title: [The situation of Chinese medicine practitioners in the late Qing Dynasty as viewed from the Dianshizhai Pictorial].
abstract: According to the 17 pieces of news pictures closely related to Chinese medicine practitioners appeared in the Dianshizhai Pictorial, it can be seen that Chinese medicine practitioners in the 19th century can be divided into two classes, professional and non-professional practitioners. Of the 10 pieces related to professional practitioners, 8 news pictures creates "Quack doctors" as its theme, reflecting that some Chinese medicine practitioners only had poor medical skill of low quality. The other 7 pieces of news figure related to non-professional practitioners are rather complex. Some of them expresses puerpera, midwives, witch-doctors and charlatans, reflecting that the contemporary non-professional practitioners were complex, and indicating that those professional practitioners still can't meet the requirement of people in that time.
authors.affiliation: College of Chinese Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, 3501220, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhai
authors.affiliation: College of Chinese Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, 3501220, China.
authors.forename: Baozhen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010820:Physicians