西医学术《新闻报》上有一篇小言，标题是《一身是病》，是丈二和尚的稿子，他说戈公振先生遗体经红十字会医师剖解后，说他除了患败血症及腹膜炎外，肺部、胃部、腰部以及心脏、头脑，没有一处不出毛病，真可称得“一身是病”了。戈君是以新闻记者为业的，他身体这样的瘦弱多病，足见平日的辛劳，一旦百病丛生，支撑不住，只得一命呜呼，说起来好不惨然啊。
戈公振百病丛生，除了败血症、腹膜炎之外，还有肺部、胃部、腰部、心脏、头脑，没有一处不是病，不过这许多的病，当戈公振入医院就诊时光，西医要算细心诊察，不曾发现，这就可以明白西医的科学医术，不过如此，就是误诊为盲肠炎，割治之后，始知为腹膜炎，后又认为败血症，一误再误，也不曾知他肺部、胃部、腰部、心脏、头脑有病，直到他死后解剖，才得发现，这就可知西医的科学医术，不过如此。陆士谔先生说西医学术破产，还是客气话，还是抬举西医，照事实讲，爽爽快快，象西医这种成绩，简直可以说不配称做学术。本来没有学术，有什么破产不破产。(旁观客)[对西医所言过激之辞，应以历史的眼光看待。校者注。]西医诊断之露骨透写西医究竟有多大学识，多大本领，惭愧我不是西医，不曾知晓，也不敢轻量人家，轻易评论，现在看到程瀚章先生大作，标题是《从戈公振的死说到临症诊断与病理解剖》，十分佩服，我佩服这位程先生，就是“忠实”两个字，不象其他的西医，江湖气十足。
程先生不打自招，把临症诊断与病理解剖的冲突点，赤裸裸地写出来，罗列败血症的原因菌，有到七种，败血症的续发病，有到十八种，就可知西医的诊病，不要说是诊得错误，就是真知灼见，绝无丝毫错误，也不过在七种里头，十八种里头，捉迷藏似的胡拿瞎摸罢了，较之云中捉月，雾里看花，还要迷乱。
我说过中医治病，犹之着棋，虽手段或有高下，大众公开，共闻共见。
下面是程瀚章先生的大作，登过《新医与社会》的。
名记者戈公振先生，因患病经中国红十字会董医师诊治，不幸逝世。无论与先生有无交往，成为之同声悼惜。惜中国新闻界丧失栋材也。笔者与先生初无一面之雅，惟于报端及著述中读其文，钦其才，神交而已。年来余更慨夫外侮日亟，上下反利用其机会，交相争于市场，兄弟阅墙，彼此为些微之私见，不惜兴讼于有司，环顾社会，形同荆棘，用是杜门谢客，拼绝交际，日维浏览报章，恍如观影，幕幕变化，永无穷尽。
兹数日内报章所记，除金潮膨湃外，又见关于戈氏之死后消息，缘戈氏死后之解剖（为戈氏遗嘱之一），病理上所见与原诊医师所诊断者有所出入，于是同情于戈氏者，隐约之间，不免为春秋之责备，然吾人设能多读医籍，作一平心静气之语，可以断言，医师之临症诊断未必尽与病理解剖所见相符，固不仅此种突发之疾病为然也。
余既少交际，与董医师未尝谋面，而戈氏之病亦不能凭报章所载肯定其病名，今日闻董医师所述，戈氏之死因，似在于败血症无疑，查败血症亦名脓毒症，其原因菌甚多，如链球菌、葡萄球菌、脑膜炎菌、腐败菌、大肠茵、肺炎菌、淋菌等，其中链球菌之毒性最为凶恶。
败血症大都续发于他种多数疾病，如生产后。流产后，创伤后，龋齿，中耳炎。痢疾，肝脓疡，癌肿，胆道炎，蚓突炎(俗间及江湖医称盲肠炎)，盲肠周围脓疡(俗间及江湖医亦称盲肠炎)，肺炎，支气管炎，鼻炎，肺脓疡，脓胸，肺坏疽，淋病，尿道炎，骨化脓等，皆能续发败血症，故不可如新旧医界所商榷者，谓“吾人平时惠喉病时，常为此种菌作祟，但常人抵抗力强，故无多大妨害。”(见十月三十一日《时事新报》），此语亦似是而非，盖喉病之发于猩红热时者，确为溶血性链球菌，而毒膜性喉症‘通称白喉)则为毒膜杆菌(旧名狄夫的里菌)。
执是而观，临症上诊断尽可为中耳炎、肺炎、蚓突炎与及其他种种疾病，而死因如在败血症，则病理解剖上血中必发见细菌，则当然与临症诊断不符，绝对不能藉此以为责备之把柄也。
