Qin Bo-Wei remembers his teacher Cao Ying-Fu

Before I did a clinical internship with Ding Gan-Ren, I had attended the Shanghai Technical College of Chinese Medicine from 1919-1923. During that time Cao Ying-Fu had a teaching post there due to his skill in both poetry and medicine. As I loved literature I would often seek him out to discuss medicine, and would end up talking poetry. Even after graduation I would frequently go to Teacher Cao’s house, together with classmates Xu Ban-Long, Yan Cang-Shan and Zhang Ci-Gong, to ask questions and learn more. This was 30 years ago now, but still I retain a deep impression of the effects these visits had on me.