2006年8月15日 · In 2006, an online exhibition called Chinese Public Health Posters was created from the presentation of Dr. Liping Bu (卜丽萍), titled “Public Health and Chinese Society from 1930s to SARS” at the Seminar in the History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine on August 15, 2006. That website was developed by Duyan Dang and Young ...

锁阳固精丸 (Chinese medicine to improve men's health and fertility), n.d. 安神赞育丸 (Chinese medicine to improve women's health and pregnancy), n.d. Pharmaceutical advertisement of aspirin-tablets, ca. 1935

The missionaries promoted Western medicine as more scientific than Chinese medicine, which they dismissed as superstition. They also taught young Chinese Western medicine at hospitals and medical schools. In the meantime, increasing numbers of Chinese students went to Europe, the United States and Japan for modern medical education.

To this legendary emperor is attributed the earliest known Chinese medical writing, Huang-ti Nei ching (The Canon of Internal Medicine). This work consists of two treatises, one a dialogue about living matter between Huang Ti 黃帝/黄帝 and his minister Qibo 岐伯, and the other a description of medical physiology, anatomy, and acupuncture.

Chung Chung-ching (神農), fl. 168-196 AD, drawing published in Zhongguo li dai ming yi tu zhuan (Biographies and portraits of Chinese famous doctors in past dynasties), 1987 Regarded as one of the great physicians of the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), the most glorious period in Chinese medical history, Chang Chung-ching (神農) wrote ...

This first volume of Shen-nung pen ts'ao pei yao i fang ho pien (Herbal and Prescriptions), was published in 1740 and is one part of the most extensive documents in Chinese medical history. The remaining volumes cover pharmacology and the therapeutic uses of the materia medica.

This collection of cartoons explores themes such as family planning policy and its practice, popular science and “better babies”, healthy births, marriage, family life, and Chinese society. These cartoon posters use humor and satire to educate people on family issues and the goals of family planning in mid-20th Chinese century society.

Chinese medicine seems to have reached its peak during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) when Li Shih-chen 李時珍 wrote his Pen ts'ao kang mu (The Great Herbal). This great pharmacopoeia, which summarizes what was known of herbal medicine up to the late 16th century, describes in detail more than 1800 plants, animal substances, minerals, and ...

Lesson 1: Western Influence of Modern Medicine and Public Health in China during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries Modern Western medicine—biomedicine—was introduced to China in the 19th century by Western missionaries when they used medical service to open up Chinese society for evangelism.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine. CONSUMER, Smoking Dens. In the 1870s, Chinese immigrants introduced opium smoking to American cities, and the habit spread to the urban underclass. Unlike consumers of patent medicines, who could indulge discreetly in private, smokers relied on opium dens for the purchase and pipe-smoking of warmed opium ...