最后余有一言为社会人士告者，近年来医界不幸事层见叠出，咎不在医家之玩忽，而却在医家之“太热心”(与玩忽完全相反)，往往有许多疾病，原不必固执己见，依样画欧美之葫芦，而以“囫囵吞枣”之方式，强各种不必手术之病症而手术，如自命为校卫生家之医者，往往强令儿童切除扁桃腺等是也，倘不幸而因滥施手术之结果，致发生创伤感染者。纠纷叉起，此种弊病，在贩卖与墨守，实则其本身尚缺乏学识，虽然“时势造英雄”，静观国内医院，何一非天之骄子，吾复何言。
中医新作品自从铅字排印盛行而后，出版界气象，蓬蓬勃勃，每一年，每一月，每一日，总有好多种新作品发行，尤其是我们中医界，有月刊，有季刊，有旬刊，有周刊，有日刊，并且各团体有各团体的刊物，个人有个人的作品，猛一瞧时，中医发达极了，那里知道，细看内容，不由人暗暗吃惊。
你道为何，原来内中竟占有一半是看不懂的，什么痢疾菌呀，疟疾菌呀，痨菌呀，更有脑出血哩，肠出血哩，白血球，赤血球，淋巴腺，铁质，盐质，蛋白质，淀粉质，肋膜炎，腹膜炎，脑膜炎，种种奇怪名目，记不胜记，名莫能名，不知他们那儿搜集来的。
有人来告我，这一班都是中医界的新人物，叫做新中医，负有改进中医的伟大责任，我道哎呀呀，原来就是新中医，失敬失敬，我真是有眼不识泰山。
但是我要请教，不知他的新。如何新法，从何新起，新的来路，是在那里，那人回我，新的学说，自然从欧洲来的，西医万国通行，吾国何能独异，现在新中医的伟大工作，就是把中医旧说彻底掀翻，改用西医名目，使人耳目一新。
我道：改良中医原来如是便当，摸着人家屁股后面，影戤人家的响牌子，把西医名目，搬了过来，张冠李戴，削足就履，就算了。依我，这种作品，不能认做中医作品正名定分，我只认定他是中文的西医书，中文的西医作品，与我们中医是绝不相干的，你看日本的西医书籍，多半是日文日语，日本人却并不曾称它改良东方的医学，依旧称他为泰西医学。
人家何等有鉴别力，知道汉医是汉医，西医是西医，万万不能假借。万万不能通融，各有各的精神，各有各的好处，我们偏要扭在一起。混在一堆，杜造出新中医名目来骗骗人，真何苦也。
并且西医有西医的根据，有一定不移的疗治法。你用了西医病名，不用西医治法，就是错；用了西医病名，仍用中医治法，就是错；进退没有根据，仔细着有人找你，仔细着吃官司。
西医学识之破产西医的学识，西医的本领，西医的经验，经此戈公振的死。其弱点已完全地显露无余，程瀚章西医不打自招地供状，余已介绍与读者，现在再把阿忻君大作，重行介绍。
阿忻君大作中，最精警句子，是由这次解剖的结果，戈先生确是一种急性腹膜炎，与一种急性的阑尾炎，也是一种急性盲肠的外膜炎。又言戈先生右下腹部，揿上去有点痛，但没有什么硬块，后来因为白血球增加到一万三干，热度渐渐由37℃增到40，1℃，其他如胃口不好，面色苍白等，都有急性盲肠炎的病状。又言在没有开刀之前，无论是世界再有名的医生，也得诊断为急性盲肠炎的。又言现在医界，对于腹膜炎，还无法可治，至少一百个人中，患腹膜炎的九十九个是必死的。
惭愧我不是西医，原来科学诊断法，开手确认无误的病，就有三个之多，第一个是急性腹膜炎，第二个是急性阑尾炎，第三个是急性盲肠外膜炎，这个不对，可以调换那个，甲说不合，可以转换乙说，圆活的很，聪明之极，象我们中医，就没有这个办法。
在没有开刀之前，无论是世界再有名的医生，也得诊断为急性盲肠炎，可知西医的学术不过在以人为试验品，开刀以前不识，开刀之后才知，西医的本领，如是如是。
现在医界对于腹膜炎。无法可治，至少一百个人中，患腹膜炎的，九十九个是必死的，这明明是推卸责任，好象戈公振已经死得晚了，死得迟了。西医既然如此没本领，没学识，以后遇到难症，推给我们中医治就是了，我依照老例仍旧把阿忻君大作披露如下。
戈公振先生在他欧游回国第七天，便病殁于虹桥疗养院。
戈先生的死，据说是死于盲肠炎。但戈先生去世以后，各方面又传出戈先生的死，并不是死于盲肠炎，因为戈先生死后的解剖，盲肠很完好，那么戈先生的死因，究竟是什么呢？
我想稍稍关心戈先生致死的原因，一定愿意知道的，因此，我特地到国立医学院，去访问解剖戈先生尸体的艾世光医师，艾先生是国立医学院的教授，这一次他担任解剖戈先生尸体的重任，解剖的主要动机是：第一遵照戈先生自己的遗嘱；第二希望能够检查出戈先生所以致死的真实原因。
