Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

At this time, although Western medicine already had a relevant system, it was still very immature.

Not to mention anything else, let’s just say that six or seventy years ago, some famous foreign surgeons operated on people, not in the operating room, but in some "theatres", and they even sold tickets to invite people to come. look.

The ticket money they make is much more than the money they make from surgery.

At the same time... At that time, the mortality rate of the people who performed the operation was very high, and even the doctor himself might die. Some doctors accidentally cut their own hands when operating on patients, infected with bacteria, and then died with The patient died together...

It can be said that at that time, the patient was desperate for surgery, and it was very, very painful. After all, there was no anesthesia at that time, and the patient was awake the whole time, not to mention that it still hurt, so he had to be tied up and held down by an assistant. hands and feet...

Lie in the middle of the "theatre" with five flowers tied up, letting the doctor open up his stomach, and there are people clapping and applauding beside him from time to time... It's also very miserable.

But things have gotten better in recent years, and after the discovery of bacteria, sterile laboratories became popular.

But even if there is some improvement and emphasis on disinfection, there are still a lot of patients who died of infection. In addition, there are also a lot of infectious diseases caused by bacteria at this time.

For example, scarlet fever caused by hemolytic streptococcal infection is a disease that makes people talk about it. At this time in Europe, some families even had several children die of scarlet fever.

In the world classics that Mu Qiong read in modern times, scarlet fever was often mentioned. Children were infected and almost died.

In China at this time, scarlet fever also broke out frequently. Of course, Chinese medicine does not call it scarlet fever, it calls it rotten throat. It is classified as a plague. After infection, the mortality rate is as high as 15.00%, and the mortality rate of children is even higher. .

And such a disease can be cured with penicillin.

It was precisely because Mu Qiong knew how backward the medical treatment was at this time that he hoped that penicillin would come out earlier, and Fu Yun'an and Huo Ying were equally aware of all this.

After reading the clinical data given to him by Fu Yun'an, Huo Ying already knew how precious this medicine was.

When "Contagion" sold tens of thousands of copies and countless people were discussing Xilin, Huo Ying came to a certain hospital in Shanghai with several bottles of penicillin injection.

He specially asked Jiang Xinchun to investigate and learned that a missionary who brought his children to live in Shanghai, his youngest daughter had scarlet fever and was hospitalized here.

Huo Ying originally wanted to save a few big shots from Britain and France, but recently no big shots from Britain and France need penicillin, and only this little girl needs it...

When Huo Ying came to the hospital, someone came up to inquire immediately. After he said the name of the missionary in English, the person brought him to the missionary.

The missionary whose daughter had scarlet fever was named Smith, and his wife was a missionary like himself.They have jobs in Shanghai, but at the moment, neither of them is working.

Their youngest daughter was dying and doctors said she might die of scarlet fever.

As long as they think that their little angel will leave them, they can't help but feel heartache, and naturally they don't want to work.

Hearing that someone was looking for him, Smith came out, frowned and looked at Huo Ying: "Who are you? What can you do with me?"

Mr Smith is in his 30s, tall and looks very strong, but he is very listless.

His nose was red, his eyes were bloodshot, his hair was even more messy, and he looked particularly decadent.

"My name is Huo Ying." Huo Ying said.

Smith had never met Huo Ying before, but as the son of a warlord, Huo Ying had caused many troubles recently, and Smith still knew him.

"What do you want from me?" Smith was even more surprised. He and Huo Ying had never met before. Why did Huo Ying come to him?

"Have you seen "Contagion"?" Huo Ying asked.

Smith shook his head: "No, what is this?"

"This is a book." A foreign doctor in the hospital came over and asked Huo Ying in English: "Why did Mr. Huo suddenly mention this book?"

"Xilin is real." Huo Ying said.

The foreign doctor opened his eyes wide, surprised and delighted.

Smith, on the other hand, was still puzzled: "What? Xilin?"

Huo Ying took out a box containing penicillin injection in a small glass bottle.

The penicillin they produce now is in liquid form.Tianxing said it could also be made into pills, but they won't do it.

"This is Xilin?" the doctor asked.

"That's right." Huo Ying said, "It can kill many bacteria and treat scarlet fever."

"God! Such a miraculous medicine really exists?" The doctor looked at the medicine bottle in Huo Ying's hand, and couldn't control his demeanor.

"Yes, it really exists." The corners of Huo Ying's mouth curled up.

"This medicine can really treat scarlet fever?" Smith asked excitedly at this time.

His youngest daughter was getting worse and worse, and he was very, very worried.

"Yes, it has been tested." Huo Ying said.

Hearing Huo Ying talk about the experiment, the doctor calmed down a bit: "Are you sure this drug has no side effects?"

