Chapter 006 The dragon body seems to be in trouble
Faced with Zhu Yijun's hesitation, Gao Pragmatic understood, so he did not insist. He just nodded gently and never said another word. The two of them quickly changed the topic in a tacit understanding and switched to other political issues.
It must be pointed out here that Zhu Yijun's hesitation and high pragmatic non-persistence are by no means a lack of mutual trust between the emperor and his ministers. Instead, they are manifestations of a high degree of tacit understanding between each other on a certain issue. This issue is: the emperor's true physical condition has never been
This is a major matter that requires a high degree of confidentiality.
Why must the emperor's physical condition be kept secret? The main reason is to maintain the stability of imperial power and the security of the country.
First of all, the emperor's physical condition is directly related to the stability of the country and the continuation of the regime. You must know that when discussing the question "whether the dragon body is healthy", the premise is actually "the dragon body is sick". After all, if it is really healthy,
How about discussing a hammer?
Then, on the premise that the dragon is ill, if the emperor's health condition is known to the outside world, it is likely to cause unnecessary panic and turmoil. For example, if the emperor suddenly becomes ill or injured, once the news is leaked, it may cause officials to
People's panic and anxiety may even be exploited by people with ulterior motives, posing a threat to national security.
Secondly, the emperor's health status is kept secret to prevent anyone from using this information for political conspiracy. For example, in many dynasties or special periods in China, news of the emperor's death is kept secret to prevent enemies from taking the opportunity to attack or carry out other unscrupulous acts.
In addition, keeping the emperor's health condition secret can also help maintain the mystery and authority of imperial power. We must know that the emperor is not only the core center of power in the world, he is also the symbol of the country. The disclosure of his health condition may weaken his popularity in the hearts of the people.
Prestige and trust - For example, if an emperor stays in bed for a long time, his subjects often have to think wildly.
To sum up, it makes sense for Zhu Yijun to let the gentlemen from Jinghua Medical College see him. After all, the imperial doctor is the "family doctor" maintained by the emperor, and the possibility of daring to leak secrets is very low.
However, the gentlemen of Jinghua Medical College cannot be regarded as highly pragmatic "family doctors", but more professional "teachers" with different statuses and different relationships with their employers. In this case, they
Whether it will be kept secret is hard to say.
Zhu Yijun himself didn't know what his condition was, so he was naturally more worried about what would be found out, so he hesitated to let "outside doctors" see him. This was quite reasonable.
Gao Pragmatic didn't know what was going on with Zhu Yijun's body, so he was naturally worried that something would be found out. Especially if some of the circumstances were inconvenient for him, a foreign minister, to know, it would be even more embarrassing and difficult.
Besides, he
There is no guarantee that the gentlemen of the medical school will not leak the secrets - maybe they will not leak the secrets under their repeated orders, but after all, they are not professional medical doctors. If they leak the secrets on other occasions... who should take the blame?
?Who should wipe this ass?
Therefore, it is reasonable to be pragmatic but not insistent.
However, that day and night, Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but wonder, what is the emperor's current situation? Judging from his description, it seems that some kind of chronic disease is showing symptoms, but he lacks medical expertise.
, don't say "cut", I don't know how to look, smell or ask.
Just when he was distressed that he was indeed not an all-rounder, Gao Pragmatic suddenly had another flash of inspiration - well, my strengths are not here, why do I have to stick to medical skills? My strengths are hundreds more than those of people of this era.
With years of experience, I should think of ways to do this!
As soon as his thoughts changed, Gao Pragmatic really quickly got some clues. Before time travel, as a history buff, he had a question since he was a child: Why do most of the emperors in ancient times seem to die very early? So he had nothing to do.
I did check the relevant discussion at that time, and it seems to be useful now.
It stands to reason that being an emperor is undoubtedly very comfortable in the eyes of most people. They have the power over the world and control the life and death of countless people; they have three thousand beauties in the harem, sing and sing every night, and envy countless people; and they also have the imperial hospital.
To be solely responsible for the emperor's health, it can be said that they have the most wealth and the most top-notch medical resources.
