Why did ancient people die with a sore on their back, and do modern people die because of sores?

Those who often watch movies or TV series may find that ancient people often died of diseases that are more likely to be the best in modern society, such as smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, etc. Some people even died with a sore on their back!

Carbuncle originally meant to be a lump like a pile of millet on the **, and by extension, it was a disease of swelling and ulcers on the **. In modern medicine, carbuncle refers to an infection caused by staphylococcal bacteria that invade multiple hair follicles and sebaceous glands. It usually occurs on the back of the head and neck and on the back, and is more likely to occur in patients with diabetes.

In ancient times, carbuncles took the lives of many heroes, such as Sun Shuao, the prime minister of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period, Xiang Yu's strategist Fan Zeng, Zhu Yuanzhang's general Xu Da, etc., including Tang Taizong Li Shimin, who almost died because of carbuncles.

Although the disease is inconspicuous, it is also a terrifying existence in ancient times. It was like a black beast opening its bloody jaws and devouring the lives of the ancients. There are a lot of well-known people such as:

Fan Zeng, Liu Yan, Liu Biao, Cao Xiu, Meng Haoran, Li Keyong, Zong Ze, Xu Da, Yang Yiqing, Yang Guangxian and others died of dorsal gangrene.

This person was originally a burly physique, but within a few hours, his appearance changed greatly, withered, and soon died of anger. Such a result is more terrible than the poisonous sores on the back.

The area of this carbuncle covers a very large area, sometimes the small half of the back will be covered by a carbuncle, and the feeling of the carbuncle is relatively hard, because the long-term bulge will appear a little keratinized, and hardness is inevitable.

There are no antibiotics.

Ancient Chinese medicine treated this kind of disease with Chinese medicine to remove saprophytic muscle, clear heat and detoxify Chinese medicine, and the efficacy of Chinese medicine is relatively slow, for people with low immunity, they may not wait for Chinese medicine to work before sepsis. Nowadays, a variety of antibiotics can be used, and pus can also be taken for culture, and drugs that are sensitive to it can be tested.

Therefore, the sores on the back and then death recorded in ancient texts represent the decline of the body's immunity or paralysis and long-term bed rest; Sores can further deteriorate health and eventually lead to death.

Modern people almost do not die because of sores, because the medical conditions in ancient China were poor, and there were some bacterial infections or viral infections that could not be treated.

Because ancient medical technology was backward, people nowadays can't. In ancient times, medical technology was not good, so if you get a disease, you will get worse if you can't treat it, but now you can easily cure this disease.

Not really, because modern people are more advanced in technology and can heal themselves.

As long as people who are familiar with history, they know that many celebrities in history have "a sore in their backs", but they have encountered the fate of death, such as the famous Xiang Yu's strategist Fan Zeng, who was so angry with Xiang Yu that on the way back to his hometown, he died due to the attack of gangrene on his back. Zong Ze, a famous anti-gold general of the Song Dynasty, struggled for the anti-gold cause all his life, but was suppressed by Song Gaozong, and it was difficult to calm the anger in his chest, and finally he died of gangrene. and the famous poet Meng Haoran of the Tang Dynasty.

Nurhachi, the founder of the Later Jin Dynasty, also died of gangrene.

The gangrene of ancient celebrities was a sore. If we eat and get angry, we will have acne on our face, and the acne will not subside or turn into a small pustule with a white head in the end. If a small pustule is punctured, white or yellowish pus will come out, forming a boil, and if multiple boils fuse with each other, it becomes a boil.

Modern people think that whether it is a boil or a gangrene, it is a very good **, that is, antibiotic drugs to kill bacteria, and then the abscess is cut open after it matures, and then the pus in it can be drained. In fact, many carbuncles heal after anti-infection treatment and incision to drain pus.

However, there were no antibiotics in ancient times, and the world's first antibiotic, penicillin, was first discovered in 1928 by British bacteriologist Fleming! In ancient times, when there were no antibiotics, ordinary trauma would cause bacterial infection and death. This is the reason why many ancient celebrities suffered from gangrene, but they were easy to die!

In ancient times, most of the people who died from scabies on their backs were elderly people who had difficulty moving around, but young and middle-aged people who were strong or energetic rarely died. It may be that the bacteria invade the body when the body's immunity is weakened, especially the elderly have worse immunity. In addition, the elderly are prone to diabetes and other diseases, and the function of the body system is easy to lose balance, ** After a little infection with bacteria, the pus will bulge high like a steamed bun, which is the reason why celebrities in ancient books have gangrene.

In ancient times, the medical conditions were very poor, and there were no specific drugs, let alone penicillin. Therefore, after the ancients suffered from gangrene, they usually used the conditioning method of backing sores or boiling soup with medicine, but the effect was very small. Of course, there are also ancients who cured gangrene by hitching back sores.

For example, some people can endure the pain after they have pustules, dig out the ulcer surface of the **, and then apply the corresponding Chinese medicine, which is also cured.

There are also gangrene that are malignant tumors, that is, cancers. Although there was no industrial pollution and the environment was good in ancient times, it did not mean that there was no cancer. There are many factors that can predispose to cancer, and environmental factors are also one of them.

