The Importance Of People's Understanding And Protection Of Masks In The History Of The Outbreak

With the outbreak in the country, everyone has reached an unprecedented demand for masks, which has made masks a necessity of life.

So in the history of how masks were born, it is recorded that Marco Polo, an Italian traveller in the 13th century AD, came to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. For the wonderful civilization of the East, he returned to the motherland after writing for 17 years and wrote <Marco Polo Travels>

'In the Yuan Dynasty palace, all the people who donated food covered their mouths and noses with a silk cloth, so that they could breathe and not touch the food and drink.' This kind of'snouted silk cloth' used by court attendants in the Yuan Dynasty maybe The first "masks" in the true sense of history.

But at that time, the facial tissue woven of silk and gold thread was very rare, and the function was only to avoid the "jin jin jade liquid" of the attendants from contaminating the emperor's food.

The doctor of the beak in the shadow of the European Black Death, the plague of the plague called the "Black Death" that swept across Europe in the 1440s and 50s, claimed the lives of 25 million Europeans.

In the European continent covered by the Black Death, a special mask was invented by "Charles De Love". In response to the Black Death, doctors born in France created masks that covered the entire face in the shape of a bird's beak, and matching Siamese "protective clothing", the design of the beak allows the air to be effectively purified in this long pipe. At the time, people generally believed that the black death disease was spread through the poisonous "disgust".

The mask was in close contact with medicine for the first time. The advancement of medicine in 1876, especially the surgeon realized how important it is to avoid contact with doctors and patients, and a sterile shell was born.

Although the specifications for aseptic surgery include disinfection of surgical instruments with carbohydrate, surgeons have to wear surgical gowns, caps, and rubber gloves, but they are not required to use masks, which causes doctors to often transmit bacteria in their nasal cavity to patients. Wound infection, which did not pay enough attention at that time, no one thought that "the disease came out of the mouth".

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In 1895, German pathologist Lederch asked doctors and nurses to wear a gauze mask to cover the mouth and nose during surgery and care. Surely, the infection rate of patients' wounds was greatly reduced. This was the first in modern medical history. A medical mask, but the function of this mask is not to protect medical workers but to protect patients in the reverse direction.

The birth of Chinese Wu-style masks. In 1910, an unidentified epidemic occurred in Northeast China, and the plague broke out in Harbin. At that time, Wu Liande, the deputy supervisor of Beiyang Army Academy, invented the "Wu-style masks", which were promoted after obtaining practical results. It is made of gauze for foot surgery, and the two sides are cut with two knives, divided into 3 straps with a length of 1 foot each, keeping the middle part not cut, folded into a size of 6 inches x 4 inches to wrap disinfectant cotton. This mask is soft It can be adjusted and worn tightly on the face and face and neck. In 1911, "Wu-style mask" was praised by experts from various countries.

Popularization of Spanish modern masks for influenza. In the spring of 1918, the two-year Spanish flu swept the world. After the spread of Sanlun, a total of 1 billion people were unfortunately infected worldwide. The death toll is conservatively estimated at more than 25 million. In order to fight against the epidemic, the people of all countries require mandatory wearing of masks to prevent the spread of influenza. Since then, the mask has become a symbolic image of the emergence of the disease.

The spread of the epidemic made us realize the benefits of wearing a mask and the importance of taking precautions. The mask can not only isolate bacteria, dust and smog in the air, but also better protect the respiratory tract and facial skin, and can prevent the spread of droplets. When you go out, you have to wash your hands frequently to cut off the transmission route.

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