Fox of France

In the midst of such debates, follow-up travel notes continued to be published. This time, the content of the travel notes began to involve the medical system.

In this travel note, Ms. Chris first praised the good deeds of the Anglican Church in establishing a charity hospital. It also contrasts this with the performance of the Catholic Church in France before the French Revolution. He also called on the Catholic Church in France to learn from the previous lessons and learn from the good practices of other churches, including the Anglican Church, and not to repeat the mistake of being abandoned by God and the French people for worshiping mammon. (Mammon is the god of wealth in some primitive religions in the Middle East. Later, after the Jews bloodbathed the land of Canaan, they derogated this pagan god as a devil. In the Bible, Jesus said that a servant cannot serve two masters at the same time, and a servant cannot serve two masters at the same time. Nor can one follow God and mammon at the same time.)

Of course, this paragraph made some British people very happy, but it also made other British people feel very uncomfortable, especially after seeing that Miss Chris spent 500 pounds in one breath to support the charity of the Anglican Church. , They all wished to reach out their hand through the newspaper and hold Miss Chris’s hand that took out the money: “Good and simple Miss Chris, how do you know the dangers of the human heart? It’s no worse than the French Catholicism back then. It’s just that they surpassed the French Catholicism in one thing, and that was hypocrisy. If you give them the money, there may not be a pound in it for the poor, and they will take everything else To raise a mistress. Why don't you just leave it to me..."

But the next part completely changed the mood of these two types of people. Because Miss Chrissy began to describe the unbelievable squalor of the British hospitals.

"The ward was damp and dark, like a tomb. Although it was daytime, when I walked into the ward, it took a long time for my eyes to adapt. And when my eyes Once I got used to it, my heart couldn't get used to it at all.

Where is the ward here, it is simply a garbage dump. There was sewage everywhere on the ground, and blood-stained gauze was thrown on the ground in a mess. Groups of blowflies were nailed to it. When a nurse walked past somewhere, there was a buzzing sound, those blowflies They all flew up like a puff of smoke.

In addition to flies, there were mice running around everywhere. One patient—God, it was horrible, he lost a huge piece of his lower lip, which, it is said, was bitten off by a mouse at night—it was horrible.

But that's not the worst part. What's even more frightening is that the doctors here have no sense of hygiene. Their work clothes are covered with blood and other dirty things. The coarse cloth clothes are even covered with dirty things like leather. The gloss is off.

What would happen if a doctor dared to show up in our French hospital wearing such a dirty thing? Well, last time we fought the Austrians, I was a volunteer, along with some other great women, who helped care for the wounded in our military hospitals. There, don’t say that we make ourselves so dirty, even if we don’t wash our hands in time, we will be scolded by the doctor; and the doctor, if he forgets to boil his scalpel carefully, Then Dean Han Maier might kill him with that scalpel.

So I carefully asked if there were many infections, fevers, and deaths in the hospital.

In this regard, Mr. Owen, the executive vice president of the hospital, confirmed my guess. He told me that most of the patients who were sent to the hospital for emergency treatment had little hope of being able to return to their homes in good health. Many times, the family has already prepared the funeral for the patient before he is admitted to the hospital. As for those patients who underwent surgery in the hospital and saw blood, one out of ten patients may not survive.

Moreover, Vice President Owen also told me that this is true of all hospitals in the whole of the UK, and even all the hospitals in the whole world. There will be no exceptions. The level of British hospitals is already the top in the world.

I then recalled what I knew of France, and of my service in the hospitals of the Italian Legion, where at least two-thirds of the wounded did not develop serious infections, and the remaining third Among them, more than half of them survived in the end. This is very different from what Vice President Owen said.

So I tried to ask: 'Mr. Dean, have you read the Lancet article on how to avoid infection? '

However, it seems that the influence of The Lancet in the UK is very limited, so Dean Owen told me that he has not read the articles on it. So I tried to describe it to him in my own words. However, I have not studied medicine after all, and I don't quite understand many things. So I decided to ask someone to buy a copy of "The Lancet" and send it to Vice President Owen.

