Spy Under Sky Chapter 358

Purple light is the name of ultraviolet lamp during the Republic of China period.

In 1904, Dr. Heraeus of Germany invented the ultraviolet lamp. In 1920, the Western medical community began to study the use of ultraviolet lamps to disinfect the air. In January of this year (1936), several hospitals in Germany, France and the United Kingdom began to use ultraviolet lamps to disinfect the air in surgical operating rooms.

Although Shanghai Guangci Hospital was not favored by Chinese government leader President Chang, it was the largest hospital in the Far East during this period. It could basically be said to be the first choice hospital for Shanghai bigwigs and Nanjing politicians to seek medical treatment. In addition, the French Concession Municipal Council paid a huge sum of hundreds of thousands of silver dollars to Guangci Hospital every year. Therefore, the medical equipment of Guangci Hospital was not much inferior to those of the most advanced large hospitals in Europe at this time. It almost followed the footsteps of several large hospitals in Europe. In February of this year, just a few days before the murder and theft occurred in the ancestral temple of Cao Huowang, the former deputy director of the Hangzhou Civil Affairs Department, the operating room was equipped with the most advanced ultraviolet disinfection lamp at that time.

The reason why Gavin Lin knew this news was because Guangci Hospital promoted the technology of using ultraviolet lamps to disinfect the air in surgical operating rooms as a gimmick in newspapers.

However, Colonel Price obviously didn't pay much attention to local news in Shanghai, and knew little about the progress of medical science. When he heard Gavin Lin say the word "purple light", he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Purple light? Do you mean the light bulb with a layer of purple paint on the glass of the incandescent light bulb? There is no need to go to Guangci Hospital, we should have it in the warehouse of our headquarters. During Christmas last year, we prepared a lot of colored light bulbs, many of which were purple."