Portrait of Wu Anye
Qing Dynasty
Paper. 131.5 ~ 60 cm. Wu Shiji (aim named Zhun and Anye, styled Shangxian, 1806-1886) was a native of Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). His Medical Dis-course on External Treatment ( Wai zhi yi shuo ), renamed Parallel Prose on External Therapy (Li yue bianwen ) for the second edition, was the first monographic treatise on" external treatment," which applies medicaments to the skin to treat internal as well as external disorders. (By courtesy of Geng Jianting. Collection of Museum for History of Medicine, Shanghai University of TCM.)