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Annotated Treatise on Febrile Diseases by Cheng Wuji is believed to be the earliest and fully annotated Treatise on Febrile Diseases remaining in China. It has had a profound influence because it was once a popular version of Treatise on Febrile Diseases. It was found that in this book "once constipation lasted for six or seven days, there might be dry excrement. In this case, Xiao Chengqi decoction should be taken (was used here in Chinese) for this condition". However, "" seems not to be used appropriately in this context. Therefore, archival research was used to analyse the meaning of "" and "" and Chinese Textual Bibliography was used to review the use of "" and "" in main versions of Annotated Treatise on Febrile Diseases. It was found that "" occurred as a misunderstanding of "" after the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, "" in this book should be "".

Formula presenting refers to the donation and submission of formula and prescriptions of Chinese medicine, organised by the Chinese government from 1954 to 1959. It was found that such donations and submissions of formula and prescriptions of Chinese medicine initiated from Sichuan, Anhui and Fujian due to their lack of medicine and physicians and the high incidence of epidemic diseases. This view is based on the literature such as books published at that time, local chronicles and relevant studies. The submissions were organised formally by the Ministry of Public Health in 1959 and distributed all over the country. It was found that the number of books published with such donated and submitted formula and prescriptions rose, and these books published were distributed in twenty-seven provinces, including country sides. It shows that such donation and submission of formula and prescriptions of Chinese medicine had a far-reaching impact on research and treatment for regional epidemic diseases and the development of traditional Chinese medicine.

Min Daoyang, known as Shou Quan Shan Ren, was a traditional Chinese medicine physician in the Xin'an School, from Shexian in the Anhui area during the period of Jiajing and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. He had many medical books published, such as Yi Zhi Ru Yi Fang Mai, Quan Ying Yao Lan, Yi Xue Ji Yao,Shang Han Zuan Lu, Yi Xue Hui Zuan, Nv Ke Bian Lan, Yao Fang Ge Kuo and Yi Xue Ren Shu Bian Lan. However, currently only three of these books remain. They are Yi Zhi Ru Yi Fang Mai, Quan Ying Yao Lan and Yi Xue Ji Yao. The current version of Yi Zhi Ru Yi Fang Mai was printed in the 4th year of the Gengwu in the Ming Dynasty (1570), and the remains of this version are held in the Wujiang Library. Quan Ying Yao Lan, published in the 6th year of Renshen (1572) in the period of Longqing of the Ming Dynasty, as a complete Jinling version, is now held in the "National Central Library" of Taiwain province. Yi Xue Ji Yao, as a transcript version in the Edo period in Japan, is now held in the Cabinet Library of the National Archives of Japan.

The Interim Regulations on Chinese Medicine Shops and Western Pharmacy Registration issued by the Shanghai Bureau of Illegal Drugs in 1922, required that Chinese medicine shops in Shanghai area be audited, registered and pay registration fees. This regulation was abolished along with the dissolution of the Shanghai Bureau of Illegal Drugs in 1925. The Interim Regulations on Chinese Medicine Shops and Western Pharmacy Registration drove people, to some extent, to attach the importance and awareness of Chinese medicine and its administration. While it had some problems, such as improper intention and unclear concepts in the period of the Republic of China, a sound system for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) administration had not been established. It confirmed that Chinese materia medica has its unique knowledge system and development form, therefore, should not be uniformly administered as Western medicine. It indicated that TCM pharmacy administration should have a reasonable system and channels to promote the development of the Chinese materia medica industry.

In 1908, Wang You and Yang Hongtong, who studied in Japan, translated Han Yi Shi Yong Fa Yi Xue Da Quan(Practical forensic medicine translated into Chinese), which was the first book of the modern forensic medicine translated from Japanese and the first independent translation of the book of the modern forensic medicine by Chinese, playing an important role in the history of the development of modern forensic medicine and the history of scientific and technological exchanges in China. Han Yi Shi Yong Fa Yi Xue Da Quan introduced to China the advanced basic knowledge, techniques and instruments of modern forensic medicine in foreign countries in the form of textbooks, and supplemented the deficiencies of traditional Chinese forensic toxicology, forensic material evidence and other knowledge. It is found that the background of forensic science of Wang You and Yang Hongtong makes Han Yi Shi Yong Fa Yi Xue Da Quan show the characteristics of the combination of Chinese and Western and graphic combination. Han Yi Shi Yong Fa Yi Xue Da Quan has been actively spread in modern times. In the late Qing Dynasty, it was taken as the textbook of the examination and learning Institute of the capital by the Ministry of Law, and continued to be republished after the Republic of China, which had an important impact on the creation and development of modern forensic medicine.