Immediately after I came out of Grace Hospital, I asked Mr. Pierre to help me buy The Lancet, so that I could give it to Vice President Owen. Mr. Pierre reminded me that I can buy a few more copies, because the situation of Grace Hospital may not be an isolated case, and "The Lancet" obviously does not have the same influence in the medical circle of France as it does in the medical circle of France. Therefore, most of the doctors and deans of those hospitals have not seen the papers I mentioned.

Facts have proved that Mr. Pierre's concerns are very reasonable. In the next few days, I visited several other hospitals in the UK, and found that the situation in each hospital was no different from that of Grace Hospital—including that none of them had read The Lancet.

After running around, I think Dean Owen should have finished reading the papers on The Lancet. A scientist elder of mine wrote the preface to this paper. He said the paper, while lacking theoretical evidence, was just a reasonable guess. But because it has achieved very good results in practice, although the principle is still not very clear, it is still very valuable for promotion and discussion. I think Vice President Owen should also agree with this view, and will make some improvements to the hospital based on the above experience.

However, when I came to Ci'en Hospital again, I found that it was exactly the same as a few days ago, and there was no change at all. I have always been impatient, so I went to Vice President Owen. Vice-President Owen told me that he had read the article in The Lancet. Although the preface to that article was written by the great Mr. Lavoisier, the person who wrote this article was just An unknown guy, and the whole paper is all conjecture, lacking theoretical evidence, so he doesn't believe it.

I argued with him a few words, and then Associate Dean Irwin told me that the decision was not in his hands. And in the hands of Dr. James, the dean. And Dr. James is a director of the British Medical Association. If I hope to change the rules in hospitals all over England, I'd better go to Dr. James.

Then I went to Dr. James again. But Dr. James was very stubborn. He insisted that the article in "The Lancet" was unfounded, and the data obtained by our hospital was completely unreliable. Mr. Vassi's qualifications have been criticized by him. He seems to suspect that we put forward such a 'heresy' just to discredit the British medical profession...

Anyway, I had a big fight with Dr. James and he ended up kicking me out. Of course, I have to admit that some of my words may have gone too far. But Dr. James is indeed too stubborn, he even disagrees with a small-scale controlled experiment based on French experience. In the past, many people told me that the British are very stubborn, but I didn’t really believe it. Today, it seems that this statement may really make sense..."

As soon as this travel note was published, it sparked far more controversy than any previous travel note.

The side that supports Miss Chris is naturally attacking the British Anglican Church and the Doctors' Guild. They only care about defrauding money and don't care about people's lives at all. The party against Chris launched an attack on Kris and the "Lancet" from various angles.

Some of them accused Chris of bragging, a little girl, boasting that she had served in a military hospital, and that she knew Lavoisier——"Does she still brag that she is often with Napoleon in the next article?" time to eat?"

Others satirized The Lancet for believing in barbarian witchcraft.

Basically, the newspapers of the "England Press Union" are on the side of opposing Chris and maintaining the "medical dignity" of the UK; while the "England Free Press Union" is on the side of supporting Chris. But they don't seem to care much about whether the Lancet's statement is right or not. What they are more concerned about is the institutional issues in the UK that always make ordinary people suffer.

The Sun soon joined in. In response to "The Times Review"'s questioning of the identity of "Miss Chris", "The Sun" began to use its expertise in digging privacy to fully introduce to the British who this "Miss Chris" is.

The identity of "Miss Chris" is not known to many people in the UK, but in France, at least in the literary and artistic circles, many people are very clear. So the "Sun" quickly revealed the identity of "Miss Chrissy".

Only then did the British discover that the unruly third-rate French novelist "Chrissy" they satirized, the "bragging queen", was actually even more legendary than she herself boasted. She is the younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first ruler of France, and Joseph Bonaparte, the greatest scientist in France. She once planted the banner of victory on the newly recovered fort on the Toulon battlefield. She served as Bonaparte The general's sister participated in the nursing work of wounded soldiers, so she was called "Saint of Toulon" by the soldiers. As for his recognition of Lavoisier, isn't it normal for her eldest brother to have friendship with Mr. Lavoisier? Also: "Miss Chris can often have dinner with the First Consul."