This year is dry Huangmei. I don't know when to enter or go out of Huangmei. Immediately, the weather was unbearable, and the maximum temperature was over 40.

Now people's housing, household appliances, nutrition and other conditions are better. Most people have air conditioners, at least electric fans, and heatstroke is rare.

It reminds me that thirty or forty years ago, every time in summer, the hot season was the busiest season in the hospital.

At that time, I was working in a comprehensive hospital of western medicine. Even Chinese medicine had to take turns to see doctors in the emergency room from 6:00 to 10:00 in the evening, which was called "battle fever".

There are many patients with high fever and diarrhea. People sent in from heatstroke, stroke and coma, especially the elderly, are constantly hearing the bell of ambulances, sometimes in an endless stream.

The ambulance bell at that time was indeed hand cranked. It was placed outside the window on the right side of the front row of the ambulance. The ambulance attendant kept on hand cranking the copper bell. It seems that there is an electronic roar now.

At that time, there was no air conditioner in the outpatient, emergency and ward of the hospital, and not every department had electric fans.

In order to lower the room temperature of patients with high temperature heatstroke and stroke, the hospital bought many large ice cubes and placed them under the patient's bed with large bathtubs.

Some patients put ice on their bodies to cool down. At that time, the mortality rate of heatstroke, stroke and diarrhea was much higher than that of today.

Remembering those unforgettable hot summer days, those unforgettable emergency "war heat", gone forever.