Lin Qiaozhi's old age photo
Lin Qiaozhi is the founder of modern obstetrics and gynecology science in mainland China.
As many as 50,000 babies were delivered from him, because she was never married, had no children of her own, and was affectionately known as the mother of all babies.
It is such an unremarkable, full of vicissitudes of the old man who has stayed in The Union Hospital for 60 years and has become a health consultant for thousands of families in China.
Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, was also born under the delivery of Lin Qiaozhi, who had not yet had time to name him, and Yuan Baobao was his pronoun.
On October 1, 1949, at 15:00 p.m., there was an invitation letter on the table of the director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, inviting Lin Qiaozhi to go to Tiananmen Square to watch the founding ceremony.
Invitation letter
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Professor Lin Qiaozhi of Union Medical College Hospital hereby welcomes you to hold the inauguration ceremony of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square at 3 p.m. on October 1.
The Union Hospital was next to Wangfujing, but Lin Qiaozhi did not go to watch the ceremony. In her eyes, the patient is the most important.
Young Lin Qiaozhi
As the first Chinese director of obstetrics and gynecology, she is also the only female member of the first Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Lin Qiaozhi was born in Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, a place surrounded by mountains and the sea, and is now a tourist destination.
Because Lin Qiaozhi was particularly small when she was born, her father Lin Liangying named her Lin Qiaozhi. She is the youngest child in the family, with two older sisters and an older brother, and her father is a returned overseas Chinese from Nanyang, who has a new education.
Lin Qiaozhi began to learn English very early under the influence of his father, and discarded the disgust of the old woman's little feet.
Lin Qiao's girlhood (second from the left)
At the age of 5, Lin Qiaozhi attended a kindergarten run by British missionaries, entered the new-style school of Gulangyu Island at the age of 10, and was later admitted to Xiamen Women's Normal College.
It was at school that she met her mentor Mary Karin, an English teacher at the Women's Normal College. Lin Qiaozhi understood that women can also be independent and self-reliant, do not need to teach their husbands and children at home, and the door does not go out of the second door.
Mary Karin
Subsequently, Mary told the students that Union Medical College Hospital, the highest university in Beijing, chose to recruit students nationwide. To this end, Lin Qiaozhi officially stepped into the field of medicine.
Lin Qiaozhi told his family that he wanted to apply for medical school, but was rejected by the family on the grounds that the girl did not want to marry anymore and that she would study for 8 years.
Only the father, Lin Liangying, supported his daughter's decision and secretly raised tuition fees for his daughter.
Group photo of Lin Qiaozhi (second from the left)
In 1921, the 20-year-old Lin Qiaozhi left Xiamen for the first time and took a boat to Shanghai to apply for the examination.
At the time of the exam, it was in the sweltering heat, and when there was still one last English language left, a girl fainted, and the invigilator was a male teacher who was inconvenient to check.
Lin Qiaozhi calmly and freely helped his classmates to a cool place to rest, and after ten minutes or so, the classmates woke up, and Lin Qiaozhi continued the exam.
Because of this time Lin Qiaozhi's help, Lin Qiaozhi's English test paper could not be completed.
Lin Qiaozhi thought that he must not be admitted, and the national enrollment only admitted 25 places, but what he did not expect was that Lin Qiaozhi received the admission letter a month later.
Shanghai Exam Room
Although Lin Qiaozhi is not a formal doctor, he has the quality of a doctor, and loves patients more than himself.
On September 19, 1921, the inauguration of Union Hospital was held at the same time as the admission of new students.
The tuition fee of Union Hospital is high, there is no scholarship, and the annual living expenses need 400 yuan, but the poor family can maintain the living expenses of the family for 3 yuan.
In such a learning environment, Lin Qiaozhi always remembers his father's advice; If you are not a good person, you are a good doctor.
Concord old diagram
Union Hospital was built at a cost of $7.5 million by the Rockefeller Foundation, with a palace-like façade, independent electricity and plumbing, and the world's top faculty.
Group photo of investors
Before official enrollment, you need to study three years of preparatory courses, 1800 hours of six homework, and each homework score of 75 points is the passing line.
If you fail one course, you will be relegated, and if you fail two courses, you will be removed from Concord.
In the 8 years of Concord, Lin Qiaozhi has always been at the top of the list, and Lin Qiaozhi, who graduated in 1929, won the Wenhai Award, and only one student was selected for each class.
Lin Qiaozhi at the time of graduation
The reason why Lin Qiaozhi worked hard to apply for medical school and learn medical knowledge. It is inseparable from the experience of childhood.
In 1901, on December 23, Lin Qiaozhi was born in an old-fashioned house in Xiamen, and the newborn Lin Qiaozhi was abandoned in a corner by the midwife, just because she was not a boy, and she already had two sisters on it, and she was abandoned by default.
