Portrait of Fei Boxiong
Fei Boxiong (1799-1879), styled Jinqing, was a native of Binjiang, Menghe, Wujin County, Jiangsu, one of the four famous doctors of Menghe. He was famous for his treatment of depletion disorders. He wrote Remnant Interpretations of the Essence of Medicine ( Yi cun sheng yi ), printed in1863. The title reflects the fact that an earlier manuscript was destroyed in the Taiping rebellion, and is only partly reconstructed here. The book emphasized pulse and tongue diagnosis.