Translation:

If you are an official in the court, you must contribute to the country and serve the people. If you no longer serve as an official, you must become a person who helps the poor and contributes to the common people.

Original text:

If you advance, you will save the world; if you retreat, you will save the people; if you cannot be a good minister, you should also be a good doctor. This sentence comes from "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" by Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The main content of "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases":

The book has 10 volumes, 22 chapters, and 113 prescriptions. There are 82 kinds of applied drugs. The first volume consists of two chapters: "Methods for Differentiating the Pulse" and "Methods for Pulse Leveling", which mainly discusses the pulse, syndromes and prognosis of typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases. The second volume is "Examples of Typhoid Febrile Disease", "Differentiation of Diarrhea and Dampness Pulse Syndrome", "Combined Treatment of Taiyang Disease and Pulse Syndrome", which mainly discusses the general rules of the occurrence, development, treatment and prognosis of the six meridians, and the syndrome and treatment of dysentery and dampness. .

Volume 3 to Volume 6 mainly discuss the pulse, syndrome, treatment and prognosis of diseases of the six meridians of Taiyang, Yangming, Shaoyang, Taiyin, Shaoyin and Jueyin. Volumes 7 to 10 mainly discuss the syndrome and treatment of cholera, changes in yin and yang, fatigue, and typhoid fever. Extended information

Writing background:

"Treatise on Febrile Diseases" is a classic work of Han medicine written by Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a monograph that explains the treatment rules for exogenous diseases, with 12 volumes in total. Today there are 10 volumes and 22 chapters. During the circulation of Zhang Zhongjing's original work "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", later generations compiled and compiled the contents of exogenous febrile diseases into "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". The other part mainly discusses internal medicine and miscellaneous diseases, called "Jin Gui Yao Lue Prescriptions".

The original book of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" was compiled and compiled by Wang Shuhe of the Western Jin Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, it was already in a critical state of single transmission and survival. This book has been in the Secret Collection of the National Library of the Northern Song Dynasty. During the Jiayou period (1056-1063), the Northern Song Dynasty Medical Bookstore was established. Gao Jichong's manuscript was selected as the original version. Sun Qi, Lin Yi and others edited it. In 1065, it was published by The imperial court ordered the Guozijian Engraved Edition to be published as the final version of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", which ended the situation of more than 800 years of divergent manuscripts and confusing articles from the late Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.

In the fourth year of Jinhuangtong (the fourteenth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty), Cheng Wuji's "Annotation on Febrile Diseases" was published with detailed annotations. It gradually replaced the white version of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", which was not reprinted in the Southern Song Dynasty. By the Yuan Dynasty, the white version of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" was no longer available in the public, except for a few bibliophiles who occasionally had copies of it.

In the twenty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1599), Zhao Kaimei, a bibliophile in Changshu, Jiangsu, accidentally obtained ten volumes of the Northern Song Dynasty's "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and asked an outstanding engraver to include the book in "Zhongjing Quanshu". The original engraving of the Northern Song Dynasty was soon lost, and only Zhao Kaimei's edition still survives today. Zhao Kaimei's version is very realistic to the Song version, and later generations honored Zhao Kaimei's version as "Song version of Treatise on Febrile Diseases". There are currently five copies of Zhao Kaimei's edition. "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" also has wide influence abroad.

About the author:

Zhang Zhongjing (about 150-154 AD - about 215-219 AD), named Zhongjing, was born in Nieyang County, Nanyang (now Henan Province) in the Eastern Han Dynasty A native of Zhangzhai Village, Rangdong Town, Dengzhou City, Province. A famous medical scientist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he was revered as a medical sage by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing collected medical prescriptions extensively and wrote the masterpiece "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" which has been handed down from generation to generation. The principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment established by it is the basic clinical principle of traditional Chinese medicine and the soul of traditional Chinese medicine.

According to historical records, there were three major epidemics during the reign of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, five during the reign of Emperor Ling, and the epidemic was even more severe during the Jian'an period of Emperor Xian. Thousands of people were devoured by the disease, causing an unprecedented disaster with ten houses and nine empty houses. Among them, the largest epidemics occurred in AD 171, 173, 179, 182, and 185 during the reign of Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 168-188).

Plague pandemics also occurred successively in Nanyang area at that time, and many people died as a result. Zhang Zhongjing's family was originally a large family, with a population of more than 200 people. Since the early years of Jian'an, in less than ten years, two-thirds of the people have died due to epidemics, and seven-tenths of them died of typhoid fever. Facing the raging plague, Zhang Zhongjing felt very sad and angry.

He hated the corruption of the rulers and pushed the people into dire straits.

In this regard, Zhang Zhongjing made up his mind to study the diagnosis and treatment of typhoid fever, and he must subdue the plague of typhoid fever.

During the Jian'an period, he practiced medicine and traveled around the country, witnessing with his own eyes the serious consequences of various epidemics on the people. He also used this to put his many years of research on typhoid fever into practice, further enriching his experience. , enriching and improving rational understanding.

After decades of hard work, he finally wrote an immortal work called "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases". This is another most influential and glorious medical classic after the "Huangdi Neijing".