• The Journal of Korean Medical History
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

Jeonuigam(典醫監) is one of the Big Three of medical government office through the Joseon dynasty era. But Jeonuigam literature is extremely rare. This paper is to analyze 362 cadets of "Jeonham-saengdoan(前銜生徒案)" by writer of Jeonuigam origin. Jeonuigam filled cadet on a three-year cycle because the national examination for medical officials is conducted on same cycle. Most cadets came from a few meritorious family of medical career officials. Ratio of ten major family stand at 34.91 percent. 373 of the 392 cadets are confirmed as family member of medical bureaucrat. They have a very closed society. Wancheon(完薦) and cadet system strengthen the monopholy power of a few family. The analysis of study confirmed that in the 19th century Joseon(朝鮮) dynasty had monopolized the medical technicians.

• The Journal of Korean Medical History
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.61-69
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• 2019

Simyak (Finding Herbs) was a medical bureaucracy appointed directly by the central government of the Joseon Dynasty to the province. Simyaksalye (Casebook of Finding Herbs) was a 19th-century manuscript dealing only with Simyak. This study has outlined and analyzed the contents of this document. This article reveal facts which include : 1) The year of completion of this document was after December 24, 1873. However, the contents of the text were mixed with different writing periods in the 19th century. 2) The author of this document was assumed to be a member of Jeonuigam. Jeonuigam-based expressions appear in the content. 3) Simyak's main focus was not on contributing to local health care, but on the procurement of goods for central care. Much of Simyaksalye's content were on medicines and goods facts and their benefits. If Simyak's role was important in local medical cadet education, then there would have been rules related to it.

• The Journal of Korean Medical History
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.51-72
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• 2023

IM Won-jun(任元濬, 1423~1500) was an Confucianism Doctor in the former period of Joseon Dynasty. Through IM Won-jun's historical trace we could know the range of Uiseoseubdoggwan(Medical Learning Officer)'s duty not limited to study medical books at that time but extended to medical treat, educate, recommend medical policy, personnel manage, carry out administrative work, carry out all the works concerned with medical books, make new medicines at different official period. Among these after learning duties the Royal Family of the Joseon Dynasty awarded high grades to medical treatment for king and king's mother, but from the viewpoint of advancement of medicine controling the top of medical policy as a chief of Jeonuigam had important meaning. The system of Uiseoseubdoggwan(Medical Learning Officer) in the Joseon Dynasty played the role of cultivating widely the man of ability who leaded medical development by sharing the man of ability between medicine and confucianism which was dominant learning at that time, so the knowledge and professional skill of medicine, Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theory, the spirit of relief of the world were spreaded across to national administration, education, publication culture, putting philosophy of filial piety into practice in the Joseon Dynasty.