A Study On The Medical Behaviors In The Yuan Dynasty

The topic of the medical is an important topic. In Yuan Dynasty, people take many methods to cure a patient. And we can see what and how the patients with their family do when they are searching for doctors and when the doctors are diagnosing. Patients and their family are very important participants who always decide the disease treatment. However, doctors are still the core of a diagnosing process. The group of doctors lack of legal supervision has many bad ones, so that someone maybe changes his career to a doctor, or makes friends with some doctors to avoid some bad doctors.Patients take methods, such as praying gods, asking witch doctors for treatment, treating their parents with their own flesh and having medicine without doctors, which always lead to tragedy. And Inviting doctors is just one of the methods. Doctors may come from nearby places and be recommended by relations or friends. Changing doctors happens at almost all families because of the low medical success rate. Two more strange behaviors are having medicine without ilness and delaying treatment. Patients and their family intervene curing process with some concerns, becoming the key influence of the treatment, playing the positive role. However, results may be good or bad. Inviting more than one doctors often happens, which is originally for a better diagnosis, leading to debate among doctors, which makes crevice between doctors.When turn to doctors group, we see good doctors flexibly give a prescription, and are serious from start to finish so that they have a higher curing rate; on the other hand, bad doctors or charlatans, lack of medical skill, always diagnosis by fortune, sometimes killing people. In order to avoid charlatans, people in Yuan Dynasty, maybe change their career to a doctor, of which the reason is mainly because their family suffer a disease; The upper social strata makes friends with doctors so that they could get better medical care when they need.Doctors get remuneration if the patient is cured, sometimes instead of a eulogy for a good reputation. If the patient were dad, the doctor would get punished by fining and corporal punishment. However, according to the reality, punishment is not carried out as it should be. Doctors who can predict a death will be considered as a very skillful one, therefore, predicting death is not rare in medical records and doctors’ biography.The last part gives an epilogue of the whole article.