Cao Cao was imprisoned in anger because of Hua Tuo's pushing and blocking himself from seeing a doctor, and falsely claimed that his wife was seriously ill and was not commanded, and in a fit of rage, he imprisoned her, and eventually Hua Tuo died unjustly. Everyone in the world calls Hua Tuo a divine doctor, but Hua Tuo's ending is so ironic that it can be said that Hua Tuo is the first doctor in Chinese history to die of "medical trouble".
Hua Tuo lived in the era of warlord division, years of war, the people are not happy, a small wind chill may kill people, the people at that time were afraid of illness, and the emergence of The Jishi Shen doctor Hua Tuo gave the people who were in extremely bad medical conditions at that time a heart-saving pill, and the people's worship of him had reached its peak. However, after Hua Tuo and Cao Cao intersected, they became the first famous doctor to be killed in vain.
Let's first look at the real history, and distinguish between the interpretation and the correct history.
Neither the Romance of the Three Kingdoms nor the Book of later Han mentions that Hua Tuo wanted to split Cao Cao's head to cure his head, and the account of Hua Tuo's death in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is purely fictional.
However, fiction is not entirely empty, it also has its foundations. In real history, Hua Tuo was indeed able to perform abdominal surgery with Hemp Boiling Powder, and Hua Tuo was indeed killed by Cao Cao.
In view of this, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" extends it to open Cao Cao's skull, which naturally becomes a smooth chapter, and this story is wonderful and extraordinary, so the story of Hua Tuo using a sharp axe to split Cao Cao's head to cut off the wind and saliva for him will be widely circulated, so that people can't figure out the real historical truth.
Hua Tuo, a generation of famous doctors, how did he get involved with Cao Cao?
Cao Cao, a chaotic tyrant, Hua Tuo, and a walking Fang Langzhong. Originally, you were your minister, I cured the people's diseases, did not interfere with each other, why there was "Taizu heard and summoned Hua Tuo", there are many articles in this.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Later Han Dynasty Hua Tuo Biography do record Hua Tuo's diagnosis of illness, and the last thing recorded before Cao Cao made up his mind to summon Hua Tuo was the death of Chen Deng, the Taishou of Guangling.
Chen Deng was Cao Cao's most trusted person, and the Chen father and son did two things for Cao Cao, thus gaining Cao Cao's trust. First, Chen Deng's father, Chen Jue, had prevented Lü Bu from marrying Yuan Shu, when Lü Bu personally chased back his daughter who had been sent out. Lü Bu and Yuan Shu did not join forces, which greatly reduced Cao Cao's resistance to unifying the north.
Second, Chen Deng went to see Cao Cao at Lü Bu's behest and secretly told Cao Cao: Lü Bu was brave and capricious, and should be removed in time (brave and unscrupulous, light than going, it is better to try it early). After Cao Cao heard this, he was very happy, so he immediately made Chen Jue a high-ranking official of the Middle Two Thousand Stones, and made Chen Deng the Taishou of Guangling.
At the time of parting, Cao Cao personally took Chen Deng's hand and said: "The things in the East will be paid for by each other", which means that the things over there are entrusted to you, nothing more than letting Chen Deng do the internal response.
Chen Deng did not live up to Cao Cao's trust, and eventually cao Cao took Lü Bu. It can be seen that Cao Cao is very grateful to Chen Deng, and also trusts him very much.
But later, when Chen Deng got sick, Hua Tuo clearly told him when he was diagnosed and treated: Your disease will definitely recur after three years, and it may be saved to meet a good doctor. Three years later, it was exactly as Hua Tuo said. (When the disease occurs in the next three stages, it can be saved by a good doctor.) According to the fruit of the period, Shi Tuo is not there, as he said and died).
Chen Deng's death immediately spread throughout the world, Cao Cao had originally valued Chen Deng, and his death was a great shock to Cao Cao, at this time Cao Cao also began to pay attention to Hua Tuo, Hua Tuo's status as a divine doctor had just begun to establish in Cao Cao's heart (Taizu heard and summoned Hua Tuo).
As a doctor, Hua Tuo's duty to treat Cao Cao's illness was really the place, so why did he take leave to go home?
Cao Cao's head wind disease is a persistent headache disease, as long as this disease occurs, Cao Cao is dizzy and uncomfortable. This disease can be solved with Western medicine today, at least you can use brain CT to check what is wrong, and then prescribe the right medicine or surgery, but at that time there was only Chinese medicine.
