Chapter 58 Dr. Zhu's Anger
The headquarters' hospital's main business is to treat wounded soldiers.
However, as the people's soldiers, the Eighth Route Army's headquarters hospital was also open to the general public.
So people from nearby areas often get sick and are sent here.
But many times, field hospitals like this are not of much help to ordinary people's illnesses.
Because many of them focus on injuries such as gunshot wounds, knife wounds, and explosion wounds, and focus on wound suturing and the use of sulfonamides to prevent infection.
However, when it comes to ordinary people getting sick, the response is not as professional.
After all, most of the good doctors go to Chongqing.
For example, today a citizen sent a child to the hospital, and the hospital was helpless. If Chen Xiao were here, he might find it a little unbelievable, because the child just had a cold, which was just a little more serious.
What about colds?
Ordinary people will usually get the disease, and it will go away after a while and they will be well in a few days. Only when it really doesn't get better will they go see a doctor.
In this era, don't go to those Western medicine hospitals to treat colds. Not only are the medicines expensive, they are not very effective.
In World War I, which was not long before World War II, only more than 10 million people were killed. However, a pandemic influenza that originated in the United States killed 30 to 40 million people in Europe. This is unimaginable in our country.
After all, our country has such a dense population. If the common cold could spread so badly in our country, I'm afraid there would be hundreds of millions of deaths.
During World War I, the West had no better way to treat the common cold except bloodletting.
Until the emergence of aspirin, as for the time when this drug appeared, some say it was very early, around 1899, but its efficacy was truly confirmed and put into production around 1934.
The first function of this medicine is analgesia. Although it has no effect on colds, it can make people feel less uncomfortable. The second function is anti-inflammatory, and it is effective for inflammation caused by some bacteria.
But for colds, the most important thing is the antipyretic effect of this medicine, which is where it works.
This effect is not much different from drinking a bowl of thick ginger soup. It just causes sweating, but the sweating effect may not be as good as that of ginger soup.
This is also why until the 21st century, modern hospitals still say that colds cannot be cured by taking medicine. There is no medicine to cure colds, only medicine to relieve cold symptoms.
It was later discovered that if children under the age of 18 or 19 took this drug when they had a viral infection, they might develop Reye's syndrome (an adverse drug reaction with a high mortality rate), so doctors in the 21st century would never recommend using this drug for children under the age of 19.
At that time, most of the places in our country that had this kind of medicine were in big cities like Shanghai. It was impossible to have such a thing in poor places like the base.
It is precisely because of the disease of the common cold that ordinary people usually try to fight it on their own, but when they really cannot fight it anymore, they have already given up.
Usually at this time, people would go to the county clinic and ask the doctor to take a look and prescribe some medicine. If they really couldn't make it to the county clinic and died of the burns, that was fate!
Because the counties are too far away.
Not to mention this era, even in the era before Chen Xiao traveled through time, his friend's father-in-law died of pneumonia caused by a cold.
So, even though a cold is common in modern times, it often kills people in this era .
Doctor Zhu looked at the child's eyelids, listened to his lungs with a stethoscope, and checked his throat, which was not inflamed. Then he said to the old man who was carrying the child:
“It’s just a cold and fever, although it’s a bit serious, but we don’t have any medicine to treat colds right now.
If I were in Shanghai, I could get some aspirin.
But here, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.
You can carry him back first, and come back to me if anything happens. I remember your home is not far away."
Dr. Zhu originally wanted to let them stay, but when he thought about the fact that there were no beds available, he had to let the old man carry the patient back first. He thought that the patient should be able to hold on for a while, after all, isn't this how ordinary people have been living for so many years?
The old man was so worried that he asked Dr. Zhu: "Doctor..."
Doctor Zhu quickly supported the old man and said, "Uncle, there is really nothing we can do.
It’s not that I have no choice, it’s that I really have no other choice!”
Things had come to this point, and no matter how reluctant the old man was, he had no choice but to carry the child out, tears falling as he walked.
"My son! Your father died fighting the Japanese. If you die too, what will your grandfather do?"
"Grandpa, I'm fine, I just have pains all over my body, a headache, and want to sleep..." The seven or eight-year-old child on the back tried hard to comfort the crying old man.
Tian Xiaoyu was walking towards them holding the notebook that Chen Xiao had given her. From a distance, she saw the old man crying and carrying a baby on his back. She hurriedly asked, "Uncle, what happened?"
The old man saw that she was wearing a nurse's uniform, which was also white, and thought she was also a doctor. He was overjoyed, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw:
"Are you a doctor too? My grandson said he had a cold, and the doctor said that the hospital doesn't have the medicine and can't cure it.
Let me take the baby home, but what should I do when I get home?
Doctor, you are also a doctor, can you cure it?"
cold?
She had been asking for all the information about Chen Xiao in the past few days since she came back, and then she looked at this notebook written in pen. Besides being amazed at how Chen Xiao could draw such lifelike herbal pictures even with a pen, she also took some things to heart.
Of course, it is not possible to memorize it, but it is still possible to have a deep impression in your mind.
It just so happens that the common cold is at the first level of common diseases among the people.
Try it?
She reached out and probed the child's head.
Hmm! It's a little hot. This is what the book calls a fever.
"Kid, are you coughing? Does your throat hurt?" The term "kid" did not exist in that era, and people usually just called them kids.
The kid raised his head with great effort to look at her, and after seeing that she was wearing white clothes, he said weakly, "No cough, no pain."
She didn't cough or have a sore throat, so she quickly opened the notebook in her hand and turned to the pages about colds. She searched carefully and then asked, "Do you feel cold? Do you have a headache? Do you have any pain anywhere else in your body?"
The old man quickly said, "You are a female doctor, do you know how to treat illnesses? My grandson is as hot as a furnace, and you asked him if he was cold?"
Tian Xiaoyu just remembered that she had just touched the child’s head and it felt so hot!
But the child said, "It's cold, getting colder, my head hurts, my bones hurt, and my stomach hurts.
Master, I have diarrhea again..."
Tian Xiaoyu understood immediately: "This is a cold caused by the cold!"
He quickly took them to the toilet, and then said to the old man waiting outside the toilet: "I may have a cure for this cold. Wait for me at the door for a while!"
After saying that, he ran excitedly to find Dr. Zhu.
"What did you say?" Doctor Zhu was furious: "You asked a doctor who just returned from studying abroad for the herbs that wizards use?
Tian Xiaoyu, are you insulting me? "
[During the Republic of China period, the struggle between Chinese and Western medicine was very serious. In the early days, they were evenly matched.
Even though Western medicine could perform surgery, the use of sulfa powder only reduced the risk of infection. It was not until the mass production of penicillin in 1942 that Western medicine overwhelmed traditional Chinese medicine.
After liberation, although the leaders supported traditional Chinese medicine because of the poor people, traditional Chinese medicine failed to seize this last opportunity to cultivate talents. After economic development, it began to fall behind in the face of modern medicine that can perform surgery and develop more drugs.
