＜正＞ 1.The Infant Period of Chinese OphthalmologyChinese medicine has a long history and there are agreat number of historical records about the ancientChinese people struggling against diseases.Some ofthe records were found in our oldest writingsdiscovered in modern times.For instance.not a fewdiseases were mentioned in the prayers and divinewords of the royal families which were engraved onthe tortoise shells or bones dug out of the ruins of theYin Dynasty（殷朝）in Anyang（安阳）,Henan Province-the remnants of Wu-Ding Period（武丁）（1324-1266B.C.）The record of the eye diseases is the earliestrecord of ophthalmology in our country.In ‘TheHill and Sea Classic’（山海经）,an old book written inQin Dynasty（秦朝）,more than 100 drugs werementioned,of which 7 were related to eye diseases.Besides‘The Hill and Sea Classic’in the books of‘The Book of History’（书经）,‘The Book of Songs’（诗经）and‘The Poetry of Chu’（楚辞）,there wererecords of the drugs used by our ancestors.
展开▼
