Preliminary Exploration of Western Pharmaceutical Methods in the Reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty
In the 17th and 18th centuries,a large number of missionaries took the dissemination of western medicine as an auxiliary means of missionary,which objectively promoted the dissemination and development of western medicine.During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty,the emperor developed a great interest in western medicine,leading to a gradual increase in western medical activities within the court,including the built of some related sites and some of the drugs made by western methods.For example,the missionaries Jean-François Gerbillon and Joachim Bouvet were invited to set up a laboratory,and presided over the production of various drugs in western methods;for the compounding of medicine,evaporation,storage of western drugs,Emperor Kangxi built distillation rooms;there were also Pulmonary Soothing Pills,Zulebeberladu,Ambergris Dew and other pharmaceutical products.This study provides a preliminary exploration of the impact of Kangxi-era western pharmaceutical practices on the exchange between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine,focusing on representative western pharmaceutical production sites and medicines of that period.
pharmaceuticals using western methodsTraditional Chinese Medicine and Western MedicineKangxi
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
