Liao, "surgical scalpel" witness a history of medicine

Our reporter YiXiaoFeng JinWanQing

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        A read the book "three kingdoms" people, remember that famous doctors for guan yu hua tuo of scraping the bone healing lively story, but ancient Chinese medicine surgery using tools is what appearance, I'm afraid that no one can be known, because our country about ancient surgical medical devices of the physical are very rare. Recently, our reporter learned from heilongjiang province academy, the province has found the first of four things dynasties period of a group of surgical tools-scraper, tweezers, a scalpel, screwdriver. This tool has been through the province in recent cultural relics experts identified, have been identified as national precious cultural relics. They have been kept in LuoBeiXian heilongjiang valley in the museum.

        Farmers cultivated land accident found strange iron

        In May 2009, heilongjiang valley for museum during cultural relics, lucky in Harbin market purchase a batch of cultural relics specimens, one of the wreck of the iron boxes, containing four a peculiar iron. The researchers say the sale of these iron, this is to county's son tower town tower farmers in a household guzi city has village in the spring of 2006 when turned ridging in found in cultivated land, have been placed for several years.

        It is understood that tower guzi city has large scale of heilongjiang territory dynasties ancient times, the liao dynasty, JinDaiJun called taizhou. Iron box of strange shapes iron caused the heilongjiang river valley museum researchers, historians DengShuPing concerned, his first from the shape of iron that may be ancient medical equipment.

        Four things are enough.it period for iron "surgical tools"

        These four things iron are "scraper, tweezers, a scalpel, screwdriver", are all pig iron forging, cast after grinding and into. One scraper 12.5 cm long, the blade tip top corner back up, the blade of a CeFeng sag, sharp; Tweezers 9.0 cm long, two wide by 0.5 cm in the tail of the iron hammer forging after after holds together instead. And the modern of compared with tweezers, much the two rings at the hoop, before and after can push and pull, facilitate clip objects of fixed with; A scalpel 11.2 cm long, the blade sharp, an iron tool is complete, and the modern medical scalpel similar; The smaller 13 cm, front have two out before the double teeth, double teeth pointed that is square, the waist flat, the day after a root.

        According to DengShuPing researchers describe, song song, liao, gold years of war, the army and the people all have large casualties, lead to both sides have to invest a lot of medical staff to participate in the answer that. DengShuPing said, a large number of medical personnel in addition to carry the necessary herbal elixir besides, deal with the vessels of the wound is indispensable. "This can't be ruled out of treatment of trauma and pus, one Ding, sores, used tools, such as with scraper and a scalpel cutting carrion, take a screwdriver to pull out the remaining arrows. The discovery of the medical equipment should be dynasties period and later period of time surgery for one of the tools."

        Experts identified as national precious cultural relics

        Heilongjiang province, a researcher at the academy, the history WeiGuoZhong experts said, China's traditional Chinese medicine surgery could be traced back to thousands of years ago, but at present our country has unearthed relics, the ancient the discovery of surgical instruments is relatively rare. "The discovery of the dynasties period of medical devices, in kind proved as early as one thousand years ago in the northeast Chinese medicine has been used in surgery set of surgical tools. The kitan, nuzhen surgery technology level and the central plains han whether diffident, this problem is to be to textual research."

        Heilongjiang province cultural department of cultural relics YanDeMing deputy team leader, expert heilongjiang university museum YaoYuCheng cultural relics experts and scholars such as WeiGuoZhong researcher more than for the four pieces the iron preliminary identification, identified as the dynasties of surgical medical devices, in this province for the first time, found, identified as national precious cultural relics. Liao history in China, one of the leading experts archaeological experts view Mr. Love in jinzhou bohai university liao JinShi open academic period, attaches great importance to this group of medical devices found, and think that fill in the blank of medical research in liaojin period period.

        DengShuPing according to the researchers, heilongjiang valley of the collection of the museum this medical equipment specimens, not to say the oldest surgical medical treatment in surgical instruments, but at least can explain in liao, two song period extended under the yuan dynasty, surgical medical operation and the medical equipment types has already become more and more complicated, diversification and standardization, surgical medical procedure in traditional Chinese medicine has developed to a quite mature stage.

        According to Mr. DengShuPing research, and found that in the rulers rule, medical treatment level or rather backward, crown prince, even to the sick, the emperor at all but, often turn to "the shaman" (shaman), or to seek Buddha temple gods protector. However, what is the rule of the dynasties time in the area, only has the relative complete medical treatment institutions and the medical equipment? This mystery is also to be further fastidious and vice versa.