Fortunately, her father Lin Liangying came home to find her shivering in the corner of the wall and hugged her back.
When he was 5 years old, his mother died, and Lin Qiaozhi only knew that his mother was suffering from women's disease, until Lin Qiaozhi studied medicine, he understood that his mother was suffering from cervical cancer.
Lin Qiaozhi graduation certificate
In old China, the mortality rate of newborns was as high as 27.5%, and the cause of death was mostly infections caused by tetanus.
The maternal mortality rate was 1.76 per cent, and most of the causes of death were puerperal fever and heavy bleeding.
It is Lin Qiaozhi who has experienced the injustice of women and the lack of medical care that he will resolutely choose obstetrics and gynecology at the beginning of graduation.
She is the only female doctor in the hospital and the only inpatient doctor on duty.
One day, there was an ectopic pregnancy patient in the hospital, but at that time, only Lin Qiaozhi was alone. Just call the chief surgeon, who said he might not be able to come back. Lin Qiaozhi, who was in a hurry, personally presided over the operation, and the patient was safe.
The regulations of Union Hospital are very strict, Lin Qiaozhi is an assistant assistant doctor, but he is not qualified to complete the operation independently. Perhaps because of the success of this operation, Lin Qiaozhi not only did not face the punishment of the hospital, but was instead promoted by the hospital to the chief obstetrics and gynecology chief resident in 1931.
Lin Qiaozhi in medicine
At the age of 30, Lin Qiaozhi was sent by Union Hospital to the London Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Manchester Medical College in the United Kingdom for further study.
Not long after, Union Hospital called Lin Qiaozhi, hoping that Lin Qiaozhi would step down and switch to public health.
The hospital hopes that Lin Qiaozhi will succeed Yang Chongrui in the First Maternity Hospital of Peiping (Dongsi Hospital), Yang Chongrui is the first Chinese medical nurse, and Yang Chongrui is about to go to Nanjing to build a second human midwifery hospital.
Yang Chongrui
This time, the proposal of the hospital was directly rejected by Lin Qiaozhi.
Lin Qiaozhi still wants to continue to complete her sense of mission in the obstetrics and gynecology department.
In 1937, Lin Qiaozhi was hired as an associate professor by Union Hospital, when China's power in China was getting stronger.
In the Department of Internal Medicine, there is Zhang Xiaoqian.
Zhang Xiaoqian
Surgery has no surgery.
Xie Wushu
Lin Qiaozhi is the only woman and the only obstetrician and gynecologist.
Lin Qiaozhi has a habit of marking on the birth certificate of each baby she delivers: Lin Qiao Zhi's Baby
Yuan Longping, the father of the famous hybrid rice, was also delivered by Lin Qiaozhi at Union Hospital, and Yuan Longping was born with 3650 grams.
Yuan Longping birth certificate
In addition to Yuan Longping, Lin Qiaozhi also delivered the children of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao.
Bing Xin family group photo
Bing Xin wrote in the book "About Women": She has dark skin, speaks and does things, and is agile. With the same train of thought as a man, her agile hands have taken over thousands of children of the Chinese nation.
Concord has a very hard rule, and it is precisely because of this rule that Lin Qiaozhi has never married in his life.
A good wife and a good mother and a working woman can only choose one of the two, and if they are hired and married, pregnant, or have children, they are considered to be automatically dismissed.
At a birthday party held for her by colleagues in the hospital, she did not wait for her to be seen. It turned out that Lin Qiaozhi went to be busy again, and then she said to her colleagues:
When the baby came to life on my birthday, that wah-wah-wah cry was the most beautiful ode to life, and for me, it was a perfect birthday gift.
Lin Qiaozhi with children (first from left)
Lin Qiaozhi's friend once asked him, why not find someone to entrust him with for life?
If I get married, I have to raise children, take care of my husband, and take care of the housework, but once I live like that, can I still be a competent doctor? For the sake of my career, I decided not to get married.
In July 1937, the Japanese army attacked Peiping, and on the 29th, Peiping completely fell. Union Hospital was founded by the Americans and survived.
In 1939, Lin Qiaozhi was sent to the United States for further study, during which time Lin Qiaozhi refused to return to China from the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the University of Chicago.
Lin Qiaozhi took a group photo with colleagues
In 1941, the United States declared war on Japan, the Pacific War broke out, and Concordia was forced to close the hospital.
At this time, many people were thrown into the rest of the hospitals, and Lin Qiaozhi chose to open a private clinic in Dongtangzi Hutong in Dongcheng District.
The hutongs are full of poor people in difficulty, and in different Union Hospitals, the people who come to see patients are all dignitaries and dignitaries.