据艾先生说，解剖的工作是二十二日下午三点十五分开始的(戈先生是三点钟死的)，检查的结果，大略可以举出三点：第一，戈先生鼻子上面(在前额)的“蝶窦”有发炎的现象，我们知道“蝶窦”所以发炎，大致是为了平日身体发热或者是感冒所致。
第二，检查戈先生的膀胱有亚急性的发炎，同时膀胱左右的组织，都有发炎的现象。
第三，前列腺也发炎，在输尿管右下部(那一部很近盲肠)有脓水和高度的肿，同时腹膜左右的组织也有脓，更甚的是腹腔里有更多的脓汁。
第四，曹经抽取戈先生的输尿管脓和他的心血，腹腔的脓，小便等用细菌的培养方法检验，都有一种溶血性的链球菌。
由这次解剖的结果，戈先生确是一种急性的腹膜炎与一种急性的阑尾支，也是一种急性盲肠的外膜炎。(以上所写，都是由艾先生讲，记者随笔写下来的，如若有不对的地方，仍然根据艾先生解剖的诊断书。)至于外间说中国红十字会医院。董秉奇先生误诊为盲肠炎，据艾先生说，原因是这样的，董医生是二十一日二点钟替戈先生诊视的，所得的结果，是戈先生右下腹部揿上去有点痛，但没有什么硬块，后来因为白血球增加到一万三千，热度渐渐由37℃升到40，1℃，其他如胃口不好，面色苍白，都有急性盲肠炎的病状，所以到当天五点二十八分，便替戈先生开刀，开刀检查的结果，是腹内壁肌有水肿，腹腔有黄水，这时候董先生断定是腹膜炎。
不过据艾先生说，在没有开刀以前，戈先生的右腹痛，输尿管肿，白血球增加。热度高，无论是世界再有名的医生，也得诊断为急性盲肠炎的，因为这些病状，都是急性盲肠炎必有的病状。
戈先生开刀以后的第二天，虽然注射强心剂及盐水等，都来不及了，延到下午二时，戈先生便去世了。
艾先生说，现在医界，对于腹膜炎，还无法可治，至少一百个人中，患腹膜炎的九十九个是必死的。
解剖书大约明后日可以送达戈先生家属，至于该项诊断书能否发表，那要看戈氏家属的决定了。
大家对于中医总说人身上的气化，西医不曾认识，对于有形的一切，西医用科学方法辨认，比较起来，总多一点真知灼见，下面看到西医治戈公振这个症，盲肠呀，腹膜呀，阑尾呀，明明是三个东西，分处三个地方，犹且弄不明白，辨不清楚，似这种显而易见的犹且如此，那幽微曲折处，更不必论了，可知西医对于有形的一切。还是一塌糊涂[现今并不是一塌糊涂]，气化更不必说，所以西医学术，到了今年今月今日今时，已经完全地宣告破产[此语犹对西医过激之辞，任何事物都是在发展过程中逐渐完善的，中医有五千年的发展历史，现今亦不可称完美无缺，何况西医当时传入我国为时不长。怎能不带有稚气呢。敢请读者更不必迷信西医，枉送性命。
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中医是科学的
十一月七日，上海市国医分馆馆长，假座湖社，补行就职宣誓典礼，教育局长潘公展先生，受中央国医馆命，为监誓委员，潘委员之训辞，对于国医分馆有无穷之希望，其最要之点，是国医学术是进取的，不是保守的，国医学说是科学的，不是非科学的，国医馆是国医全体的，不是馆长与董事的，对于国医学说，国医地位，国医与国人的关系，都有深切的认识，详明的指导，不胜钦佩。
而余最钦佩的，就是国医是科学的一句话，这一句话，真是金玉良言。
《伤寒论》是中医方书之祖，我们为什么把它这么推崇，就为张仲景到今二千多年，他那书上所列证据，所开的脉象，所定的治法，所撰的方子，百试百验，万试万验，旁的书或者还有万一之错误，独有张仲景书，竟然万中找不出一个错。
如头项强痛脉浮之太阳病，汉代如是。魏晋六朝也是如是，唐宋元明也是如是，清代如是，民国也是如是，的证的脉，丝毫不有变易，丝毫不能通融，这不是科学是什么。
