Wang Shixiong, expert of warm-pathogen diseases

摘要

Wang was clever since childhood. He could grasp the subtlety of the books he read, so his family elders thought highly of him. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father were experts of medi- cine. Wang Xuequan, his great-grandfather, was the author of Jotting from the Hall of Repeated Celebration (Chong Qing Tang Sui Bi), passing down to now. Although he was born into a family with a long history of learning, he neither followed the steps of common intellectuals to take the imperil civil examination and become a government official, nor took the career of medicine. Because his father passed away when he was a child, he went to Jin Hua City to serve as an accountant at a salt store to support his family. But he often remembered his father's expectation of him to be a physician. Then he began to study medicine on his own for about 10 years, during which he extensively read medical classics, and finally he started to practice medicine. His medical reputation was gradually established because of his good curative effect in treatment of diseases.