华冈青洲生平业绩评说

Comments on the Life and Achievements of Hanaoka Seish

华冈青洲是生活于日本江户时代的著名医家,以研究麻药、完成世界首例乳癌切除手术而闻名。青洲所开创的“华冈流”医学流派尊崇中国传统医学,同时吸收荷兰外科技艺;其核心理念为“内外合一、活物穷理”。通过对华冈青洲及其集大成之弟子本间枣轩之生平、业绩的扼要介绍,将其与汉代医家华佗相比较,引发读者对中日两国科技发展史中异同点的深入思考。

Renowned for his research on anaethetics and for his sucessful operation of excision on the world's first case of breast cancer,Hanaoka Seish is an eminent Japanese physician living in the Edo period.The medical school initiated by him esteemed the traditional Chinese medicine,yet meanwhile it absorbed the medical skill of the Netherlands,having as its key idea 'the combination of internal and external causes into one with a thorough inquiry into the innate laws of things'.Giving a brief account of the life and achievements of Hanaoka Seish and his foremost successor Honma Sken and comparing China's Hua Tuo of the same category in the Han Dynasty,this article expects to ignite,via an analysis of the above case,the reflection of readers on the differences and similarities between China and Japan in the history of the development of science and technology.