Yongqi, the fifth son of Qianlong, can be said to be a frequent guest in the Qing Palace drama, especially Yongqi in the "Huan Zhu Gege" that once swept the country, and he is also the dream lover of many young girls.
The historical Yongqi was also a polymath, he learned to ride a horse archery from an early age, proficient in Chinese, Manchu and Mongolian, these are the aspects that Qianlong inspected the heirs and valued very much, so Qianlong especially loved Yongqi. Once, when a fire broke out in the Qingyan Hall of Kyushu in the Yuanmingyuan, Yongqi risked his life to carry Qianlong out of the fire, and after this incident, Yongqi, who was only 24 years old, was crowned the Prince of Heshuorong.
That is to say, Yongqi was the most valued prince of Qianlong at that time, the closest person to the throne. However, heaven was so unjust, after Yongqi had just been crowned king, he contracted an illness and died four months later at the age of twenty-four. So what disease did Yongqi contract that actually took the life of the young Prince Rong?
According to historical records, Yongqi suffered from "appendage gangrene". In the Series of Traditional Chinese Medicine books "Medical Sect Jinjian" compiled during the Qianlong period, there is a detailed record of this disease. It is said that this disease is born on the outside of the thigh, mainly because the weak people eat and sleep, or after taking a cold bath, and then blowing cold wind, cold evil into the body, only to get infected with the disease. At first, it was like a cold, but when the disease entered the bone marrow, the muscles and bones had a tingling sensation and could not be freely stretched.
Judging from these descriptions, it may belong to osteomyelitis in modern medicine. This disease in the cold, the resistance is weak, bacteria take the opportunity to invade the human body through the blood spread to the bone, because the bone is suitable for bacteria to reproduce, resulting in a large number of bacteria and osteomyelitis.
According to the Records of the Golden Book of The Physician, this disease can be cured by conditioning, but Yongqi may have ignored it and eventually fell ill into the bone marrow, taking his life.
Curiously, whether it is recorded in Traditional Chinese medicine or studied in modern medicine, this disease is not inherited. However, in the Aisin Kyora family, there are many people who suffer from this disease. For example, Yin Xiang, the thirteenth son of Kangxi, his son Hongtun, and later the Guangxu Emperor, all died of this disease.
According to the experts' explanation, there is a reason for the possibility, because of the relationship between close relatives and marriage, the resistance of that kind of bacteria may be lacking in the aisin Kyora lineage. After contracting the wind and cold, the resistance was reduced, and the bacteria took the opportunity to take their lives, and such a tragedy was born.