Lin Qiaozhi will reduce the consultation fee from five to the triangle, and those who can take medicine to solve it will never give people injections, and those who meet real difficulties will also fund some money, and the consultation will not charge a penny.
Lin Qiaozhi insisted on such a life for six years, accumulating a total of 8887 files in his hands.
Lin Qiaozhi's private clinic was listed
In 1947, as the perennial War of Resistance drew to a close, the country won victory, and in October of the same year, Concordia resumed classes.
In May 1948, Concordia officially accepted patients to the outside world, and Lin Qiaozhi ended his outside visit, and after several years, returned to Concordia again.
On February 3, 1949, the victory-celebrating Beiping entrance ceremony was held three kilometers from the Union Hospital, which Lin Qiaozhi missed.
On October 1, 1949, to celebrate the official independence of the People's Republic of China, the ceremony was observed in front of Tiananmen Square, only one kilometer away, but Lin Qiaozhi still chose to stick to the hospital.
In November of the same year, the brothel was ordered to be closed for rehabilitation, and the women were no longer insulted and damaged, but lived with dignity.
In May 1950, the Marriage Act was enacted, and women had equal and autonomous choices.
Lin Qiaozhi surgical diagram
After the founding of New China, Concord not only communicated with the rich, but also ordinary people could go to the hospital for examination.
Dong Li and his wife
There was a patient named Dong Li, her husband was the only seedling in the family, and the couple had not conceived their own children for six years. Just when Dong Li was getting pregnant, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
The initial treatment given by Lin Qiaozhi was to remove the uterus and prevent cancer. Thinking about Dong Li's desire for children, the mood of a mother.
Lin Qiaozhi gave conservative treatment and asked Dong Li to return to the hospital regularly for examination. In the end, Dong Li was personally cut by Lin Qiaozhi to produce the next healthy baby girl at more than eight months. To show their gratitude, the couple named the child Nianlin.
This time also let Lin Qiaozhi find a major medical result, Dong Li's so-called cervical cancer is a special pregnancy reaction, with the birth of the child, Dong Li's cervical mass also disappeared.
Subsequently, the medical community decided that this was a special benign lesion called deciduous tumor.
Nian Lin
After the founding of New China, Lin Qiaozhi had various titles.
Vice president of Chinese Medicine, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the Beijing Municipal Government, but Lin Qiaozhi said that her favorite thing is that others call her Dr. Lin or Dr. Lin.
A woman in Inner Mongolia saw Lin Qiaozhi's report in the newspaper and sent a letter to Lin Qiaozhi.
Distress letter.
The mother from Lemon was already in her fifth child, and the first four times were the first four times when the child died after birth. She wrote a letter begging Dr. Lin to help her keep the only child in her belly.
Lin Qiaozhi immediately understood that this was a homogeneous immune disease caused by blood group incompatibility between mother and child, neonatal hemolysis.
There is no precedent for this disease to survive in China, and Lin Qiaozhi is not completely sure.
After the birth of the child is a baby boy weighing 2900 grams, the whole body is yellow when born, and the physiological indicators are reduced.
Lin Qiaozhi arranged for the baby boy to change blood all over the body at the first time, drew 15 ml of sick blood, dripped 8 ml of fresh blood, and then added calcium.
After more than five hours of struggle, the baby boy's face changed from yellow to red. This was done three times in a week before the baby boy survived.
Subsequently, the baby boy was named Xiehe, and without Lin Qiaozhi, there would be no first cured immunization case in New China.
Concord
Premier Zhou's wife, Deng Yingchao, commented on Lin Qiaozhi: Lin Qiaozhi is not an ordinary doctor, she has a special attraction to patients, and patients will unconditionally trust her and rely on her when they are with her.
In 1978, Lin Qiaozhi visited four European countries as the vice president of the All-China Women's Federation and fell ill with cerebral thrombosis in the middle of the way.
After falling ill, Lin Qiaozhi ignored the advice of his friends and insisted on returning to China for treatment. Subsequently, the book "Family Health Consultant" was published, benefiting thousands of families in China.
Lin Qiaozhi Deng Yingchao
In the late autumn of 1980, it coincided with Lin Qiaozhi's 80th birthday. Many of her students gave her a special gift, the manuscript of Gynecologic Oncology, a 510,000-word manuscript that Lin Qiaozhi summarized more than 30 years of cases of Xiehe Obstetrics and Gynecology, and was compiled with reference to more than 900 related literature.
The whole book alone reached more than 200 drawings, but unfortunately Lin Qiaozhi died before he could see the publication of the book.
On April 22, 1983, Lin Qiaozhi died in a smile.
Although she had no children of her own in this life, she delivered to thousands of families and saw countless small lives coming, all of whom were her children.