In the *Xinwen Bao* (News Daily), there is a short article titled "The Whole Body is Diseased," authored by Zhang'er Heshang. It states that after Mr. Ge Gongzhen's body was dissected by physicians of the Red Cross, it was found that besides suffering from sepsis and peritonitis, his lungs, stomach, waist, heart, and brain all had issues; truly, one could say "the whole body is diseased." Mr. Ge worked as a journalist, and his frail and sickly physique reveals his daily toil. Once myriad diseases arose, he could no longer sustain himself and passed away, which is indeed tragic.
Ge Gongzhen suffered from myriad diseases. Besides sepsis and peritonitis, his lungs, stomach, waist, heart, and brain were all diseased. However, when Ge entered the hospital for treatment, although Western medicine physicians examined him carefully, they failed to detect these conditions. This demonstrates that the scientific medical skills of Western medicine are merely so-so. Initially misdiagnosed as appendicitis (Intestinal Vermiform Process Inflammation), only after surgical intervention did they realize it was peritonitis, and later identified it as sepsis. They made repeated errors and failed to detect diseases in his lungs, stomach, waist, heart, and brain until post-mortem dissection revealed them. Thus, we can see that the scientific medical skills of Western medicine are merely so-so. When Lu Shie says that Western medical scholarship has collapsed, it is still being polite and giving credit where it is due. Speaking frankly, with such results, it hardly deserves to be called scholarship. If there is no scholarship to begin with, how can there be a collapse? (Observer: These extreme remarks about Western medicine should be viewed through a historical lens. Editor's Note.)
