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Ming Dynasty pediatrician

WritersLived 1495 to 1585 · aged 90
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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.

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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. Wan was the first individual to have written about variolation, an early smallpox vaccination technique, in his treatise Douzhen Xinfa, published in 1549.

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Lived 1495 to 1585 · aged 90
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