"We didn't find any side effects." Huo Ying said, "However, some people can't take this medicine. Before taking medicine, you can take a little and inject it under the skin of your arm to see how it goes."

This is what Tianxing said. They have given medicine to many people, and they have never met anyone who cannot use this kind of medicine. But since Tianxing said so, they will continue to do so from now on.

Anyway, it is just a little pain for a while before the patient takes the medicine.

In modern times, after many drugs are researched, they have to go through several years or even decades of clinical trials before they can be put on the market. Buy and eat.

It is precisely because of this that there have been many harms caused by drugs, such as antiemetic drugs given to pregnant women, which eventually caused problems for the baby.

There is no way. At this time, it is not only China that lacks medicine and medicine. In fact, the whole world is short of medicine and medicine.

Just at this moment, Smith is willing to try this drug that he has never heard of before when his daughter's condition is getting worse: "Can it be used for my daughter?"

Huo Ying agreed: "Yes."

Mr. Smith was pleasantly surprised when he heard this.

"Mr. Smith, this is a drug I've never heard of." The doctor hesitated.

"You acted as if you knew about this drug!" Mr. Smith said.

The doctor was taken aback.He did know the existence of Xilin long ago, but he knew it through a novel...

However, Mr. Smith's daughter is in a very bad condition and has a persistent high fever. It is also possible to try medicine... After thinking about it, the doctor has no objection.

If the medicine brought by Huo Ying can really cure Smith's daughter, if Xilin really exists...

This will be an invention that will shock the world.

In the ward, Dr. Smith's daughter fell asleep.

The doctor gave her a skin test according to the method Huo Ying said, and after confirming that the girl's body did not reject the penicillin, he injected half of the penicillin in the bottle into the girl's body.

According to what Huo Ying said, this bottle is for an adult, and children should reduce it appropriately.

The medicine is unlikely to work immediately, and Smith's daughter can't see anything for a while.

Huo Ying waited impatiently, and he took out another bottle of medicine to the doctor: "This medicine should be injected every six to eight hours, so two bottles of medicine should be able to cure this child...I want gone."

After giving the medicine, Huo Ying left, but all the doctors in the hospital gathered in Smith's daughter's ward.

While the doctors in the hospital were waiting to see the effect of Xilin, Doihara Shiro was happy.

The publication of "Contagion" made him very angry, and felt that Huo Ying didn't take them seriously.

Fortunately... Huo Ying will soon lose his temper.

The more Shiro Doihara thought about it, the better he felt.

In the hospital, the little girl woke up that night, regained her energy, and asked her father for buns.

She fell in love with the food after coming to China and eating steamed buns.

Smith immediately bought buns for her to eat, and finally, surrounded by a group of doctors in the hospital, the girl ate all the buns she had.

While eating, she looked warily at the doctors around her from time to time, for fear that they would suddenly come to snatch the food in her hands.

Their eyes are too scary!

Mu Qiong didn't know what Huo Ying was doing. He was writing a new book right now.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang have always been the home of silk, and countless raw silks are produced every year.

In the rural areas here, in addition to food, mulberry trees are the most planted. Throughout the dynasties, the people here have relied on silkworm farming to generate income, and almost everyone can raise silkworms.

Silk, however, was once in short supply internationally and sold at a high price.

Mu Qiong's next novel is about silk.Of course, what he wanted to write about was not actually silk, but Chinese industry.

As for why start with silk...

In 1903, Japan's total raw silk exports surpassed that of China!

During the period of the Republic of China, China's silk was sold very well, but it also encountered an unprecedented cold winter. In the middle and late period of the Republic of China, many silkworm farmers lost their money because of silkworm breeding, and the raw silk they produced could not be sold at all.

In the work "Spring Silkworm" written by a well-known author at that time, there was a description like "If you are afraid of being poor, don't raise boneless worms", and the so-called boneless worms refer to silkworms.

If you don't want to live a poor life, don't raise silkworms... One can imagine how lucky silkworms were to be raised at that time!

To raise silkworms, you need to buy silkworm eggs, and you may even need to buy mulberry leaves to hire people. If the cocoons you harvest cannot be sold...would you have to lose a lot of money?

However, because the silk business was easy to do before, many people did not grow food and instead planted mulberry trees. Under such circumstances, even if they did not hire people to raise silkworms and did not need to buy mulberry leaves, in the end the cocoons could not be sold, so they only Can sell land to fill the shortfall.

It is against this background that Mu Qiong wrote this novel.

He hopes that China can pay more attention to industry and not be overtaken by Japan everywhere.

You know, the reason why Japan’s raw silk exports surpassed that of China is that as early as 1889, 40.00% of Japan’s raw silk was produced by factories. Today, most of the raw silk they export are produced by factories. The quality is guaranteed, but China... is still the same at the moment, mainly reeling silk by hand.