Comparison of the military medical system
The Qing military establishment of the army is seriously deficient in military doctors
According to the "Regulations of the North Polynesian Navy": the chief medical officer. First-class medical officer. Second-class medical officer two members. Counting: left wing center battalion, right wing center battalion each member. Third-class medical officer eighteen members. Equivalent to a medical officer of each warship, but the number of each warship at least in more than 100 people, which is far from meeting the needs of the Navy instructor Luang Weili in the summary of the views pointed out that: the Navy one, two, three medical officer, shall be from the medical hall of origin, trained and well-trained, according to the seniority of the promotion of the transfer, in order to be competent. Wylie before the Beiyang Navy, well aware of this lack of people, should try to Luozhi cultivation. And there is no field medical institutions in the Qing army described, the disposal of wounded soldiers is extremely difficult. In the green battalion, the brave battalion is even more than even the military medical establishment are not, are the wartime hospital temporary sent people.
The Japanese army established a preliminary medical security system
In looking at the historical data can be found in the Japanese army at this time has a specialized medical unit, field hospitals, such as the attack on Pyongyang, the Japanese army mixed into the Ninth Brigade has clearly documented under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Division First Sanitary Corps and the Fifth Division First Field Hospital.
In short
The Qing army did not have a clear health care establishment, the army's medical treatment is in a disorganized state of disorganization. In the Qing-Japanese War, the battlefield medical care of the Qing army was almost paralyzed, and the regular medical care came mainly from the charity aid of the Western Red Cross. The Japanese army had a rigorous military medical system, for example, in the war, the army, divisions, military stations, and the governor's department of the occupied territories all had military medical departments. The department had medical departments such as team health officers, health teams, field hospitals, health reserve officers, health reserve factories, patient transportation department, and health department attached to the military station department, etc., which effectively supported the battlefield medical treatment. In the army medical system, the Japanese army is superior to the Qing army.
Gap in medical treatment
The Qing army was relatively backward in medical treatment, and there was no fixed establishment of military doctors at that time, they were all appointed by the Imperial Hospital, and the basic textbook was the "Imperial Medical School", and the traditional traditional Chinese medicine-based treatment could not satisfy the need for surgical procedures and rapid treatment of battlefield environments. When a soldier was injured, he was often given some silver to find a medical center to seek treatment on his own. According to Westerners, "The Chinese army in 1894-1895 did not yet have the equipment to treat casualties. When a man fell wounded, he had to lie there until he slowly froze and starved to death". A confidential letter from the British Naval Intelligence Service to its Foreign Office before the war said, "The Chinese army ...... can hardly be said to have any medical care either. The Chinese soldier knows what his fate will be if he is sick or wounded, and whether he is sick or wounded he will be abandoned, and therefore cannot have much enthusiasm for fighting."
By this time, the Japanese army had already begun to use medical technology such as the hanging bottle, and the picture below shows the Japanese army treating a Qing soldier.
Red Cross
During the Sino-Japanese War, some of the Western medical doctors in China devoted themselves to the rescue of wounded Qing soldiers, they did not take pay, without any effort, regardless of boundaries, patience and meticulous treatment of wounded soldiers, showing a high degree of dedication and great love, won the praise of the Chinese people and the trust of the Chinese officials. As the Japanese army in the war is already a member of the International Red Cross, and even the Japanese Red Cross on the Chinese wounded also carried out treatment, and "proper medical treatment, treating the Japanese wounded soldiers with no difference". Why did the Japanese treat the wounded soldiers for China? "Covered later in 1886 listed in the Red Cross, had to be".
The war has just ended, the Prime Minister of the East China Grain Platform of the Guangxi provincial censor Hu Zhanfen proposed "Red Cross to save lives and help the wounded, the benefits are not shallow", should be given recognition. In order to recognize the Western medical Red Cross to save the wounded in China's special honors, at the end of 1895, by the governor of Zhili Wang Wenshao, the Qing government awarded "the French medical officer Siriba, the French medical officer De Boshi ...... second class third treasure star. The Red Cross General Director of the Austrian Consulate in Shanghai, Haas, Tianjin Red Cross Squire Dong Keshen Sheng, British Vice Consul in Tianjin, Beiyang head of the Second Class School Chief Trainer Ding Jiali ...... Third Class First Treasure Star. American medical officer Abboud, British medical officer Irving ...... third class second treasure star ........" The number of Western doctors and missionaries who were honored on this occasion alone was more than twenty, and even "in appreciation of Mr. Wei's service, he was awarded the fifth rank." Western doctors, Western Red Cross in the Sino-Japanese War neutral position and fruitful work, won the praise of Chinese officials and citizens.
Soldiers of the country's major events, is a country's comprehensive strength of the full range of tests, the medical system can not be said to be a short board, imagine in a wounded can not get timely treatment, morale will be affected by how much.