1899 10, Ni Baochun was born in Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province. 19 16 was sent to Tsinghua University with the first place in Soochow High School. Studying hard at a cold window and failing in western learning were almost the only way for outstanding medical people of that era. 192 1 year, Ni Baochun graduated with honors from the University of Chicago. After five years' study, she obtained the doctor's degree in medicine from Johns Hopkins University. 65438-0926 began to study plastic surgery with Professor john davis, a famous plastic surgeon at that time, under the support of Rockwell Scholarship.
From 65438 to 0928, Ni Baochun returned to China and worked as a school doctor and human anatomy assistant at St. John's University in Shanghai. 1936 established the first plastic surgery department in China in Tongren Hospital, School of Medicine, St. John's University. During this period, some China doctors studying plastic surgery in the west, such as Professor Dong of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, are also trying to carry out plastic surgery such as cleft lip and palate repair and eye and nose reconstruction. From 65438 to 0949, Ni Baochun reported the research results of costal cartilage transplantation for saddle nose in English edition of Chinese Medical Journal, which was the first modern cosmetic surgery paper published in domestic medical journals. Since then, diligent cultivators have explored and practiced in this brand-new field, accumulating valuable experience for the future development of plastic surgery.
In addition to pioneering achievements in the field of plastic surgery, Ni Baochun has also made outstanding contributions to medical education. He knew that China's medical career could not rely on one person to fight alone. Only education can sow the seeds of medicine and pass on firewood from generation to generation. Ni Baochun said frankly: "Before I was 60 years old, my students could surpass me and do better than many of us. This is my hope. " As he said, teaching and educating people is his goal in life. Even in the era of frequent wars, he still took great pains.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Tongren Hospital in Hongkou couldn't keep up, so it had to move to Sanyitang North Campus of Jiujiang Road. 19311When China's army retreated to the west at the beginning of October, Ni Baochun and other relevant people came forward to negotiate, rented the National Academia Sinica opposite Zhongshan Garden on Changning Road, and converted it into Tongren Second Hospital to treat refugees and wounded soldiers, and also served as the teaching hospital of St. John's University School of Medicine. From 65438 to 0939, Ni Baochun was transferred to the post of Deputy Chief of the Red Cross Rescue Corps and concurrently served as Director of Kunming Office. Ni Baochun led some doctors and nurses of St. John's Medical College to take charge of wartime medical rescue work in Yunnan and other places.
1947 65438+ 10, Ni Baochun, who has returned to Shanghai from Yunnan-Myanmar Highway, became the acting president of Shanghai St. John's University. In June165438+1October of the same year, Ni Baochun was appointed as the Dean of St. John's University School of Medicine. After taking office, he wrote in a report to the joint board of directors of American Christian University in China: "Peace has come, and most of us naturally returned to Shanghai, but we found that Tongren Hospital temporarily stayed in Fujian Road and lost almost everything, including books and case files, but Hongren Hospital kept most of the equipment. So, now we have merged two hospitals in Hongren ... At present, we have 154 students, and 44 of the 56 faculty members are engaged in clinical practice ... "In the difficult situation of war, he is not considering personal gains and losses, but always thinking about the survival safety and development prospects of medical schools.
From 65438 to 0952, the national colleges and departments were adjusted, and three famous medical schools, namely Shanghai St. John's University Medical College, Aurora University Medical College and Tongde Medical College, were merged to form Shanghai Second Medical College. Ni Baochun accepted the letter of appointment signed by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou, vice president of Shanghai Second Medical College and president of Guangci Hospital. Ni Baochun devoted a lot of efforts to the construction and development of Shanghai Second Medical College.
In the book Shen Kefei's Surgery published in the early 1950s, Ni Baochun wrote a chapter on plastic surgery. 1980, in his later years, Ni Baochun used the waste heat to translate Yang Zhijun's Theory of Burns into English, which was published in West Germany on 1982.
Ni Baochun was peaceful and detached in his later years, and donated a garden villa under his name to Shanghai Second Medical College. He took the initiative to fill in the donation book and devoted his life to medical career and medical education.