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Towards the end of 1842, several left-wing newspapers in England and across the English Channel in France and Germany (the German Confederation) began to appear with the signature "Dr. Jason".

The title of the article was "The Doctor - the Spreader of Germs", and it was first published by some tabloids with a small circulation. The article first rejected the "theory of natural occurrence of diseases", which was regarded as the golden rule by the British medical community in this era, and believed that diseases such as puerperal fever and inflammation and decay of wounds after surgery were not "spontaneous", but were caused by the spread of certain germs. And many of the deadly germs that have killed countless patients have been spread by British doctors who have cured and saved lives! It is the neglect of the hygiene of themselves and surgical instruments by most British doctors, as well as the hygiene of British hospitals, that causes the rapid spread of these pathogenic germs. And the most typical of them is the spread and popularity of mattress fever.

The article bluntly claimed: "It was the British doctors' own contaminated hands and instruments that brought disaster to the mother!" And he also said: "It is not terrible to be wrong in the past, but it is terrible not to recognize science and reality." While some hospitals and doctors have realised this mistake and have used effective sterilization methods to greatly reduce the incidence of puerperal fever, the authorities of the British medical profession are still stubborn, refusing to acknowledge this fact and are unwilling to do anything to change the spread of germs among British doctors and British hospitals......"

Some newspapers also have a profile of Dr. Jason.

Jason. Zhu, a medical scientist from the East, not only has a deep study of Western medicine, but also is proficient in the mysterious Chinese medicine, and on the basis of studying Chinese medicine, he found and put forward the "blood group theory", which solved the "blood transfusion problem" that has plagued the European medical community for many years, and created the possibility for the extensive development of surgery. Angry at the Royal Society of Medicine's refusal to admit the theory of "germ-borne diseases" and its refusal to formulate a strict medical sterilization system, he submitted articles to major newspapers in Britain and France, hoping to use public opinion to force the top of the medical community to admit science and reality in order to save the lives of thousands of patients!

The words are conclusive, but this hornet's nest is indeed big enough to almost overturn a boatload of people with one stroke!

And the evidence that accompanied this series of accusations was very inadequate, with only statistics from the European Gate Hospital and several successful caesarean sections. There is no conclusive evidence for the "germ pathogenesis theory" - showing the pathogenic bacteria under a microscope, and at the same time using hard experiments to prove that killing the pathogenic bacteria can prevent the disease from developing.

So as soon as Dr. Jason's article came out, it immediately caused a big wave of exaggeration.

Especially in the United Kingdom, where Dr. Jason is located, the Royal Society of Medicine reacted immediately and announced the revocation of Jason. Zhu's license to practice medicine,

At the same time, rebuttal articles were published in prominent positions in major "mainstream newspapers", all of which were written by the most authoritative doctors in Britain, citing scriptures and using traditional medical theories to refute them. Zhu pointed out that he was a liar who did not learn and did not know how to do it, and the ideas he put forward were "pseudoscience". More people in Jason. Zhu made a big fuss about the color of his skin and race, believing that he was just a low-IQ yellow man who was not worthy of medical research at all, and that the theories he put forward were not worth refuting at all.

Another doctor openly declared in the newspaper: "Doctors are gentlemen, and as a gentleman, their hands must be clean, so doctors do not have to wash their hands during the autopsy after surgery, let alone wear gloves." ”

There are even some mean-mouthed guys, who still joke about Zhu Jishi's two nicknames "Jason the Ripper" and "Bloodthirsty Veterinarian Jason" in the newspaper, and also imagined out of thin air that Zhu Jishi was born in an Oriental veterinary family, and accidentally discovered the existence of different blood types in the process of treating animals, and then applied this theory to humans, and perhaps conducted several live experiments that were likely to kill people for this purpose, and suggested that the London Police Department investigate whether any British citizens died in these inhumane blood transfusion experiments... …

Naturally, this kind of quarrel quickly attracted the attention of the British bourgeoisie and the middle class, and the health problem of the hospital became a topic of conversation after their tea and dinner for a while, and Zhu Jishi also became a celebrity as he wished, but this reputation is really not good. Because most of the bourgeoisie and the middle class believed in the Royal Society of Medicine, and not in a so-called famous doctor of the East.

And these people do not go to the hospital with a dirty environment to see a doctor, and they have their own skilled and attentive doctors to go to the clinic, but if they pay a little attention, it is not difficult to find that those doctors who come to serve are now very attentive to their personal hygiene, and before performing the operation, they will wash their hands repeatedly with bleaching powder, and they will also wipe various tools with iodine and alcohol......

However, the working people, who make up the vast majority of the British population, held the opposite view at this time - because the British working class at this time did not read the mainstream newspapers!

It's hard to believe that the prices of mainstream British newspapers in the 1840s were ridiculously expensive! Mainstream newspapers such as The Times, Manchester Herald and Leeds Courier sell for between 7p and 10p! Equivalent to a few days' salary of a British casual worker! Who would toil for three or four days to earn money to buy a newspaper?

The reason for such exaggerated newspaper prices is mainly due to the "stamp duty" system introduced in 1712. Since newspapers need to pay a lot of taxes such as stamp duty, advertising tax, supplement tax, etc., the price is extremely expensive. And the British government is said to do this in order to effectively control public opinion - is this the so-called freedom of speech? Freedom of the press?

However, the result of this "stamp duty" after more than 100 years is very different from its original intention. Because the British in this period were not as law-abiding as they were later, there were many illegally published newspapers that did not pay stamp duty! For example, Will. The "Polaris" for which Hemming worked was actually an illegal newspaper! There are dozens, if not hundreds, of similar newspapers, such as The Observer and The London Express. These newspapers also have the nickname "radical newspapers", which means that they are very radical in their views, and they belong to the mainstream society.

However, these newspapers, which evaded taxes such as "stamp duty", had a very wide readership. The Times, Britain's largest mainstream newspaper, for example, has a circulation of only around 30,000 copies a day, mainly for the elite of British society. And Will. The Polaris newspaper, where Hemming worked, had a maximum circulation of more than 100,000 copies! Moreover, at that time, the middle and lower classes of people in Britain liked to read these newspapers collectively in many public places such as cafes, bars, and restaurants located in the workers' quarters. This mass reading has allowed these already large-circulation activist newspapers to have a wider readership.

And after the radical topics of "universal suffrage" and "democracy" were temporarily suppressed by the British government. Radical newspapers, such as the Polaris, have aimed their guns at the dark side of British society. The controversy with the Royal Society of Medicine initiated by Zhu Jishi at this time provided the most haode ammunition for the pen of Engels' and other radical newspapers.

As a result, articles condemning the Royal Society of Medicine and the charity hospitals under the control of the bourgeoisie for disregard of human life and murder of the proletariat were overwhelming. And one by one is more intense, and there are even some articles declaring that "murders against the proletariat are taking place in the charity hospital!" Puerperal fever is a tool used by the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie to exterminate the 'surplus' of the proletarian population......"