Doctors in the late Ming Dynasty

"I said I can conjure hundreds or even thousands of doctors for you." Zhang Jiebin said loudly.

"When did this happen? Stop joking." Zhu Guozuo was a little angry.

"Seriously, how many supervisors are there in the Imperial College now?" Zhang Jiebin asked.

Although Zhu Guozuo was confused as to why Zhang Jiebin suddenly mentioned the Imperial College, he still said: "There are about seven or eight thousand people in the Imperial College."

What he did not say is that the Imperial College is now simply a place of filth and evil, and 90% of it is filled with people who are not worthy of much use. They are all people who have been rejected by the government, the state, the county school, and even the social science school and are accepted into the prison.

Among the seven or eight thousand people, there are less than a thousand truly talented scholars. This is the current situation of the Imperial College.

"Among the scholars in my dynasty, one in ten people know how to treat medicine, and one in ten people are proficient in medicine. Among these seven or eight thousand people, you can find dozens of people who are proficient in medicine."

"There are more than 20,000 officials in Beijing. Excluding the ministers of the DPRK and China, we can also find at least 200 doctors."

"As far as I know, there are more than 500 temples, nunneries, palaces, temples, temples, halls, and ancestral halls in Wanping County alone. There are at least tens of thousands of monks and Taoists, nine out of ten who know medicine. There are only two Taoists in the two counties.

If there are thousands of Taoist doctors, then there are tens of thousands of Taoist doctors. Among them, there are hundreds of proficient ones, not to mention too many, right?"

"Although there are not many monks who are knowledgeable about medicine, it is not difficult to find dozens of monks and doctors among the tens of thousands of monks."

"I wonder if envoys from various countries are still stranded in the Nan Hui Tong Pavilion? I don't know how many native people there are in the North Hui Tong Pavilion. There must be one or two doctors among them..."

Before Zhang Jiebin finished speaking, Zhu Guozuo said: "That's enough, that's enough. The people in the hall don't have to bother me. We have so many doctors in the Ming Dynasty, so why bother the local people and the vassal state?"

Zhang Jiebin didn't care, and continued: "There are dozens or hundreds of merchants and guilds from various places staying in the capital, and there are tens of thousands of merchants, among whom there are no less than a hundred who are general practitioners. Xin'an, Jiangyou, Wuzhong, and eastern Zhejiang have always been rich in doctors. Presumably these guilds

There are quite a few, so you might as well go and visit.”

"There are 200,000 people in the capital, and there are 400 doctors. Although most of them are proficient in surgery, there are also those who are both internal and external."

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Zhu Guozuo couldn't help but nod after hearing this. He really didn't expect that this old and difficult problem that had been bothering everyone for a long time would be solved by Zhang Jiebin in just a few words.

He didn't know that places outside the capital, especially Liaodong, were particularly short of doctors. Fortunately, the army was equipped with doctors. The Ming Dynasty military system had two doctors for every 1,000 people. The total number of troops in Liaodong was less than 60,000, and the number of doctors was only a hundred.

Twenty people.

There will definitely be a major epidemic after the war. Whenever an epidemic comes, these less than 120 military doctors are almost the entire mobile force in Liaodong. They cooperate with the few civilian doctors to deal with various epidemics and difficult diseases.<

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There are few scholars in Liaodong, and there are not many monks and Taoists. Naturally, it cannot be like the capital that can always gather two to three thousand folk doctors, hundreds of Taoist doctors, two to three hundred Confucian doctors, and dozens of monk doctors, let alone hundreds of doctors.

People in Taiyuan always have it on hand.

Although there are Taiyuan hospitals only in the two capitals, there are Fuzhou and county medical and Huimin pharmacies everywhere. This is incomparable to Liaodong. There are not many prefectures and counties in Liaodong, so naturally there are not many matching medical and pharmacies.
Fortunately, Liaodong is one of the nine frontiers, with tens of thousands of frontier troops and more than a hundred military doctors, so it will not be stretched.

"The doctor is there, but there are not enough medicinal materials. How should we solve this problem?" Zhu Guozuo felt distressed again when he thought of the medicinal materials.

"There should be a lot of tribute medicinal materials in the Imperial Pharmacy, right?" Zhang Jiebin mentioned casually.

