄宽医生) * Huangfu Mi (皇甫謐) (215–282 CE) – Expert in acupuncture J * Ji Ben (吉本)( – 200) * Jiang Yanyong （蒋彦永医生）1931– L * Li Shizhen （李时珍）(1518–1593) – TCM physician * Lin Qiaozhi （林巧稚） – Gynecologist * Liu Wansu （刘完素） M * Ma Xiaonian (1945 – ) N * Ngeow Sze Chan (饒師泉)(1915–2002) S * Sun Simiao （孙思邈）581–682 – TCM physician * Song Ci （宋慈） – Forensic expert T * Tang Zonghai – early advocate for the integration of Chinese and Western medicine W * Zhen-yi Wang * Wong Fei Hung （黄飞鸿 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bian Que
Bian Que (; 407 – 310 BC) was an ancient Chinese figure traditionally said to be the earliest known Chinese physician during the Warring States period. His real name is said to be Qin Yueren (), but his medical skills were so amazing that people gave him the same name as the (original) legendary doctor Bian Que, from the time of the Yellow Emperor. He was a native of the State of Qi. Life and legend According to the legend recorded in the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' (), he was gifted with clairvoyance from a deity when he was working as an attendant at a hostel that catered to the nobility. It was there he encountered an old man who had stayed there for many years. Thankful for Bian Que's attentive service and politeness, the old man gave him a packet of medicine which he told Bian Que to boil in water. After taking this medicine, Bian Que gained the ability to see through the human body and thereby became an excellent diagnostician with X-ray-like ability. He also excel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Qiaozhi
Lin Qiaozhi or Kha-Ti Lim (; December 23, 1901 – April 22, 1983) was a Chinese obstetrician and gynecologist at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital. She conducted research in the fields of fetal breathing, female pelvic diseases, gynecologic oncology and neonatal hemolytic disorders. She revolutionized modern Chinese gynecology and oncology. As an obstetrician, she delivered over 50,000 babies in her career. She never married or had children of her own, but always wrote "Lin Qiaozhi's Baby" on the newborns' name tags, resulting in her being nicknamed "Mother of Ten Thousand Babies (万婴之母)" . She died in Beijing on April 23, 1983. Lin was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences as the only female academician in the first batch of members in 1955. She also served as a delegate to the 1st through 5th National People's Congresses. She was a member of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Early life and education Lin was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Zhongjing
Zhang Zhongjing (; 150–219), formal name Zhang Ji (), was a Chinese pharmacologist, physician, inventor, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty and one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Han dynasty. He established medication principles and summed up the medicinal experience until that time, thus making a great contribution to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Biography Though well known in modern Chinese medicine and considered one of the finest Chinese physicians in history, very little is known about his life. According to later sources, he was born in Nanyang, held an official position in Changsha and lived from approximately 150 to 219 AD. Exact dates regarding his birth, death and works vary, but an upper limit of 220 AD is generally accepted. It is also speculated that he created jiaozi ( - gyoza/dumplings/potstickers) to help people with frostbitten ears. During his time, with warlords fighting for their own territori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wang (physician)
Charles Wang () is a Chinese physician and lawyer. He is a leading figure in the merging of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in medical therapy. Wang studied Western medicine at the Shanghai Second Medical University, graduating in 1986. Afterwards he entered the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where he earned a master's degree in TCM in 1988. Having finished his studies, Wang's first few years as a medical practitioner were spent serving as a resident, and then as an endocrinologist and a specialist of Chinese medicine at Shanghai's renowned Ruijin Hospital. In 1995, Wang briefly left the medical field to study at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where he earned an LL.M. Much of Wang's most important work is with foreign clientele and organizations, particularly those in Europe, where his expertise in medicine and law is highly regarded. As a lawyer, Wang served as co-chairman of the Asia-Europe "Workshop of Copyright Trading for Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Zhongcheng
Wang Zhongcheng (; December 20, 1925 – September 30, 2012) was a Chinese surgeon, and author of many literature which greatly popularized Cerebral angiography, cerebral angiography and microneurosurgery techniques in mainland China. Wang was a native of Yantai. He began as a general surgeon, but soon turned to neurosurgery. He served as President of Xuwu Hospital, Director of the Beijing Neurosurgical Institute and President of Beijing Tiantan Hospital. He performed more than 10,000 operations over his career. He was selected as an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994, and was awarded the Highest Science and Technology Award of 2008. References External linksWang Zhongcheng's obituary 1925 births 2012 deaths Physicians from Shandong People from Yantai Peking University alumni Chinese surgeons Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering People of the Republic of China {{China-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wong Fei Hung
Wong Fei-hung (born Wong Sek-cheung with the courtesy name Tat-wun; 9 July 1847 – 17 April 1925) was a Chinese martial artist, physician, and folk hero. His recent fame was due to becoming the subject of numerous martial arts films and television series. Even though he was considered an expert in the Hung Ga style of Chinese martial arts, his real public fame was as a physician, who practiced and taught acupuncture, Dit Da and other forms of traditional Chinese medicine in the now famous Po Chi Lam (), a medical clinic in Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung Province (Guangdong). A museum dedicated to him was built in his birthplace in Fatshan (Foshan), Kwangtung. Alternative names Wong's original given name was Sek-cheung or Xixiang () before it was changed to Fei-hung (Feihong). His courtesy name was Dat-wan or Dayun (). Life Wong was born in Luzhou Hamlet, Lingxi Village, Xiqiao Country, Fatshan, Nanhai County, which is a present day part of Foshan City, Guangdong Province, dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhen-yi Wang
