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"If you want to save people, you can study medicine, but if you want to make money, you can't study medicine." This is the famous saying of a famous ancient doctor ( )

"If you want to save people, you can study medicine, but if you want to make profits, you should not study medicine." This is the famous saying of which ancient famous doctor (Fei Boxiong, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty)

Fei Boxiong (1800~1879), whose courtesy name was Jinqing, his nickname was Yanyunzi, and his study room was named "Liuyunshan Pavilion". A native of Menghe Town, Wujin County, Jiangsu Province. Fei Boxiong grew up in a medical family with a rich family background, starting with Confucianism and then medicine. Not long after Xuanhu started practicing medicine, he became famous in Jiangnan for his expertise in treating constipation. During the Daoguang period (1821-1851), he was called to the court twice for medical treatment.

The Empress Dowager's lung cancer and Emperor Daoguang's aphonia were treated successively, with remarkable results. For this reason, he was awarded a plaque and a banner, praising him as "a living national master". By the time of Xianfeng (1851-1861), the reputation of Fei's doctor had greatly increased, and people seeking medical treatment from far and near came here. Boats often connected in front of the door. At this time, the small town of Menghe River also became a prosperous area with the developed medical industry.

Fei was a well-educated scholar with superb medical skills. People called him a famous doctor, and he was highly regarded by the medical community. Fei's decades of medical practice have accumulated rich experience in clinical trials, and he has a lot of experience in academic research, so he started writing books. He believes that the development of medicine has become extremely complex, and it is necessary to simplify and control complexity to correct shortcomings so that future scholars can return to the right path.

To this end, he devoted his whole life to tireless exploration, starting from clinical practice, drawing on the essence of ancient and modern scholarship, without mixing in sectarian prejudices, and striving to explore honest medicine that is fair and impartial. After several years of writing, he finally completed the manuscript of "Yi Chun" (*** 24 volumes) and published it. Unexpectedly, the manuscript of the book and the Tibetan manuscript were destroyed in a war during the Xianfeng period.

At this time, Fei escaped from the Taiping War and stayed in his residence in the ancient Yanling Mausoleum (in Wuxili, Taixing County, northern Jiangsu). He suffered from foot disease and had difficulty walking. He sat in his bedroom all day long. During this leisure time On that day, I devoted myself to writing, recalling the contents of past writings and recording them in essays. Compiled 4 volumes of "Yi Chun Sheng Yi". The book was written in the second year of Tongzhi (1863) and became popular in the world after it was engraved. Later, he wrote 4 volumes of "Treatise on Medical Prescriptions" (1865).