The New Dolan Medical Bureau was quite large from the beginning,/kloc-a waiting room for more than 0/00 people, with more than 40 beds and various new instruments. Peter parker majored in ophthalmology, so at first, he only planned to provide free services to patients with eye diseases and give them medicines. At that time, due to the closed-door policy of the Qing government, the domestic people were very confused about western medicine and dared not come to see a doctor. So on the first day of the opening of the Health Bureau, although it was marked as free treatment, no one paid attention to it all day. The next day, a woman who had suffered from eye diseases for many years, but had no money for medical treatment, came to see a doctor with a trembling heart, which opened the curtain of western medicine treatment in China. Since then, due to peter parker's brilliant medical skills and amiable service, he quickly won the trust of the people in Guangzhou. With the increase in the number of patients cured by Peter Parker, the reputation of the medical bureau has also increased, and the number of patients who come to see a doctor has also increased greatly. According to records, only 17 days after the opening of the medical office, the number of people who came to see a doctor reached 240, including many yamen officials. In order to enable more and more patients to seek medical treatment in an orderly manner and improve efficiency, peter parker issued a rectangular number plate made of bamboo after the patients entered the door, and then the patients entered the clinic in turn for treatment according to the numbers on the number plate. It is said that this "registration system", which has been widely adopted by hospitals all over the world, originated from peter parker's design in New Bean Medical Bureau. In the first year after the opening of the New Doulan Medical Bureau, 2 152 patients were admitted, and more than 6,000 people came to the hospital for treatment.
In the daily diagnosis and treatment work of the hospital, most patients are treated by peter parker himself, and the number of patients reached more than 200 times a day at the peak. Peter parker strictly implements the patient medical record registration system. In addition to the patient's name, sex, age and native place, the prescription medication, therapeutic effect, operation time, size and weight of the tumor or stone taken out were also recorded in detail. In his medical record, there is a girl of 13 years old with a huge tumor on her face, which extends from the temple of her head to her right cheek, and the whole right eye is almost covered. Peter Parker, with the consent of her parents, performed a cutting operation on the girl after careful preparation. At that time, there was no anesthetic, only some opioid drugs were given to the patient before operation, and then the girl was blindfolded and her hands and feet were tied to the operating table for cutting. In the end, peter parker successfully removed this one-pound multiple tumor, which was the first surgery performed by peter parker after he came to China. Since then, before and after each resection, peter parker specially asked the painter to draw the patient's symptoms in detail, save them and put them in the archives for future teaching and scientific research reference. At that time, there was a China professional painter named Lam Qua in the 13th line, and westerners called him Linkwa. He felt that peter parker treated China people for free, and volunteered to draw various symptoms for peter parker for free, which became a vivid medical record. There are also 1 10 pictures, including 86 from Yale Medical Library, 23 from Gordon Museum of Guy Hospital in London, and 1 piece from Courtway Library); In Boston. More than 30 of them are portraits of tumor patients. Anyone who has seen those grotesque, ugly and hideous tumor symptoms all admire peter parker's medical skill and love. Peter parker created many records in the modern medical history of China, such as tonsillectomy (1836), cystolithotomy (1844), ether anesthesia (1847) and chloroform anesthesia (1848).
Peter parker gets up early in the morning every day. After a simple meal, he treats people who come to see a doctor. He is often busy until late at night. Not to mention hard work and fatigue, life and rest are completely irregular. But when he saw one patient leave after being cured, he was relieved and felt that the pain and fatigue were worth it. His service embodies the fraternity of Jesus Christ, and the people of China, rich or poor, are all equal in his eyes. He witnessed the gospel of Christ with his actions. Peter parker has always regarded medical care as a way to spread the gospel. Before each operation, he prayed urgently for the patients, helped them to believe in God, and gave them to the biggest doctor Jesus before the operation. After recovery, pray with the patient and thank God, so that the patient can not only get physical recovery, but also experience spiritual renewal.
1840 Yan Chai Hospital was forced to close when the Opium War broke out. During the war (1840-42), peter parker traveled all over the United States, Europe, England and Scotland to publicize medical education, recruit medical missionaries, raise funds for education and introduce the latest medical technology. In March this year, 37-year-old peter parker married Harriet Webster, niece of US Secretary of State daniel webster. 1842165438+10, peter parker returned to Guangdong with her new wife, which made her the first American woman to live in Guangzhou. When Yan Chai Hospital resumed business, it was no longer confined to ophthalmology, but became a general hospital. When ophthalmology was first established in peter parker, it was mainly used to treat eye diseases. Later, at the request of patients, the subjects of diagnosis and treatment of other diseases were added, so Yan Chai Hospital became a general hospital.
Peter parker has been practicing medicine in China for more than ten years, and has treated more than 53,000 patients, from which he learned that the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi should be old, and then he went to a beggar covered with scabies. He treated them equally, without distinction, adhering to the great love of Jesus Christ and treating them with care. Among the many lives he saved, including Liang Fa, the first Chinese priest, peter parker once said, "Even if I have not done other good deeds in my life and only restored the health of this servant whom God loves, I will not live in vain." (Biography of Liang Fachuan, Fuqiao Publishing House, p. 88). Later, Liang Fa often came to Yan Chai Hospital to preach the gospel to patients and share the labor for peter parker.
2 1 65438 February, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Guo Leishu, the first American missionary peter parker and business people jointly founded the China Medical Missionary Society in Guangzhou, with Guo Leishu as the president and peter parker as the vice president. Soon Guo Leishu returned to Britain to live permanently, and peter parker became the actual person in charge. The medical association played a great role in contacting early medical missionaries. 1839, there were only two medical missionaries in China; Due to the promotion of peter parker, more and more medical missionaries came to China on 1842. Fifty years later, there are 6 1 hospitals, 44 pharmacies and 100 doctors and 26 female doctors engaged in medical education in China, and many China people have accepted the Christian faith because of their care for medical treatment.
Peter Parker's hospital saved not only many lives, but also many lost souls. Due to the free treatment and remarkable curative effect, Yan Chai Hospital soon became famous, and many patients from other places also came to seek treatment, and the hospital was overcrowded. In order to solve the shortage of manpower, peter parker recruited three young people from China in 1837 to teach them western medicine skills in the form of work-study programs and apprentices. One of the most successful is Guan Tao, who is the nephew of Lam Qua, a painter who often paints medical records for peter parker. Guan Tao studied medicine with peter parker at about 1838. Because of his clever nature and tireless study, he was able to perform ordinary eye surgery, tooth extraction, dislocation and fracture treatment independently a few years later. Because of his excellent academic performance, he was highly valued by peter parker. Every vacation, peter parker appointed Guan Tao to preside over the diagnosis and treatment work. His superb medical skills and good medical ethics are praised by Chinese and foreign people, and he is the first person in China to learn western medicine from westerners. After graduation, he became the first western doctor born and raised in China.