Biography of Henry Norman Bethune

1, childhood Bai Kuren

March 3, 1890, Henry Norman Bai Kuren was born in the small town of Gravenhurst in northern Ontario, Canada, a pastor's family. Growing up brave and adventurous, at the age of 6, Whitechapel traveled alone to Toronto, a long way from town, and got lost while walking, but he didn't cry.

When the police sent him home and his mother criticized him, he said, "I wanted to taste adventure." Once he took his brother hiking and found a beautiful butterfly, so he chased it and chased it until he caught it at the top of the mountain, scaring his brother, who was waiting at the bottom, into tears.

When he was 8 years old, Bai Qiu'en caught sparrows and flies, and dissected them when he caught them, learning from his grandfather to be a surgeon. He was also a good swimmer, trying to swim across the Zigzag Bay at age 10.

2, mass blood bank

June 1938, Bai Kou'en in Shanxi Wutai County, Songyankou military rear hospital teaching blood transfusion technology. "Blood transfusion" was a relatively new technology at that time, and only a few hospitals in China's major cities were able to carry it out. Blood transfusion under field medical conditions was something people didn't even dare to think about.

Bai Qiu'en first talked in detail about the operation of blood collection, the production of standard blood type, blood type identification, blood matching test, storage, transportation, safekeeping and other basic knowledge, and then pushed a patient with chest trauma, the 32-year-old Minister of Health Ye Qingshan was the first to donate blood.

After checking the blood type, Bai Qiu'en let Ye Qingshan and the patient's head and feet opposite lying on the bed, and took out a simple blood transfusion device. A skin tube with a needle was connected to the veins of the right and left arms where they were leaning closely together, and a three-way valve in the middle of the skin tube was connected to a syringe on the valve. Baeksuen turned the valve to Minister Ye, drew the needle plug, and the crimson blood flowed into the syringe, then turned the valve again, and the blood flowed into the patient's body.

A round of applause for the first successful field transfusion in the history of Chinese military field surgery. The second patient pushed in, Bai Kouen took the initiative to lie down beside the patient's body and said indisputably, "I'm type O blood, draw mine." Bai Kuren was thus praised by the masses as "the blood bank of the masses".

3, flood rescue

July 1939, a dozen consecutive days of heavy rainstorms so that the water level of the Tang River surged, flooding the village of Shenbei, Hebei County. Several old folks held him in a deadly grip, not allowing him to take risks. Bai Qun sighed hopelessly. The flood threatened the safety of the health school, and the superiors decided to move the school to Hexiyan. Bai Qiu'en knew this and immediately found the school and asked to join the commando.

There was no ferry, so everyone used a large colander tied to a ladder as a means of transportation. Bai Qun and the commando boys jumped into the water, ten people in a row, arm in arm, a trip back and forth to transport supplies.

4, the inventor Bai Kuren - rib scissors

Rib scissors is Bai Kuren shoe repair inspiration, once Bai Kuren go to repair shoes, cobbler to complete the last process, without turning the shoe can be put into the scissors to cut the inside of the line.

Baikouen thought, if you can use this clipper in surgery, you do not need to turn the chest cavity, and then cut the suture line or ribs, as long as the hand touched the scissors "click" can be cut, so the rib clippers were born.

5, white death?

October 28, 1939, the Japanese soldiers to carry out crazy "winter sweep" plan, began to the base of the crazy fighting. At that time, the Chinese sentries were urging Dr. Bai Kouen to finish the operation as soon as possible and evacuate as soon as possible. At such a tense moment, Bai Kouen accidentally pricked his finger while rescuing the wounded, and as a doctor, he quickly reacted by putting his hand into a disinfectant to sterilize it.

While he knew that he would be in danger of being infected if he didn't treat the wound properly, he couldn't take care of himself during the war and insisted on treating the wound first. By this time, Bai was already infected, and later his fingers became inflamed first, and the inflammation got worse.

Turning to November 1, Bai Qun once again in the operating table to save a casualty, and the casualty is suffering from a violent infectious inflammation, although at this time Bai Qun has been infected fingers in contact with the patient's own risk of fatal infection, but Bai Qun still insisted on the first to save the people, unfortunately, the treatment did let his own already infected fingers second infection, and more aggravated.

Later, the finger inflammation has been very painful, he still insisted on doing thirteen operations, but also while writing the treatment of malaria, a stubborn disease of the lecture outline. Finally, on the 7th, a lifetime of rescuing others from the fire, but Bai Qiu'en himself collapsed in his hospital bed.

Not only did the finger inflammation deteriorate and spread, and then a continuous high fever, and finally he said himself that he was diagnosed with sepsis, on the 12th, before dawn, Bai Kouen died calmly in the pain of the disease.

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