How Disease Changed Our History
by Yu Gengzhe
About This Novel
When an emperor becomes ill, will the illness cause him to make irrational decisions, or even affect the direction of a dynasty? When a poet is sick, what kind of poems does he write? What kind of situation will people face when they get sick, and what measures can be taken? The wheel of history is often changed by inadvertent pebbles; disease may be the most common pebble. This book uses diseases and methods to deal with them as a window for "reading history", covering major plagues, anti-epidemic measures, ancient medical systems, longevity medicines and politics, venereal diseases and brothel culture, mysterious and ethereal poisons and miasma, ancient surgical operations, especially the authenticity of Hua Tuo's deeds, and thigh cutting therapy. Whether pro-independence really has the effect of curing diseases... We must not only see the impact of diseases on the historical process, but also the impact of the various methods people adopted to fight diseases and pursue health and longevity, as well as the impact of diseases on ancient Chinese thought and the changes in many people's lives.
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