In ancient times, the status of the practitioners of medicine is humble, even in the palace to the royal treatment of the Imperial Doctor and the Imperial Doctor, but also from the salary aspect to get "humble" reflected. According to the study found that the ancient imperial medical profession income is very low, and even some eunuchs have less than the income.
Ancient imperial physician industry income is even lower than the eunuchs. In ancient times to the palace doctors commonly known as imperial doctors, imperial doctors are not good when, with the king as a tiger, not to mention that the salary is lower than the eunuchs. Salary treatment, the hospital hospital to make three silver, around the court judge, seven imperial doctors are two silver two two money, the official eye, the doctor's silver one or two five money per month. The first year of Yongzheng regulations: the doctor monthly public meal silver one or two five money, rice nine buckets. And an ordinary eunuch monthly silver two two, it is clear that the Imperial Doctor's salary is low.
Qing Tai Hospital was first located in Beijing Zhengyangmen Dongjiangmi Lane, now Dongjiaominxiang Xikou Road North neighborhood. The main door of the hospital hangs "too hospital" plaque. Left in front of the gate for the "Land Shrine", the right for the "listening to the Office". Tai Hospital has five halls, hanging the Kangxi Emperor's Royal gift to the famous doctor Huang Yun's poem: "Sacred can no longer be, adjusting the recent love. Sincerity and prudence in medicine, benevolence and skill in life." Doctors emphasize the four words "sincerity, prudence, benevolence and skill".
The south hall on the left side of the hall, is the Imperial Doctor's office hall, the right side of the north hall. After the temple for the first doctor, dedicated to Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi statue, there is the Kangxi Emperor's imperial inscription "Yongji Qunsheng" plaque. There is a bronze statue in the Temple of the First Physician, outside the temple there is the Temple of the King of Medicine, the temple connected to the hall is the second hall, the third hall. In 1901, after the Treaty of Xinchou, Dongjiaominxiang Alley was designated as an area for foreign embassies and consulates in China. The following year, the Imperial Hospital moved to the new Yamen, in today's Di'anmen East Street, No. 113 courtyard, the hall east and west 3 rooms, 3 rooms deep, now basically preserved.
East courtyard for the pharmacy. Today there are 28 residents in the front yard, the back yard for the use of the five secondary schools. The Imperial Hospital in the Palace on the north of the courtyard has to be diagnosed, the rest of the premises, formerly known as "he Tan", also known as "collapse of the pool", for the translation of the Manchu language, the Chinese meaning is "housing, residence". The passage of time, is now non-existent. Ming and Qing dynasty hospital, both the Ministry of Health, General Hospital, Medical School and Health Bureau four functions.
Kangxi thirty-two years (1693) in May, the Kangxi Emperor suffered from malaria, taking the French missionary Hong Ruohan, etc. into the gold chicken cream (quinine) and recovered. Guangxu twenty-four years (1898) on the fourth day of September, the French Embassy in China, Dr. Dodd-Ford had for the Emperor Guangxu diagnosis and prescription. However, the Imperial Hospital has always been based on Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
The duties of the Imperial Doctor are mainly eight: service straight, into the Royal, escort, serve the difference, storage of medicines, sacrifices to the first doctor, diagnosis of prisons and prisoners, medicine, and so on. Its straight service, each with a specialty, shift duty, in the palace called the palace straight, outside the court called six straight. Palace straight in the Royal Apothecary and the Palace outside the class room duty, six straight out of the straight room (such as Changchunyuan, Yuanmingyuan) duty.
Secretary, the emperor went on tour, the Imperial Doctor or ordered to point with, or by shift duty, are given to the husband and horses, vehicles loaded with medicinal herbs, and also to the Accounts Office needs and other things. In addition, the King's House, Princess House, civil and military ministers, etc., the Imperial Doctor was also ordered to go to the clinic. Imperial doctors also give prison inmates, plague patients, etc. treatment. Therefore, the imperial physician may not always be able to give the emperor to see the doctor, to the emperor to see the doctor is not always the imperial physician.
The difference between imperial physicians and private doctors
The Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there are few records of medical affairs. From these surviving sources, doctors first appeared in the palace. Before the Western Zhou, doctors were imperial doctors serving the emperor; to the Eastern Zhou after the Spring and Autumn Period, some folk doctors began to arise, folk doctors are also known as Langzhong; the Warring States period, you can see some of the records about too much medicine, too much medicine order, and thus only to the court imperial doctors and folk doctors have a preliminary and clear delineation.
History on the imperial physician called a lot of different dynasties and generations, the division of duties also varies, from the initial medical witch **** service to the emperor, to the later more and more huge too hospital, the people who provide medical services for the nobility of the palace has formed a huge organization, with us today a general hospital is almost the same. In this organization, the imperial doctors also further have a more refined role, there are doing management, there are special for the emperor to diagnose the pulse, there are picking medicine and pharmaceutical, there are tasting medicine, and is responsible for the record of prescriptions, organize the archives, this book is to disclose the life of such a group of people.
There is also a group of people in the imperial doctors, they are not the imperial doctors in the hospital, some of them have been officials in the dynasty, some of them are practicing medicine in the private sector, because of their excellent medical skills are praised by the world, the royal family will often ask them to treat their own illnesses, they are the emperor's appointments of the imperial doctors, usually this group of "appointments of the imperial doctors" are cured
The doctor's every move, are concerned about the emperor's safety, so even if their status is low, but once they are able to cure the nobility of the palace, the trust of the royal family, then they can enjoy endless glory; however, it may also be just because of a small diagnostic error, or the emperor's idea of the difference, these glory and wealth will disappear overnight, and even have to pay the price of life. The price.