However, even Kang Mazi once lamented that "there have been very few white-haired emperors in ancient times." In other words, regardless of the different physical conditions of the emperors, in short, there were very few emperors who died in old age.
He died young in his youth.
Of course, this includes some unnatural deaths, but based on careful analysis of the causes of death of emperors who died normally according to historical data, it is not difficult to find that their bodies have been in a sub-healthy state for a long time or have some underlying diseases, coupled with lifestyle factors
Irregularity leads to short life.
In modern society, people and careers are in a relationship of mutual choice. Generally speaking, the more developed a country is, the more humane its work style and corporate system will be. In ancient times, even an emperor, who was a good job in the eyes of others, was actually quite
It's inhumane and even extremely draining of their health.
Sitting on the throne is a dream for some people, but for some people it is a fate that they have no control over. They are the emperors of the world, holding all the rights, but they are also their own slaves, and even the simplest physical health is
Can't control it.
According to some documents that Gao Pangshi read at the time and still vaguely remember now, the first health killer in the palace was probably diabetes.
Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugar. In the short term, high blood sugar does not have much impact on health, but the cause of death in patients with diabetes is often not diabetes itself, but its complications.
The basic pathology of diabetes is the disease of various organs, including vascular disease, kidney disease, lower limb arterial disease, etc., which can cause a series of complications such as coronary heart disease, uremia, and limb ulcers. Therefore, if the trend of diabetes is not controlled well,
, it is easy to cause lesions in various other organs in the future.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The traditional Chinese medicine name of diabetes is "diabetes syndrome", and its typical symptoms are called "three more and one less" in later generations, including polydipsia.
, polyphagia, polyuria and weight loss.
According to historical records, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty's medical record at that time was "dry mouth and tongue, drinking several liters of water, urinating several liters, and gradually withered and skeletal." This is a very typical manifestation of three more and one less.
Patients with "diabetes syndrome" lose weight and are malnourished for a long time, and their immunity is also reduced, which makes the body very susceptible to infection. Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was ill during the war and received a sword wound. After that, the wound did not heal, ulcerated, and became infected.
The injury became increasingly serious, but there were no antibiotics at that time, and later doctors speculated that the cause of his death was probably septicemia caused by suppurative wound infection.
The two of them have only had clearly documented cases, so it seems that even emperors cannot escape health killers like diabetes. Chronic diseases come on slowly and are difficult to detect, imperceptibly threatening the health of emperors.
The emperor often lived in the palace for a long time, and worked at his desk for a long time to deal with state affairs. The amount of activity was seriously insufficient, the body metabolism was low, and the food intake was difficult to consume. The food in the palace was mostly delicacies, which also led to
Obesity, obesity and lack of activity are all risk factors for diabetes.
However, in ancient times, medical conditions were backward and blood sugar could not be measured. Even if the symptoms of "thirst" appeared, it was difficult to diagnose, which led to the delay of the disease.
But having said that, Zhu Yijun mentioned today that he had "reduced food intake". This does not seem to be consistent with the symptoms of diabetes. I don't know if he knows too little, or if he does not belong to this disease?
If not, then the second health killer in the palace may be high blood pressure.
Although chronic diseases are generally not fatal in one move, they can keep the body in a sub-healthy state for a long time. People with three highs are also typical sub-healthy people. The so-called "three highs" refer to high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high blood lipids.
The diet in court life was too good and the amount of exercise was too little, so many emperors were among the three high-income people, including the fifteenth son of Qianlong, Jiaqing.
In later generations, the diagnosis of early hypertension was measured with a sphygmomanometer, but in ancient times it was impossible to accurately measure blood pressure, and people with hypertension had no sensation or obvious symptoms in the beginning and middle stages, but their bodies were unconsciously
After severe damage, the patient will develop symptoms such as cardiac insufficiency and arrhythmia in the late stages.
In Sima Zhe's "A Detailed Description of the Twelve Emperors of the Qing Dynasty", he once described the physical condition of Emperor Jiaqing on the eve of his death: "In the evening, he felt very uncomfortable, with phlegm rising, and it was even worse when he was lying down. He had to half sit and half lie down.
One night was particularly difficult.” The next day, “my face looked pale and swollen, my breathing was affected by constant phlegm, my body was very weak, and my speech was extremely difficult and intermittent.”
