Portrait of Tang Zonghai
Tang Zonghai (styled Rongchuan,1846-1897)was a native of Pengxian County,Sichuan Province.He developed a doctrine on the diagnosis and treatment of yin and yang qi disorders,and was an early champion of synthesis of Chinese and Western medicine.He wrote On Blood Manifestations(Xue zheng lun),Essential Meaning of the Medical Classics from the Viewpoint of Chinese-Western Medical Synthesis(Zhong xi hui tong yi jing ring yiand other books.The portrait was painted in the Republican period on the basis of a photograph.Tang’s grandson,Tang Yuechong,gave it to Wang Mengxia,a doctor of Guanghan County,who preserved it.The note was written by Dr.Wang in 1958.(By courtesy of Wang Mengxia).