Doctors are a profession that provides a wide range of services and contacts with the public. From Chen Cunren's experience, we can also see the life during the Anti-Japanese War and the doctor's own ups and downs.

Psychological consultation

As a doctor, it is sometimes important to give psychological treatment to patients. The book mentions such a case of psychological counseling.

The eldest grandson of a bank was forced to eat feces by a shrew, and he began to worry about the adverse reactions caused by fecal poisoning, and worried that vomiting, gastric lavage and enema would make his stomach trouble recur.

Chen Cunren is also very effective in dealing with neurasthenia caused by such excessive panic. He first explained that feces is a mixture of food waste and bile. Although filthy, it is not poisonous. Then it is mentioned that under special circumstances, some animal droppings also have medical functions, such as silkworm droppings can treat infantile convulsions, bat droppings can treat glaucoma, sparrow droppings can treat tetanus and so on. This may be related to the detoxification function of animal bile. Traditional Chinese medicine treats many diseases with bile. For example, bovine bile can treat pinkeye and jaundice, and snake bile can also improve eyesight and treat rheumatism. Southerners in China especially like to eat snake gall.

Human feces really have no medical effect, and urine is often used to treat hematemesis. Therefore, eating some feces will only bring mental pain and will not cause any physical symptoms. There is a special "intestinal disease" in which the patient's feces are spit out of his mouth, which also proves that there is no fecal poison.

President Sun listened to Chen Cunren and completely eliminated the fear of eating dung poisoning. Later, even the headache for many years disappeared.

(B) the doctor's kindness

Doctors always have a kind heart to help patients and often get good returns for it.

At that time, some people always thought that doctors were rich, and people came to borrow money from Chen Cunren in an endless stream, and many of them borrowed it and did not pay it back, which was disturbing.

Before Cai fishermen developed, they often asked for money in the waiting room. One day, Chen Cunren couldn't bear it, and suddenly had a brainwave, claiming that inspector Jurgen in the patrol room next door had taken care of him. If someone harassed him, he could call for help. Fisherman Cai was silent as soon as he heard the word "rooted". He took the twenty dollars he gave this time and solemnly said that he would never come again. He also begged Chen Cunren not to mention this matter to Jurgen. Since then, Cai fishermen really no longer come to the door.

This is not that Chen Cunren is bluffing and scaring Cai fishermen, but that he really has the support of the patrol room. It turned out that after the outbreak of the two world wars in Shanghai, a large number of refugees poured into the concession, making it difficult to maintain social order and hygiene. Chen Cunren has made a lot of efforts for refugee shelters, and the pressure on patrol houses has been greatly reduced. Frank, the head catcher, is also considered a great achievement. He specially called Chen Cunren to express his gratitude and was willing to help him as much as possible when he needed it. Franzen is by no means empty talk. When the nursery lacked houses for abandoned babies and needed six nearby houses, he quickly sent ten policemen to persuade them to move into new houses, thus solving the big trouble.

(3) Dangerous occupation

In fact, being a doctor is a dangerous profession, which not only comes from facing virus infection and medical malpractice disputes, but also comes from inevitable political factors.

1. Infectious diseases

During the Japanese and Puppet rule, the food supply in Shanghai was difficult, so citizens had to queue up for rice on a specified date with their household registration cards. In this case, people's health is also greatly threatened, mainly typhus spread by fleas in the crowd, except that batons are sometimes erected to maintain order. This disease is always prevalent in times of war and famine, and the Japanese translate it into "hunger typhoid fever" or "war typhoid fever". Once infected, the patient will be unconscious, with high fever and extremely high mortality. During this period, countless people died of typhus.

Doctors often come into contact with patients and are at great risk of contracting this disease. Chen Cunren had several closest colleagues who died suddenly in just seven or eight days. The severity of infectious diseases also alarmed him, and he had to wear a long raincoat and wrap it tightly all over his body to treat patients with fear.

2. Medical malpractice

Once upon a time, there was a throat specialist, Zhu Ziyun, who was good at treating diphtheria. He has rich experience, and using Bering serum needle or knife to cut the swollen throat wall is immediate.

However, when treating a female worker in a rubber factory, an accident happened. He cuts across the board, but the patient is bleeding. Although all kinds of hemostatic drugs were used, even the throat expert of Hongqiao Sanatorium did electrocautery, which didn't help, and soon she bled to death. Zhu Ziyun promised to compensate the families of the female workers for a sum of money, but Feng, the owner of the rubber factory, refused to give up, dragged his family to sue Zhu Ziyun, and advertised in the newspaper that he had killed the patient.

Zhu Ziyun is a rich man who is stingy with money. He is never allowed to turn on more lights at home, and only one cigarette lamp is lit in the smoking room. The lawsuit cost a lot of money, which made Zhu Ziyun feel distressed to death.

Later, according to the analysis of several western doctors in Hongqiao Sanatorium, the bleeding female patient should be a hemophiliac. If the forensic doctor can provide fair and relevant certificates, Zhu Ziyun can be acquitted. Judge Zhao Ju Pauling, who tried the case, was also shot without knowing what case was involved.

3. Political risks

If the patients are not ordinary people and involve politicians, the situation faced by doctors will be more subtle and complicated.

Chen Cunren was mistaken for the doctor surnamed Chen who treated Wang Jingwei, and almost all his ancestral graves were dug up by the villagers. And Chen Hanhuai, who really treats the big traitor, is not much better than Chen Cunren. The Japanese always think that doctors are spies, and doctors often involve political issues.

