"Life, old age, illness and death" is a big problem that we can't hide from, and in ancient times, the medical conditions were backward, and even a cold could kill you.
Although today's medical system is very developed than before, some major diseases can also cure or prolong life, but "difficult to see a doctor, expensive to see a doctor" is a topic that cannot be erased in today's society.
Nowadays, the medical treatment section that we are familiar with is basically seen from the TV series, such as the imperial relatives have the royal doctor to accompany them, and the dignitaries and nobles also have 1 or 2 family doctors, and ordinary people can only "ask the doctor".
Ancient doctors have uneven medical skills, most people have limited medical skills, the probability of encountering the jianghu lang is still very large, in case of prescribing the wrong medicine, it is going to die. Generally, the doctor's consultation fee with some medical skills is generally a little high, if Zu Shang Jide meets a famous doctor, it is really a "koi".
Traditional Chinese medicine generally has a slower effect, but where a disease, take ten days and half a month of medicine that is less, so long also have to spend a lot of silver ah!
There is such a thing in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Qingwen is ill, Jia Baoyu secretly asked a doctor to treat her, and gave the doctor a silver or two when she left. In the Qing Dynasty, one or two pieces of silver was about 1,000 yuan, which was only a registration fee, and I had to go to the medicine shop with a prescription to catch medicine, which added up to a lot of money. Qingwen's monthly salary is only 1,000 yuan, almost one or two. This is still a big family's beard, and there are not so many ordinary people. An illness that drags down a person or even a family was never a joke in ancient times.
Would it hurt you to now let you go to a minor illness on a monthly salary?
Of course, 1 or two silver please is not a famous doctor, is an ordinary doctor, if replaced by a high-level doctor, it will really cry!
There is such a story in the Qing Dynasty "Shou Zi Pa", once there was a famous doctor surnamed Zhao in the county town, the means of seeing a doctor were magical, and he did not care about any disease, a post of medicine went down to manage well, no matter how good it was to return money, people sent the nickname "Zhao Yi Tian". Although the means of seeing a doctor are clever, there are really not many people looking for him, because the consultation fee is too expensive to afford!
His visit fee required 5 taels of silver, at that time the middle class was about 1-2 taels a month, and the income from seeing a sick illness for half a year was gone. Of course, the middle class is also a person with a little money, and the poor can't even afford to hire a doctor of the average level, even if there is a divine doctor hanging pot to help the world, there is no money for medical treatment. Some people don't look at it, because it costs money to catch medicine, and it is not blind to encounter slightly more expensive medicinal materials.
Mr. Li Ke, a famous old Chinese medicine doctor, once said that it is a high summary of the poor to see a doctor:
"Rural patients, non-life-threatening, dare not speak to the doctor. As soon as the disease falls into a situation of nine deaths and one life, the death due to lack of treatment is not uncommon, and there is no worse tragedy in the world than this. ”
Poor people do not dare to see the doctor in their lives, and they cannot afford to treat the doctor until the end of their lives, which is really a human tragedy!
This has happened in all dynasties and dynasties, "poverty" is the original sin, and modern people are much happier than before. Of course, in order to deal with this kind of thing, the dynasties have also taken corresponding measures.
The Zhou Dynasty once set up the position of "disease doctor" to treat ordinary people, at that time, there were very few "disease doctors" and many patients, but I did not know whether there was a doctor-patient contradiction at that time. The role of "disease medicine" is not great, after seeing the disease, you still have to buy medicine, ordinary people can't grasp the medicine, the imperial court simply gave the medicine directly.
The Book of Han records that in 2 AD, Wang Mang came to power to catch up with the locust plague, so he ordered direct medicine to be given to the victims and provided corresponding medical services. By the Time of the Southern Song Dynasty, large-scale infectious diseases appeared in the Capital Division, and Zhao Zhuo also sent imperial doctors to treat and distribute medicines to the people for free. Some local governments also often provide free medical treatments for the people, distribute medicines, and ensure the daily life of the people.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, wars continued, the epidemic spread very rapidly, and the effect of distributing medicines to the common people was not significant, and the imperial court established a government public welfare medical institution for the livelihood of the population - "Beifang". This institution not only treats patients and grasps medicines, but most importantly, does not want money, and is also a gospel for the broad masses of the people.
Of course, "Beifang" is good, but there are limitations, only to the people in the capital to see a doctor, the government also needs to control the cost, ah, outside Gyeonggi is not blessed to suffer, until more than 200 years later in the Tang Dynasty, people finally saw the government's "rich willfulness".
In order to alleviate the problem of the common people's "difficulty and expensive medical treatment", the imperial court set up a "nursing workshop" to see a doctor for free, and this kind of institution also opened the entire territory of datang like a chain store, and the government set up a rule in order to ensure the quality of doctors:
"If a doctor falsely claims that the patient is seriously ill because of money, he shall be punished as a crime of theft"
Doctors will even be punished for misjudgments caused by carelessness and sloppiness. Successive dynasties and dynasties have broken their hearts for the medical problems of the common people, which shows that not only in modern times, but also in ancient times, medical problems are also a big problem.
In the richest Song Dynasty, a series of policies to benefit the people are really eye-catching, if the dynasty is also divided into "developed" and "developing", then the Song Dynasty must be the "Luxembourg" of the developed dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, there were not only free hospitals, Anjifang, but also affordable pharmacies opened by the government, which specialized in selling "conscience medicines and reassurance medicines" for the people.
Subsequent dynasties also developed further with the charity medical care of the Song Dynasty, and the "sanatorium" founded by the Qing Dynasty was also influenced by Anjifang.
From ancient times to the present, medical problems have always been a major issue related to people's livelihood, through the efforts of various dynasties and modern rich and strong motherlands, we have finally established a perfect medical system, and the medical insurance coverage rate is also extremely high.
Only when the rights and interests of the people can be fully protected, we will live a happier and happier life, with the development of society, I hope that in the future, when we face any kind of disease, we will have less fear and more optimism.