[A study on the exploring way performed by the Suzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine].
As an official hospital of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the Republican period, Suzhou Hospital of TCM was the first to apply statistical lists, together with many other lists, for identifying the effects of classical recipes. There were also other creative measures, including the adoption of western medical diagnostics, training of nurses with self compiled textbooks, establishment of standardized medical case history records, and publication of hospital journal, winning rather positive appraisal from some famous celebrities in TCM and western medical provinces as well as Kampo physicians from Japan. During the Republican period, confronting the superiorities of western medicine, TCM survived hardly. It is worthy of praising that the Suzhou Hospital of TCM avoided the sectarian bias to learn from the western medicine so as to seek the ideal way for TCM reform.
Cao
Li-Juan
LJ
China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, China.
D002681:China; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010820:Physicians