The earliest Chinese human anatomy mapping

     About the human anatomy, in our country origin early. According to the archaeological scholars research, from the bodies of shang dynasty in dividing already realize heart shape, it is likely the motherland medicine records of the earliest known viscera. In neijing, said: "ReFu eight feet, in the body of flesh, the metric for cutting followed the death, can regard" anatomical and in shiji has also written on ancient medical use of surgical anatomic 16.9mm yu intraoperative cure deeds. Han dynasty recorded in WangMang, CengLingTai anatomical hospital doctors have was under their bodies. In the song dynasty, anatomy and new development. Northern WuJian (a spirit Jane), and had to be champions and the rulers killed 56 bodies such as van to dissect, painted by painting work into mapping, namely "five zang-organs drawing" (1041-1048 years), this is our country at present the earliest known human anatomy figure, pity, but then lost from earlier or later scholars van town (" east chronicle of "volume a jaipur, ShenKuo (the) MengXi took" volume 26), YeMengDe (the rock down words "volume) in the works of visible as the content and graph z.

     The five zang-organs in figure drawing "of the insides of anatomical configuration, the position of the detail description, and the normal human the derrnatopathy position corresponds with the basic. Also some anatomic accounts: like "the simple by dry (name), the sick JiaoDan black lung cough." "Uefa around (name) shall not mesh, liver disease, the bald and another shall the fat, including yellow aimless and also", etc. This intuitive anatomic demonstrated the viscera of traditional Chinese medicine, theory makes sense.

      Later some, publicizing ning (gradually nianhao, A.D. 1102 - between YangJie in), 1106 once the "save really drawing", to human body bosom, celiac, digestion, urinary, reproductive viscera and vascular have a more detailed description, the painting of anatomy and form, essentially correct the remedies such as zhu, the later the arches of internal and external two scene graph clustering GaoWu "acupuncture, British", YangJiZhou "acupuncture dacheng" etc., are cited the true figure "part with the material.

      Anatomy of world medicine is to develop in the relatively late in the sixteenth century ago, Europe, for animal anatomy, seldom the human anatomy. Thus our 11th century anatomy of the more advanced level or. However, due to the limitations of material and technical conditions, and long-term feudalism fetter, human anatomy in ancient China failed to further developed.