Chapter 389 Medical Dogma

"How come a foreign mage can debate sutras..."

Zhang Fei muttered, but it was not a complaint.

After all, it is easy to imagine that if Taoism could raise the Yellow Turbans to send the Han Dynasty to its death, then Buddhism, which could compete with it, would certainly not be easy to deal with.

And Buddhism forced the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to "destroy Buddhism" later.

If you think about it this way, if we talk about the degree of danger to a country, I am afraid that neither of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism can say anything about each other.

Pang Tong did not understand the others, but he saw clearly the reason why Buddhism was in power.

So he came to a simple conclusion:

"I don't understand the five wisdoms of Buddhism, but it seems that if you want to govern the country well, craftsmanship and medicine are indispensable."

Everyone in the hall nodded in unison.

After all, Xiahou Yuan and Du Xi and others are still under house arrest, and most of the workers who are rebuilding Chang'an City are surrendered soldiers.

The fact that Guanzhong was taken and the Three Qins were settled without any damage shows that if you want to win in the military, you don't have to be good at leading troops.

After all, let alone anything else, the decisive battle was in winter, and the enemy had a mountain of coal cakes for heating, and there were sufficient soup recipes to drive away the cold and prevent diseases.

Even if the Marquis of Huaiyin was resurrected, he would probably find it quite difficult.

This already shows the power of doctors and engineers.

So in the end, everyone's eyes in the hall focused on the light curtain: It is fortunate for the Han Dynasty to have the light curtain to give advice.

Then, following the light curtain, everyone's eyes also focused on Kong Ming: It is also our luck that Kong Ming is admired by future generations.

Zhang Zhongjing on the side also felt emotional.

The name of future generations, the leader of medical science, the rise of medical skills, and the difficulty of eliminating epidemics, all kinds of thoughts lingered in his mind.

In the end, these complex emotions converged into an unprecedented confidence.

If Zhang Zhongjing had fought alone against the epidemic in the past and failed to win, then I am not alone now!

The atmosphere in the hall became more harmonious. Ma Chao rarely used his brain again. He could see that whether it was the emperor's uncle, Zhuge Junshi, Zhang Shenyi, or even Mr. Jian, they all had ambitions in their hearts.

Then he, Ma Mengqi, was nearly 40 years old now. What was his ambition?

The four words "dominate Yongliang" that made him heroic in the past now felt ashamed to say.

As for the words of the light curtain behind that the blessings and virtues were inconsistent, almost everyone in the hall sneered.

If the blessings and virtues were equal, there would be no rebellion of the Ten Eunuchs at all, so how could there be a chaotic world?

It's okay to deceive the people, but for those of them who have experienced the chaotic world, they all disdain it.

[Whether in ancient or modern times, epidemics are a problem that large countries must face.

This was the case in the Han Dynasty, and Rome was naturally no exception, and the time was very close to the Han Dynasty.

The first recorded major plague in ancient Rome was from 165 to 189 AD, that is, from the end of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty to the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.

It is hard not to remind people of the first time that the prime minister shared the blame in "The Memorial to the Emperor on Departure": I have always sighed and hated Huan Ling.

Because this period was in the Antonine Dynasty of ancient Rome, it is also called the Antonine Plague.

We have talked about some of this before. At that time, Rome was at the end of the "Five Good Emperors". Rome sent envoys to the Han Dynasty to find a reliable ally.

At the same time, ancient Rome also started a protracted war with the Parthian Empire, and finally successfully conquered the capital of the Parthian Empire, Ctesiphon, and burned it down.

But at that time, smallpox broke out in the Parthian Empire, and a large number of soldiers were infected, causing ancient Rome to withdraw in a hurry. These soldiers also brought the disease back to ancient Rome, which directly led to the end of the golden age of ancient Rome.

According to current information, the Antonine Plague is similar to the typhoid epidemic in the late Han Dynasty, and more than one disease was rampant.

The power of the compound plague was also enormous. According to the records of ancient Roman historians, the plague could infect nearly 10,000 new people every day, and more than 2,000 infected people would die. After the plague finally subsided, the death toll reached 5 million. One-third of the population in some provinces was directly wiped out. The national strength of ancient Rome was also directly halved. Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five Good Emperors, also died directly from the plague.

But for ancient Rome, the series of chain blows caused by the plague had just begun:

Because the first to face the plague were the soldiers, and as the military strength was stretched to the limit, they had to recruit new soldiers from gladiators and slaves, and the quality of the soldiers declined rapidly.

With the sharp decline in population, the silver mining used to maintain military expenditures also stagnated, the economy of ancient Rome began to fall into a downturn, and all industries suffered heavy losses.

When the Roman citizens breathed a sigh of relief and were glad that the natural disaster had finally ended, the epidemic killed a comeback in 191, catching ancient Rome off guard, and the slightly improved national situation fell into a cold winter again.

The following year, Marcus Aurelius's biological son, the ancient Roman Emperor Commodus, was assassinated, and the Antonine Dynasty ended completely. Ancient Rome thus began the "Third Century Crisis" period of nearly a hundred years, which is the "Thirty Tyrants" period we mentioned earlier.

The script in this regard is very similar to that of China: internal slaughter, invasion by foreign tribes in the north, the people in dire straits, and the upper class in dire straits.

However, thanks to the importance of medicine in ancient Rome, the first major epidemic period became an important rise period for ancient Roman medicine.

Galen was the most famous doctor of this period. He successfully studied anatomy, verified the function of the heart, conducted quite serious research on the brain and spinal cord, and recognized the human digestive system, respiratory system and nervous system. He also perfected animal experiments and began to apply the medical knowledge obtained from experiments on monkeys to humans for the first time.

As Galen's works were introduced to Arabia, the ancient Arabs also summarized the summary, exploration, suspicion, options, practice, and guidelines from Galen's works, which became the medical dogma that medical students must follow and lasted until the seventeenth century. 】

"This time... is so coincidental."

Liu Bei was a little dazed for a while. If it weren't for the fact that later generations have always emphasized that science does not talk about ghosts and gods, would he have to guess whether there is really a plague god?

Kong Ming has always been quite calm about this cognition:

"From this point of view, at most it can only show that Rome is quite similar to our Han Dynasty, both of them are not good at... public health."

"And the cold climate seems not to be the only disaster in the Central Plains, but the world is also unavoidable."

In addition to judging, Kong Ming was a little curious.

According to this climate cycle theory, with the end of the chaotic period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the climate will warm up again, and the East will have the prosperity of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but what about the West?

From the few words of the predecessors and successors, we can know that the Sassanid Persia fell, the Byzantine Empire was not far behind, and the one who finally emerged was...

Could it be that the Arab Empire, which had the best of both worlds on this Silk Road and obtained many scientific essences of ancient China and ancient Rome?