Was Mafeisan an Anesthetic in Ancient China?

Zhao, Peishan; Yu, Xuejiao; Kagemoto, Yoko

doi:10.1016/j.janh.2018.01.009

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“…In the analysis of the medical records' system presented above, there is no mention of its history in places other than North America and Europe, such as China and India, as it goes beyond this paper's scope [156,157,158,159].…”

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<strong>The Historical Determinations of Creating Health Records – A New Approach In Terms Of The Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic</strong>

Lorkowski¹,

Jugowicz²

2020

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The history of health records (later also called medical records), including ones regarding individual patients, is thousands of years old. It finds it roots in the first ancient civilisations. Up until the 19th century the records’ purpose was mainly an educational one. In the 19th and 20th century they started becoming significant in other roles as well, including those not strictly limited to medicine. In particular, to account for medical procedures, insurance proceeds or legal action. Currently we are living in a revolutionary era when it comes to health records, in which their character has changed from a “paper-based” to an electronic one. This paper presents the development of health records from the ancient to modern times, mainly in Europe and North America. Other cultures and civilisations, including China and India, are not discussed. An analysis of available sources was conducted, inter alia digital versions of manuscripts up to hundreds of years old. The analysis was based on PubMed and Google Scholar (several key words, all the available sources). Sources published in non-international languages (e.g. Dutch) were also investigated. Overall, approximately 600 articles were analysed, 158 of which were used and cited in this paper. The conclusions drawn from the analysis are as follows: (1) Health records, priorly used mostly for educational purposes, for about 100 years now have acquired a fully formal status. (2) We are currently facing the most revolutionary changes regarding the transformation of paper-based records into electronic ones. (3) The consequences of this process include systematic applications of solutions within the area of e-health, which allow us to make medical services more flexible, improve the health of individual patients and entire populations and potentially limit expenditure. (4) In the light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, introducing electronic health records could be beneficial in terms of limiting the potential sources of contamination (physical copies of health records), saving time and resources, and improving the network of communication between medical centres.

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<strong>The Historical Determinations of Creating Health Records – A New Approach In Terms Of The Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic</strong>

Lorkowski¹,

Jugowicz²

2020

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“…He practiced medicine in many places including Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan provinces where he won great fame (Huang and Liang, 2017). Zhao et al (2018) also reported that Hua Tuo invented and used Mafeisan as a general anesthetic 1800 year ago, and Mafeisan was used for surgery in ancient China. He is accredited for spearheading the practice of laparotomies and organ transplants, using anesthetics and he was also the first Chinese surgeon to operate on the abdomen including performing splenectomy and colostomy; moreover, he is said to have performed procedures to treat headache, paralysis, and suspected a brain tumor in one patient (Tubbs et al, 2017).…”

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Great doctors and scientists from the East: from princes of Persia, to icons of Asian science

Shahrajabian

Sun

2022

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Asian scholars especially from Iran and China preserved most of the wisdom and knowledge of antiquity in their writing and they had great influence even on both European traditional and modern medical sciences. The current searching was done by the keywords in main indexing systems including PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus and Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science as well as the search engine of Google Scholar. Avicenna famous book was Canon, which reviewed all medical knowledge studied by the ancient Greek and Muslim scientists. Avicenna has introduced many medicinal plants and herbs and its knowledge influenced by both Eastern and Western traditional science. Rhazes was a great Persian alchemist, musician, mathematician, philosopher and physician. Bian Que was one of the most famous medical man and physician in ancient China who attached particular importance to the changes in the pulse examination. He is known as the founder of traditional Chinese medicine, and his four diagnostic methods were inspection, smelling and listening, inquiry, and palpation. Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, and Ge Hong were eclectic philosophers who dedicated his life to searching for physical immortality and traditional Chinese medicine, which he thought was attainable through alchemy. Sun Simiao also valued sanitation, exercise and disease prevention. Li Shizhen, a famous Chinese scholar who compiled a highly influential material medica. It is recommended to survey on their rules in different majors with details in future studies to make a better connection between modern and historical medical science.

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Was Mafeisan an Anesthetic in Ancient China?

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