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Anecdotes.Are.Also.Very.Important

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Anecdotes Are Also
Very Important





After reading my blog , a netizen commented :


Respecting science and facts is our proper
attitude !




I replied : You are right !


But some pseudo scholars who always want
to ruin TCM ( Traditional Chinese Medicine )
describe all facts of effective treatment of
diseases by our TCM as 'Individual Cases'
,'Anecdotes ' or 'Personal Skills', and
assert that all of these facts are meaningless
to prove the curative effect, because all these
facts are 'Efficacy Hallucination' !


Is it really true ?


Then, even if an example of effective treatment
in TCM is truly an 'Anecdote', do the 'Anecdote'
really has no academic value ?


Now, let's talk about an 'Anecdote ':


As we know, smallpox used to be a highly
contagious disease, which claimed hundreds
of millions of lives .


At the end of the 18th century, the British
doctor Jenner learned a commonly accepted
statement among the dairy women and farmers
in the region he was in :


Cowpox is a minor disease of cattle, and
it can also be transmitted to people.


But if one is infected with cowpox, he never
gets smallpox anymore.”




Should this be regarded as a kind of
'Anecdote' at that time, then ?




However, Dr. Jenner realized that vaccinating
people with vaccinia was a safe way to
immunize them against smallpox if this
Anecdote the local dairy workers and farmers
said were right .


So, Dr. Jenner made a careful investigation
and study of this Anecdote.


In 1796, he was finally convinced that the
statement in this Anecdote were correct ,
so he decided to test the statement directly.


In this way, Dr. Jenner carried out rational
analysis, scientific tests and careful
evaluation almost every clues of this
'Anecdote' .


At last, Dr. Jenner had effectively promoted
the development of human immunology,
and also effectively promoted the
development of medical science.


In the end, humans effectively ended the
deadly infectious disease of smallpox in
this way !




However, some pseudo scholars around us
are always so dismissive of the 'Anecdotes'
of our own TCM, so that they have always
lagged far behind others in professional level.

In fact, any doctor, if he really puts patients in
his heart, he certainly cherishes any effective
treatment case, never distinguish whether the
treatment case comes from TCM or western
medicine, or whether the treatment case is
from the East or the West, even if it is just an
'Anecdote'! .


Because medical science is to

study how to treat diseases

effectively, almost all of other

words are something like
nonsense!


----------- Written on September 3 , 2021




[ Refer to 逸闻何妨?!
for the original text ]

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