**The Blunt Exposure of Western Diagnostic Methods:** How much knowledge and skill does Western medicine actually possess? I am ashamed to say I am not a Western physician, so I do not know, nor do I dare to underestimate others or comment lightly. Now, seeing Mr. Cheng Hanzhang's major work, titled "From the Death of Ge Gongzhen to Clinical Diagnosis and Pathological Anatomy," I admire it greatly. I admire this Mr. Cheng for his "fidelity," unlike other Western physicians who are full of charlatanry.
Mr. Cheng inadvertently confesses, laying bare the conflict between clinical diagnosis and pathological anatomy. He lists seven types of causative bacteria for sepsis and eighteen sequelae of sepsis. From this, we can see that in diagnosing diseases, whether Western medicine makes mistakes or possesses true insight without any error, it is merely groping blindly like playing hide-and-seek among those seven types and eighteen sequelae. This is even more confusing than trying to catch the moon in the clouds or viewing flowers in the fog.
I have said that treating diseases with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is like playing chess; although skills may vary, it is open to the public, heard and seen by all.
Below is Mr. Cheng Hanzhang's major work, published in *New Medicine and Society*.
Distinguished journalist Mr. Ge Gongzhen died unfortunately after being treated by Dr. Dong of the Chinese Red Cross. Regardless of whether one had personal interactions with him, we mourn his loss together. We regret the loss of a pillar of China's journalism. The author had no prior acquaintance with Mr. Ge, having only read his writings and admired his talent through newspapers and publications, forming a spiritual connection. In recent years, I have lamented the increasing foreign aggression, while above and below, people exploit opportunities to compete in the market, fighting amongst themselves over trivial private interests, even resorting to lawsuits. Looking around society, it resembles a thorny bush. Therefore, I have secluded myself, declining guests and cutting off social interactions, spending my days reading newspapers, feeling as if watching movies, with scenes changing endlessly.
In the past few days, besides the surging news tide, reports regarding the aftermath of Mr. Ge's death have appeared. Due to the autopsy conducted according to Mr. Ge's will (one of his last wishes), the pathological findings differed from the original clinical diagnosis. Those sympathetic to Mr. Ge, implicitly, cannot help but offer criticism akin to the *Spring and Autumn Annals*. However, if we read more medical texts and speak calmly and fairly, we can assert that a physician's clinical diagnosis does not necessarily fully align with pathological anatomical findings, and this is not limited to sudden diseases.
Having little social interaction, I have never met Dr. Dong, and based on newspaper reports alone, I cannot confirm Mr. Ge's disease name. Today, hearing Dr. Dong's account, it seems undeniable that Mr. Ge's cause of death was sepsis. Sepsis, also known as pyemia, has many causative bacteria, such as streptococcus, staphylococcus, meningococcus, putrefactive bacteria, E. coli, pneumococcus, gonococcus, etc., among which streptococcus is the most virulent.
Sepsis mostly occurs secondary to various other diseases, such as after childbirth, abortion, trauma, dental caries, otitis media, dysentery, liver abscess, cancer, cholangitis, appendicitis (commonly and by quacks called "blind intestine inflammation"), periappendiceal abscess (also commonly and by quacks called "blind intestine inflammation"), pneumonia, bronchitis, rhinitis, lung abscess, empyema, lung gangrene, gonorrhea, urethritis, osteomyelitis, etc., all of which can lead to secondary sepsis. Therefore, we cannot agree with the discussion in both old and new medical circles that "when we usually suffer from throat diseases, these bacteria often cause trouble, but because normal people have strong resistance, it causes little harm." (See *Shishi Xinbao*, October 31st). This statement is plausible yet incorrect. Throat diseases occurring during scarlet fever are indeed caused by hemolytic streptococcus, while diphtheria (commonly called white membrane throat disease) is caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae (old name: Klebs-Loeffler bacillus).
