The so-called Western medicine refers to the medicine of Western countries. From the history of the development of Western medicine, Western medicine is divided into modern Western medicine which is developing today and ancient Western medicine which has been eliminated. Among them, the Western ancient medicine originated in ancient Greece, but because of its theoretical content is wrong, in the modern period of the Western countries have been abandoned; as for the Western modern medicine, he originated in the modern period of the Western countries, is the Western scholars in the abandonment of the Western ancient medicine, the development of a completely new system of medical science, and this system of medical science is the people of the country is often referred to as the Western medicine. Modern Western medicine in China used to be called New Medicine, as opposed to Old Medicine (Chinese medicine). The diagnosis of the Western physician is made more with the help of advanced medical equipment and laboratories to make an accurate diagnosis of the disease. Doctors use their own sensory organs to diagnose a patient's disease through visual examination, palpation, percussion, auscultation, olfaction and other methods, or with the help of simple tools such as stethoscopes, percussion hammers, sphygmomanometers and thermometers to carry out a comprehensive and systematic examination of the patient.
Chinese name: Western medicine
Meaning: medicine in Western countries
Classification: Western modern medicine and Western ancient medicine
Introduction into China: the late Ming and early Qing dynasties