my father often talked to me about penicillin, penicillin is penicillin. Penicillin originated from abroad. Its Latin medicine is called penicilinum. It is written as penicilini in the prescription. It is translated into Chinese as: penicilin. That's not the name clinically.
Penicillin is the greatest medical discovery of the 20th century. Its birth has caused many diseases to be deprived of incurable diseases and thus saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
February 1941, Radcliffe Hospital, London. Forty-eight-year-old policeman Albert Alexander is on the verge of death due to a suppuration of his wound.
Alexander accidentally scratched his skin because of his shaving face, causing bacterial infection. In that era, due to the lack of special drugs, infection meant death. Although the hospital used the best antibacterial drug at that time - sulfonamide , Alexander's condition continued to worsen. In desperation, the doctor removed one of his eyeball drainage abscesses, hoping to control the condition, but instead, the lungs began to be infected.
Watching the bacteria swallow Alexander's body step by step, the doctor who had no choice but to try it with a drug that was still under experimentation just sent by the Department of Pathology at Oxford University. This is a yellow powder that looks a bit like corn starch. After it dissolves, it is injected into the infected person every three hours.
After several injections, a miracle happened - Alexander's inflammation began to decline, his body temperature returned to normal, and he could even sit up and eat.
But a teaspoon of medicine was used up quickly, and Alexander's condition worsened again. As it is still in the experimental stage, there are no more drugs for Oxford . In order to continue treatment, the doctor even collected Alexander's urine and extracted residual drugs from it to save his life.
Alexander did not escape the clutches of the germs and soon passed away. But this magical yellow powder left a deep impression on doctors - it is a powerful weapon to kill bacteria. This new drug is penicillin!
Before the birth of penicillin, a small fever can kill people. When fights , countless wounded people on the European battlefield died of wound infection and suppuration. The antibacterial drug sulfonamide at that time was no longer helpful to the wounded with high fever. Faced with the desperate wounded, the nurse had to bring paper and pen to leave a will.
World War II During the Pacific battlefield, in Pacific battlefield, it was easy to have fever when bitten by mosquitoes and leeches in tropical rainforest. Just take a penicillin, but the Japanese soldiers had no good luck. They had to wait to die if they got malaria . Battle of Guadalcanal More than 1,000 American troops died, and more than 20,000 Japanese troops died. Therefore, in war, killing is important, but saving people is even more important.
During World War II, the Soviet commander General Watujing inspected Ukraine and was infected with his wounds after being beaten by the rebels. Stalin failed to import penicillin from the Americans for fear of face, so this man who was as famous as Zhukov died.
Canadian doctor Bethune died of sepsis in 1939. If there were penicillin at that time, people would never be helpless.
During World War II, a 400,000-unit penicillin could be sold for about 5 pounds. It was not until 1943 that penicillin was able to be produced on a large scale and the purchase price dropped to $1 per dollar.
Penicillin was a military-controlled drug during World War II. At that time, China was an ally of the United States and could get a little product, but the market was very rare and it was traded on the black market. During the Republic of China, some wealthy families would store yellow goods (gold) and black goods (opium), and then penicillin. Penicillin was hard currency at that time, no less than gold. Even if the supply of goods is good, a penicillin will be sold for ten yuan and now it is ; if the goods are short of money, no matter how much money is, there is nowhere to buy it. ,
In various anti-Japanese dramas, penicillin is a precious magical medicine. In the TV series " Bright Sword ", there is a plot where superiors send people to send Penicillin to rescue Li Yunlong in the coma.
video " Penicillin 1944" tells the story of a desperate battle between the enemy and us during the War of Resistance Against Japan to compete for two boxes of precious penicillin.
My father often said that in 1917, the plague of in Suiyuan occurred, spreading to Shanxi and Hebei provinces, causing more than 30,000 deaths. If penicillin was there at that time, these people could have been saved.
In May 1948, all the thirteen counties in Yanbei were liberated. In November, the Jin-Cha-Hebei and Jin-Sui troops advanced toward the Central Military Commission and formed an encirclement from all four times.
At that time, my cousin was only over three years old. His high fever had not subsided for several days. He was unconscious and his breath smelled bad. The concubine said that if she hides out, her cousin must die, and if she wants to die, she will die together. One day, the sound of gunfire was deafening all night, and the girl hugged her cousin and lay on the kang without daring to move. It was not until dawn that the sound of gunfire gradually stopped. Suddenly someone entered the yard and shouted, "Is anyone?" As the shouting sounded, a female soldier pushed the door and came in. The female soldier saw the concubine and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be afraid, we are the People's Liberation Army." Then she shouted outside the door: "Political Commissar, there are people in this family."
Then, a middle-aged man with the appearance of a leader walked in, with a gun on his waist, and two followers behind him. He said to the patriarch kindly, "Membersman, don't be afraid, we are the People's Liberation Army. There is a wounded person who wants to borrow your family to bandage the wound?" The patriarch said, "Okay, come in."
The wounded person was carried in, covered in blood, and his calf was gone. After bandaging the injury, the female doctor breathed a sigh of relief and then took the time to talk to the girl. Seeing that the girl was holding the child, she asked, "Sister-in-law, is the child sick?" The girl said, "I've been sick for several days." The female doctor touched her cousin's forehead and said, "Oh, it's so hot. This child is very sick!" The political commissar asked, "What disease?" The female doctor said, "80% is pneumonia, which is quite dangerous. We must give penicillin to the child, but we only have these two bottles left, and we have to give the injured a shot." The political commissar said, "Prepare the child first, I'll find a way to get the wounded's medicine." After that, he left.
