Chapter 272: Shengtian's half-son Zhang Zhongjing
The needle drop in the Han Chang'an Mansion can be heard.
"Isn't that solid garbage just ...... dung?"
Before Ma Chaoda's words were finished, Zhang Fei tightly covered his mouth.
and the eyes that looked like they were going to kill in the room.
After all, even if he has a gentle temper like Doctor Zhang, he still has a look of uncertainty at the moment.
Ma Chao was silent, but Zhang Fei felt that it was still difficult to get over this hurdle in his heart, so he muttered casually:
"No wonder my old Zhang thinks that this Chang'an well water is not as sweet as Hanzhong and Chengdu."
Looking at Ma Chao, who nodded violently beside Zhang Fei, Liu Bei suddenly felt very tired.
Among them, Kong Ming was the least affected, his face remained unchanged, and after copying the rules and regulations of the land composition of Chang'an that later generations said, he sighed lightly:
"In this later life, everything is learned, and science is everywhere."
Later generations don't know which dynasty's summary of the changes in water quality in Chang'an is really concise, but it has left three points of thin noodles for the predecessors, so as not to be too embarrassed.
But this news made Liu Bei a little in a dilemma for a while.
This Chang'an will not be relocated, the well water does smell, and there is always a thorn stuck in my heart.
Let's relocate, in what capacity to plan the new Chang'an is another question, and the name is not justified.
Zhang Zhongjing didn't have so many troubles, and the old doctor also wrote down his thoughts when watching the light curtain, and at this time he also had a new understanding of the casual words of later generations, "illness comes from the mouth".
If the daily drinking water is polluted by feces, then it is no wonder that during the Zhongping period of Emperor Ling, there was no war and chaos, but on the contrary, there were small epidemics.
Moreover, looking at what later generations said, the "typhoid fever" at this time was not really typhoid fever, which may be mixed with a variety of epidemics, and it also needs to be carefully studied.
Zhang Zhongjing really felt that it was very beneficial, but many inadvertent words in later generations made him more and more clear about the direction of medical research, and in turn, it also made the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", which was close to completion, even more distant from its completion.
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Li Shimin in the Ganlu Hall was thoughtful, why the old site of Chang'an in the Han Dynasty was abandoned was nothing new to him, and it was precisely because of the lessons of the former Han Dynasty that the former Sui would pay more attention to the treatment of these filthy things when building a new Chang'an in Longshouyuan.
Tang followed the Sui example, and on this basis, formulated stricter laws, such as throwing garbage outside the wall directly with a cane of 60 canes, and if the sewage from the street flowed into the street, the supervision officials were convicted of dereliction of duty.
On the basis of the former Sui Dynasty, an open ditch was added to drain daily sewage, all in order not to suffer from the old disasters of the former Han Dynasty.
At this point, Li Shimin thinks that Datang is not bad.
It's just that on the one hand, Li Shimin was amazed that later generations could still explore this matter after thousands of years, and studied the filthy matter so clearly.
On the other hand, they also began to worry about the future, when the Tang Dynasty gradually became stronger, then when the merchants of Western Central Asia and the East China Sea Yi people lingered in Chang'an City, can Chang'an carry so many people now?
After all, the twists and turns of Fang Du and the others depicted the rapid growth of the population during the peaceful and prosperous era, and Li Shimin's confidence in Chang'an City at this time was not very strong.
But this matter ...... Li Shimin glanced at Yan Lide, who was working diligently:
I think I should be able to come up with a way to be a prisoner.
[Of course, the above is a conjecture about the cause of the plague in the early Han Dynasty, and after the Yellow Turban Uprising, it was accompanied by the plague that we are familiar with.
Floods, droughts, locusts, wars, and food shortages have disrupted social operations and production order, making life extremely difficult for the people.
The corpses that died from natural and man-made disasters will breed a large number of pathogens, becoming the best breeding ground for epidemics, and eventually it only takes one opportunity to trigger a large-scale plague, and finally cause the tragedy of the late Han Dynasty.
It is precisely because of the terribleness of these disasters that those who face the disasters and go against the grain are extremely valuable.
