Our country the first etiology monograph "the pathogenic wait theory"

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        The cause of the syndrome "is now the first part etiology, pathology book, was written in A.D. 610, the sui dynasty nest yuan party written, etc. The book is our country the first dynasty court made by the miserable, writes the medical theory for collective work, is also the most detailed accounts was disease symptoms of the book. The book the earliest extant version for the yuan had, common version is 1955 years people's medical publishing house photocopy.

        The cause of the syndrome ", referred to as "the nest's pathogenic", and name the source of the nest's syndrome ", "the cause of general syndrome". Encyclopedia volume of 50, 67 door, contained BingHou theory article 1720. Major disease types are rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, smallpox, cholera, malaria, edema, dehydration, jaundice, diabetes, bronchiectasis, parasitic diseases, anal fistula, neural function disorder, including the inside, outside, and the women, son, such as facial features vaious immunity-lower disease.

        The book about the etiology and pathological argument, much is summed up the experience of the previous practice. Such as typhoid fever, such as WenBing said contagion is by crime gas (outside harmful material) cause; "White worm (beef tapeworm) disease of infection and eat not too familiar about the beef; Rain stone (similar to kidney stones) is in the pathological changes of the kidney. About disease symptoms, such as typhoid spot sores (similar to scarlet fever), boarding beans boils (similar to smallpox), leprosy, having more all-round and meticulous description. In the surgical treatment was recorded in Chinese ancient seam bowel surgery and ligation of the blood vessels method, our state's surgery was already reached a very high level.

        In skin disease, the cause of the syndrome of bacterial and viral skin disease of skin diseases such as many records, in the correct understanding of scabies especially. Book write: "more than the brotherhood of scabies was born in between toes, dye gradually born as for your body," "the thin bug in boils it's hard to see what, children due to the breasts of itch, the infectious disease and children also". Added: "and is a worm, and people to pick, shape like a needle in sick." These know scientific quite high. From scabies speaking, the modern clinical diagnosis of commonly used between toes without her lesions hand to assessment and confirm the diagnosis. The ancients is very careful observation already visible. To contact transmission this, also made a vivid description of, for example, without a magnifying glass and microscope, observe and found JieChong, about JieChong than Europe report early for the more than 1000 years, and Europe of these report appeared in the 1758.

        The cause of the syndrome, or a record at the time of the development level of medical important works, from the book in the contents of the etiology known to see, at the time of the understanding of the disease for medicine has reached the comprehensive thorough analysis, the degree of thoroughly. Maybe by the cultural orientation influence, medical history, most physicians to pay more attention to the principle, the method, the party, medicine, and other aspects of the research and writing, this book is very little, and the cause of the syndrome of content of comprehensive and thoughtful of just compensate for the vacancy, until today's medical development level, it is still calls is a perfect good books. (Shanghai QiuYing ping)