What is western medicine?

Hello! First of all, I wish you good health! Let me tell you about the development history of "western medicine".

Western medicine, which can be traced back to ancient Egypt, produced anatomical knowledge while making mummies and disposing of corpses. This point is very important, so we should pay special attention to it.

Anatomy belongs to the basic knowledge of medicine, and belongs to the scope of biological research in principle. The anatomy of ancient Egypt has no influence on clinical medicine, but it plays a great role in art. Western sculptures and paintings have been very similar since ancient Egypt, which is caused by the emphasis on anatomy. Animals and people in China's paintings and sculptures are far less accurate than those in the West.

Doctors and wizards in ancient Egypt were inseparable, leaving some recorded fragments. One man said, "Wizards, when you touch the finger of the deceased, you should know that it is also a part of the heart." There are some similar records, which show that they have learned that the blood vessels of the heart and fingers are connected. In China, at least before the Western Zhou Dynasty, doctors were a profession. The word "doctor" is an official name. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, doctors were responsible for examining doctors and counting the records of doctors' treatment and death.

In ancient Greece, equivalent to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, doctors and witches in the west were separated, and doctors became carpenters. Bian Que's contemporaries met a famous doctor named Hippocrates. Mainly introduce the progress of western medicine, try not to mention names and titles. Everyone can't remember the names of those foreigners, but Hippocrates can't help mentioning that his name is as important as Hua Tuo in China.

He is famous for writing "vows", mainly to teach the rules and regulations of this line, and to be grateful to the master. If the descendants of the master want to study medicine, they can also teach it for free. There is also a part of professional ethics. Doctors should treat patients equally, whether noble or poor, and keep patients' privacy. Others include not giving patients poison and teaching them how to use it, not having an abortion and so on. His oath has had a great influence on western medicine for thousands of years. Today, abortion is still unacceptable in the western concept, which is contrary to the oath.

In basic medicine, he put forward the theory of "body fluid", which is still used in psychology today.

In ancient Rome, about the same time as Hua Tuo in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there appeared a doctor named Galen, whose name cannot be omitted. He wrote a book, monopolizing western medicine as a creed 1500 years. He proposed that the clinic should be based on the knowledge of anatomy and physiology, defined the development path of western medicine, and gave the human body structure at the same time. 1500 years, almost no one doubts whether its structure is correct.

Different from China, the feudal society in China was developed, while the western feudal society was suffocating and monopolized by theology, so it was called the "dark age", and western medicine developed nothing.

Our country attaches great importance to clinical medicine, "Shennong tastes a hundred herbs" and looks for drugs to treat diseases from plants and minerals, so the pharmacy is developed and the curative effect is obvious. Western medicine attaches importance to anatomy and physiology, ignoring clinic. Because the chemical industry has not yet developed, drugs are limited to common foods, and wine is an important drug. Nowadays, western people still regard food and wine as easily available drugs.