At that time, a bullet in Wang Jingwei's body oppressed his nerves, making him miserable and unable to sleep at night. Chen Hanhuai has been treated for five or six days, and there is no obvious improvement. However, the Japanese couldn't sit still and began to doubt. Although cinnabar can play a calming role, a large amount of cinnabar he uses can also be refined into toxic mercury. After hearing the news, Chen Hanhuai resigned and fled to Shanghai for fear of getting into trouble because of Wang's sudden death.

(2) golden cicadas shed their shells.

Doctors come into contact with many people, all colors, good and evil, so it is not easy to deal with. When faced with unreasonable family members of patients, traitors who dragged themselves into the water, or in dangerous situations, it is very necessary to find a suitable way to get out quickly.

1. Deal with traitors

Sheng Wenyi was the nephew of Sheng Xuanhuai, the minister of postal communication in the late Qing Dynasty. He sells opium and other drugs all over the country with the Japanese as the background. Because he is in the north all the year round, he wants to pull his old friend Chen Cunren to be responsible for the sales of tobacco soil in Zhabei District of Shanghai.

Although the Chen family can't claim to be a scholarly family, it is also an innocent family. Chen Cunren has made up his mind to practice medicine all his life, and he can never promise to be a smoker. Sheng Wenyi was very unhappy with his rebuff and the message that the drug dealer had no good end.

In order to alleviate this embarrassing situation, Chen Cunren quickly changed the subject and asked Sheng to help him do three things: buy a Japanese color woodcut watermark painting "Jin Ping Mei", buy some hand-painted spring paintings from the second-hand bookstore in Kanda District, Japan, and buy some aphrodisiacs in Osaka, Japan.

As soon as these three things were mentioned, the conversation between the two became relaxed. Sheng Wenyi readily promised to laugh. He really has no ambition. All the above are to their liking, and Chen Cunren can only come out when the conversation is deadlocked.

Later, the Japanese royal delegation discovered the drug trafficking and thought it was a shame for the Japanese government. As a result, his Hongjishan pond was closed. Since then, Sheng has also become unhappy, often lamenting that "the opium business is really hard to do, and it is fatal to the outside world. His wife and children are addicted to it and have become waste. It is really self-sufficient. "

Escape from the magical cave

On one occasion, Wu Sibao at No.76 asked Chen Cunren to treat a senior figure in charge of police and secret service. The patient was very weak and kept burping. Judging from this situation, Chen Cunren judged that this person has no chance to recover, but he should carefully consider how to handle it properly. If anything happens to the patient, he may be detained and locked up. Now three western doctors have been forced to stay here, and they have to cure the patients before they can leave.

Chen Cunren did not dare to give the patient medicine, so as not to cause collapse and death, but was suspected of deliberately poisoning. So, according to the ancient method of stopping hiccups, he rolled up a piece of yellow clay paper to practice writing big characters, lit a cigarette and stimulated the patient's phrenic nerve. However, this law is invalid. He also scraped the "Dazhui point" at the back of the patient's neck with copper coins, so that the patient finally stopped burping gradually and fell asleep naturally because of fatigue.

The change of the disease was uncertain, and Chen Cunren entered the magic cave like No.76. Every night, he can hear whipping, shouting and crying, so he must go out as soon as possible. After consulting three western doctors, he replied to the patient's family that the fever and cold of the disease had already subsided and he could recover just by lying still. Fortunately, the people who took care of them were also exhausted, so they were allowed to go home.

Later, Chen Cunren was even more afraid to date, and only agreed when Yuan was with him. Later, Wu Sibao specially hosted a banquet for people from all walks of life in Shanghai to teach them not to kidnap Chen Cunren. This would have been of great benefit to Chen Cunren's safety. He didn't want to stay with these kidnappers at all. Halfway through the meal, he said that Yuan had another dinner party and got up to go, signaling him to go with him. Chen Cunren got the message and immediately stood up to say goodbye.

3. Witness the killing of the Japanese.

After Japan surrendered, Chen Cunren was still worried about what the Japanese troops still in Shanghai would do before they retreated.

At six o'clock one morning, a Japanese soldier hurriedly knocked on the door in front of Chen Cunren's clinic and kicked around with his leather shoes. Chen Cunren thought that the Japanese army was going to arrest people indiscriminately and hurried away from the back door. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened the back door, he happened to bump into the Japanese soldier. I'm afraid there will be a catastrophe.

Fortunately, Chen Cunren calmed down and found that the soldier was behind Chang's wife who came to see a doctor two days ago. At that time, the groom in the Happy Valley Club took refuge in the Japanese as thugs, and Chang's strength and fame far exceeded that of the former groom. The Japanese gave a military salute and politely said a sentence in Japanese, which didn't look like an attitude of arresting people. It turned out that this time he was invited to make frequent house calls for patients with typhoid intestinal bleeding. Knowing that this disease is incurable, Chen Cunren had to go once, lest the Japanese attack an animal, which would be bad for him. So, he took some first-aid medicine for typhoid fever to Happy Valley.

At this time, the Japanese army outside the house is gathering nervously, and the people inside the house are often skinny, unconscious and dying. Chen Cunren had to feel his pulse, and sure enough, it was chaotic. He told Chang's wife the truth and told her to give Chang emergency medicine. Chen Cunren wanted to get away at once, but the door under the bell tower was closed and he didn't have a special pass, so he had to wait for help. Often die before taking medicine. Chen Cunren quickly advised Chang's wife not to cry loudly, so as not to stimulate the insane Japanese.

It is such a coincidence that the two actually witnessed the collective slaughter of their anti-war elements by the Japanese army after the defeat. This also proves that the Japanese are inhuman and cruel to their compatriots, especially to China people in the occupied areas.

Although the Anti-Japanese War era in which Chen Cunren lived was very different from today, many similar problems still exist. It can be seen that in this long history, eternal laws run through it. Looking back at history can always give people useful inspiration.