Brief introduction of the author of "Yi Lin Error Correction"

Dear Minister Wang Qingren (1768— 183 1), a native of Yutian and Wuyao in Qing Dynasty. He began to study medicine at the age of twenty and then lived in the capital for a long time. He took medicine as his profession and opened a "Zhiyitang Pharmacy", which is famous in Beijing. He was the first doctor in China who proposed a severe revision to the traditional medical system, and was praised as "the anatomist of modern China" by Dudkin, a western doctor in the late Qing Dynasty. His book "Error Correction in Medical Forest" was published in Beijing on 1830 (Ten Years of Daoguang), which caused quite a shock. According to statistics, the book was reprinted 40 times from 1830 to 1950, which was beyond the reach of any ancient medical works and had a great influence on a generation of medical thoughts.

Comments on him have always been endless, with different opinions and different weights. Liu Zhongheng, a modern physician (born at the end of19th century), said: "Mr. Wang Qingren's book" Correcting Mistakes in Medical Forests ",with its unique wisdom, has opened up the wrongs and wrongs of the ancients, with mixed surprises and half-life doubts, once suddenly." Liu told himself that he went to Shanghai on 1884 to buy several books on western medicine, and after reading He Xin's "Quan Xin Lun", he found that the "flesh and blood viscera" described in it was half consistent with the previous books. Therefore, his evaluation is: "Western medicine dissects the flesh, blood and viscera layer by layer, and the form and spirit are really clear, but China has no such thing", and "after thousands of years, I elaborated and actually wrote a book" Correcting Mistakes "for Mr. Wang." It can be seen that the doctor who was later called the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine was also inspired by Wang Shu at that time; Wang Shu has something in common with western medicine, which is a criticism of Chinese medicine and has a considerable influence on doctors at that time.