Zuo Zhuan: "The country's deflated, no not devoured." As early as the Spring and Autumn period, people know rabies. People are with the disease of dogs, cats, wolves and other carnivores bite or scratched, generally get rabies, feel a low fever, loss of appetite, nausea, some people do not have a deep understanding of rabies, but also thought that the above symptoms are just a common cold and fever, in fact, this is only the initial symptoms of rabies.
Waiting until the excitement period, the patient will be unusually excited, afraid of water, even hear the word "water" will cause serious throat muscle spasm, so the ancients also called rabies "hydrophobia". Rabies lethality is very high, almost 100%, but its incubation period is very long, 1-3 months, some nervous people may forget about being bitten by a dog, and thus did not get timely treatment, died of asphyxiation, it is said that the queen of the Lu died in this way.
In the Book of Han, it is recorded that Lv Qian was bitten in the armpit by a black dog, she did not go to clear the doctor instead of divining, mainly because she usually did too many bad things and always suspected that someone intentionally wanted to harm her. As a result, the black dog really came to take revenge on her, and Liu Ruyi's soul was attached to the dog. Liu Ruyi was the son of Madame Qi, and also the most favored son of Liu Bang. Liu Bang wanted to abolish Liu Ying, the son of Lv Qiang, to make Liu Ruyi the prince, so Lv Qiang always wanted to get rid of Liu Ruyi to keep her own son's throne.
In 194 BC, when Liu Ying went out hunting and Liu Ruyi was alone at home, Lu Piang took advantage of the fact that no one was around to force Liu Ruyi to drink poisoned wine, which poisoned Liu Ruyi to death, and she also made his mother into a human pig. So, Liu Ruyi turned into a black dog to find Lu Piang to seek revenge, four months later, Lu Piang died of rabies complication.
Ancient medical equipment are relatively poor, and there is no rabies vaccine, the ancients if you get rabies is not only sit and wait for death? In fact, the clever ancients have long studied a native recipe, circulated for 1,800 years, and finally influenced a Frenchman to study the rabies vaccine.
Eastern Jin Dynasty famous medical doctor Ge Hong wrote China's first clinical first aid hand to do "after the elbow to prepare for the emergency formula", the book inside wrote a lot of disease prescription and acupuncture method, or the world's earliest record of smallpox harm, contagious book, which also has the treatment of rabies: "is to kill the bitten dog, take the brain to compress it, and then do not recur. " It refers to the fact that the brain of the dog that bites a person is taken out and applied to the place where the patient was bitten, so that the patient will not have another attack of the disease.
Ge Hong's method may seem ridiculous, in fact, is really a bit of scientific reasoning, 1885 French scientist Louis Pasteur is the use of dog brain inactivated rabies virus invented the rabies vaccine.
Pasteur, the founder of modern microbiology, he saw Ge Hong wrote a rabies recipe y affected, on the basis of his improvement, he extracted from the brain of the rabid dog less toxic rabies medulla, injected into the body of the rabbit, the rabbit did not die, but instead will be due to fertility to reduce the toxicity of the rabies virus, Pasteur and the rabbit body of the rabies virus injected into the rabid dog into the rabid dog, and in this way, the rabid dog was cured.
"Wonderful hands and kind hearted patients, apricot forest spring warmth on earth" doctors in any era are god-like characters, if not for them, we will not live so well, life expectancy will not be so long, so our daily life should be more to give the doctor some respect, some understanding.