In the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shigong summarized the ancient Chinese medical ethics as "Five Commandments and Ten Essentials for Physicians" in Authentic Surgery, and was listed as one of the world's classical medical ethics documents by the Encyclopedia of Bioethics published by the United States 1978.

Chen Shigong (1555 ~1636) was a surgeon in China in the Ming Dynasty. The word Yuren, named Ruo Xu, was born in the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing of Ming Shizong (A.D. 1555) and died in the fifth year of Chongzhen of Ming Shizong (A.D. 1636) at the age of eighty. Jiangsu Donghai (now Nantong City) people. Chen Shigong has been engaged in surgery for more than forty years, and has cured many intractable diseases and accumulated rich experience in treating diseases.

The book summarizes the experience of effective treatment in surgery since the Tang Dynasty. It is scientific and incisive, which can fully represent the great achievements of surgical medicine in China in the Ming Dynasty and has high learning and research value.

Among them, the treatment and restoration of dislocated mandible completely meets the requirements of modern medicine and has been used until now. After the publication of Authentic Surgery, it was widely circulated and spread to Japan and other countries.