Scion of a distinguished family of gynaecologists
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SONGJIANG native Tang Shaoyu was born into a family of doctors who specialized in gynaecology from the Song to Qing dynasties (960-1912). Many of his ancestors served as imperial doctors in royal courts.
Tang Xiaocun was the 26th generation of the family and heir to the medical skills and secret prescriptions of his forebears.
He passed them down to his son Tang Bixian and his nephew Tang Shaoyu.
The family opened a clinic in north Songjiang near the city gate and soon earned a reputation for gynaecological expertise.
When Tang Bixian died, Tang Shaoyu became the sole inheritor of the family’s medical practice.
Tang was skilled at diagnosis and preferred not to use medicines if other therapeutic measures could be applied. He was popular with local residents.
When the Qing Dynasty was overthrown in 1912, Tang refused to cut his long hair and still proudly proclaimed himself a Qing.
During the Japanese occupation in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved his practice to a concession area in Shanghai, where he continued to treat patients.
After 1945, Tang returned to Songjiang and offered free treatment to the poor.
In his old age, he wrote the book “Gyneacology Essentials.”
Tang noted in the book that kidneys played a vital role in chronic female diseases. The book, however, was later lost.
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