Chapter 126 Fight against cholera

Cholera was the worst enemy Wang Mengying encountered in Shanghai. In fact, when Wang Mengying was living in Puyuan, cholera started to spread again. When he came to Shanghai, "the households were shut down, and it became a major epidemic", and "thousands of people died every day". Shanghai was also in chaos at that time. It was not as prosperous as it is now. Although there were many foreigners at that time, the place where ordinary people lived was still a word, "dirty".There are piles of garbage. Wang Mengying once commented that Shanghai has the most "stink poison". The garbage has turned into poisonous gas. How dirty do you think it should be?

When Wang Mengying first arrived in Shanghai and stayed at Zhou Caishan's house, she rolled up her sleeves to treat cholera. At that time, two guests who lived in Nanxun were both suffering from cholera. The other one was Ji Yunxiang, who was only seventeen years old, and his condition was very serious. This Zhou Caishan was also an enthusiastic person, so he dragged Wang Mengying to give him a diagnosis and treatment. When Wang Mengying saw the patient, his hands and face were dark, his eyes were sunken, his limbs were cold, his voice was hoarse, he had no urine, he couldn't feel his pulse, he was sweating profusely, his tongue was purple and greasy, and he was completely sick. in critical condition.

That also needs to be cured. Wang Mengying judged that it has not yet reached the mango seed at this time. Judging the etiology), this is a case of late onset of evil spirits (Fu evil, is a special concept in febrile disease theory, it is believed that some exogenous evils can hide in the human body, and when the opportunity is right, it will come out from the inside out, this theory is in It has special significance in modern treatment of liver disease, kidney disease, etc.), so I hurriedly pricked blood on the patient's Quchi and Weizhong acupoints, and the blood that came out was black.Then prescribe: Scutellaria baicalensis, gardenia, tempeh, berberine, bamboo, coix seed, pinellia, silkworm arrow, reed root, loofah, evodia, boiled and taken cold, after the medicine is taken, the patient will not vomit.

On the second day, the patient's pulse became a little more obvious. After drinking two more doses, the blackness on his body became lighter, but he became irritable and his eyes were red. Wang Mengying believed that it was because Fu Xie had sent it from the inside to the outside. , remove Evodia and silkworm arrows in front, add forsythia, motherwort, and talc. After taking it, the patient begins to develop spots all over the body (this is also a manifestation of the evil spirit), but the limbs begin to warm up, and the urine is smooth. Then Wang Mengying prescribed some heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines, and the patient recovered.

This case indeed snatched the patient back from the brink of death. Comrade Zhou Caishan was very happy after reading it. Anyway, he opened a "paper account", and he had enough papers, so he used it to print a lot of Wang Mengying's treatment methods. The leaflets have been sent out, but I don't know how effective they are. After treating Ji Yunxiang's patient, Wang Mengying's reputation began to spread, so many people, suffering from cholera, immediately came here to invite Wang Mengying to see him. Wang Mengying said that the effect was good at the beginning, but after the summer solstice, the weather became hotter, and the internal and external evils combined, and the illnesses became more and more serious one by one, "not compared to the cholera of previous years".This made Wang Mengying have to be careful to change according to the syndrome, "very expensive management", and finally cured many critically ill patients.

However, in Wang Mengying's book, there are also many failed cases that failed in the end. For example, the maid of Wang Mengying's in-law, Chu Ziyun Maocai, was suffering from cholera. When Wang Mengying went to see a doctor, her body was already stiff. After the medicine, he came back alive. However, later, Wang Mengying heard that she was still "drowned and died of infirmity", which shows that the treatment was not successful. At this time, a comrade named Jin Yuzhai found Wang Mengying. As soon as he saw Wang Mengying, he said, "I finally found an organization!"

It turned out that Comrade Jin Yuzhai was a kind-hearted person. Seeing the epidemic of cholera in Shanghai, but the Qing government was "at a loss." So many people died every day, so he was very sad, so he collected Wang Mengying's thirties everywhere. I wrote "On Cholera" in Hangzhou at that time, but the editions at that time were not good, so I couldn't find a suitable one for publication. Now, I heard that the original version of Wang Mengying has actually come to Shanghai. God, can this opportunity be missed?So I searched everywhere, and finally found it for him.

In this way, the two of them had a long talk, and it turned out that Jin Yuzhai, who had read all the books written by Wang Mengying, had been chasing stars for a long time, and now they could meet each other, it was really fate! The two like-minded people have since become friends. One of the important purposes of Comrade Jin Yuzhai's visit to Wang Mengying was to ask Wang Mengying to redefine "On Cholera" and publish it again, so as to give guidance to doctors everywhere. However, Wang Mengying did not do this right away because she was too busy. until two months later. One day two months later, on the evening of August 28th, Jin Yuzhai, who was enthusiastic about helping cholera patients, suddenly began to have diarrhea and felt mentally exhausted. The medicine was curable, and he died on the 29th.

Jin Yuzhai should be said to be one of Wang Mengying's best friends in Shanghai, and also an important comrade-in-arms in the fight against the plague. His death made Wang Mengying feel unprecedented grief and indignation. However, God seemed to feel that such a blow was not enough, so he gave Wang Mengying another thunder. In early September, Wang Mengying received a letter from his son-in-law in his hometown, telling him that his second daughter, Dingyi, died of cholera on August 29th. On that same day, Wang Mengying lost her best friend and daughter to the same cholera. Wang Mengying's second daughter, Dingyi, married a family named Dai. The Dai family is a doctor's family with a very good family tradition. On August 23, Dingyi suddenly began to have diarrhea, and then her limbs became cold. My pulse is volts, I invited a doctor surnamed Cui, who thought it was a cold syndrome, and used Fuzi Lizhong Decoction, but the diarrhea did not stop, the tongue coating became dry and black, and the lips were burnt (this is the manifestation of the heat syndrome) ), so I started to use rhino horn, dendrobium and other medicines, but I still couldn't control it. Finally, I used Guifu Bawei Decoction for warming and nourishing. On the 29th, my tongue was scorched like charcoal and died.

At the last moment before her daughter died, she said to her husband: "My father is here, so he is not sick." After Wang Mengying heard the news, she cried so much that she passed out on the ground. He even blamed his in-laws: You are also doctors, and your family has all the medical books I wrote. How could you not let my Wang Mengying's daughter be killed by warm medicine! In the desolate autumn wind, the old man wrote an elegiac couplet to his daughter: 〖Don't go when you are old, just because there is no one to feed and support, how can I enjoy swimming?Looking forward to returning in the future, or borrowing Ru Cao to entertain the evening scene;

Endangered Sifu treatment, although it is said that life and death have fate, but it is like making a mistake. I have tried all kinds of medicines for dryness, heat, coldness and coldness. Recalling Ju Yu in the past, I shed tears in the autumn wind. 〗 It is full of grief and indignation, showing the end of the pen. After wiping away her tears, Wang Mengying began to go back to the study to organize the papers and pens. Others are wondering, what are you doing to organize the paper and pens at this time? Wang Mengying: I want to write a book, I want to rewrite "On Cholera"! At this point, Wang Mengying began to declare war on cholera!