Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 406: Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine Family, Deng Tietao (Extra chapter for thanksgiving)
When Old Deng heard Fangyan's answer, he realized that he was talking to himself and was overheard by Fangyan.

He coughed awkwardly a few times, then pretended to be nothing and changed the subject:
"I heard from the people in the store that you learned this trick from Zhu Liangchun and his gang in Jiangsu."

"Except for Zhu Liangchun, who is a quack doctor, the others are all academic doctors."

"It seems that academic researchers are quite capable."

After hearing the old man's comments, Fang Yan said to him:
"Aren't you also an academic yourself?"

Old Dengtou said:
"That's different. I study Chinese medicine. Everything should be done in an orderly manner. It should be the same as it was before."

"Our ancestors have already paved the way for me. I just need to memorize it by rote."

"If you use dead cats and dogs or things you've never seen before as medicine like a rural doctor, you're playing with the patient's life, so academic Chinese medicine is better."

"But Chinese medicine is different. The Jianghu school of Chinese medicine has more practical experience than those who talk about it in the school research room. So the Jianghu school of Chinese medicine is better."

Hearing this, Fang Yan said:

"I think we shouldn't divide them into the martial arts school and the academic school. After all, patients don't know these things. They think that as long as the doctor can treat their symptoms, he is a good doctor. Dividing them into so many schools will only increase the internal strife of traditional Chinese medicine."

"Western medicine has become popular now. If we Chinese medicine practitioners continue to fight among ourselves, we will have a hard time in the future."

Hearing that the dialect suddenly added value to the topic, Old Deng did not argue. Instead, his eyes lit up and he said:

"Wow, young man, you are very conscious!"

Then he said:

"You are right. After the emergence of Western medicine, Chinese medicine was regarded as old culture. Its Yin-Yang, Five-Element and Qi-Qing theory was severely criticized as feudal superstition. It was also believed that the old and new cultures could not coexist. Therefore, Chinese medicine was strongly denied and scientific Western medicine was advocated. Chinese and Western medicine soon showed an unbalanced situation of one rising while the other declining. Although Chinese and Western medicine have coexisted in the world, there is actually no possibility of mutual integration and mutual promotion. Instead, they just go their own way and develop independently. Compared with the factional disputes within Chinese medicine, this is the most important thing."

Fangyan didn't expect that Old Deng actually listened to him.

But when I thought about the fact that he was from Guangdong, I felt relieved by the dialect. In later generations, Guangdong was the only place in the country that provided a relatively tolerant environment for the development of traditional Chinese medicine.

So Fangyan bowed to Old Deng:
"Your opinion is great!"

This was the first time Fangyan praised the old man today, and Old Deng felt it was quite pleasing to the ear.

My impression of this kid has also improved a lot.

Then Fangyan treated the patient and he watched from the side. It was not until 11:40 in the morning that the patient was finally treated. Then Old Deng realized that Fangyan could cure any disease this patient had.

It really refreshed his cognition.

He had originally thought that this kid would be a competitor to the younger generations at home, and was a little wary of him. However, Fangyan's words just now made him feel that he really shouldn't be prejudiced. After all, Western medicine is getting bigger and bigger, so what's the point of fighting against Chinese medicine?
Fangyan finished writing the medical records and was ready to go home.

I was afraid that Old Deng didn't know, so I told him before leaving and I would only work half a day.

Old Deng said to Fang Yan:

"Of course I know this rule. I see a doctor in the morning and read in the afternoon."

Fang Yan suddenly realized and nodded:

"That's me talking too much."

Fang Yan said to him:
"By the way, where in Guangdong are you from?"

"Kaiping County, have you heard of it?" said Old Deng.

Fangyan immediately became interested and asked:

"Do you know Mr. Deng Tietao who wrote the New Outline of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Lecture Notes on Diagnosis of Traditional Chinese Medicine?" Mr. Deng was startled, then said:

"Yes! He should call me uncle."

