[Research on distribution of native places of some doctors from the Qin-Han Dynasties to the Republican Period]

Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 2017 Jul 28;47(4):200-202. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0255-7053.2017.04.002.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

The native places of the famous Chinese medicine doctors listed in the Volume on History of Medicine and Medical Literature of the Great Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine were analyzed and counted, and the political, cultural, social andeconomic factors influencing the regional distributions of the famous Chinese medicine doctors were briefly analysed. Such distributions appear to be obviously regional, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui are the 3 provinces with the largest number of famous Chinese medicine doctors. Meanwhile, the distributions of the famous Chinese medicine doctors are centered on certain cities and counties even within those 3 provinces. From the historical distributions of the famous Chinese medicine doctors, it reveals that the doctors' experiences of rising to fame in the Chinese medicine have relatively close connection to the regional distributions and running within the families of the famous Chinese medicine doctors, the traditional method of transmission from master to disciple in the family should still be paid much attention to in training the students of Chinese medicine in modern times.

对《中医大辞典·医史文献分册》的医家籍贯进行统计,并简要分析影响医家分布的政治、文化、社会、经济诸条件;医家的分布具有明显的地域性,浙江、江苏、安徽3地的医家数量最多,而在这些省份,医家也较为集中地分布在某些县市。医家的历史分布表明医家的成才成名与地域性及家传性有关系,并受到政治、文化、经济诸因素的影响。.

Keywords: Distribution of doctors; History of local medicine; Native place of doctors.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • History, 15th Century
  • History, 16th Century
  • History, 17th Century
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • Humans
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional / history*
  • Physicians / history*