《西医新报》的编辑出版及其对西医学传播的影响

The publication of the Medicine News and its influence on the spread of modern-western medicines in China and its role in western medicine communication

创刊于1880年的《西医新报》是中国最早的西医期刊，在中国近代期刊史及西医传播史上占有重要地位。国内已无任何《西医新报》的原始资料。从当时一些报刊的转载和评论来看，其办刊宗旨是向华人传播西医学知识，其编辑方针为“述西医优于中医”，所传播的西医知识也基于此方针。《西医新报》还首次报道了在伦敦举行的千人国际医学学术会议。《西医新报》的创办，将西医学在中国的传播推向更深、更新层面，其编辑方针和编辑策略对晚清民国时期西医期刊的编辑出版影响巨大。

Medicine News, first published in 1880, was the earliest western medicine journal founded in China, playing an important role in the history of Chinese modern journals and the history of western med- icine communication. Today, no original copies of this journal survive in China. Quotations, citations and comments of some newspapers and periodicals on it at the time, reveal that the publication aim of this journal was to disseminate knowledge of western medicine to the Chinese people, that its editorial policy was ＂showing western medicine is superior to traditional Chinese medicine＂, and that its communication of western medicine knowledge was also based on this policy. Medicine News reported on an international medical academic conference held in London for the first time, and it is worth mentioning that thousands of people attended the meeting. Medicine News is known to have promoted western medicine communication in China to an advanced and more up-to-date level. At the same time, its editorial policy and strategy had a great in- fluence on the editing and publication of western medicine journals in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.