中英雙語話中國歷史名人 第93期:張仲景

Zhang Zhongjing(150~219), also known as Zhang Ji, was one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Eastern Han era.

張仲景(150~219)，又叫張機，東漢末年最著名的醫生之一。

He lived in today's Nanyang in Henan Province.

今河南南陽市人。

During his time, with warlords fighting for their own territories, many people were infected with febrile disease.

當時，軍閥紛爭戰亂不斷，很多人都感染了傷寒病。

Zhang's family was no exception.

張家也不例外。

He learned medicine by studying from his townsfellow Zhang Bozu, assimilating from previous medicinal literature, and collecting many prescriptions elsewhere, finally writing the medical masterpiece Shanghan Zabing Lun.

張仲景跟同郡張伯祖學醫，還學習以前的醫學文獻，同時還從別的地方收集到很多處方，最後寫成醫學名著《傷寒雜病論》。

Unfortunately, shortly after its publication the book was lost during wartime.

不幸的是，這本書公佈沒多久就因戰亂丟失了。

Due to Zhang's contribution to Traditional Chinese medicine he is often regarded as the sage of Chinese medicine.

由於張仲景爲中國傳統醫學所做的貢獻，人們稱他爲“醫聖”。

Zhang's masterpiece was collected by later people and compiled into two books, namely the Shanghan Lun(in full, Shanghan Zabing Lun or Treatise on Febrile Diseases") which was a discourse on how to treat epidemic infectious diseases causing fevers prevalent during his era, and the other, highly influential doctrine Jingui yaolue("Synoptic tials from the Golden Cabinet"), a compendium of his clinical experiences.

張仲景的著述被後人收集整理爲兩本書，即《傷寒論》和《金匱要略》。前者是關於如何治療當時流行的能夠引發高燒的流行性傳染病的論文，後者是他的臨牀經驗的綱要。

He established medication principles and summed up the medicinal experience up until the Han Dynasty, thus making a great contribution to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

張仲景確立了藥物療法的原則，總結了漢代以前的治療經驗，從而爲中國傳統醫學的發展做出了巨大的貢獻。