Ding (1874 ~ 1952)
Hu Zhong, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, entered Nanjing Academy in Jiangyin in the 21st year of Guangxu (1895) and was a scholar the following year. He studied at Soochow University in Suzhou, and was good at mathematics, medicine, Ci-poetry and textual research. He is a teacher at Shi Jing University and the School of Translation. In the first year of Qing dynasty (1909), he took the national medical examination in Nanjing and obtained the best practicing certificate. Feng Xuan sent a delegation to Japan to inspect medicine, and after returning to China, he practiced medicine in Shanghai, organized the Chinese and Western Medicine Research Association and founded a medical bookstore. In 6 years of the Republic of China (19 17), he began to believe in Buddhism, so he became a hermit under another name, also named Jiyang Poheng.
In 23 years of the Republic of China, Wu Zhihui, Yu Youren and other powerful people of the Kuomintang initiated social donations. Ding himself contributed 260,000 yuan and borrowed 654.38+10,000 yuan from the bank to establish Hongqiao sanatorium with Zi Huikang at No.201Hongqiao Road. When the Japanese army invaded in 26 years, it moved to No.404 Yongjia Road and then moved to No.966 Huaihai Middle Road (now Xuhui District Central Hospital).
In 28 years, he donated 70 taels of books to launch the first tuberculosis prevention campaign in Shanghai, providing free treatment for patients. The following year, the second publicity campaign for tuberculosis prevention and control in Shanghai was launched, and 8,000 people were examined free of charge in conjunction with hospitals in the city. In the early days of the People's Republic of China, X-ray examination of patients was always half-price and free. He used to be a Commissioner of the Central Institute of Health.
Ding is knowledgeable and writes a lot. In addition to a large number of medical books, he also compiled notes on the essence of Buddhist scriptures, a Buddhist dictionary, a guide to algebra, a book on the interpretation of characters, a talk on poetry in the Qing Dynasty, an ancient money dictionary and other related works on Buddhism, mathematics, poetics, philology and spring money. In 1930s, more than 30,000 books were donated to Shanghai Municipal Library and Aurora University respectively. 1952 died in Beijing.