A Brief Introduction to The Story of Blood

The story of blood introduces our feelings about blood, which can be roughly divided into two extremes: one is the dependence of life, the closeness of blood, the bearing of blood, the blood of relatives flowing in the body, and the warmth of heart to heart. First, fear, blood often gives people a sad scene, which makes people feel creepy. On the issue of consanguinity, human beings have the same feelings and are not limited by culture. The story of blood leads us to swim along the gurgling blood in science, history and mythology. Through vivid stories, I tell you that there are so many mysteries in your blood. We can also see the author's life track and his courage to challenge HIV with same-sex couples. We were born in a pool of blood, and the family history is also contained in the blood. Our bodies are nourished by blood day after day. On average, 5680 ml of blood in human body flows along arteries, veins and capillaries with a total length of 96540 km.

Similar to our pulse diagnosis, western medicine touches bilateral carotid arteries, which is the first and last examination position to determine vital signs. In the Story of Blood, there is a passage about Huangdi Neijing, which is called "the oldest and most famous medical guide in the world", but the book says that in ancient Greece, "the earliest father of western medicine, Dr. Praxagoras, a contemporary of Hippocrates, first taught the technique of pulse-taking." Herophilus, a disciple of prats (335-280 BC), was the first doctor who used time to calculate the pulse.

To tell the story of blood, it exists in daily life. The Story of Blood says that Leonardo da Vinci's study of blood in the Renaissance began with observing the erection of penis. "The production of sexual desire is driven by blood and also depends on blood. Blood enables us to complete that extraordinary transformation process, which began before we took off our clothes. " Chinese medicine says that "essence gives birth to blood, blood gives birth to vitality, and qi gives birth to spirit", and people's health also lies in blood. It's a pity that the author didn't make an in-depth study of China, an ancient medicine, and couldn't tell more stories.

The chapters such as Discovery in Blood, Story of Origin, Biopsy, Anecdotes of Bloodlust and Blood Donation tell the medical knowledge of blood, which helps readers to understand the principle of blood and is beneficial to health. "A simple fact of human biology is that the blood in the human body flows to the end of the body and finally returns to the heart. The same is true of blood relationship, which is inseparable. " The author devoted a chapter on blood relationship to "blood sisters", and in "Female hemophiliacs", it was about royal blood relationship. When the phrase "blue blood" was introduced into English in the 1930s, it coincided with the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign. This sentence not only has racist connotation, but also has become synonymous with high-class dignitaries. In Britain, "aristocratic lineage" has another specific meaning: it refers to gentry, nobles and members of the highest royal family. In this chapter, the author describes that Queen Victoria, the "European grandmother", passed on hemophilia to the royal family. Her second and third generations are married to the royal families of European countries, which makes people worry about the royal lineage of Europe as a whole.