In most people’s perception, ancient times lagged behind modern times. In ancient times, almost everything had to be done by manpower, while modern times have advanced technology to help humans complete some regular things. . But not everything lags behind modern times. For example, what should you do if you are bitten by a dog? Do you think there was no way to deal with it in ancient times? Then you are totally wrong, there were already ways to deal with rabies in ancient times.
Rabies was known as flat bite disease, hydrophobia, and mad dog disease in ancient times, and this disease has been recorded in ancient times. In 556 BC, "Zuo Zhuan" recorded: In November, during the Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese people chased the dead dogs and entered the Huachen clan, and the Chinese people followed them. The deflated dog here is actually a mad dog, which probably means that on a certain day in November of the Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese people expelled the mad dog into the territory of the Watson family, and the Chinese people agreed.
It is enough to show that people at that time realized that such mad dogs were a threat to people's health and safety, so they stayed away from these dogs. Not only that, "Zuo Zhuan" also records: The country's deficient people will eat them all. From here we can see that people have realized that people bitten by such dogs will get sick.
But there was no way to alleviate the disease at that time. Until the emergence of Ge Hong, the risk of dying from rabies was greatly reduced. He recorded in "Emergency Prescriptions": Anyone bitten by a dog will be bitten once every seven days. If there is no bite for thirty-seven days, the bite will be severe. If it takes more than a hundred days, it will be considered a serious escape.
This means that people who have been bitten by a mad dog will definitely have an attack within seven days, those who do not have an attack within 21 days can be temporarily out of danger, and those who do not have an attack within a hundred days are basically fine. I have to say that Ge Hong's medical skills are very superb. Why do you say that? Because the one hundred-day observation period he mentioned is basically consistent with the twenty to ninety-day observation period prescribed by modern medicine. At that time, he could be said to be a miracle doctor who could achieve such medical achievements.
Not only that, he also recorded the symptoms of rabies patients in "Emergency Prescriptions". If they hear the slightest sound, they will twitch and convulse, even if they hear the sound of pouring water, it will not work. pain.
We have to admire Ge Hong's medical skills here. How many patients do we need to see before we can draw such a conclusion and grasp the symptoms of rabies?
Tu Youyou, a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Biology, also mentioned that her inspiration for developing artemisinin came from the "Emergency Prescription". The cure rate of artemisinin compound drugs for falciparum malaria reaches 97%, Tu Youyou is a very great female scientist. She not only freed our country’s malaria patients from the disease, but also helped foreign friends around the world get back on the track of health faster. We have always been too self-righteous, thinking that modern civilization surpasses ancient times in every aspect, but in fact we are all wrong. From Tu Youyou's research and development of artemisinin, we can see that ancient medical books play an indispensable role in the development and progress of modern medicine.
Ge Hong not only summarized the symptoms of rabies, but also the observation period. The most important thing is that he also came up with a method to treat rabies. His methods for treating sick patients were recorded in "Elder Prescriptions": kill the bitten dog, take the brain and apply it to prevent recurrence.
It means that after being bitten, killing the biting dog and applying the dog's brain directly to the wound may reduce the symptoms. And a particularly special point is to air-dry the dog's brain first, which will reduce the risk of infection. Ge Hong's idea is basically the same as Pasteur's idea who successfully developed the rabies vaccine, which is enough to show that Ge Hong is a doctor with superb medical skills.
We can imagine that ancient medical skills were very backward a long time ago. Maybe the poor did not even have the opportunity to see a doctor and could only endure the pain. However, it happened to be the appearance of Ge Hong and his superb medical skills. Medical skills have saved the lives of many people, not only treating rabies, but also playing a huge role in treating many other rare and difficult diseases. Treating some diseases may not be difficult in today's society, but think about it from afar In that dynasty, many people died young and were killed by a minor illness. Thanks to miraculous doctors like Ge Hong, many people were one step away from death.
As early as more than 1,800 years ago, our country already had methods to treat rabies. I have to say that our traditional Chinese medicine culture is extensive and profound.