Portrait of Ding Fubao
Ding Fubao (1874-1952),a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province,was well known as a sch01ar and doctor.He studied the classical canons,archaic epigraphy and philology,and Buddhism and Taoism;he knew both Chinese and Western medicine.
He visited J apan to survey medical practice there,and contributed to the spread of Western medicine in China by publishing Medical Journal of China and the West (Zhong xi yi kan).He wrote many books,including Biographies of Doctors in Successive Dynasties(Li dai ruing yi lie zhuan)and Four-part Bibliography:Medicine(Si bu zong lu yi yao bian).