According to legend, Ascui Lebo was the son of Apollo who was regarded as the god of medicine in 400 BC. Ascui Rabo is a solemn, gentle and kind doctor. He traveled around the world with a wand wrapped around the snake, curing diseases and saving lives. Because of his superb medical skills and kindness, he is particularly popular. Later generations regard "snake-wrapped crutch" as a medical symbol out of reverence for the imperial doctor and snake, and in memory of Ascui Lebo.
It is said that the staff of God means to travel around the world and treat people, while the snake is a symbol of health and longevity. Greece is the birthplace of the snake emblem, which has spread all over Greece since ancient times. In modern times, the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany and the United Nations World Health Organization all regard the snake emblem as their medical symbol. 1The cover of Chinese Medical Journal published in April, 948 is an eye-catching snake emblem. Moreover, on street buildings in European cities, such a strange sign can often be seen: a snake is wrapped around a goblet. This is the symbol of European pharmacies.
Before 1840, we were closed to the outside world After 1840, we entered modern times and became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. It was not until 1949 that the new China was founded that we ended this state. Everyone knows that the modern history of our country is a history full of humiliation and blood and tears.
During this period, various western cultures were introduced into China, and the China government began a series of roads to save the country, including the May 4th New Culture and Westernization Movement, and actively studied advanced western technologies and cultures, including Western medicine. Lu Xun and Sun Yat-sen were both people who chose to study medicine abroad at that time. It was only later that they discovered that only treating physical diseases could not strengthen the country and needed to change the thinking of Chinese people.
During this period, China sent people to study medicine, and West Renye Fang established hospitals and medical schools in China.
For example, Peking Union Medical College, 19 17 was founded by Rockefeller Foundation. In fact, the well-known medical schools in China, such as Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Huaxi Hospital and Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical College, are basically founded by people from western countries and all teach western medicine, so the school badges are basically marked with "snake sticks". Later, because of the influence of these medical schools or cooperation in running schools, some medical schools will choose the sign with "snake stick".
The social practice of preventing and treating diseases and ensuring health has a history of thousands of years in ancient civilization. People have accumulated rich experience in long-term medical practice, and these experiences have been systematically summarized to form medicine.
In the early days of civilization, many medical activities were organized by clergy, and the explanation and treatment of diseases were often superstitious. Later, it gradually differentiated into medical talents with medical treatment as their major. With the development of civilization, philosophical thoughts gradually replace theological explanations, and diseases are no longer considered as the harm of ghosts and gods or the punishment of gods.
Acute seasonal diseases are often related to abnormal weather changes, while chronic systemic diseases are often explained as the excess or deficiency of some imaginary components in human body, or the imbalance between these components. There are not only measures that have been proved to be effective by experience, but also many elements based on imagination. In the history of human civilization, these two stages lasted for thousands of years, and modern medicine was gradually established in recent hundreds of years.