The Moving Protecting-Qi (Wei Qi Xing), in Lingshu, one of the volumes of the Inner Cannon of Huangdi, records two types of circulatory routes which were believed to link man and nature (a traditional Chinese medicine theory that argues man is an integral part of nature). The first type of circulatory route matched the Sun and twenty-eight lunar mansions because it was believed that the Protecting-Qi circulates through different body parts of human during the day and night. This indicates that the Protecting-Qi passes through the meridians at day time and washes the five viscera at night. The second type matched the hourglass. This means it does twenty-five cycles circulation through three Yang and one Yin in the human body on a centigrade scale. The Protecting-Qi in Lingshu attempted to unify the two circulatory routes numerically by equating the two different time measures-the sun moving and the hourglass. Additionally, it implicitly took an ambiguous concept of 'Yin Fen' to replace the different parts of the five viscera, attempting to unify the two circulatory routes together. However, because of the intrinsic differences between the two circulatory routes, this effort does not make sense. It was found that the first circulatory route is mostly used in clinical practice to explain and treat disorders associated with yawning and insomnia, yet there exists a subtle difference in theoretical explanation.

She Sheng Yao Yi, a medical book on how to keep fit and healthy in the Ming Dynasty, contained a variety of theoretical ideas for doing so from diverse traditional Chinese medicine physicians and had great influence. However, its author has not been identified because the author of this book in Bibliography of Ancient Books of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Bibliography of Ancient Chinese Books is claimed to be different. The authors dates of birth and death also vary in other relevant reference books. This paper examines and identifies the author of this book based on biographies, historical records, dictionaries and other relevant documents, with a view to contributing to the research of medical history literature.

Calamine and its related medicines came into China as articles of tribute from other countries in ancient times. It was not recorded in the books of Chinese materia medica before the Song Dynasty but was widely used in ophthalmology, dermatology and traumatology and was, recorded specifically in the Ming and Qing Dynasty. This paper systematically examines the evolution of calamine herb in the archives of traditional Chinese medicine in terms of ophthalmic eternal treatment prescriptions. It was found that a total of 320 ophthalmic treatment formulas or prescriptions involved calamine, mainly finding its expression in 67 books on herbal medicines, formula and prescriptions, clinical syndrome comprehension and ophthalmic monographs. It was also found that calamine, as an important ophthalmic external medicine, had a wide range of clinical applications, covering internal and external obstructive eye diseases. Its flexibility, diverse compatibility and use in various processing are of great value and significance for in-depth exploration of its current application, its further use in ophthalmic treatment formulas or prescriptions and the redevelopment of classic formulas and prescriptions as well.

The right of seaports to quarantine in modern China was lost to western colonists in the 1880s. The establishment of the quarantine system at Swatow seaport made Swatow the first city in modern Guangdong to have such a system. This paper examines the content and development of the quarantine system at Swatow seaport and found the two main periods of the quarantine system development. 1883 -1926 was the period for the preliminary development of the quarantine system, which was under the management of the westerners. 1926 - 1949 was the period when it was regained by the then Chinese government but it was caught in a bid of multiple political powers before new China evolved. In such a process of power shifts and system changes, the benefits to the public were not valued and guaranteed. The development history of the quarantine system in modern Swatow seaport in the Republic of China Period mirrored the development of the quarantine system in China at that time.

The popular formula Qiye Qingnian Powder, prescribed by Hua Tuo (BC145 - 208), is believed to "remove three kinds of worms, be conducive to the five main organs, keep fit, and prevent one's hair from turning gray". It is a representative formula in terms of "removing worms to prolong life" in traditional Chinese medicine. This paper focuses on "Qiye" in this formula, which plays an important role in removing worms, reviews its place in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Tibetan medicine, and Ayurvedic medicine and compares the concept of "removing worms" in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. It was found that the name and efficacy of Bhallātaka in Ayurvedic medicine is related to "Qiye". It was also indicated that by comparing the concept of "worms" and the understanding of "removing worms" in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, in the theory of traditional medicines worms are the causative factor of diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine has rich connotations which involved medicinal concepts of Buddhism and Taoism and the idea of "removing worms to prolong life" is a unique contribution of traditional Chinese medicine to human health.