Review on the study of frontier medicine in Northwest Han dynasty medical bamboo slips
Since the 20th century,a large number of medical bamboo slips unearthed in northwest China,have provided basic documents for the study of Northwest frontier medicine.The academic study on the Northwest Han dynasty medical bamboo slips briefs increasingly in-depth,and has achieved fruitful results.This article defines frontier medicine,divides the development of frontier medicine in the past century into initial stage and development stage,summarizes the development stage from the two aspects of the study of sporadic medical bamboo slips and medical bamboo slips,evaluates and introduces the research of frontier medicine.Finally,the author puts forward the prospect of the frontier medicine research from three aspects:the establishment of the database,the strengthening of the systematic study of frontier medicine,and the deepening of the cross and fusion of related disciplines.
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