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而这个人不仅是中国本土第一个发顶级期刊杂志的科学家和医学家,也是中国本土撰写发表的第一部英文国际专著,这本专著题名为 A Treatise on Pneumonic Plague Geneva: League of Nations, Health Organization, 1926,这480页的全英文鼠疫理论专著,创立了“肺鼠疫”学说,这部著作被誉为“鼠疫防治理论的里程碑”。而伍连德博士对鼠疫的研究,也是当时世界上最顶端的,他领导的东北防疫总处,也是世界上研究鼠疫最权威的科研机构。当时国外许多知名的学者都想去他那儿深造工作,比如,剑桥大学的陈永汉,维也纳大学的奥地利人伯力士,剑桥大学的陈祀邦,爱丁堡大学的英国人罗纳德,哈佛大学毕业的刘瑞衡,后来是协和的首任中国院长等。大家知道吗,后来日本人发动侵华战争用的细菌战,就是盗用了伍连德博士的研究成果。
大多数人都说,伍连德是中国人吗,应该是华侨吧,这样的华侨太多了,如杨振宁、丁肇中,还有最近获诺贝尔的钱永健等等。我非常伤心听到这样的话,因为伍博士国际上那么有名,他无论身处满清,国民党,还是在英伦剑桥,还是在南阳(马来西亚和新加坡),他都说自己是中国人,而在剑桥出版的自传,书名为 Plague Fighter: The Autobiography of a Modern Chinese Physician《鼠疫斗士:一个现代中国医生的自传》,而我们就把伍博士给开除中国籍了。钱永健,从来不说自己是中国人,他说自己美国人。所以在此不要把伍连德和那些华侨去比。
“The Old China, to which the author had devoted the best part of his life, from the later days of the Manchu Dynasty through the formative years of the Chinese Republic until the collapse of the Kuomintang regime, is still fresh in the minds of many, and it is hoped that the ascendency of the new Chinese People’s Government may result in the continued happiness and prospersity of that great country, which in the course of its 4000-5000 years of history has seen so many triumphs and vicissitudes before achieving its present status in this everchanging world.”