Wan Quan

Chinese pediatrician (1495–1585)

Wan Quan

Traditional Chinese

萬全

Simplified Chinese

万全

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Wàn Quán

Wan Mizhai

Traditional Chinese

萬密齋

Simplified Chinese

万密斋

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Wàn Mìzhāi

Wan Quan (1495–1585), also known as Wan Mizhai, was a Ming dynasty pediatrician. He was the third in his family to practice medicine. He advocated that children be frequently exposed to sunlight and fresh air and trained to resist cold. He also believed that frightening a child was harmful to him or her, as was overfeeding or overmedicating.^[1] Wan was the first individual to have written about variolation, an early smallpox vaccination technique, in his treatise Douzhen Xinfa (痘疹心法), published in 1549.^[2]

References

^ Flaws, Bob (2006). A Handbook of TCM Pediatrics (Second ed.). Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-936185-72-9.
^ Needham J (1999). "Part 6, Medicine". Science and Civilization in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 134.