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| Yellow sweat disease and toxicosis of lead,mercury and arsenic |
| Hits 1462 Download times 1779 Received:April 12, 2004 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2004.03.30 |
| Key Words
yellow sweat disease;toxicosis;lead;mercury;arsenic |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | FU Bin | The Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin, 300193, China | | MENG Lin | The Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin, 300193, China | | GAO Chang-bai | The Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin, 300193, China |
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| As a kind of disease,“yellow sweat disease”was first reported in Synopsis of Prescriptions from the Golden Chamber.The clinical manifestation of“Yellow sweat disease”is complex.A variety of explanations of“yellow sweat dis-ease”has been described because of the diversity of its symptoms.About those curious points,some of exegetes claimed that it may be disorder and redundancy due to misprinting or miscopying.Now,almost all the researches were carried out around classic medical books and hardly dealt with it in a historical context at that time.A new opinion is put forward from the viewpoint of both modern medicine and social history of medicine in this paper.The manifestation of“yellow sweat disease”described in Synopsis of Prescriptions from the Golden Chamber is quite similar to the symptoms of toxicosis of Lead,mercury and arsenic.At the same time,a collateral evidence from a historical fact is that the trend of medication of“take pills or stone powder of immortality to nourish the body”appeared in the end of east-han dynasty and lead,mercury and arsenic may be contained within these recipes.The author suggests that the cause of“yellow sweat disease”is toxicosis of lead,mercury and arsenic. |
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