祖国医学很早就以观察指纹作为诊断小儿疾病方法之一。清朝陈复正在《幼幼集成》中对观察指纹重要意义曾作如下分析:“幼科指纹总无正论,且游移不定,莫可稽考,有谓不必用者,有用而至怪诞不经,诬民惑世者,是皆未明纹中之理,盖此指纹与寸关尺目一脉也”。阐述了察小儿指纹之重要性。本文作者 Motherland medicine has long been to observe the fingerprint as one of the methods of diagnosis of pediatric diseases. The Qing Dynasty Chen Fuzheng “young and young integrated” on the importance of observing the fingerprint has been analyzed as follows: “There is no general nursery fingerprinting, and the vagaries of Mo Moji test, there is no need to use, useful to the grotesque , Falsely accused of demise of the world, it is not clear in the line of reason, cover the fingerprints and inch off the size of a vein also ”. Expounds the importance of investigating pediatric fingerprints. The author of this article