Wang Zhenyi (; born November 30, 1924), also known as Zhen-yi Wang, is a Chinese pathophysiologist and hematologist who is a professor emeritus of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He is most well known for discovering the cure for acute promyelocytic leukemia while working with Laurent Degos in France, using tretinoin on a trial of 24 patients at Ruijin Hospital in 1986. Biography Wang was born in November 1924 in Shanghai, with his ancestral hometown in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. Wang graduated from the Aurora University in Shanghai in 1948 and obtained his M.D. degree. From 1948 to 1960, Wang completed his residency and worked as a physician at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai. From 1960 to 1982, Wang taught at Shanghai Second Medical University (now Medical School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University), and was the dean of its pathology and physiology departments. From 1982 to 1984, Wang was the director of the Division of Basic Medicine of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tang Zonghai
Tang Zonghai (; 1851–1897 or 1908), courtesy name Rongchuan (), was a Chinese physician and medical scholar active during the late Qing dynasty. Tang was one of the first Chinese physicians to write about the distinctions between Chinese and Western medicine, as well as an early advocate for the integration of the two traditions. Early life Tang was born in 1851 in Pengzhou, Sichuan. His father died from illness in 1873, prompting him to study classical medicine. Tang engaged with the writings of Chinese physicians like , whereas his frequent trips to Shanghai, a port city, also exposed him to Western medicine. Career Tang became a ''jinshi'' at the age of 38. Instead of joining the civil service, as many of his peers who had been successful in the imperial examinations did, he decided to pursue a career in medicine. Beginning his practice in Sichuan, one of Tang's earliest writings was published in 1884 and concerned blood disorders. After relocating to Jiangnan in the 1880s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Ci
Song Ci (; 1186–1249) was a Chinese physician, judge, forensic medical scientist, anthropologist, and writer of the Southern Song dynasty. He is most well known for being the world's first forensic entomologist, having recorded his experience examining bodies for judicial cases in the ''Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified'' (''Xi Yuan Ji Lu''). Song Ci was born into a bureaucrat family in Jianyang (in modern Fujian Province). He served as a presiding judge in the high courts of the Song dynasty for several terms. During his post at a criminal court in Hunan Province, Song Ci personally examined the crime scenes each time he encountered a difficult case of homicide or physical assault. Song Ci combined historical cases of forensic science with his own experiences and wrote the book ''Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified'', the oldest known evidence of forensic entomology, with an eye to avoiding miscarriages of justice. The book was esteemed by generations of forensic s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Simiao
Sun Simiao (; died 682) was a Chinese physician and writer of the Sui and Tang dynasty. He was titled as China's King of Medicine (, Yaowang) for his significant contributions to Chinese medicine and tremendous care to his patients. Books Sun wrote two books - ''Beiji qianjin yaofang'' ("Essential Formulas for Emergencies ortha Thousand Pieces/Catty of Gold") and ''Qian Jin Yi Fang'' ("Supplement to the Formulas of a Thousand Gold Worth") - that were both milestones in the history of Chinese medicine, summarizing pre-Tang dynasty medicine. The former listed about 5300 recipes for medicines, and the latter 2000. He also put forth the “Thirteen measures to keep health”, which claimed that actions like touching hair, rolling eyes, walking, and shaking heads improved health. Apart from this, he is known for the text "On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians," often called " the Chinese Hippocratic Oath," or called " Dayi Heart", which comes from the first chapter of the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngeow Sze Chan
Dr. Ngeow Sze Chan (1915–2002) was a prominent Chinese physician based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the mid to late 20th century. He was known in the region as “The Father of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine” due to his influence on the practice. At the age of 22, Ngeow Sze Chan graduated from the ''Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine'' (now known as ''Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine' A year later he immigrated to Kuala Lumpur where he started a TCM practice. During his lifetime, Ngeow Sze Chan spearheaded a number of activities leading to the establishment of the following organizations: # ''The Selangor Chinese Medical Society (est. 1945)''. # ''The Central Malaysian Chinese Medical Association (est. 1948)'', now known as the ''Malaysian Chinese Medical Association''. # ''The Chinese Medical Free Clinic (est. 1954, Kuala Lumpur)''. This clinic provides free consultation and medicine to the poor. # ''The Traditional Chinese M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Xiaonian
Ma Xiaonian (Simplified Chinese: 马晓年; Traditional Chinese: 馬曉年; pinyin: ''Mǎ Xiǎo Nián''; born May 8, 1945, Fenyang, Shanxi, China), is a Chinese physician and professor of sexual medicine who pioneered the field of sexual medicine and sexology in China. Ma's research on sexual medicine and Chinese sexuality has profoundly influenced cultural and social values in China since the 1980s. His recent sexological work has focused primarily on Chinese female sexuality "Spotlight on women's problems," Herald-Journal, Aug 24 1995 References 1945 births People from Lüliang Chinese sexologists Living people {{China-med-bio-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
