(Vientiane History Special Author: Ling Kongzi)
Xiao Longyou's biography: "Look at death" Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen, Liang Qichao, the first of the four famous doctors in Beijing
Xiao Longyou was born on February 13, 1870 in Ya'an, Sichuan, with his ancestral home in Santai County, Sichuan. Xiao Longyou painstakingly read the Four Books and Five Classics from an early age and laid a solid foundation in traditional Chinese studies. When he was a child, due to his mother's illness, he often went to the pharmacy to ask for medicine, and he was very interested in Chinese medicine. Later, he went to the Chengdu Zunjing Academy and read a lot of medical books in his spare time.
In 1892 (at the age of 22), cholera epidemic in Sichuan was an epidemic that killed 8,000 people every day. Xiao Longyou stepped forward and treated along the street with an old Chinese medicine doctor carrying a medicine box. The Chinese herbal formula of the two people has a good effect and has saved many people. After this incident, he became famous!
In 1897 (at the age of 27), Xiao Longyou went to Beijing to participate in scientific expeditions, obtained gongsheng, and entered the career path from then on. In the late Qing Dynasty, he served as a county grand master, and served as the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Agriculture and Commerce in the Republic of China, and held an important position. But he never stopped studying medicine, both Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and self-taught. Outside of his official duties, he often visited friends to practice medicine.
In May 1916 (at the age of 46), Yuan Shikai was critically ill, and the eldest son, Yuan Keding, invited Xiao Longyou to the palace for diagnosis and treatment. After Xiao Longyou cut his pulse, he was diagnosed with uremia, and after prescribing the formula, he repeatedly asked him to take medicine for rest.
However, Yuan Kewen, the second son of Yuan Shikai, did not believe in Chinese medicine and did not allow him to grasp Chinese medicine. The two brothers disagreed, dragging back and forth until June 6, when Yuan Shikai, the most controversial "great man" in modern China, cried out for his life.
Afterwards, Xiao Longyou said: "Uremia must be recuperated, Yuan Shikai was in internal and external difficulties at that time, and the whole country was denounced, how can the mood be calmed down?" His death was also fate, and his qi was exhausted! ”
(Yuan Shikai's coffin)
In November 1924 (at the age of 54), Sun Yat-sen went north to seek a republic, but suddenly fell ill and became increasingly ill. Many doctors could not determine the cause of the disease, and then Xiao Longyou was invited. After Xiao Longyou's examination, it was determined that it was liver cancer, which could not be treated by traditional Chinese medicine, and there was no prescription.
After Sun Yat-sen's death, German doctors performed surgical autopsies and found that there were indeed hard patches in the liver, and concluded that it was a malignant tumor, confirming the death of liver cancer. Xiao Longyou's accurate diagnosis is a sensation!
(Sun Yat-sen who died of illness)
In 1926, Liang Qichao had blood in his stool and successively asked Western medicine and Xiao Longyou for diagnosis and treatment. He went to The Union Hospital for testing and found a black spot on his right kidney, which he thought was cancer. Xiao Longyou diagnosed that Liang Qichao had uremia and diabetes, which had nothing to do with the kidneys, and it was better to eat Chinese medicine and slowly adjust it.
In the end, Liang Qichao underwent surgery from Western medicine and removed his right kidney. However, the hospital's autopsy later revealed that the cherry-like black spots were actually hardening of the arteries, not cancer. Liang Qichao's blood in the stool did not improve much. This incident triggered a big debate on traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, saying that Liang Qichaobai was stabbed.
In 1928 (at the age of 58), the National Government in Nanjing carried out the Northern Expedition and the Beiyang Government collapsed. Xiao Longyou decided to abandon his official duties to practice medicine, and hung a sign at No. 59, Terracotta Alley, his home - "Xiao Longyou Medical Apartment"!
In January 1929 (at the age of 59), Liang Qichao died in Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
Xiao Longyou has a great reputation and exquisite medical skills, which is well known to women and children in Beijing, and is respected by people from all walks of life, and is known as the first of the four famous doctors in Beijing. Even the German medical doctor at that time, when encountering difficult and complicated diseases, would ask Xiao Longyou to go to the hospital for consultation. You must know that before this, there is no precedent for Chinese medicine to enter western medicine consultation!
(Liang Qichao memorial service)
In 1929, the Nanjing government announced the "Abolition of Traditional Chinese Medicine Case", which immediately caused an uproar in the medical circles and the public across the country.
In 1930 (at the age of 60), Xiao Longyou stepped forward and raised funds with other famous doctors Shi Jinmo, Kong Bohua and others to establish the "BeipingGuo Medical College" in his own home, that is, the Terracotta Hutong Compound. Xiao Longyou served as the chairman of the board, trained a large number of Chinese medicine talents, and was a pioneer in Chinese medicine education.
In 1943, under the pressure of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the medical school was forced to close.
(Group photo of teachers and students at the opening of PekingGuo Medical College)
In 1949 (at the age of 79), the founding of New China, Xiao Longyou, although nearly eighty years old, was still full of courage and changed his nickname from "Shi Weng" to "Endless Weng". He served as a deputy to the First and Second National People's Congresses and the honorary president of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
In 1953 (at the age of 83), Xiao Longyou was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1956 (at the age of 86), according to Xiao Longyou's proposal, four chinese medicine colleges were established in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu. Xiao Longyou is also the prototype of the portrait of the famous doctor Li Shizhen in the middle school textbook.
On October 20, 1960, Xiao Longyou died of illness at the age of 90!
Xiao Longyou's life experience can be described as legendary, from politics to Xinglin are famous scholars. In terms of medical skills, there is no family tradition, and there is no teacher inheritance, all relying on self-taught talents, and the name of first-class medical skills is full of capital. Together with Kong Bohua, Wang Fengchun and Shi Jinmo, he was known as the "Four Famous Doctors of Beijing".
He is a strong advocate of the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. He mentioned in the "Collation of Chinese Medical Opinions" that medicine is designed to save people, and there is no distinction between Chinese and Western medicine.
(The 596th work of the Vientiane History and Biography Writing Camp, and the 41st work of the camper "Lingkongzi")