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Tan Yunxian
Tan Yunxian (; 1461–1554) was a physician during the Ming dynasty in China.
Life.
Tan's grandmother was the daughter of a physician. One reason Tan's grandfather married her grandmother was to learn medicine himself. Two of her grandparents' sons were able to pass the "jinshi" examinations, and they became officials. One of these sons was Tan's father. Due to the fondness her grandparents had for her, which evidence shows was directly related to her intellect, her grandparents passed on
their medical knowledge to her. Tan Yunxian later married, raised four children, and practiced medicine on women. Tan lived a longer life than most, dying at the age of 93.
Life Medical activity.
Tan Yunxian's medical practice was contained to treating women. She initially began by treating her own children, with her grandmother's guidance to confirm her diagnoses. Records of Tan's book reveal cases of thirty-one of the patients that she treated. The women she worked with usually had chronic complaints, rather