Bethune joined the Canadian Production Party in 1935, and volunteered to go to Spain to participate in the anti-fascist struggle in the winter of 1936. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China, in order to help the people's liberation in China,1March, 938, it was sent by the producers of Canada and the United States to lead a medical team composed of Canadians and Americans to Yan 'an.
Bethune took an active part in organizing mobile medical teams to enter and leave the fire line to save lives. In order to reduce the pain and disability of the wounded, he set the operating table closest to the fire line. He proposed to open a sanitary material factory, which solved the problem of insufficient drugs; Establish health schools and train a large number of medical cadres; He compiled a variety of battlefield medical textbooks and taught them in person.
He refused a lot of special care, and his spirit of sacrifice, enthusiasm for work and sense of responsibility are exemplary. Bethune, who was nearly 50 years old, gave blood transfusions to the wounded many times, and operated on the wounded 1 15 for 69 hours at a time.
193910/in late October, Bethune cut the middle finger of his left hand with a scalpel in the battle of Motianling in Laiyuan County, Hebei Province. However, regardless of his illness and high fever, he insisted on staying in the front line to guide the battlefield rescue work. He said, "Don't treat me like an antique, treat me like a machine gun." Eventually, due to the deterioration of the injury, it turned into sepsis and the treatment was ineffective. 1 1.02 died in Huangshikou Village, Tang County, Hebei Province in the early morning.
His last words before he died were: "Work hard! Go to the great road and open up the cause of progress! " On 65438+February 1 day, all walks of life in Yan 'an held a memorial meeting. Mao Zedong wrote a letter of mourning to Bethune on February 2, 65438+KLOC-0/,and highly praised Bethune's great internationalism and * * * productive spirit. He had no self-interest, was extremely responsible for his work, and kept improving in technology. Call him a noble man, a pure man, a moral man, a man who breaks away from vulgar tastes and benefits the people, and call on the people of the whole country to learn from him.
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1924, Bethune was suffering from tuberculosis, but he still tried to invent the "artificial pneumothorax therapy" and achieved great success in his own experiment. His original thoracic surgery technique is well-known in the medical field.
193 1 in the summer of, Bethune signed a franchise patent agreement with Pilling & Sons Company in Philadelphia, USA, which was responsible for all the manufacturing and sales of surgical instruments invented by Bethune and named after "Bethune Instruments"-there were 22 kinds of instruments, which were in an extremely leading position at that time.
From 1936 to 1937, Bethune went to Spain to participate in the Spanish civil war as a volunteer to support the international anti-fascism. During this period, he created a mobile first aid system for the wounded, which became the prototype of the mobile military surgical hospital widely used in the future. He invented the world's first method of transporting blood in order to save the wounded who lost too much blood, which is of great significance in medicine.
1937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in China. Bethune led a medical team composed of Canadians and Americans to China Liberated Area. 1April, 938, went to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region via Yan 'an, and worked for nearly two years. His spirit of sacrifice, enthusiasm and sense of responsibility were exemplary until he died in the line of duty. His deeds were widely praised by the people of China.
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