There are also records about cancer in ancient books in China, such as Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty, cancer is also called malignant disease. During the Song Dynasty, there were also documents about breast cancer. In the advanced stage of cancer, it is usually the body's immune system that is destroyed by bacteria, and then there are symptoms of pustules, pus, etc.

Why did the ancients sometimes die "with a sore on their back"?

After taking the pill, he was poisoned and gave birth to back sores, which could not be cured. In order to prolong their lives, the ancient upper-class people had the habit of taking the pills refined by Taoist priests, which contained toxic ingredients such as heavy metals, and long-term use could easily cause chronic poisoning reactions and poisonous sores on the back.

In ancient times, medical facilities were not good, and there was no way to treat the infection after the sores grewed, and over time it would become more and more serious, and the resistance would become weaker, and it would cause other diseases and possibly death.

Because you can't get an effective **. The medical skills of the ancients were not developed, and they could not treat this disease, and once delayed, they were easy to get infected and die.

Because the level of medicine in ancient times was very underdeveloped, and the knowledge and vision of ancient doctors were also limited, and the technology could not be reached, it was naturally very difficult to face these incurable diseases.

Because the medical level in ancient times was limited, there were many reasons for the sores behind it, one was abscesses, or poisoning, and the most serious was cancer, no matter which of these diseases was a very tricky thing in ancient times, if the abscess could not be dealt with well, the patient's wound would be infected, and eventually he would die because of various inflammations, not to mention poisoning, the medical level in ancient times was very limited, and it was generally difficult to diagnose what the specific poison was, and cancer was very tricky in modern times. For the ancients, it was even more of a terminal disease, so the ancients generally died if they had sores on their backs. I believe that friends who have a certain understanding of history should be very interested in costume film and television dramas, we can often see people with sores on their backs in film and television dramas, and finally die, let's talk about why the ancients died with sores on their backs.

1. If it is an abscess, then the patient often dies of inflammation caused by wound infection. There are many causes of sores on the back, but the most common one is abscesses, which are the most common but also very tricky to deal with, and patients often die from inflammation caused by wound infection.

2. If sores are caused by poisoning, it is generally difficult to diagnose the specific poison disease. Most of the ancients liked to pursue the art of immortality, so they had the habit of taking pills, the main ingredients of pills are sulfur and so on, these things have a certain toxicity, so sores on the back may also be poisoning, and the ancient medical level is generally unable to diagnose what the specific poison is.

3. The most serious type is cancer, which cannot be treated with cancer patients at the level of medical care in ancient times. The most serious situation should be cancer, cancer is a very difficult existence for the current medical team, not to mention for ancient times, so the ancients were generally powerless in the face of sores of this reason, and patients rarely had a chance to recover.

Why did the ancients sometimes die "with a sore on their back"?

Because the ancient medical system did not recognize the existence of bacteria, the sores were treated as ordinary trauma, so most people were infected and died.

In ancient times, medical technology was not developed, and many diseases could not be cured by doctors at that time. And at that time, due to backward production technology, many people did not have much money to see a doctor. So the back is long.

The sores were incapacitated and could not be cured, so he died.

Medical technology is backward. In ancient times, medical technology was backward, and people basically did not have any medical knowledge, so any wound could lead to infection and endanger life.

In ancient times, sores were fatal to the ancients, such as the sores on the back called "back sores", and the sores behind the neck stalk were called "beheading sores".

People with sores are often old people who are weak and sick, and their resistance is low, and there are several reasons why they must die.

Poor medical conditions. For modern people, detoxification and a little antibiotics may be enough, but you must know that these things were not available at that time.

In addition, the sanitary environment in ancient times was very poor, and even the gauze that had to be changed every day was certainly not enough. There is no guarantee that the sores can be in a sterile environment, which will lead to infection, which in turn will cause the disease that cannot be improved.

The patient has poor resistance. "Hitch back sores" is also a back sore, which covers a very large area, and sometimes a small half of the back will be covered by a sore.

At the same time, the ** on the back will keratinize due to the presence of "sores" and become harder. When a back sore is formed, a lot of pus grows inside.

Life is very inconvenient and painful. In addition, most of the elderly are not in good health, and the pain and inability to rest normally for days are naturally difficult.

Of course, this does not mean that you can get this disease, then you can't live, if you want to **, you have to endure the severe pain, dig out the carrion at the location of the sore, cut the stratum corneum out of the pus inside, and then apply the right medicine, there is still a possibility of being **. It's just that that kind of pain is unbearable for many elderly people, after all, not everyone can be like Guan Yu, scraping bones to cure poison without changing their faces.

In addition, most of the sores are when they are depressed and depressed, so if the ancient old people had sores, they did not intervene in time, or there was no way to go to **, but they would definitely not be able to survive it by relying on their own resistance.

It can be seen from this that the average life expectancy of ancient people was very low, which is also due to these reasons. It is important to have sound medical equipment and a good hygienic environment.

Why did the ancients sometimes die "with a sore on their back"?

In ancient times, the sanitary conditions were relatively poor, and the level of medical care was not high, and this sore was likely to cause a large area of wound infection.

Medical care is backward. Ancient medical technology was backward, wound infection could also cause death, and the lack of knowledge of the ancients made it easy to die.

Because medical technology was not developed in ancient times, it was treated as an ordinary trauma, so it was easy to cause infection and death.