Makers
Physician / Medical Master
Physicians who treated the sick and wrote on prescriptions and materia medica
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In a dispensary, a tall wooden cabinet of many small drawers stands behind a stone mortar and pestle, with herbs hanging from the beams; a copper scale, a clay pot on a small lit stove and baskets of leaves sit in front, and one person with a basket walks in the herb garden.
Physicians are people known for practising medicine and writing on it, with work on diagnosis and treatment, materia medica, prescription books, acupuncture and surgery. Their reputation rests on case records, books and lines of teaching; some stories of early physicians contain legend and are marked as tradition. They differ from scientists in being defined by treating patients and writing medical books rather than by general study of nature.
People in this role
- Bian QueDates unknown; physician of the Spring and Autumn to Warring States era
- Chunyu YiDates unknown; physician under Emperor Wen of Han
- Hua TuoDates unknown; died before 208
- Zhang ZhongjingDates unknown; late Eastern Han
- Huangfu Mi215 CE–282 CE
- Ge Hong283 CE–343 CE (by another account died aged 81)
- Chao YuanfangDates unknown; Daye era of Sui
- Sun Simiao581 CE–682 CE (birth by another account 541)
- Qian Yi1032 CE–1113 CE
- Liu Wansuc. 1110 CE–c. 1200 CE
- Zhang Congzhengc. 1156 CE–c. 1228 CE
- Li Gao1180 CE–1251 CE
- Zhu Danxi1281 CE–1358 CE
- Wang LuBorn c. 1332; date of death unknown; climbed Mount Hua in 1383
- Tan Yunxian1461 CE–1556 CE (death by another account 1557)
- Li Shizhen1518 CE–1593 CE
- Wu YoukeDates unknown; finished Wenyi lun in 1642
- Ye Tianshi1667 CE–1746 CE (by another account 1666–1745)
- Wu Jutong1758 CE–1836 CE
- Wang Qingren1768 CE–1831 CE
- Zhang Xichun1860 CE–1933 CE
No people in this role for that dynasty.