Zhang Ji, whose name is Zhongjing, was born in Nanyang, and there were more than 200 members of the clan, but after the impact of several epidemics, more than 140 people died in the clan, and 100 of them died of typhoid fever.
The death of a close relative of the clan due to the epidemic had a great impact on Zhang Zhongjing, so this young man, who hated officialdom and despised official career since he was a child, also made his own life ambition: he wanted to relieve the pain of typhoid fever for the people.
In the turbulent and troubled times of the late Han Dynasty, epidemics often followed natural disasters and military disasters, and behind epidemics, Zhang Zhongjing often followed closely.
After ten years of traveling and learning from hundreds of medical skills, Zhang Zhongjing lived in Lingnan in his later years, where he escaped the troubled times and devoted himself to writing about medical skills, and the epoch-making clinical medical masterpiece "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" came out.
As we said before, the original of this masterpiece was unfortunately lost, but fortunately, it was re-collected and edited into two parts, "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and "Jin Kui Yaolu", so that most of Zhang Zhongjing's achievements have been passed down to this day.
Zhang Zhongjing died in Lingnan, after the world returned to Jin, the tomb of the old doctor was also able to be relocated to his hometown Nanyang, the people felt his medical skills and medical ethics, and offered incense to commemorate his medical shrine, which has been passed down to this day, and later generations also called it a medical saint.
So has Zhang Zhongjing succeeded in fighting the epidemic?
In the short term, there is no doubt that it has failed, because after the publication of "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", the epidemic still continues.
In 223, there was a great epidemic in Xudu in Wancheng, and tens of thousands of people died.
In 253, the New City epidemic caused most of the deaths.
In 273, Jianye suffered a great epidemic and 100,000 people died.
Just like in the late Han Dynasty, behind these large-scale outbreaks of plagues, there must have been countless small-scale plagues.
But the UP master believes that looking at the entire history, Zhang Zhongjing has undoubtedly won.
The healer was a forerunner who chose to go against the epidemic when almost everyone was helpless and fled with their backs, and he chose to go against it.
For thousands of years, several classic prescriptions in "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" have spread all over the land of China, and countless people have lived, making China suffer from thousands of diseases without falling, and become stronger and stronger due to thousands of epidemics.
The name of the medical saint has also inspired countless latecomers, so that they no longer turn a blind eye to the suffering of the people, but choose to have China in their hearts and carry China on both shoulders, so that our entire nation can move forward with high spirits.
1,300 years after Zhang Zhongjing's death, the Black Death caused by the plague swept across Europe, killing more than 75 million people in more than 150 years.
This disease also spread to the Ming Dynasty, at that time Huaxia doctors also took Zhang Zhongjing as an example and chose to rise up retrograde, Wu Youxing, a doctor in Jiangsu, did not care about life and death to explore the plague, and wrote "Treatise on Plague", summarizing the transmission route to explore the method of curing the epidemic, opening a precedent for modern plague theory, and curbing the plague in the Ming Dynasty.
The Black Death played a pivotal role in the history of Europe, as the mass deaths shook the rule of the Catholic Church and made it popular for people at the time to indulge in the present.
This point of mentality is quite similar to the indulgent hedonism represented by Cao Pi in the late Han Dynasty. 】
Kong Ming looked sideways, and saw that the old gentleman Zhang Shenyi looked at the light curtain with unprecedented concentration.
He still didn't say a word, but the gradually reddening of his eyes showed what kind of turmoil he had inside.
"At this time, write books and heal for eternity."
"The name of the medical saint is worthy of the name."
Kong Ming's admiration was sincere.
Zhang Zhongjing, whose eyes were red and his chest was agitated, just sighed at this time, and arched his hand at Kong Ming.
After all, the juniors made it clear that there was still a big epidemic in the short term since him, which was still a pity for him.
After all, his original intention was to cure typhoid fever and prevent the people from the tragedy of most of the epidemic deaths of his Nanyang clan, and that Jianye died 100,000, which is terrifying just from the numbers.
Kong Ming had insight into the nuances and explained in a different direction:
"I wonder when Liang will be able to see the Book of Doctors' Governance?"
So Zhang Zhongjing could only wave his hand slightly embarrassed:
"It's coming, it's coming."
The complicated mood just now also calmed down.
(End of chapter)