The plague, one of the most terrible diseases in human history. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even more than 100 years later, plague is one of the two Class A infectious diseases alongside cholera, which makes people smell and change, let alone in this era when medicine is not yet developed. In fact, there have been three major outbreaks of the bubonic plague in history, the second being the Black Death in Central World Europe, with a mortality rate of 30 percent, and tens of millions of Europeans died from the disease.

The third is the outbreak in China and India.

When Europeans began to build sewer pipes and began to liberate themselves from the filthy environment, the incidence of plague began to decline rapidly. But in the far east, China and India, where sanitation was extremely poor, began to suffer, and tens of millions of people were killed by the plague......

The Great Panic in Northeast China at the end of 1910 was a great outbreak of the plague.

Although Wu Liande, who had just arrived in Harbin, had not yet been identified and had not yet detected the plague bacillus from the deceased, he knew very well that this infectious disease, which was called "Bestok" by major newspapers in Northeast China, was the Japanese word for plague......

After a lot of commotion, the group settled down.

The coolies carrying the luggage and research equipment all went to rest, but Wu Liande ignored his exhaustion and called the two students to his side: "Gentlemen, I know that you have worked hard to get here from Tianjin, but everyone has seen that the situation is very urgent, and we don't have much time to waste......"

Listening to the teacher's words, the two students nodded silently.

Fujiadian was originally one of the most prosperous areas in Harbin. In 1903, the Middle East Railway was officially opened to traffic, and Songhuajiang Town was renamed Harbin City. Soon, a Chinese labor residential area was formed around Fujiadian, and various commercial shops came into being. Four or five o'clock in the afternoon should be the busiest time of the day, but they just walked all the way, and it was like a dead place!

However, in just two kilometers, what you see along the way is shocking!

It was cold, oppressive, and the sky above the city was like a pile of dark clouds, dark and stuffy. Very few people come and go in a hurry on the streets, and from time to time a rickshaw covered with white cloth walks by, and the people pulling the cart are like walking corpses, which is daunting!

All because of the people who keep dying.

According to the official who picked up the station just now, today is December 24th, and the number of people infected in Fujiadian yesterday has exceeded 200 -- this number really scared them......

"Teacher, what do you want us to do?"

After a moment of silence, one of the students asked.

"You two, one goes to find a house!"

After a moment of silence, Wu Liande said in a deep voice: "We must determine whether this plague is plague as soon as possible, so we need a laboratory to prepare the equipment we brought...... Zixu, it's up to you to do this matter, ask the official just now for help! ”

"Yes, sir!"

The student named Zixu nodded and immediately went out.

After the door was closed, Wu Liande hesitated for a moment and then said in a low voice: "Chen Ye, find someone to inquire, where is Doctor Yao and Doctor Sun from Fengtian, please come over!" ”

When the epidemic first broke out, the authorities sent two Western doctors from Mukden, who graduated from the Tianjin Beiyang Medical School, founded by Sheng Xuanhuai, and were one of the few people in China who received training in Western modern medicine at that time. Wu Liande had heard of the school and knew that Peiyang Medical College was a British-style medical school that recruited English-speaking students from Hong Kong, Guangdong, Fujian, and Tianjin......

"Yes, sir."

Gritting his teeth, this student named Chen Ye also went out.

"Alas......"

After watching the second student leave, Wu Liande couldn't help but sigh, and a strong sense of exhaustion couldn't help but come to his heart.

On this trip to the Northeast, he came on behalf of others.

In fact, Wu Liande later learned that the most suitable candidate should be Xie Tianbao, a doctor of medicine from the University of Denver and chief medical officer of the Navy, but Xie Tianbao refused on the grounds that it was a long way from Beijing to Harbin -- at least this is the adult's superficial reason. In desperation, Shi Zhaoji finally remembered Wu Liandelai.