Viewing it this way, clinical diagnoses might be otitis media, pneumonia, appendicitis, and other various diseases, but if the cause of death is sepsis, bacteria must be found in the blood during pathological anatomy. Consequently, this naturally conflicts with the clinical diagnosis, and absolutely cannot be used as a handle for blame.
Finally, I have one word for the public. In recent years, unfortunate incidents in the medical field have occurred repeatedly. The fault lies not in medical negligence, but in doctors being "too enthusiastic" (completely opposite to negligence). Often, for many diseases, there is no need to stick to one's own views or copy European and American practices blindly. Instead, using a "swallowing dates whole" approach, they force surgical interventions on conditions that do not require surgery. For example, self-proclaimed school hygiene physicians often force children to undergo tonsillectomies. If, unfortunately, improper surgical results lead to traumatic infections and disputes arise, this malpractice stems from peddling and conservatism, revealing a lack of actual knowledge. Although "times make heroes," observing domestic hospitals, which ones are not filled with heaven's favorites? What more can I say?
Since the prevalence of movable type printing, the publishing world has been vibrant. Every year, month, and day sees the release of numerous new works. Especially in our TCM circle, there are monthly, quarterly, ten-day, weekly, and daily journals, and each organization and individual has their own publications. At first glance, TCM appears extremely developed. Little do they know that upon closer inspection of the content, one cannot help but be secretly shocked.
Why is this? It turns out that half of it is incomprehensible. Things like dysentery bacilli, malaria parasites, tuberculosis bacilli, cerebral hemorrhage, intestinal hemorrhage, leukocytes, erythrocytes, lymph nodes, iron, salts, proteins, starches, pleurisy, peritonitis, meningitis—various strange terms, too many to record, impossible to name, I wonder where they collected them from.
Someone told me that this group consists of new figures in the TCM field, called "New TCM," bearing the great responsibility of improving TCM. I said, "Oh my, so it is New TCM, my apologies, I truly failed to recognize Mount Tai."
But I must ask, how is it new? Where does the novelty come from, and what is its source? That person replied, "New theories naturally come from Europe. Western medicine is universal worldwide; how can our country be different? The great work of New TCM now is to completely overturn old TCM theories and adopt Western medical terminology to refresh people's senses."
I said: Improving TCM is so convenient then? Following behind others, copying their fame, bringing over Western terms, mixing up names and forcing square pegs into round holes, and calling it done? In my view, such works cannot be recognized as legitimate TCM works. I define them simply as Western medicine books in Chinese, Western medicine works in Chinese, which have nothing to do with our TCM. Look at Japanese Western medicine books; most are in Japanese language. Yet the Japanese do not claim to have improved Eastern medicine; they still call it Western medicine from Taixi (the West).
How discerning people are! They know Han medicine is Han medicine, and Western medicine is Western medicine. They cannot be borrowed or compromised. Each has its own spirit and benefits. Why must we twist them together, mix them in a pile, fabricate the term "New TCM" to deceive people? What bitterness is this?
Moreover, Western medicine has its own basis and unchanging therapeutic methods. If you use Western disease names but do not use Western treatments, it is wrong; if you use Western disease names but still use TCM treatments, it is also wrong. Lacking a basis for advance or retreat, beware of someone coming after you, beware of lawsuits.
**The Collapse of Western Medical Scholarship:** The knowledge, skills, and experience of Western medicine, following the death of Ge Gongzhen, have fully exposed their weaknesses. Mr. Cheng Hanzhang's involuntary confession has already been introduced to readers. Now, I introduce again the major work of Mr. A Xin.
The most striking sentence in Mr. A Xin's work is that, based on the autopsy results, Mr. Ge indeed suffered from acute peritonitis and acute appendicitis, which is also acute epiperitonitis of the cecum. It also stated that pressing on Mr. Ge's right lower abdomen caused slight pain, but there was no hard mass. Later, due to white blood cells increasing to 13,000 and temperature gradually rising from 37°C to 40.1°C, along with other symptoms like poor appetite and pale complexion, all indicated signs of acute appendicitis. It also stated that before surgery, regardless of how famous a doctor in the world, they would have to diagnose acute appendicitis. It also stated that currently, the medical field has no cure for peritonitis; at least 99 out of 100 patients with peritonitis are doomed to die.
Ashamed to admit I am not a Western physician, originally, the scientific diagnostic method confirmed three diseases without error from the start: first, acute peritonitis; second, acute appendicitis; third, acute epiperitonitis of the cecum. If this is wrong, switch to that; if explanation A doesn't fit, switch to explanation B. Very flexible, extremely clever. Like us in TCM, we do not have this method.
Before surgery, regardless of how famous a doctor in the world, they would have to diagnose acute appendicitis. This shows that Western academic practice merely uses humans as test subjects; they don't know before surgery, only knowing after. Such is the skill of Western medicine.
Currently, the medical field has no cure for peritonitis; at least 99 out of 100 patients with peritonitis are doomed to die. This is clearly shirking responsibility, as if Mr. Ge Gongzhen died too late, died too slowly. Since Western medicine lacks such skill and knowledge, in the future, when encountering difficult cases, just push them to us in TCM for treatment. Following old customs, I still publish Mr. A Xin's work as follows.
Mr. Ge Gongzhen died in the Hongqiao Sanatorium on the seventh day after returning from his tour of Europe.
It is said that Mr. Ge died of appendicitis. But after Mr. Ge passed away, rumors spread from all sides that he did not die of appendicitis, because the autopsy of Mr. Ge showed his cecum was intact. So, what exactly was the cause of Mr. Ge's death?
Thinking that anyone slightly concerned with the cause of Mr. Ge's death would want to know, I specially visited Dr. Ai Shiguang at the National Medical College, who performed the autopsy on Mr. Ge's body. Mr. Ai is a professor at the National Medical College and undertook the important task of autopsying Mr. Ge. The main motivations for the autopsy were: First, to follow Mr. Ge's own will; Second, hoping to check the true cause of Mr. Ge's death.
According to Dr. Ai, the autopsy work began at 3:15 PM on the 22nd (Mr. Ge died at 3:00 PM). The examination results can roughly be summarized in four points: First, the "sphenoid sinus" above Mr. Ge's nose (on the forehead) showed signs of inflammation. We know that sphenoid sinus inflammation is generally caused by daily fever or colds.
Second, examination of Mr. Ge's bladder showed subacute inflammation, and simultaneously, the tissues on both sides of the bladder showed signs of inflammation.
Third, the prostate was also inflamed. In the lower right part of the ureter (that part is very close to the cecum), there was pus and severe swelling. Meanwhile, the tissues on both sides of the peritoneum also had pus, and even worse, there was more pus in the abdominal cavity.
Fourth, samples of pus from Mr. Ge's ureter, his heart blood, abdominal pus, and urine were tested using bacterial culture methods, all revealing a type of hemolytic streptococcus.
Based on the results of this autopsy, Mr. Ge indeed suffered from acute peritonitis and acute appendicitis, which is also acute epiperitonitis of the cecum. (What is written above was spoken by Mr. Ai and written down casually by the reporter. If there are inaccuracies, they still rely on Mr. Ai's autopsy diagnosis report.) As for external claims that Dr. Dong Bingqi of the Chinese Red Cross Hospital misdiagnosed appendicitis, according to Mr. Ai, the reason is as follows: Dr. Dong examined Mr. Ge at 2:00 PM on the 21st. The result was that pressing on Mr. Ge's right lower abdomen caused slight pain, but there was no hard mass. Later, due to white blood cells increasing to 13,000 and temperature gradually rising from 37°C to 40.1°C, along with other symptoms like poor appetite and pale complexion, all indicated signs of acute appendicitis. Therefore, at 5:28 PM that day, Dr. Dong performed surgery on Mr. Ge. The surgical inspection results showed edema in the inner abdominal wall muscles and yellow fluid in the abdominal cavity. At this time, Mr. Dong concluded it was peritonitis.
However, according to Mr. Ai, before surgery, Mr. Ge's right abdominal pain, ureter swelling, increased white blood cells, and high fever meant that regardless of how famous a doctor in the world, they would have to diagnose acute appendicitis, because these symptoms are inevitable signs of acute appendicitis.
The day after Mr. Ge's surgery, despite injections of cardiac stimulants and saline solution, it was too late. By 2:00 PM, Mr. Ge passed away.
Mr. Ai said that currently, the medical field has no cure for peritonitis; at least 99 out of 100 patients with peritonitis are doomed to die.
The autopsy report should reach Mr. Ge's family tomorrow or the day after. As for whether this diagnosis report can be published, it depends on the decision of the Ge family.
Everyone always says that regarding the Qi transformation in the human body, Western medicine does not recognize it. Regarding everything tangible, Western medicine uses scientific methods to identify, and comparatively, it has a bit more true insight. Below, seeing how Western medicine treated Mr. Ge Gongzhen's condition: the cecum, peritoneum, and appendix are clearly three distinct things located in three different places, yet they still couldn't figure it out or distinguish it clearly. If something so obvious is like this, let alone the subtle and complex aspects. Thus, we can know that Western medicine is still a mess regarding everything tangible [Note: Currently, it is not a mess]. Qi transformation is needless to mention. Therefore, Western medical scholarship, by this year, this month, this day, this hour, has completely declared bankruptcy [Note: This is still an extreme remark against Western medicine. Any matter is gradually perfected in the process of development. TCM has a five-thousand-year history, and even today it cannot be called perfect. Moreover, Western medicine had not been introduced to our country for long at that time. How could it not be immature? Readers are urged not to blindly worship Western medicine and lose their lives.]
Zhongyi Baoguyuan
*Shi'e Yihua* er
Lu Shie, Author
Wang Junhui, Proofreader
TCM is Scientific
On November 7th, the Director of the Shanghai Branch of the National Medical Hall held an inauguration oath-taking ceremony at the Hushe Club. Education Bureau Director Mr. Pan Gongzhan, appointed by the Central National Medical Hall, served as the swearing-in witness. Director Pan's address expressed infinite hope for the National Medical Branch. The most important point was that National Medical scholarship is progressive, not conservative; National Medical theory is scientific, not unscientific; the National Medical Hall belongs to all practitioners of National Medicine, not just the director and directors. He had a deep understanding and detailed guidance regarding National Medical theory, status, and the relationship between National Medicine and the people. I am deeply impressed.
And what I admire most is the phrase "National Medicine is Science." This phrase is truly golden advice.
*Shanghan Lun* (Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders) is the ancestor of TCM formula books. Why do we revere it so much? Because Zhang Zhongjing, over two thousand years ago, listed evidence, pulse images, determined treatment methods, and composed prescriptions in his book that have been verified hundred times and ten thousand times. Other books may have occasional errors, but in Zhang Zhongjing's book, not a single error can be found among ten thousand checks.
For example, Taiyang Disease (a syndrome caused by pathogenic invasion of the Taiyang meridian) characterized by stiffness and pain in the head and neck, and a floating pulse, was thus in the Han Dynasty. It was thus in the Wei, Jin, and Six Dynasties periods. It was thus in the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. It was thus in the Qing Dynasty. It is thus in the Republic of Era. The precise pulse of the precise syndrome has not changed in the slightest, nor can it be compromised. Is this not science?