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  2. List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations - Wikipedia

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    This article lists medical eponyms which have been associated with Nazi human experimentation or Nazi politics. While normally eponyms used in medicine serve to honor the memory of the physician or researcher who first documented a disease or pioneered a procedure, the propriety of such names resulting from unethical research practices is controversial.

  3. Yu Yan (physician) - Wikipedia

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    Yu was born on 14 September 1879 in Zhenhai, Zhejiang. [2] [3] From 1908 to 1911 and 1913 to 1916, he studied Western medicine at the Osaka Medical University. [4]During his time in Japan, Yu began to take a skeptical line with regards to traditional Chinese medicine. [5]

  4. Wu Lien-teh - Wikipedia

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    Wu Lien-teh (Chinese: 伍連德; pinyin: Wǔ Liándé; Jyutping: Ng 5 Lin 4 Dak 1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gó͘ Liân-tek; Goh Lean Tuck and Ng Leen Tuck in Minnan and Cantonese transliteration respectively; 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malayan physician renowned for his work in public health, particularly the Manchurian plague of 1910–11.

  5. History of medicine - Wikipedia

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    The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887 by the London Missionary Society, with its first graduate (in 1892) being Sun Yat-sen, who later led the Chinese Revolution (1911). The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was the forerunner of the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, which started in 1911.

  6. A UCLA doctor is on a quest to free modern medicine ... - AOL

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    Physicians in Nazi Germany "still thought they were doing the right thing," she said, even as they failed to see some people as human. Rabbi Polak stressed that doctors at the time "had the ...

  7. Tu Youyou - Wikipedia

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    Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist.She discovered artemisinin (also known as qīnghāosù, 青蒿素) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South ...

  8. Traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia

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    During British rule, Chinese medicine practitioners in Hong Kong were not recognized as "medical doctors", which means they could not issue prescription drugs, give injections, etc. However, TCM practitioners could register and operate TCM as "herbalists". [254] The Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong was established in 1999.

  9. Sun Simiao - Wikipedia

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    Sun Simiao as depicted by Gan Bozong, woodcut print, Tang dynasty (618–907) Sun Simiao (traditional Chinese: 孫思邈; simplified Chinese: 孙思邈; pinyin: Sūn Sīmiǎo; Wade–Giles: Sun Ssu-miao; died 682) was a Chinese physician and writer of the Sui and Tang dynasty, who was from Tongchuan, central Shaanxi.