Zhang Gongwen,a Lingnan Medical Practitioner in the Period of the Republic of China
10.13359/j.cnki.gzxbtcm.2025.04.035
- VernacularTitle:民国时期岭南医家张恭文
- Author:
Shizhe ZHU
1
;
Xinli TU
;
Zhao ZENG
;
Yue ZHU
Author Information
1. 广州中医药大学,广东 广州 510006
- Keywords:
Zhang Gongwen;
period of the Republic of China;
Lingnan medical practitioner;
integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine
- From:
Journal of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2025;42(4):1030-1035
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
As one of the practitioners in the integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in the period of the Republic of China,Lingnan medical practitioner Zhang Gongwen was a learned person in studying traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),and widely made friends with those people who were interested in TCM,aiming to inherit TCM.Zhang Gongwen was experienced in paracticing TCM and was quite accomplished.He popularized and developed TCM by setting up the New Chinese Medicine Training Center,renewing the Guangdong Meixian School of Traditional Chinese Medicine,establishing journals,and running the sanatoriums.He was a good physician with years of clinical experience and cared for the patients,reaching the medical goal of serving people's health.He spread medical knowledge and cultivated medical talents by compiling and publishing a number of TCM textbooks and setting up correspondence course.He was a promising figure who actively explored the integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine during the period of the Republic of China,by examing TCM and advocating science,trying to integrate the essence of western medicine into TCM,thus to make TCM be more specific and scientific.Zhang Gongwen contributed all his efforts to the continuation and development of TCM in Lingnan during the hard times of TCM,and was a precious medical talent at that time.
