In the Zhou Dynasty, medicine was divided into four branches: dietotherapy (nutrition medicine), disease medicine (internal medicine), selective medicine (surgery) and veterinary medicine. The choice of doctors is divided into swelling, ulcer, golden ulcer and ulcer, and orthopedics directly includes the latter two choices. At the same time, the first two options (swelling, ulcer) of bone tumors, bone and other chronic infections are also related to orthopedics. It seems that choosing doctors in ancient times mainly refers to orthopedics.
The treatment and teaching tasks of orthopedics and traumatology once belonged to Tuina Department in Sui Dynasty, which lasted until Tang Dynasty, marking the first time that orthopedics and traumatology was promoted to the teaching hall of Taiyuan Hospital.
The Song Dynasty was divided into nine families, among which the two families, sores, swelling, ulcers and golden cymbals, belonged to orthopedics.
Thirteen schools in Yuan Dynasty included orthopedics and metallography.
Eleven subjects in the Ming dynasty, orthopedics was changed to orthopedics, and the gold shovel was removed.
The Qing dynasty was divided into orthopedics and traumatology.
After the Republic of China, it was called orthopedics in the south and orthopedics in the north. After the founding of New China, it was not called orthopedics until the last decade.