Abstract
The Chinese scholar, journalist, and philosopher, Liang Qichao said, “From late Qing Dynasty to Republic of China, about 50 years since science came into China, only Dr. Wu Lien Teh (Fig. 1) can meet and talk with foreign scientists as a real scholar.” In 1935, he also became the first Chinese doctor nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Highlights
Dr Wu Lien Teh (Wu Liande 伍连德) was born in Penang on March 10th, 1879 and, at 17, went to England to study at Emmanuel College, at the University of Cambridge
Within 4 months, it had claimed over 60,000 lives. After his arrival at Harbin, Dr Wu performed the first-ever postmortem exam in China on a Japanese woman who had died from the epidemic
He discovered Yersinia Pestis in the body tissues and further concluded that the epidemic was pneumonic plague, which could be transmitted by human breath or sputum
Summary
Dr Wu Lien Teh (Wu Liande 伍连德) was born in Penang on March 10th, 1879 and, at 17, went to England to study at Emmanuel College, at the University of Cambridge. In the fall of 1910, the deadly epidemic broke out in the northeastern region of China. After his arrival at Harbin, Dr Wu performed the first-ever postmortem exam in China on a Japanese woman who had died from the epidemic.
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