1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 438 Medicine
On September 1642, 9, Hanzhou, Heishan City (near Palmerston, Australia today).

A round garrison soldier from the Heishan Mine commanded several Hanzhou natives to carry the two corpses to a large morgue in the Heishan Medical Research Institute, and then hurriedly left this extremely gloomy place.The township soldiers who are stationed in the mine don't like to come to this place the most, because all the miners who died in the mine due to various reasons will be transported here. corpse.

People around Heishan City vaguely know that this so-called medical research institute is said to specialize in the study of the dead.The doctors here will chop up the corpses transported here, and dig out the various organs and tissues of the human body to study and ponder carefully, saying that it is for better and more targeted treatment of various diseases in the future.

Of course, there is also a terrifying rumor here, saying that the people inside are studying how to make various parts of the corpse into food to meet the needs of the general public in Hanzhou for meat.However, such rumors are naturally unreliable and seem very false. If they are heard by the police or the agents of the polling office, they will have to be locked up in a dark room for "education", or they will be directly accused of spreading rumors. The crime was thrown to the mine as a coolie for several years.

In short, the Montenegro Medical Research Institute is a place full of mystery and horror, and ordinary people have always kept a respectful distance from it.

However, as the king of the Great Qi Kingdom in Hanzhou, Qi Tian often comes here to see what new developments and research results there are.Compared with Ming Dynasty, the environment in Hanzhou is relatively harsh, especially in the northern and northeastern regions, where the climate is hot, densely forested, and there are many swamps and tidal flats.Accompanying it is the rampant epidemic and various diseases such as headaches and brain fevers caused by unacceptable water and soil.

Therefore, in addition to attaching great importance to and supporting industry in Hanzhou, the research and development of medicine and medicine has also been favored by the policies and finances of the Daqi Kingdom.Every year, the immigrant fleet purchases a huge amount of finished medicinal materials and seeds and seedlings of various Chinese herbal medicines from Daming. As for doctors, doctors and other medical practitioners, as special personnel, they are given priority in collecting and introducing them.

The Tiangong College in Jianye City has a special medical major. It recruits students who have completed the five-year early and intermediate general education, and then provides them with systematic and comprehensive professors for four to five years. Through their own learning and field practice research , trying to scale up and cultivate a group of local medical professionals in Hanzhou.

Today, Qi Tian came to this Montenegro Medical Research Institute to deliver a set of special and important medical equipment to the doctors here.

As the most qualified doctor in Hanzhou, Peng Laogui was naturally the first to use the strange set of small brackets brought by Qitian, and under Qitian's guidance, he leaned down and brought one eye to the mouth of the mirror to watch.

"... Tear it up!" Peng Laogui just took a look, as if he had discovered some monster, he suddenly raised his head to look at Qi Tian, ​​with an expression of disbelief on his face, then moved the small bracket away and looked at it. A few tiny strands of hair on the table.

"Old ghost, you are only in your fifties, and you haven't reached the point where your old eyes are dim." Qi Tian said with a smile: "After reading this, don't you think it's amazing?"

"...It's kind of magical!" Peng Laogui murmured, and then he gently twisted up one of the tiny strands of hair, put it on the mirror under the small bracket, and bent down to continue watching.

After watching for a long time, Peng Laogui stood up and gave up the observation position to Ding Chuangen and other disciples.

"Through this, can we observe many things inside the human body that cannot be seen with the naked eye?"

"The multiplier is still a bit low." Qi Tian shook his head and said, "But you can barely see some thick blood vessels and small human tissues inside the human body. As for more subtle substances, such as cells and substances in blood, they are mostly Can't see."

What Qi Tian sent people to bring was the mirror-making craftsmen of Hanzhou Liulichang who spent months and wasted countless lenses to grind out qualified lenses and combine them into a simple microscope.

In fact, the earliest microscopes were made in the Netherlands at the end of the 16th century. The inventors were the optician Yas Jansen and another Dutch scientist, Hans Liperch. They made a simple microscope with two lenses, but they did not. No significant observations have been made with this instrument.

Then two people started using microscopes in science.The first was the Italian scientist Galileo, who described the compound eyes of an insect for the first time after observing it through a microscope.The second is Levin Hooke, a Dutch linen merchant, who himself learned to grind higher-resolution lenses and described many tiny plants and animals invisible to the naked eye by using a microscope.

In the late 17th century, Italian M. Malbighi observed animal tissues, discovered capillaries, and also observed the microstructure of spleen, kidney and other tissues.And Levin Hooke also observed through a microscope and saw tiny human substances such as sperm and blood cells.He also observed the flow of blood cells through capillaries while observing the tails of tadpoles.

Doctors such as Peng Laogui from the Institute of Medical Research have gained a clear understanding of the normal structure of the human body by dissecting countless corpses. On this basis, they have realized that some abnormal structures are organs affected by diseases. changes, and based on this, some preliminary scientific speculations have been made on the cause of the disease.But Qi Tian reminded these doctors based on the superficial medical knowledge in his previous life that certain diseases should be regarded as local injuries, and each disease has its corresponding lesion in a certain organ, that is, the "focus".The so-called treatment of diseases is to make a medical diagnosis of these "focuses", make a targeted treatment and eliminate the cause.

Today, the mirror craftsmen of Jianye Liulichang are still grinding lenses with higher definition and larger magnification to improve the recognition magnification of the microscope, which has made Hanzhou a further breakthrough in the development of microscopic medicine.Moreover, in view of the fact that the Montenegro Medical Research Institute dissected countless corpses, Qi Tian proposed the concept of clinical medicine and clinical medicine teaching to all doctors.

You know, internal medicine didn't make much progress until the 17th century.Medical skills are similar to those in the Middle Ages, and the theory of four body fluids is still the basis of disease theory.Many well-known European medical experts are still very supportive of Hippocrates (a physician in the era of Pericles in ancient Greece, revered by the West as the "father of medicine" and the founder of Western medicine) on the idea of ​​"natural healing power". This fully shows that clinical medicine was still very backward at that time.It was not until the late 17th century that the Englishman Thomas Sydenham proposed the concept of Linchuan medicine, and it was not until the 18th century that the teaching of clinical medicine began to rise.

Of course, while the Great Qi Kingdom of Hanzhou advocated clinical medicine, it also spared no effort to support and assist traditional Chinese medicine.Chinese medicine is specially set up in the intermediate professional courses of the university hall and the advanced professional courses of Tiangong College, mainly to study the four classics of traditional Chinese medicine: "Huangdi Neijing", "Huangdi 81 Difficulties", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "Shen Nong The Classic of Materia Medica, as well as theoretical books on traditional Chinese medicine such as Compendium of Materia Medica, Treatise on the Causes and Symptoms of Various Diseases, and Thousand Gold Prescriptions.

In Hanzhou, every Han immigrant is extremely precious. If it takes time and effort to bring people back from Daming, and they lose their lives because of a small headache or acclimatization, it is not worthwhile.

Population growth, in addition to vigorous immigration and childbearing efforts, the most important thing is to improve the level of medical and health care in Hanzhou as much as possible, and reduce the mortality of infants and young children and the mortality of diseases in the adult population.

(End of this chapter)