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Obstetrics and Gynecology include gynecology which is concerned with the treatment for the disease based on physiology and pathology of women, and obstetrics which is concerned with pregnancy delivery. These obstetrics and gynecology can be said to date from the birth of human beings. This paper has carried on the studies about the developing process of obstetrics and gynecology of Ming and Qing age. The results of this study are as follows: In Ming age, Many Obstetrics and Gynecology books including "Nukecuoyao"(『女科撮要』), "Xiaozhufurenliangfang"(『校注婦人良方』), "Wanshifurenke"(『萬氏婦人科』) and "Nukezhingzhizhunsheng" (『女科證治准繩』) were published. Distinction in Ming age were equal development on theory and clinic taking a serious view of the differentiation of symptoms and signs, fashion of medicine thought of reactionism under the influence of "lixue"(理學). Therefore Obstetrics and Gynecology were influenced by these points. And for this example, as treatment contents on "Xiaozhufurenliangfang"(『校注婦人良方』) and the theory about "fetus-energy"(胎氣) in" Furengui"(『婦人規』), theoretic system with a view point's change of women's disease were established on Obstetrics and Gynecology. But it was restricted on a field of diagnosis under the influence of feudal "lixue"(理學), so the the number of obstetrics doctors who were mostly men at that time had fallen greatly and maternity who were short of expert medical knowledge appeared. In Qing age, an explosive increase in population called greater demand on medicine book and generation after generation extremely much Obstetrics and Gynecology books including "NukeChanhoubian"(『女科産後編』), "Yetianshinuke"(『葉天士女科』), and " Shenshinukejiyao"(『沈氏女科輯要』) were published, and it is studied that application of "eight extra-channel"(奇經八脈) theory and the study of drug attributive on extra-channel were progressed. Besides, it is studied that existing traditional Obstetrics and Gynecology changed newly under the influence of the school of combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine which was appeared in the late Qing age.

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