[Ding Ganren and the Shanghai Professional College of Chinese Medicine].

Ding Ganren (1866-1926), a distinguished representative of the Menghe Medical School, created a new school of unifying the Cold pathogenic disease with Warm febrile disease by adopting a new therapeutic method of integrating the Six-channel and Defense-qi-nutrient-blood syndrome differentiation, and simultaneously applying the classical formula with seasonal formula for treating against the exogenous febrile disease, which was quite an innovative approach. Ding Ganren paid high attention to the advancement of the education of Chinese medicine and founded the first official medical school in 1916 called the "Shanghai Professional College of Chinese Medicine" . He was self-appointed the Director of the School, and responsible for its daily administration. Till the founding of new China, the School had trained 30 classes of students, totaling 869 graduates, most of them became well-known doctors and later the backbone of medical education and clinical science in the New China era.