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<Treatise on Cold-induced Febrile Disease>is the first clinical medical book systematically discussed exogenous fever with principles, methods, formulas and medicinals; it created differentiation of six channels in the exogenous position in no other Treatment System can match, was regarded as a model by many doctors after Zhangzhongjing. Externally contracted febrile disease in the earliest medical discourse can be traced back to《Neijing》, in which discussed many about the pathogenesis, pathomechanisms, symptoms, treatment and prognosis but not systematically. Zhongjing inherited《Neijing》’s Understandings about externally contracted febrile disease, Combined with clinical practice, created differentiation of six channels so that the differentiation of symptoms and signs system of externally contracted febrile disease are more complete.After the sect of epidemic febrile diseases in the Ming and Qing Dynasties formed and mellowed, many physicians accounted<Treatise on Cold-induced Febrile Disease> as the monograph of treating external contraction of cold evil, considered that "Treatise on the cold not heat " which limited the value of guiding identify patterns on externally contracted febrile disease. Although the six-channel diseases can be caused or shifted by external infection, there were more common causes in clinical, like patients with different Physique, improper diet, emotional disorder, faulty work and rest, contract external evil and so on. Just because Zhongjing’s Insight into clinical, therefore he was less emphasis on disease’s pathogenesis but pay more attention to patients’ "Pulse and signs", so each chapter is titled with "Discrimination××disease Pulse and signs", and that was also the cause of having the misunderstanding that <Treatise on Cold-induced Febrile Disease> was a monograph on exogenous diseases. In recent years, SARS, avian flu, H1N1’s epidemiology, making the learning and research Exogenous fever has become more important and urgent, therefore to grasp the characteristics of Zhongjing’s pattern identification as the basis for determining treatment of externally contracted febrile diseases and medication, and provide better clinical services are responsibility and obligation that each student and scholar learning<Treatise on Cold-induced Febrile Disease>.
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