The plague of northeast China in the autumn-winter season of 1910-1911 first appeared in Russia and then spread to Harbin through Manchuria. By the end of 1910, it was in a state of chaos and out of control, especially in the Fujiadian area of Harbin.
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The Qing court, which was in turmoil, sent Wu Liande, assistant to the Beiyang Army Military Medical Hall. This young medical talent, although he received a medical education in Cambridge, England, he has a thick Chinese blood flowing in his bones.
After Wu Liande arrived in Harbin, in the shortest possible time, through a series of scientific means such as field investigation and autopsy in the epidemic area, he accurately judged that the new plague epidemic - pneumonic plague was prevalent. That is, this plague can be transmitted by droplets. Next, he adopted a series of effective prevention and control measures, such as calling on and calling on the public to wear masks, strictly isolating the sick, mobilizing the army to implement a lockdown, and burning the corpses of the infected (some of our methods and measures for the prevention and control of new crown pneumonia in the past three years have been adopted by Wu Liande when he prevented and controlled the Harbin plague more than a hundred years ago), so that the prevention and control of the plague in Northeast China showed a dawn and a turnaround, and finally it was completely contained.
Chi Zijian's novel "Snow Crow" does not just want to simply create a heroic character, although Wu Liande is indeed a big hero who turned the tide, but reading through the whole book the author shows the daily life of Harbin people at that time when the plague struck. In other words, the author pulls away the accumulated white bones, explores even the phosphorous glimmer in the depths, and outlines the life shrouded in the shadow of death. Therefore, today, when we are entering a new stage of epidemic prevention and control, and we are still struggling, I read this book and can't bear to be sad and tearful.