At the beginning of 2020, a new crown pneumonia virus swept in, leaving everyone at home and abroad in a panic and could only hide at home and shiver.
Until the appearance of Academician Zhong Nanshan, things began to take a turn for the better.
This retrograde soldier is unparalleled, effectively controlling the epidemic and saving countless lives.
In fact, as early as 100 years ago, our country also had such a hero, who, like Academician Zhong Nanshan, stepped forward when the country was in danger and did not flinch at all.
1. Be ordained in danger
Back in 1910, a plague suddenly broke out in the northeast, taking the lives of countless people in a short period of time.
When the news came out, everyone was panicked, because this plague was not the first time, but the third time in human history.
The earliest plague occurred in Europe in the 15th century, when it was also known as the Black Death.
According to the data, at that time, an average of 80% of the people in a single country in Europe died of plague.
Because it spreads very quickly and the degree of harm is very large, even if there is no direct contact with the victim, it is possible to get infected with the virus.
It is precisely because of the lessons of Europe that the sudden appearance of the plague has made Chinese both worried and afraid, but at the same time helpless.
At that time, the rulers of The Late Qing were very worried that the plague would spread from the northeast region and sweep across the world, and everyone would be killed.
So they began to put pressure on local officials in the northeast.
Under pressure from the imperial court, local officials in the northeast began to explore the source of the plague, hoping to eliminate it from the root cause so that the virus would not spread again.
However, when they caught all the rats, they still failed to control the epidemic, but it became more rampant.
By October 1910, the plague had lasted for six months in the northeast, and more than 100,000 people had died as a result.
At that time, the local officials in the northeast saw that the situation was becoming more and more serious, and they had to go to the court to ask for orders to remove their official duties and apologize for their sins with death.
"Emperor, Wei Chen is really powerless."
Looking at the ministers kneeling below, the emperor on the throne was furious and casually threw down the teacup at hand.
"Waste, a bunch of waste, what does the court want you to use?"
Looking at the emperor's angry look, the kneeling ministers did not dare to say a word, and suddenly an attendant walked in with a white-faced scholar.
"Emperor Yu, this gentleman asked to see the emperor at the palace gate, saying that he had something important to meet the emperor."
The emperor looked at the middle-aged man below, who couldn't help but feel the wind, and said dismissively, "You have something to see." ”
It was only the man's next statement that surprised everyone present.
"The plague in the northeast, the little people are willing to try."
The emperor was even more shocked: "Where are you a doctor?" ”
"Back to the emperor, I'm just a gentleman who teaches medicine."
Hearing this, the kneeling ministers couldn't help but sneer: "What can you do, even the Emperor's Tai Hospital can't accomplish, you a teaching smith dare to boast about Haikou." ”
Although the ministers were like this, the situation was now critical, so the emperor ignored the reactions of the ministers and continued to ask: "This plague is a terrible virus, are you afraid or not?" ”
"As a doctor, the greatest duty is to save lives and help the injured, so how can you shrink back in the face of death?"
As soon as the words fell silent, the people in the room suddenly fell silent, not knowing whether they were frightened by his calmness or touched by his words.
The Emperor asked slowly, "What is your name?" ”
"Woollend."
Although Woollend was only a teacher of medicine at that time, he had already begun to study at the Department of Medicine at cambridge University in 1896 and interned at the famous St Mary's Hospital.
In this way, the emperor agreed to Wu Liande's request.
Second, dare to be the first
The day after meeting the emperor, Wu Liande went alone to Harbin, the plague gathering place.
At this time, because no one dared to fight the plague, he could only step into this dangerous situation alone.
At first, Wu Liande thought that after arriving in Harbin, there would be local officials to assist him in his investigation and help, and it would be easier.
However, I did not expect that everyone was extremely afraid of this disease, and they were also very repulsive to him.
Looking at the closed streets and mansions, Woollend stood alone in an unfamiliar city, accompanied only by medical books in his backpack.
But Woollender doesn't blame them, because he knows that in the current epidemic, there must always be someone to defeat it and thus defeat it, and as a doctor, he should be this person.
After adjusting his mentality, Wu Liande was first prepared to find the root cause of the epidemic.
Combined with your own learning experience, the root cause is not necessarily a mouse, but it is likely to be other animals.
In addition, coupled with medical records, Woollender was basically certain that the plague had spread from neighboring countries, because the first two northeasterners to get sick were laborers who had just returned from abroad.
In November 1910, in order to determine his conjecture, Woollender immediately visited the families of the first two people who became ill, hoping to confirm more information from what he knew about them.
Sure enough, although these two people did not know each other, they had one thing in common, that is, they had both gone to Russia to work, and coincidentally, they were still in the leather bag business.
Under Wu Liande's repeated questioning, the victim's mother began to tell the doctor about the beginning and end of the matter.
When my son first went to Russia, his salary was very high, and later he learned that in order to earn money, Russians often brutally killed some animals and took their furs as raw materials.
Among these animals, the most suitable fur for making a leather bag is an animal called a marmot, because it is everywhere in the grasslands of Siberia and is easy to catch, so it greatly reduces the cost of making a leather bag.
Wu Liande began to wonder: "Then how can it attract a virus in spite of this?" ”
Hearing Woollywood's questioning, the old woman who told the story wiped her tears and continued.
"The Russians are very greedy, and in order to obtain endless benefits, they hunt marmots on a large scale, and after taking the fur, they discard their bodies at will. The body of the marmot was exposed to the grass, and over time it began to decay, slowly attracting some rats to eat. ”
At this point, the old woman suddenly choked up, tears could not stop falling, and the conversation between the two had to be terminated.
Wu Liande saw that she was so sad, and he couldn't bear to continue to ask questions.
As she was getting ready to leave, the old woman continued to talk.
"My goddamn son is really hungry, eating something bad but eating this rare marmot meat, this is god's punishment for him, eating the meat that the rat has bitten, only to get this plague." 」
Hearing this, Woollinder basically understood: the plague first broke out from Siberia, but they have been hiding it, and even in order to quickly conceal the epidemic, the Russian government immediately began to lock down the city, burning all the houses where the plague patients lived, and then throwing the two sick labor workers back into China.
For various reasons, the plague crept in.
Finding the source of the plague, Wu Liande next wanted to start from the speed, to explore what the epidemic was spreading.
Wu Liande saw that the Russian government's method of burning houses had some success, and he also wanted to try it, but now that the number of people who are sick is innumerable, which house to start with first?
When he found a house that could be burned, he did not think that the reason why Woolend was rejected and did not refuse was simple: home is the root, can not be easily burned, not to mention that this can not guarantee the effect.
Seeing that this road would not work, Woollend could only think of another way.
At that time, he had been in Harbin for two months, and the epidemic situation not only did not decrease, but also had a tendency to expand, which made him frown.
Later, in order to reduce the spread of the disease, Wu Liande could only temporarily isolate these patients at home, eating and sleeping without contact with others.
However, under a series of measures by Woollender, the plague was still not effectively controlled.
At this point, he began to recall where something had gone wrong with his link.
One day, he suddenly remembered that a forensic doctor had said: "It is often not the evidence that gives the truth, but the body itself." ”
So Woollender prepared to dissect the corpse, hoping to find out whether there were invisible lesions inside the corpse.
However, at this time, Wu Liande encountered a new problem: the dissection of corpses was far from being seen in China's history, and he had only seen the teacher's operation in the British classroom, and had never been used, what to do.
Just as Woollender was pondering, he suddenly remembered that there was no way back at this time, and only by dissecting the corpse could there be hope to find the suspicion of this plague.
When Woollend made up his mind, he went to the local managers and hoped that they would help, but normal people naturally did not support Woollend's proposal.
There was no way, he could only go to the mass burial post late at night to secretly carry back some nameless corpses for research.
The moment the knife touched the cold skin of the corpse, Wu Liande still broke out in a cold sweat, but remembering so many compatriots who died because of the plague, the knife in Wu Liande's hand was firmly separated.
To his surprise, although these corpses had been dead for a long time, the internal organs invaded by the plague were still rotting like ordinary people, especially like some patients without family, who were so naked on the surface after death, and were not deeply buried, still belonging to the source of transmission.
Combining all considerations, Wu Liande deduced that only by burning the plagued corpses with fire could the source of infection be truly cut off, and slowly fewer people would get sick, and the epidemic would be controlled.
Wu Liande was overjoyed to think of this, as if he had succeeded for a long time, but when the next patient died, his family did not agree to cremation.
Burial is a long-standing method in China, as the saying goes, it is safe to bury the body in the soil, and only by burying the body in the soil can a person's life be terminated.
Now that people are dead, they want to burn their bodies clean with fire, which is the benevolence of the healer, it is simply a vicious heart.
Since then, the people of the northeast can no longer tolerate Wu Liande's presence, and they all want to drive him out of Harbin, where he is not welcome.
Looking at the distrust and even resentment of the villagers towards themselves, Wu Liande was very aggrieved in his heart, but he had been here for several months, and indeed there was no effect.
"Or leave..." Wu Liande thought sadly.
Third, a turnaround occurs
In December 1910, just as Wu Liande was preparing to go back, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind--why he had been in Harbin for so long, and he often came into contact with patients, but he had been unscathed?
Wu Liande carefully recalled his details, since he came to Harbin, he has been covering his mouth and nose, and every time he comes into contact with outsiders, he will disinfect it with alcohol.
The reason why I do this is because in many medical records, there is one of the simplest and most common forms of transmission called droplet transmission.
For so long, I was not affected because I did my own protective measures, but it was also because I was too simple and everyday to think about what was special, so I didn't tell anyone else.
Thinking of this, Wu Liande can't leave, he wants to tell the people about this measure, and he wants to fight this virus to the end.
"Folks, please believe me again, I'm a doctor, I just want everyone to be well."
Then Woollender shared his ideas with everyone, hoping that everyone could understand his painstaking feelings.
After listening to Wu Liande's story, the crowd was whispering, and just then, a person in the crowd stood up.
"Folks, Dr. Wu has put a lot of effort into our safety, so let's listen to him."
Seeing that someone was the first to stand up and cooperate with Wu Liande, more and more people stood up.
In this way, with the cooperation of the people, the plague finally ended in victory during the Spring Festival of 1910.
This was a miracle for China at that time, and without dr. Wu Liande's persistence, the consequences would be unimaginable.
There are always people who say that they never know which one will come first, but in the face of a critical juncture, there will always be capable people in China who will stand up and use their abilities and even their lives to create the greatness of life.
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