"Don't give up on the idea of ​​the Royal Pharmacy. There are tens of thousands of people in the palace, and the harem also depends on it. Thank God for the permission to use the medicinal materials in the Herbal Medicine Library. Otherwise, just the three melons and two dates from the Huimin Pharmacy will really

All I can do is stare."

The imperial pharmacy is a medical institution, and the imperial doctor is the main force. They are mainly responsible for the health of the emperor and the concubines in the harem.

Taiyuan Hospital is a national pharmaceutical management institution that integrates education, medical administration, and medicine. The imperial doctors of Taiyuan Hospital mainly target the royal family; the Herbal Medicine Library is the medicinal material management organization of Taiyuan Hospital, which stores tributes of medicinal materials from various places, as well as medicinal materials purchased by the imperial court; the Herbal Medicine Library is the first

The medicinal materials that satisfy the Imperial Pharmacy are secondly used by the Imperial Hospital.

Taiyuan Hospital’s own medicinal materials are in the Huimin Pharmacy in Beijing. As the name suggests, it is a medicinal institution that benefits people’s livelihood. This is another role of Taiyuan Hospital, taking into account the health of people in Beijing. Therefore, whenever an epidemic breaks out, Taiyuan Hospital always

Provide medicine and medicine in the five cities.

The medical administration function of Taiyuan Hospital is to manage the prefectures and counties of the world, more than a thousand medical bureaus and more than a thousand Huimin pharmacies, as well as tens of thousands of doctors and pharmacists in medical and pharmacy bureaus. It also includes military doctors from various places, good doctors of various vassals,

As well as doctors and medical practitioners all over the world.

This is also the reason why Taiyuan Hospital has officials, doctors, and doctors outside all year round.

All medical affairs in the world are the business of Taiyuan Hospital, but Taiyuan Hospital only has about 20 medical officers and about 200 doctors. They receive the lowest salary and do the hardest work, which is the current Taiyuan Hospital. Without salary,

Those who also do the hardest work are those who worked at the Taiyuan Hospital a hundred years ago.

It’s hard to imagine what Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was thinking. He only gave officials and salaries to ten people, but made more than a hundred people work day and night. Yes, in the early Ming Dynasty, there were seventy people.

There are seventy doctors, these one hundred and forty people working in the Tai Hospital, and they have to provide their own rations. Only those who are assigned abroad will receive ration subsidies. If they are not assigned to the hospital, they will only receive sporadic rewards and nothing else.

Zhang Jiebin smiled bitterly when he heard this. There are only four Huimin Pharmacies in Beijing, one in Taiyuan Hospital, one in Shuntian Prefecture, one in Wanping County, and one in Daxing County. However, only the Huimin Pharmacy directly under Taiyuan Hospital still exists, and the other two prefectures and two counties still exist.

, I don’t know how long it has been abandoned.

Because Taiyuan Hospital is located in Daxing County, not only Daxing County, but also Wanping County has withdrawn medicine. Shuntianfu Medicine has also been abandoned for an unknown period of time. Without medicine, Huimin Pharmacy will naturally be abandoned as well. When it comes to use, there will still be only

Tai Hospital belongs to Huimin Pharmacy.

Even though Huimin Pharmacy is larger than ordinary pharmacies and has a large reserve of medicinal materials, the supply is limited and can only serve a thousand people.

In an epidemic, the number of people infected can easily reach 100,000, so the medicinal materials provided by Huimin Pharmacy can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.

Don’t think that only these 100,000 infected people need to take medicine. Others also need to take medicine for prevention. The medicines needed are not 100,000, but millions.

Even if all the crude medicine libraries are put into use, it will not be enough. There are a lot of medicinal materials in various drug stores in the capital, but not all medicinal materials can be used, only the corresponding few herbs are useful.

Zhang Jiebin thought hard and thought that the capital was not Liaodong. If Liaodong was short of medicine, he could ask for it from the court, and the court would properly distribute it. Although it would take a lot of time to go back and forth, there is always a solution.

Nowadays, the capital is short of medicines, and the symptoms of the epidemic are unknown. It is even less clear what kind of medicinal materials are missing. There is no way to prepare them in advance. Once the symptoms of the epidemic are clear, it will definitely be too late to prepare them, unless the medicinal materials market is moved to the capital...<

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Thinking of this, Zhang Jiebin's eyes lit up. Yes, Gyeonggi Province has the largest pharmaceutical market in the world. It's really dark under the light!