ABSTRACT
On the second floor of China Medical University Hospital in Shenyang is a small room with unique medical decor. The decorations are for the edification of visiting foreign friends. Half of a wall is handsomely lettered with the titles of medical conditions the hospital treats with Traditional herbs. Beneath each title is a list of symptomatology, the herbal prescription, the number of cases treated with success rates. Croizier is able to provide information about implementation of the policy after the 1950 Conference. One of the first steps was to break down the secrecy and private practice of the individual Traditional doctors. During the period from 1949-1954, Lampton finds great resistance on the part of the Ministry of Health to the idea of union with Traditional doctors and not much active implementation. Actually, it was not until 1954 that the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party moved aggressively on the issue.
