In life, there are always some people who selflessly dedicate their lives, not for anything else, just for the attachment in their hearts. She is a weak woman, suffered three major misfortunes, Zeng Zhihui Yuan Shikai, for the dream in her heart to run a lifetime.
She is Jin Yamei (Jin Yamei), a name that will feel strange to many people, but the quality of her life is very heavy, and she has made many efforts for the interests of the people until her life is gone.
Jin Yamei is the first female student in China to study abroad, because her parents died prematurely due to illness, hoping to learn advanced medical science knowledge and medical technology to serve the motherland. She subverted the restrictions of conservative ideas on women, crossed the ocean to the United States to study, and graduated from the Women's Medical University affiliated to New York Hospital in May 1885 with the first place in the class, becoming the first female Western doctor in China.
First, encounter three major misfortunes in life, bereavement in early years, divorce in middle age, and loss of children in old age. When Jin Yamei was two years old, her parents died of the plague. She became acquainted with the Portuguese musician and linguist da Sival, a Spanish musician who fell in love and entered the halls of marriage, and two years later she gave birth to a boy; but the marriage lasted only 10 years, and in 1904, the two divorced. Even more tragically, her children died as adults due to World War I.
Second, at the end of 1888 (the fourteenth year of Qing Guangxu), Jin Yamei returned to China after completing her studies. With the desire to repay the advanced medical science knowledge and medical technology she learned to the motherland, as soon as she returned to China, she immediately devoted herself to the medical cause, determined to do her best to relieve the suffering of her compatriots. She has opened private clinics in Xiamen, Guangzhou, Chengdu and other places, because of her noble medical ethics, profound medical skills, and amiable attitude towards patients, she is well received by patients, and there is an endless stream of people who come to seek medical treatment. After her meticulous treatment, many patients recovered as before, and many patients turned the corner and got rid of the threat of death. As a result, she became a popular, popular and respected female doctor, and a well-known in the medical community of our country.
In 1907, Jin Yamei was hired by the Tianjin Municipal Government to serve as the president of Beiyang Women's Hospital. Beiyang Women's Hospital was founded in 1902 after Yuan Shikai became the governor of Zhili, and the hospital address was in the Water Pavilion outside the East Gate. She did her best to run the hospital in an orderly manner, was deeply trusted and praised by women patients, and became a well-known person in Tianjin Hospital at that time.
In her work, Jin Yamei experienced the inadequacy of the medical conditions for women and infants in China, and believed that it was urgent to train professional medical personnel. Therefore, in 1908, she wisely met Yuan Shikai, tried her best to persuade him, and the Tianjin Customs took out 20,000 taels of silver and founded the Beiyang Women's Medical Hall, with her as the principal, which was the first nursing school of a public nature in China.
Jin Yamei personally taught, devoted herself to the cause of medical education, and devoted herself to the cultivation of medical talents in China. During her 8 years as president of the school, Dr. Jin Yamei will learn the knowledge of modern medical science abroad and selflessly pass on the rich clinical experience and diagnostic techniques she has gained in more than 20 years of practicing medicine to the students, so she is deeply welcomed and loved by the students.
Third, Jin Yamei experienced three major misfortunes in life, but she did not bow to fate and dedicated all her energy to medical undertakings and public welfare undertakings. In 1911, together with Sun Gan, a Physician of Tianjin Western Medicine, she initiated the formation of the Tianjin Red Cross Society, becoming the first Red Cross Society founded in China. Moreover, he paid 3,000 silver yuan to fund the construction of the internship base of Peking National Midwifery School.
In 1916, due to the death of Yuan Shikai, Tianjin Customs refused to allocate funds for the women's hospital, so Yan Xiu, a gentry of Jinmen, took over the hospital. Jin Yamei then resigned as dean and principal of the nursing school, and left Tianjin to move to Beiping, where she was still enthusiastically engaged in education and rural health. In February 1934, she was admitted to the Union Hospital with pneumonia. As a doctor, she knew that her time was short, so she donated all her property to Yenching University in her residence in Beiping and all her cash, and also donated her treasured books in foreign languages to Tianjin Muzhai School.
On March 4, 1934, Jin Yamei passed away at the age of 70, all she did in her life was to save Cangsheng, and she gave her life to countless lives, and her life is worth learning and remembering. After so much suffering and suffering, she did not lose hope in life because of the world's meagre love for her, and she made many efforts for the benefit of the people until her life was gone.