Chapter 125 Big Shanghai

At this time, Wang Mengying could no longer afford food for the family, so she married off her third and fourth daughters, and the Yao family where the fourth daughter married was in a relatively secluded place near Jiaxing. In April of that year, The Taiping Army hit Meijing, where Wang Mengying lived, and "everyone in the town fled", that is to say, all the people ran away (isn't the Taiping Army a people's team), so Wang Mengying had no choice but to take his wife, and the remaining five, Six and two daughters ran to the home of Yao's in-laws in Jiaxing and stayed there.

At this time, friends in Shanghai invited him to see a doctor many times, so Wang Mengying entrusted his wife and children to Yao's in-laws and came to Shanghai. In 1862, on the third day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Wang Mengying, who was in his fifties, came to Shanghai alone. What he saw in front of him was a bustling city that he had never seen before. He recorded in his book: "Not only the sea is gradually changing Sangtian, the Central Plains is like a foreign country", "There are many sails and masts, shoulder to shoulder, and a small city like a small pill, it has become a big city."

When she first arrived in Shanghai, Wang Mengying first lived in the "Detai Zhihao" opened by a friend named Zhou Caishan. Zhou Caishan's fourth brother was once ill and wanted to invite Wang Mengying to come to Shanghai for medical treatment, but Wang Mengying could not come at that time. Wait until now. Yes, the patient has passed away. However, Wang Mengying still treated a large number of patients in Zhou's family in the spirit of seeing patients wherever he went, and of course, Zhou Caishan and his remaining brothers and sisters were among them. Zhou Caishan likes to drink, and always feels that there is a hard place under his heart (the part of the stomach) that is as hard as a plate. The prescription of dredging yang and dispelling dampness can be cured after a few doses of medicine.

I won't give you examples of Wang Mengying's treatment of Zhou Caishan's younger brother and sister. They all cured their illnesses with medicine, so the Zhou family brothers admire Wang Mengying very much. Here, there is a person who wants to say something. This person is Chen Chunquan. The youngest daughter of Comrade Chen is only three years old. She is sick. The symptoms are hot and cold, bloating, and diarrhea. The doctor treated her for many days. The child's neck was already soft, the limbs began to twitch, and there was no tears. Everyone began to be afraid at this time. Some doctors tried to take warming and tonic drugs, but they became unconscious. These doctors were not sure. , and suspected that it was caused by evil spirits, so he used rhino horn and other medicines to try again, but the disease was still getting worse day by day, and the family members were already going crazy with anxiety.Experiment east, experiment west, do you think our children are guinea pigs in the laboratory?You all go back.But after sending away the doctor, Comrade Chen was still helpless.

At this time, someone said that Wang Mengying had come to Shanghai, so Comrade Chen found Zhou Caishan and begged him to let Wang Mengying come to see him, so Wang Mengying came to Chen's house, and when he made a diagnosis, he said easily: This child is not eating properly, The spleen and stomach are not in harmony. ah?So simple?Impossible, looking at this condition, it is so serious that it is about to die. Wang Mengying told Comrade Chen, why is it impossible? If you think about it carefully, did she overeat? Comrade Chen carefully recalled, oh, yes, at that time, "because I lost my mother and had no breasts, I often ate longan, preserved dates and other things to nourish myself."

That's right, that's why! So Wang Mengying prescribed some medicines for digestion and stagnation, clearing away heat and promoting dampness. After drinking only one dose, I saw the effect, and after a few doses, I was cured. God, this is really a master!Our Comrade Chen was so admired that he shed tears. How do the doctors in front compare with this one in front of him? Grateful, Comrade Chen was very kind, and immediately proposed that he had three houses in Huangxie Puxi (presumably the current Puxi, where housing prices are extremely high). If you don’t mind Mr. Wang, you can live there.

In this way, Wang Mengying solved the housing problem in Shanghai, and not long after, he brought his wife and two daughters here. The three houses began to be lively, patients kept coming to the door, all kinds of friends came here, many people had read Wang Mengying's book before, this time the original real person came here, so for a while, "the empty room is white, everyone envies it" . In Shanghai, Wang Mengying encountered Western medicine. In fact, Wang Mengying encountered Western medicine very early. After arriving in Shanghai, she could experience Western medicine more closely. So what is Wang Mengying's opinion on Western medicine?

People have always believed that Chinese and Western medicine are two different theories, which are incompatible with each other, and it is not easy to communicate with each other. However, we can see from the attitudes of Chinese medicine practitioners in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China that most Chinese medicine practitioners are very tolerant of Western medicine and have a learning attitude. From the literature, Wang Mengying has studied the anatomy of western medicine in detail. He believes that the anatomy of western medicine is very good. For example, traditional Chinese medicine believes that the place to think about problems is mainly in the heart. Discussed that western medicine is right in this aspect, "the brain is the division that dominates consciousness and action".

Throughout his life, Wang Mengying has been fighting against cholera, but he can only save half of the patients who are relatively strong. If he knows that Western medicine will supplement body fluids and correct electrolyte imbalances in the future, it will buy time for treatment and reduce mortality. , how could he not accept it? In his heart, only treating patients is the first priority, and there is no difference between Chinese and Western medicine. As long as it is beneficial to the treatment, that is what he wants to learn. That's the right attitude.