title: [Investigation on Qiantang medical school].
abstract: Qiantang medical school came into being during the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, and lasted for 200 years until Guang Xu Reign in the late Qing Dynasty. Lu Zhiyi and Zhang Suichen were the early representative figures; Zhang Zhicong, Zhang Xiju and Gao Shizong were the mid-period representative figures; and Zhong Xuelu was the late representative figure. They respected consistently the classics and the ancients, cultivated new talents, studied medical literature with a trinity of teaching, studying the classics and practising medicine as its characteristic. Eventually, it developed under the specific background of time and geographical environment as the only academic medical school enbodying teaching, studying the classics, and medical practice as a whole with distinguished achievements.
authors.affiliation: Zhejiang Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou 310007.
authors.forename: Jian-Ping
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Cheng-Lie
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Xiao-Dong
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: De-Ming
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D012577:Schools, Medical