Study Of The Health Care System In The Tang Dynasty

Life and healthy give birth to physic as well as make it developed and advanced . Then as that politics and order relative closely to the people's livelihood , medical institution came into being and developed as the society advanced .Inherited from Han,Beiqi and Sui , the medical institution was developing greatly and getting much more canonical , content-profuse and consummate in the Tang dynasty .The organization was set up both in the central-government and in the districts (Zhou and Fu州�'�府) . Furthermore , it was the Jiuchenggong(九成宫) majordomo,Shangyanggong(上阳宫) doctor,healthy mill and medicine storeroom in palace(宫人病坊�'�药库),district hospital in Huainan(淮南节度医院) and so on , which suggested that the institution in Tang may be much more complex then we can understand , should attach more attention .The medical education in Tang was also set up in the central-government and in districts . Firstly , the central medical education was found in Taiyishu(太医署) ,but with the similar characteristics as Guozijian(国子监) education . Secondly , acupuncture gained dependent position as a subject . Thirdly , the system of teaching and examine was getting much more perfect . Fourthly , it was important that the medical education was appeared in district and was brought into institution .Then , the government improved the institution to choose medical officials . The institution was set for absorbing different medicine studiers contained students graduated from Taiyishu and any district , as well as the social studiers . In the same time , the institution for the medical officials'preferment or demotion was greatly developed too . As the institution above was getting much more standardized , the medical officials was limited only secure an official position in the medical system .Finally , the medical operation system suggested that the government achieved to predominate and collocate all the empire's medical resources especially the official resources . Different bureaucraries and functionaries were able to cooperate very well while medical matters were dealt with .In a word , the medical institution in Tang dynasty was getting much more content-profuse,reified,lifeful and systematic . It accelerated the medical science developing greatly and contributed peace and eunomy to the society . As well as influenced the neighbor nations such as Japan and Korea , and the succedent dynasty such as Five-dynasty and Song .