"People are hard to dismantle" is a common saying among modern people. Under the pressure of social competition, many young people have sighed "Life is hard", but for the ancients, this degree is just drizzle. In ancient times when the level of medical treatment was not well developed, many people died of a small illness with hatred, and survival became an unattainable goal. I don’t know if you have discovered that there was a common disease in ancient times-gangrene. The counsellor Fan Zeng and the general Xu Da of the Ming Dynasty all died of gangrene. So what is the "back gangrene" as a famous killer. disease?
"Historical Records · The Benji of Xiang Yu" records: Xiang Wang suspected that Fan Zeng had private interests with the Han, and he slightly seized power. Fan Dieng became angry and said: "The world's major events are determined, and the king will do it for himself. I wish to give the bones to the soldiers." Xiang Wang Xuzhi. Before traveling to Pengcheng, he died of gangrene. It can be seen from this that Fan Zeng and Xiang Yu had a conflict of mutual mistrust during the battle against Xingyang. Fan Zeng asked to resign and go home. On the way back to Pengcheng, he developed a gangrene on his back. died.
In addition, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" records: Da Zai Peiping had gangrene and healed slightly. Emperor Huizu Huizu, Da’s eldest son, went to work and sought to return. In February next year, he became ill and died at the age of fifty-four. It can be seen from the above two examples that the major prerequisite for causing gangrene seems to be large emotional fluctuations, such as anger, the cause of death is overwork, and long distances and fighting may be the cause of death by gangrene. Song Hongshi said in the "Prescription for carbuncle and gangrene": gangrenous hair back, Sanchi boy is also known as the disease of anointing blindness.
What is "the disease of ointment blindness"? It is an incurable terminal illness. A 3-year-old child knows that gangrene is incurable. Is it really a serious disease? In fact, "gangrene" is the ancient term for "abscess" or "ulcers of long-lasting skin and deep subcutaneous tissue", which can appear on any part of the body, not just the back. When gangrene appears on the back, bacteria can mix into it to form an infection, and the lack of air circulation on the back makes the gangrene become more and more serious, and finally a red, swollen, hot and painful subcutaneous mass is formed.
At this time, the problem comes. How did the ancients cope with this situation without any treatment? There are roughly three ways. The first one: endure no treatment and wait for it to slowly disappear; the second one: the superficial skin ruptures on its own, the internal pus and residues are automatically discharged, and it can also heal itself; the third, Incision and drainage, and antibiotics or the like are applied to the surface. However, in ancient times, there were no antibiotics, so after most people got gangrene, they spread the infection to the whole body and died suddenly.
It’s fine if the "gangrene" grows elsewhere. Once it grows on the back, the abscess on the body surface will easily become more serious. Why? Because the skin on the back was particularly thick, it was difficult for the abscess to swell slowly in ancient times when it could not be treated, and it became very difficult to automatically drain through the skin gradually. Therefore, those soldiers who have suffered from "gangrene" hardly wait for the "gangrene" to drain and spread all over the body, and they will die suddenly.
The most important thing is that the ancients completely misunderstood the principle of "gangrene". In the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Xun recorded in "Jiyan Beigangfang·The difference between internal and external gangrene": When the gangrene occurs, it is not limited to the size, the body is not hot, consciously tired, and the place where the gangrene occurs is not hot... After breaking, the flesh is purple and black, which is internal hair. Then, he emphasized that "the dirty house was festered before it was discovered", and finally came to a conclusion: Although there is a magic medicine, there is nothing to do. In the ancient times when there was no X-ray, the ancients always thought that "gangrene" was caused by internal organ decay, and they didn't know the existence of bacteria, so many people died from such a small disease.
