Badge of the Central Academy of TCM
D:2.6cm.In 193 1,the Republican Government,to calm protests against its attempts to repress and abolish ’FCM,founded a Central Academy of TCM (Zhongyang Guoyi91Aan)in Nanjing,and eventually branches at the provincial and county levels.The Academy,although poorly supported by the government,did some work on setting up and standardizing outlines of TCM scholarship,unifying disease nomenclature,and compiling leaching materials.(Collection of Museum for History of Medicine,Shanghai University of TCM)