After agreeing to take over the post of chief medical officer for epidemic prevention in the three eastern provinces without hesitation, Wu Liande immediately rushed back to Tianjin. He naturally can't do it alone, and he also knows that there is an extreme shortage of modern doctors in the Northeast who know how to know health and epidemic prevention, so he must find a few helpers for himself! But unfortunately, when Wu Liande urgently summoned the graduating students to solicit people who volunteered to go to the Northeast with him, the classroom was silent.

A few minutes later, two students stepped up.

To Wu Liande's surprise and sadness, the two people who stood up were both Cantonese, Cantonese from the southernmost part of China, and none of the students whose hometowns were in the north or even the northeast were willing to stand up and rush to the northeast with him......

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On December 24, 1910, Wu Liande, together with two students, rushed to Harbin with all the necessary equipment.

At this time, Fujiadian was already in chaos.

Hundreds of people fall ill and dozens die every day, and every day that number skyrockets from yesterday. Fear led consuls and businessmen to close their areas and drive out all Chinese. And in the dirty, crowded, indiscriminate Chinese gathering areas, more people are starting to get infected, and everything is slipping in the worst direction......

At the most critical juncture, Wu Liande arrived.

He first met with Dr. Yao and Dr. Sun from Mukden to learn about the general situation and the resources at his disposal, and then the next day he went to meet with the magistrate in charge of Fujiadian quarantine and epidemic prevention, a typical traditional literati. This man had the title of Lifter, spoke an official dialect with a strong Wu accent, did not speak English or Russian, and could not converse directly with the Russians. And just when Wu Liande was in a hurry to see him, this guy even made him wait for more than half an hour, and then he came over slowly......

Ignorance and stupidity, this is the only impression left by the old man on Wu Liande.

So Wu Liande knew that this time he could only rely on himself, and he had to control this plague as quickly as possible. Because it is not only about tens of thousands of lives, but also about the interests of the country. Both the Russians and the Japanese are eyeing each other, trying to seize the power of quarantine and epidemic prevention, and behind this lies the loss of national sovereignty!

So on the third day of coming to Harbin, Wu Liande decided to secretly dissect a corpse that had just died.

In China in 1910, this would undoubtedly have been a bold affair. The vast majority of Chinese are completely ignorant of modern medicine, and in the Chinese concept, autopsy is undoubtedly a great disrespect to the dead, not only facing the pressure of social customs, but also legally impermissible. However, in order to completely understand the cause of this plague, Wu Liande could only grit his teeth and choose to do it secretly.

This was the first recorded case of pathological autopsy in modern China, and later promoted the legalization of human dissection.

Of course, legal legalization does not mean that reality can exist, and the "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Anatomical Rules" promulgated by the Beiyang government gives doctors a power, but this power is restricted by the public and society. Therefore, until 20 years later, only one or two corpses can be dissected every year by several famous universities......

Well, it's a bit of a stretch again.

The body dissected by Wu Liande was a Japanese woman married to a local Chinese. Perhaps it was precisely because of the identity of the other party that Wu Liande got some tacit approval and completed his experiment. In a room of the local general merchant, Wu Liande performed a blood test on the corpse, fixed the sample and performed a tissue biopsy.

And then......

What excites Wu Liande happens: under Beck's microscope, he clearly sees an oval-shaped infestium!

There is no doubt that it was the plague that was prevalent in Fujiadian.

After determining the existence of the plague, Wu Liande immediately sent a telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing to report the matter to Shi Zhaoji. Moreover, Wu Liande immediately put forward preliminary epidemic prevention measures: control railway and highway traffic to prevent the spread of the plague; Quarantine the epidemic area of Fujiadian, prohibiting anyone from entering and leaving; Open recruitment of physicians, solicitation of more people to come and assist, etc.

According to Wu Liande's understanding, this is the best way to deal with this crisis.

It's just that Wu Liande obviously doesn't know how difficult his road will be in this land that has not yet accepted modern medicine, and in this land where foreigners can't look down on Chinese doctors at all!

Fortunately, he is not alone in this world...... (To be continued.) )