doctor | Wang Wei-de |
alias | styleHong-xu akaLinwu Shanren |
Wang Wei-de (1669∼?), courtesy name Hongxu, also known as Lin Hong, with the pseudonyms Linwu Sanren and Dingdingzi, was respectfully addressed as Mr. Linwu. He was a native of Dongting West Mountain in Wu County during the Qing Dynasty.
His great-grandfather, Ruogu, paid close attention to the field of ulcer medicine, opposing the treatment based solely on classical texts and advocating for a focus on yin-yang theory and the differentiation of deficiency and excess. He recorded effective prescriptions in books, which became family heirlooms, thus establishing a family tradition of sore and wound doctors. Wei-de inherited this family knowledge from a young age, mastering internal, external, gynecological, and pediatric medicine, with a particular expertise in sore and wound medicine, founding the Quansheng School of Surgery in Wumen. He conducted in-depth research on sores and ulcers, categorizing red and swollen sores and ulcers as yang excess syndromes, while white gangrenous syndromes were considered yin deficiency, asserting that "ulcers are not fatal." His work, "Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji," compiled ancestral effective prescriptions and his own proven prescriptions from over forty years of practice, was published in the fifth year of the Qianlong era (1740), when he was 72 years old.
The Quansheng School's approach to treating surgical diseases is characterized by: