Take a woman's urine and inject it into the skin of an African claw frog, and if after 12 hours the frog begins to ovulate, it proves that the woman is pregnant.
This seemingly nonsensical trick is actually the British biologist Hogg's pregnancy test method of the invention, at the same time, it is also widely used by Chinese barefoot doctors, in that era of underdeveloped medical treatment, these "native methods" saved the lives of countless Chinese people.
How godly are barefoot doctors?
One: Grind the Chinese medicine with your feet.
In 1965, the medical development of new China was just beginning to take shape, most of the medical resources were concentrated in urban areas, and patients in the countryside, even if they ran through all the pharmacies in the town, may not be able to buy a bottle of pills.
Just when they were suffering from no medicine, someone suddenly found that the medicine that was scarce in the big cities was actually made in the countryside by indigenous methods, and these barefoot doctors did not have high-tech equipment, and some were just stone mills used by farmers to grind soybean milk, but the donkeys that pulled the stone mills were replaced by electric drives.
If even electricity is scarce, they will also use their feet to step on the roller to grind medicinal materials, although the yield is small, but it is better than nothing, and this kind of medicine concocted by barefoot doctors is not bad at all, even compared with 10 bottles of Western medicine.
Two: Local materials.
In the summer farming, it is inevitable to encounter the emergency situation of sudden heat stroke of farmers, at this time, go to the pharmacy to catch medicine, it is certainly too late, barefoot doctors will often drill into a meadow, pick some wild dandelion, herbs and other herbs on the spot, and then flush hot water to alleviate symptoms for patients.
Because barefoot doctors, most of them are farmers, medical knowledge is learned later, so in their leisure time, they will turn the book, while going to the grass to collect medicine, until the business is skilled, picking herbs, it has become their hobby, there is nothing to go to the grass to walk twice, can return with a full load.
Three: Eliminate the four harms.
In 1966, the "Patriotic Sanitation Campaign" was in full swing, but when barefoot doctors went to the countryside to popularize health knowledge, they found that many farmers liked to mix chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep together, and the drinking water source was not protected, which could make them anxious.
They began to knock on the door door to deliver medicine, just like a worried parent, watching the patient eat the medicine before daring to leave, some doctors, will also help farmers make a toilet cover, tell each other, when it is useless, must be locked.
In addition, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, barefoot doctors will also work with the cadres of the Ministry of Health to mobilize villagers to carry out sanitary cleaning, and any flying flies in the sky and cockroaches and rats running underground will be eliminated as long as they are easy to carry germs.
With the efforts of the masses, in just 30 years, smallpox, malaria, cholera, leprosy and other dead gods that have plagued the old China for thousands of years have disappeared one by one, even today, when we recall this sense of community, we can still lead the world in epidemic prevention and control.
Before 1965, 80 percent of China's medical personnel were concentrated in urban areas, and peasants in the countryside had no medical treatment to see or medicine to eat.
"If the hospital cannot serve the broad masses of peasants, then it is called the official hospital."
Although with the development of the times, high-tech processing instruments have gradually replaced the former "stone mill" pharmaceutical, and the public medical system that once benefited countless people has also disappeared into the long river of history, many barefoot doctors have changed the name of "rural doctors" to continue to serve the masses.
I think their existence is also telling us that that romantic era has never gone far.