[Military Sanitation and Public health governance by Yuan Shikai].

Based on memorial to emperors, letters, official documents and telegrams between Yuan Shikai and his colleagues, this essay reviews Yuan's practice on governance of army medical service and public health.During his army garrisoning in Korea, Yuan Shikai hired physicians to take medical care for wounded soldiers, and conducted port quarantine. In Tianjin, Yuan Shikai set physical examination standards, operated army medical schools. During the Republican era, as the President of China, Yuan Shikai issued laws on prevention of infectious diseases, prohibited opium-smoking, selected excellent Chinese physicians as technocrats. He improved the management of Chinese public health.