These conditions seemed to be just a slight physical discomfort. Even Jiaqing himself thought that these were just ordinary symptoms. However, in the afternoon, his condition suddenly changed and he had difficulty breathing.
The literature Gao Pragmatic read at the time said that this was a very typical case of acute pulmonary edema caused by high blood pressure. Hypertension will first show symptoms during exertion, also known as exertional dyspnea, and later it will also occur with light exertion.
Have symptoms of shortness of breath, especially
In the middle of the night, because the patient's diaphragm rises due to the supine position, the lungs are put under pressure, which will affect breathing. At this time, the heart is unable to pump the returning blood out of the body, and the lungs will become congested, aggravating breathing difficulties, and then
The patient may also wake up and cough up pink frothy sputum.
If such symptoms appear in later generations, of course, one should go to the hospital immediately and use diuretics to drain the accumulated water from the body. However, the medical level in ancient times is obviously unable to cope with such emergencies. Therefore, it is obviously a situation that can be saved in later generations.
, during the Tatar Qing period, we could only lament.
Of course, there is another kind of health killer targeted at the emperor, called death from overwork.
As mentioned just now, chronic diseases slowly consume a person's health, but do acute diseases kill people in an instant? Yes, but not always. There are signs of an acute attack of any disease, or the body is early
It is running overload and the patient himself is not aware of it yet.
For example, later generations of doctors analyzed the cause of Huang Taiji's death like this. According to historical records, he had not complained of any discomfort before, nor did he show any signs of serious illness. During the day, he "went to the Chongzheng Palace" to handle government affairs, but at night he suddenly "died."
"Collapsed after sitting down." Although the pathological anatomy technology was not mature at that time, from the perspective of modern medicine, Huang Taiji's death was a typical sudden death.
There are many causes of sudden death. Generally speaking, most of the deceased suffered from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Huang Taiji had two characteristics before his death: he was obese and had a bad temper. Obese people are more likely to suffer from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
High, and bad temper is an inducing factor for cerebral blood vessel rupture.
According to modern medical theory, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should be treated with rest, but Huang Taiji worked hard all his life. He read memorials until midnight every day, and his spirit was in a state of stress for a long time.
At that time, the Hou Jin regime was not completely stable, and he had to send troops to fight in various places, which made him sick due to overwork, which ultimately seriously affected his health. This is very reasonable.
[Note: The above excludes the Dorgon poisoning theory that cannot be proven true or false, or other similar conspiracy theories.]
When a person encounters stress, a series of physiological reactions will occur in the brain nerves, prompting the secretion of adrenaline to accelerate. This is a stress response. If the body is in a state of nervous tension for a long time, it will eventually become exhausted and arteriosclerosis.
Later doctors believed that Huang Taiji's sudden death was caused by long-term stress and improper diet, which caused cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The conditions at that time did not allow him to adjust his lifestyle to relax or take good care of his body.
, even he himself may not have much medical knowledge, and there is a high probability that he is not aware that he is at risk of sudden death. In the end, his body is overdrawn, and he suddenly dies.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After thinking over and over again, Gao Pragmatic always felt that Zhu Yijun’s current situation was consistent with these types of health killers, but none of them was completely consistent.
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He is also a little fat, but not ridiculously fat; his diet is obviously unhealthy, but after years of advice, although it has not improved much, it does not seem to have worsened; his living habits are naturally not good, either.
But as a foreign minister, I only know that he likes to drink. It is not clear whether he lives in moderation in the harem, and it is not easy to persuade him; his lack of exercise is also obvious, and after he raised it today, the emperor immediately expressed "no solution" because he
I have suffered from severe gout since very early and have difficulty moving...
Damn it, are there any complications? Then this thing is really beyond my knowledge... Gao Pragmatic thought with a headache.
No, no, even if I can't get the gentlemen from the medical school to see the emperor after I return to Beijing, I must at least describe to them some of the situations that the emperor is willing to tell me, and then let them analyze it carefully. Otherwise, if there is a
If it happens, then something serious will happen.
Full of worries, Gao Pragmatic didn't know when he would drift off to sleep.
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