Is a medical scientist,
Li Shizhen was a physician in ancient China.
Li Shizhen (1518-1593) was born in a family of doctors. Li Shizhen was sickly since childhood, but his personality was straightforward and pure. He had no interest in those boring eight-part essays, gave up his plan to be an official in the imperial examination and concentrated on studying medicine. Li Shizhen really became a famous doctor. At the age of 38, he was summoned by the King of Chu in Wuchang, and was appointed as the "temple official" of Wang Fu, and was also in charge of the affairs of the Doctor's Office. Three years later, he was recommended by his wife's hospital to go to Beijing for sentencing. After only one year in office, Li resigned and returned to his hometown. In recent ten years, Li Shizhen has read a lot of ancient medical books. Through clinical practice, it is found that there are many mistakes in ancient herbal books, which will bring endless disasters. So he decided to rewrite a herbal book. He read more than 800 kinds of medical books and famous works of history, geography and literature, and personally went to various places to look for medicinal materials. Everywhere I go, I humbly ask all kinds of people for advice. In this way, after a long and arduous on-the-spot investigation, Li Shizhen found out many difficult problems of drugs, and completed the compilation of Compendium of Materia Medica in 1578. Darwin praised it as "an encyclopedia of ancient China".