The female doctor gave her cousin an injection, but her cousin didn't move when she was given the injection. The girl thought to herself that the child was probably out of salvation. The female doctor said, "I'll come over and give the child an injection when it's dark, and the child should be fine." In the evening, the female doctor came as promised. Seeing that the child's fever had subsided, she said to the nurse: "Don't worry, it's completely cured with another injection. This is American penicillin, and this medicine is the most effective in treating pneumonia."
As expected, my cousin was very quick the next day and could sit on the kang and play. The lady said she met a miracle doctor.
When my cousin grew up, he told everyone that my life was exchanged for two needles of penicillin. If the PLA had entered the city one day late, if the PLA had not entered our courtyard, if we had hiding out... I might not have been gone. Although my cousin is not from a good background, as long as someone criticizes the People's Liberation Army, he will be humble.
When I was born, I was in trouble with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. My mother had no food or drink when she was pregnant with me, and she had no milk after giving birth to me. I am weak and sickly. I catch a cold and have a fever when I encounter wind and cold. The one in 1951 was particularly dangerous. That time I was admitted to Hohhot Municipal Hospital. The doctor tried every possible way. Not only did the high fever not subsided, it also turned into pneumonia. My mother chased the doctor and begged, and the doctor said that it seemed that she could only use penicillin.
Although penicillin was successfully trial-produced on September 5, 1944, it was only for trial production, with extremely low output and could not meet the demand at all, and it mainly relies on imports. It was the time of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and the United States blocked and embargoed China. Even if the country comes in through other channels, most of them will be transferred to the North Korean front, and there is no penicillin at all in hospitals and the market.
Fortunately, my father was working at the Inner Mongolia Health and Epidemic Prevention Station at that time, and he got me a bottle of penicillin through the special approval of the director. My father sat and watched the doctor push the liquid into my buttocks. In a moment, I calmed down and my face became rosy.
I remember when I was a child, I was most afraid of getting injections. I didn’t cooperate with the nurse and resisted very hard, which often caused the nurse to scream and scold him loudly. Then several adults pressed me tightly with their hands, and I burst into tears, while struggling desperately.Sometimes I cried so hard that the needle almost broke inside. My father often pressed my back with one hand and raised his hand high: "If you don't obey, let me hit you!" I felt very aggrieved and still struggling hard. His slap fell loudly on my butt. I was shocked and couldn't cry anymore. I couldn't stop crying for a long time.
After the founding of New China, the United States blocked China, and only a few senior officials could use the American penicillin that was smuggled in. At that time, there was Director Zhu, a director of the Inner Mongolia Health Department, who was an old Red Army soldier. He was not sick at first, but after listening to the publicity that it was possible to prevent diseases, he prescribed two bottles of penicillin and insisted that the doctor give him an injection.
Due to the shortage of medicines, Director Zhu did not get oily penicillin, while powdery penicillin can only be diluted with distilled water and injected intramuscularly. At that time, I didn’t know that I could be mixed with other potions for injection, so it was very painful when I was injected. Every time I injected, I would sweat all over my body. Especially as the instructions, a bottle of medicine should be given in four doses and every three hours. It is said that this medicine can only stay in the body for three hours and be excreted from the body. This is really a pain to use money to buy it! According to regulations, the two bottles of medicine should be injected eight times, and only twice was given. Director Zhu couldn't bear the pain, so he had to beg the doctor for mercy. The doctor had no choice but to increase the dose. He gave him all the potions in five times and completed the injection task in advance.
My father told me many times before his death. In 1952, he joined the medical team of the Central People's Government and went to the Oroqen Autonomous Banner of Daxinganling for medical treatment. Whenever he talks about this, he always mentions the miraculous effects of penicillin. At that time, a bottle of smuggled imported American penicillin costs ten yuan to be found in the ocean. If it were not for free, ordinary people would not be able to afford it.
During , Daxinganling , patients often encounter high fevers. At this time, as long as a shot of penicillin is injected, the patient will wake up and even sit up in a moment. The patient's family exclaimed: What a miracle doctor!
1926, the famous poet Jiang Guangci was in love for six years. His beloved wife, Song Ruoyu, who had just spent her honeymoon, relapsed lung disease, so Jiang and his beloved wife went to Guling Hospital in Lushan for treatment. Guling Hospital was run by foreigners at that time, and the doctors and medical equipment they hired were first-class. Especially in the treatment of lung diseases, it enjoys a more famous reputation. Unfortunately, because Song Ruoyu's lung disease was prolonged for too long, the foreign doctor at Guling Hospital was also unable to recover. Three months later, she died in Lushan and was buried in the "Tubaling" cemetery in Lushan.
The eighty lines of "Guling Resistance" written by the poet to mourn his beloved wife make people cry sadly:
On the peak of Lushan Mountain where clouds are misty
There is a quiet lonely grave
There is a lying lonely her in the past forever -
My unfortunate lover
...
Apart from the clouds thousands of miles away
My heart is always surrounded by her tomb
Guling high - high into the sky
My hatred - the last time
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Now, the American villa in Guling Hospital still stands quietly in Lushan Mountain. Perhaps, on a period of drizzling Qingming Festival, a few people would silently recite the poem "The Resentment of Guling" and wander in front of the villa, imagining that a twenty-three-year-old woman could walk out of the building...
I also thought sadly that if Penicillin had been inaugurated for fifteen years, she would have passed by death.
Thanks to the inventors of penicillin, they are well-deserved as human saviors. I believe that all diseases based on bacteria and viruses have natural enemies, but many have not been discovered by humans. Many scientific researchers in the world are searching for them tirelessly and tirelessly. They are all great.
Penicillin, the penicillin that I am obsessed with, I think of you when I think of my father. (Author Han Liming)
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