When Cao Chong killed Hua Tuo in "Three Kingdoms", Xun Yu advised: "Tuo's skills are practical, and human lives are at stake, so we should forgive him." - This is a professional talent, please treat him leniently .
Cao Cao said: "Don't worry, there will be no such rats in the world?" - I don't believe it. Will Butcher Zhang eat pigs with hair on them after they die? There are so many doctors, kill them!
However, he was slapped in the face in the blink of an eye.
Later, his beloved son Cang Shu was seriously ill. Cao Cao said: "I regret killing Hua Tuo and forcing this son to die." - I regret killing Hua Tuo, otherwise this child would not be the same. will die.
But Hua Tuo was not the only miracle doctor in Cao Cao's era. There was also a man named Zhang Zhongjing, who was regarded as a medical sage in later generations. His book "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases" benefited countless people.
Why didn’t Cao Cao look for him?
It is said that Cao Cao should know him, because Zhang Zhongjing knew He Yong. According to "He Yong Farewell Biography", He Yong met Zhang Zhongjing when he was young and said of him: "If you are good at thinking but not very good in rhyme, you will become a famous poet in the future." Famous doctor." Later, Zhang Zhongjing became not only a famous doctor but also a medical saint.
He Yong seems to particularly like to make prophecies like this. In the "Book of the Later Han", he once predicted Cao Cao: "The Han family will perish, and this person must be the one who can calm the world."
In this way, he knew both Cao Cao and Zhang Zhongjing, so it is very possible that Cao Cao knew Zhang Zhongjing, but it does not rule out that He Yong had never noticed who Zhang Zhongjing was because he always praised everyone he met in his life, and later he forgot who Zhang Zhongjing was, and Cao Chong died in 208 AD, and He Yong had been dead for almost twenty years at this time. Even if He Yong mentioned it, Cao Cao probably forgot about it.
But "The Biography of He Yong" says that Wang Can also knew Zhang Zhongjing. When Wang Can was seventeen years old, Zhang Zhongjing made a prophecy to him: "When you are thirty, your eyebrows will fall off. "Wang Can didn't take it seriously, and as expected, when he was thirty years old, he lost all his eyebrows.
This Wang Can, together with the Cao family and his son, is called the Seventh Son of Jian'an. He is very familiar with Cao Cao. How can he not recommend it?
However, Cao Cao just didn't know him. Not only did Cao Cao not know him, "Book of the Later Han", "Three Kingdoms" and even Pei Songzhi, who collected various gossips of the Three Kingdoms, did not mention him.
But Zhang Zhongjing became very famous in later generations.
Ge Hong talked about the miraculous medical skills of the time in "Baopuzi": "Chunyu can decapitate the skull to clear the brain, Yuanhua can disembowel the abdomen and unclog the stomach... Zhongjing pierced the chest "To accept red cakes."
In his writing, Chun Yuyi (from the Western Han Dynasty) could do craniotomy, Hua Tuo could wash the intestines and stomach, and Zhang Zhongjing could open the patient's chest and put medicine cakes in. He and Hua Like Tuo, people today are amazed by his surgical skills.
The "Book of Jin: The Biography of Huangfu Mi" says: "Hua Tuocun is good at unique knowledge, and Zhongjing is good at making prescriptions."
Sun Simiao's "Qian Jin Yao Prescription" "" said: "The secret prescriptions of Zhongjing are not passed down by the masters in the south of the Yangtze River." That is to say, in the Tang Dynasty, the doctors in the south of the Yangtze River still regarded Zhang Zhongjing's prescriptions as treasures and would not show them to others easily. It can be seen that Zhang Zhongjing's fame is not only in legends.
It was in the Tang Dynasty that some people realized that historians were unfair to Zhang Zhongjing. Gan Bozong, a Tang Dynasty man, wrote a book called "Records of Famous Doctors", which included famous doctors and wrote biographies of them respectively. Zhang Zhongjing was among them. However, This book disappeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, and modern people can only collect the life of this famous doctor from scattered historical materials.
He was probably from Nanyang. He studied medicine with Uncle Zhang in his hometown since he was a child. During his tenure as an official, he regularly treated people's illnesses and saved countless lives.
As the saying goes, it is better to be a good doctor than to be a good appearance. Zhang Zhongjing almost realized these two wishes in his life.
However, these records were compiled by later generations and are not very authentic. For example, Zhang Zhongjing's name was not included in the list of Changsha prefects at that time. Fan Ye, the author of "Book of the Later Han", was also from Nanyang. As a fellow villager of Zhang Zhongjing, There is no reason for him not to know, and there is no reason for him not to write a biography for Zhang Zhongjing. It can be inferred from this that Zhang Zhongjing does not exist at all.
But such a famous medical expert, whose reputation has been spread for nearly two thousand years, suddenly disappeared after such verification. This is too outrageous. I think Zhang Zhongjing certainly existed. He may not have been from Nanyang, and he may not have been the governor of Changsha. Since he was mainly active in the south, he treated illnesses and saved people, leaving a very good reputation among the people. However, he was not like Hua Tuo who worked for Cao Cao. In the mansion, he was not noticed by historians at that time, so there was no official biography. But as his works circulated in the hands of doctors, more and more people noticed his value, and Zhang Zhongjing's status became higher and higher.