Mr. Lu Xun once realized that studying medicine could not save Chinese, so there was a Lu University writer who later abandoned medicine and became a writer, and his literary works did stimulate the numb people of that era and influenced their thinking.
Lu Xun
Today we are going to talk about a Japanese who runs counter to Mr. Lu Xun's thinking, he is Mori Ouwai, one of the representatives of Japanese romantic literature in the 19th century, I think he must think that writing articles cannot help the Japanese, so he also served as a Japanese military doctor, and on his military medical journey, he successfully killed more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers with his medical knowledge.
Literary prodigy Sen Ouwai why he studied medicine
森欧外的原名叫森林太郎，1862他出生在了石间国津和野，他的聪明从小便展露无疑，在家庭的教育下，他在7岁前便学习了《论语》和《孟子》，7岁时进入藩校养名馆系统地学习中国儒家的四书五经，时间来到五年后，12岁的他该为未来做出选择了，他对文学方面充满了兴趣，但是身为医生的父亲更希望他能 继承自己的衣钵，在父亲的影响下他进去了东京大学医学部开始学医。 在东京大学学医期间他依旧对文学保持着浓厚兴趣，1882森欧外从东京大学医学院毕业，成为该选院最年轻的医学学士。
The military doctor from outside Sen Ou set off
After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Mori Ouwai did not rush to show his talents to the society, but first went to the hospital where his father worked for half a year, and may feel that staying in this hospital could not show his talents, and after staying in the hospital for half a year, Mori Ouwai chose to enlist in the Japanese Army and became an army doctor.
Mori Ouwai
Two years later, Mori Ouwai went to Germany to continue his medical studies in Germany, and in Germany Sen Ouwai did not achieve much in medicine, but his talent in literature has increased a lot, and after returning to China, he published many excellent literary works, and he also became one of the representative figures of Japanese romantic poets.
Run to the front
With the improvement of Japan's military strength at the end of the 19th century, Japan's ambitions for external expansion are also expanding, in 1894 the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War broke out, as a Japanese military doctor Mori Ouwai was sent to the front, as a medical senior student Mori Ouwai served as the post of Japanese military medical minister, at this time a major problem in front of Japanese military doctors is to solve the epidemic of beriberi in the Japanese army, this beriberi is not what we imagined, at that time this disease will be fatal.
beriberi
As an island country, Japan is extremely short of natural resources, plus Japan's regulations at that time forbade eating meat! 崇尚素食，导致了日本人饮食摄入中缺少大量了维生素B1，这样的后果就是让一种疾病在日本蔓延开来，这就是“脚气病”人一旦染上"脚气病"，通常会出现以下几种症状：先是下肢疲软、浑身无力，随后他们的脚就会开始肿大、溃烂，然后无法正常行走甚至无法下床，最后的结果就是使人在痛苦中死去。
Morinakawai pitted the Japanese army
森鸥外经过自己的一番苦心钻研，得出了自己的结论，他认为“脚气病”是由细菌感染导致的，在他得出此结论的同时，任海军军医总监的高木兼宽也得出了他的结论，高木兼松认为“脚气病”是由于营养不良引起的，治疗这一疾病很简单， 只需要改善士兵伙食就可以了，高木兼松在日本海军中实行了自己的方法，确实也收到了令人满意的效果，这足以说明他的结论是正确的，但是当时时任陆军军医部长的森欧外选择了无视这些效果，他直接就否认了高木兼宽的结论， 还大力抨击高木兼宽，他认为高木兼宽的结论就是无稽之谈，毫无科学依据。
Mori Ouwai stubbornly insisted on his own point of view, firmly believing that "beriberi" was caused by bacterial infection, and the solution he proposed was to let the soldiers take the antibacterial pill "wood distillate oil pill" developed by the Japanese Army Military Medical College.
Mori Ouwai requires each soldier to carry 600 pills to take every day, he still firmly believes in his opinion, but the result slapped him hard, according to post-war statistics, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army died 47,000 people, including 27,800 people died due to "beriberi", this data reached more than half of the number of war deaths, it can be seen that "beriberi" hit the Japanese army very hard, and at the same time, in the Japanese Navy due to Takagi Kankuan's food improvement method made "beriberi" It has been greatly improved in the Japanese Navy, and the Japanese Army's antibacterial treatment method of Mori Ouwai to treat "beriberi" really has no effect, because Mori Ouwai's stubbornness and too self-confidence have killed nearly 30,000 Japanese soldiers, I think beriberi is a punishment for the Japanese invaders.