Hua Tuo, who is good at treating difficult and complicated diseases, immediately gave him acupuncture when he saw Cao Cao's illness, which was very effective immediately. At this time, the relationship between Hua Tuo and Cao Cao was "always on the left and right".
Later, Cao Cao personally handled the state affairs (Taizu himself), and the time was tight and the task was heavy, so the illness became more and more serious (getting seriously ill), so Cao Cao made Hua Tuo his full-time doctor (so that Tuo specialized).
Here it needs to be noted that the relationship between Hua Tuo and Cao Cao has a process of changing from "always around" to "dedicated", in other words, how much the change from "general needs" to "full-time health doctors" has had on Hua Tuo, it can be said that the change in the relationship between the two laid the groundwork for Hua Tuo's "leave" later.
In the first month of the tenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao killed Yuan Tan, and the collapse of the Yuan clique at this point also heralded the beginning of Cao Cao's personal administration of the dynasty, and the busyness of the government caused Cao Cao to have frequent headaches, so he decided to let Hua Tuo focus on it. Hua Tuo has since lost his identity as a youfang langzhong and his freedom of movement has been restricted. It's important to understand this.
Hua Tuo stayed with Cao Cao for a period of time before taking leave to return to his hometown, and the excuse for taking leave was recorded in the Book of Later Han to go home to get the prescription, while the record in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was to receive a letter from home. No matter which way it is said, Cao Cao was allowed to fake it at that time.
Of course, this is all Hua Tuo's excuse, but in fact, there is another reason. The Book of Later Han says four things: Hua Tuo's eccentric personality (evil for human nature); his unhappiness in Cao Cao's treatment (rare intentions); his low status in practicing medicine (shame in seeing a doctor' career); and homesickness (going home and thinking of returning home).
In this way, the reason for Hua Tuo's "leave" is well understood, and from Hua Tuo's point of view, it can be considered that he is a skilled medical doctor and is unwilling to be a full-time doctor for Cao Cao.
The famous doctor Hua Tuo was killed in vain, but it stemmed from his own simplicity and naivety
In the minds of ancient readers, "learning and excellence", "going to the medical treatment of the country, followed by the sick people", as a reader, for the official rule of the country will be respected, when a you fanglang, it is inevitable to be looked down upon.
Cao Cao "personally managed the affairs of the country" and held the power of life and death, although he loved talent and cherished talent, but it was only a langzhong who annoyed him, his status was low, and the system at that time maintained Cao Cao's authority.
And Hua Tuo is not willing to be a doctor, willing to be a youfang langzhong, to treat the people of the world, although it is Hua Tuo's right to serve whom, but under the authoritarian system, Hua Tuo is very wrong.
It can be said that he did not understand Cao Cao at all, and even less did he understand the power of life and death entrusted to Cao Cao by the autocratic system. Hua Tuo could not get away with the reason that his wife was ill, but this was a very easy reason to be recognized.
And what if this reason is recognized by Cao Cao? Hua Tuo did not seem to think deeply and did not have a plan to deal with it. The people who really regarded Hua Tuo as a famous doctor and as a respectable person were ordinary people, patients among the common people, and posterity, and in Cao Cao's view, he was just a "rat generation", not only Cao Cao, but all the officials at that time did not regard people other than officials as talents.
Therefore, Hua Tuo's idea of relying on his wife to be sick and not to be Cao Cao's attendant was too simple and naïve, and indeed it was not well considered, and Cao Cao also had the legal theory of killing Hua Tuo.
Back to the point, let's talk about the meaning.
Even if Cao Cao didn't kill Hua Tuo, Hua Tuo split his head, and it would not be able to cure Cao Cao's head wind.
This is a good explanation, there is no complete concept of bacteria in ancient times, not only craniotomy, basically all major surgeries must be carried out under sterile conditions, this alone, the sanitary conditions around 208 AD must not meet the requirements, even if the operation is successful, it will inevitably die of bacterial infection.
Not to mention the bacterial factor, the craniotomy tool at that time was also scary enough, if Cao Cao was confused in pain, he agreed to Hua Tuo's craniotomy, Hua Tuo took a sharp axe to split Cao Cao's head, took out the wind saliva, maybe at the moment when the axe hit the head, Cao Cao may have died because of the heavy blow to the head, thinking about it very much.
Such high-risk surgery as craniotomy, placed in today's so developed technology, doctors will let the family first sign a "life and death agreement", although the ancient agreement was not signed, but the "gambling" component is inevitably too large, perhaps Hua Tuo himself may not have a full grasp, after all, there are no successful cases to learn from before.