Wan Quan (1495–1585), also known as Wan Mizhai, was a Ming dynastypediatrician. 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 smallpoxvaccination technique, in his treatise Douzhen Xinfa (痘疹心法), published in 1549.[2]
^Flaws, Bob (2006). A Handbook of TCM Pediatrics (Second ed.). Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. pp. 3–4. ISBN978-0-936185-72-9.
^Needham J (1999). "Part 6, Medicine". Science and Civilization in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 134.
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