Social factors for outstanding achievements in the development of medicine in the Song Dynasty

Social factors for outstanding achievements in the development of medicine in the Song Dynasty:

⒈ political stability and social peace for the development of medicine to create a favorable environment; economic prosperity, scientific progress for the development of medicine to provide material conditions. This laid the foundation for the development of medicine in the Song Dynasty.

Peake the ruling class attaches importance to the cause of medicine, organization and publication of medical books, the establishment of medical institutions, is an important factor in the development of medicine in the Song Dynasty.

Pharmaceutical institutions are relatively sound, is the organizational guarantee of the development of medicine, but also the necessary conditions for the development of medicine in the Song Dynasty.

Sung the more perfect medical education, to provide talents for the development of medicine, accumulation of knowledge, which is also a reason for the development of medicine in the Song Dynasty. Among the latter three, the importance attached by the ruling class to the cause of medicine was a key, and it was because of their attention that it was possible to establish sound medical institutions and a more perfect medical education.