- 期刊
流感疫病下中醫的介入——以日治時期台灣在1918年大流感為例
Traditional Chinese Medicine Played a Role When the 1918 influenza Pandemic Affected Taiwan During Japanese Colonial Period
摘要
人類史上曾發生多次流感大流行，若聚焦於近一兩個世紀，1918年世界大流感可謂從未失去焦點，一再的被提及，尤其每當世界又出現流感疫情時。1918年流感也被稱為西班牙流感，大約造成了全球3000萬至5000萬人死亡，超越第一次世界大戰死亡人數，成為人類史上僅次於黑死病的致命流行病，可見其嚴重程度足以讓此次疫情成為近代疫病史的主角。後續經歷了一世紀，期間仍斷斷續續有規模不等的全球性流感疫情之紀載，如20世紀1957年的亞洲流感及1968年的香港流感，至21世紀2009年H1N1新型流感疫情等，即使現今醫療持續在進步，台灣及世界仍為COVID-19疫情所苦。故藉由回顧1918年大流感爆發時，台灣正逢日治時代，當下的中醫環境及針對流行性感冒的中醫書籍記載，來省思中醫在流感疫病下的介入，具有什麼樣的角色及可能的發展。
並列摘要
Throughout history, there have been many influenza pandemics, with the 1918 influenza pandemic being the most severe outbreak in the 20th century. The 1918 influenza pandemic, also called "Spanish Flu", was exceptionally severe, killed an estimated 30-50 million people worldwide, exceeding the lives World War I claimed. Considering Spanish flu killed more people than any pandemic disease before or since, including the medieval Black Death, it is often mentioned in articles about pandemics in recent history. While tremendous advances have been made in medicine and medical technology, intermittent plague outbreaks still recorded from the 20th to the 21st Century, such as the 1957-1958 Asian flu pandemic, Hong Kong flu of 1968, and H1N1 influenza in 2009. Even nowadays, Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, causing great mortality and healthcare burden. Therefore, by reviewing the record in Taiwan through the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was a book written by a Chinese medicine doctor during Japanese colonial period, we can learn the experience of predecessor, and analyze the contribution of traditional Chinese medicine in global pandemics.