After hearing this, Fangyan hurriedly bowed:
"Oh, my apologies, you are from a famous family."

Deng Tietao was later regarded as a leading figure in traditional Chinese medicine in Guangdong.

His contribution and influence on the field of traditional Chinese medicine are far-reaching.

In 1990, the higher authorities planned to streamline the organization. In August, Deng Tietao joined forces with eight famous Chinese medicine practitioners across the country to write a petition to the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, requesting that the functions of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine "can only be strengthened and improved, rather than taking this opportunity to merge and abolish it."

The reply was received on October 10: It was agreed to strengthen the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine's function of managing national TCM work.

In 1998, there was a trend of merging western medical schools with traditional Chinese medical schools across the country. Deng Tietao once again stepped forward and for the second time joined the "Eight Elders" of national famous traditional Chinese medicine to write a petition, and the trend of merging western and traditional Chinese medical schools was urgently stopped.

In 2000, when the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine in the country was facing the dilemma of "a lack of successors", Deng Tietao called on famous veteran Chinese medicine practitioners across the country to break their sectarianism, concentrate on training apprentices at the GD Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and strive to create a "Whampoa Military Academy for hardcore Chinese medicine practitioners", which had a profound impact on the national TCM community.

He cares about the growth of students and supports the development of young people. As early as 1992, he established the "Deng Tietao Scholarship" at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to reward outstanding students.

In 2003, he again invested more than 80 yuan to establish the Deng Tietao Fund at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine to support research projects in traditional Chinese medicine.

During the epidemic in 2003, he provided a TCM plan and adopted TCM dialectical treatment. At that time, the hospital achieved an excellent record of "zero transfers" and "zero deaths" for patients and "zero infections" for medical staff.

The anti-epidemic experience was subsequently promoted nationwide and won recognition from the World Health Organization.

Even when he was lying on his deathbed, he was still thinking about the cause of traditional Chinese medicine and donated the 100 million yuan prize money of the Qihuang Award to the school to fund scientific research.

Therefore, Fangyan admires Deng Tietao from the bottom of his heart.

I didn’t expect to meet an uncle of Mr. Deng.

Old Deng of course had no idea what Fangyan was thinking, so he waved his hand and said:
"Well, although our Deng family is a family of traditional Chinese medicine, we are not a famous family. You are exaggerating."

"If we talk about a famous family, then the Zhu Liangchun family is a famous family. Who doesn't know the descendants of Zhu Xi?"

The dialect said:

"That's different. I've heard that there are many hidden talents in traditional Chinese medicine in Guangdong, and it was also the first place to compete with Western medicine. The traditional Chinese medicine families there must be very capable."

Mr. Deng said:
"You're right. Our hometown was the first to be impacted by Western medicine. Western medicine landed in Guangdong in 1835. At that time, the first Western medicine hospital in the country was the "Ophthalmology Clinic" on Xindoulan Street in Guangzhou."

Fangyan knows about this first Western hospital in modern China.

At that time, it was the eve of the outbreak of the Opium War. Many foreigners had come to Guangzhou to do business and trade, and many missionaries had also come. In order to treat these foreigners, Peter Parker, an American missionary with the title of Doctor of Medicine, saw that practicing medicine could be profitable and convenient for approaching the Chinese people and benefiting missionary work, so he opened this "Ophthalmology Clinic" in Guangzhou.

This westernized "ophthalmology clinic" did very well, receiving 925 patients in three months. Probably because of its good curative effect, it became famous, and as it expanded, it was renamed "Boji Hospital".

In 1866, the "Boji Hospital" opened the first medical school in China, the "Boji Medical School", which was later renamed Nanhua Medical School. In 1904, it was renamed "South China Medical College", which is the predecessor of today's "Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences".

The founding father of the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, also studied medicine at this school in 1886.

This also marked the beginning of the century-long competition between Chinese and Western medicine.

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