The Imperial Age with the Resurgence of Han Style

Chapter 48 Chang'an Royal Medical College

Chang'an Royal Medical College, located in Xuanwu District, is not only an institution of higher learning that trains medical talents and studies various pathologies. To the north of the medical school with an elegant environment, there is also a large-scale hospital with the most superior medical conditions in the eastern region. Hospital.

The entire hospital covers an area of ​​more than 50 acres and has more than 680 beds. Five multi-story buildings are distributed in a star shape and connected by several groups of corridors. They include a consultation hall, a traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy, an infection isolation area, and a general patient area. The diagnosis and treatment area also has corresponding canteens, hot water rooms, medical accommodation areas, toilets and other functional facilities.

With the development of Qi State, social stratification has become more obvious. Members of the royal family, high-ranking officials, and extremely wealthy people have become the top group of people in the country. In addition to obtaining a large amount of social resources and wealth, they also enjoy the benefits that ordinary people have. Unprecedented top treatment.

As a hospital that treats illnesses and saves lives, this huge social class difference is clearly reflected in the classification of wards.

Those wards for ordinary people, the so-called large wards, are large and transparent rooms, which are simply separated by screens. The beds range from eight to twenty. The environment is noisy and there is no privacy space. , but the charges are relatively low.However, relatively speaking, the conditions in the children's ward are slightly better.

The conditions in ordinary small wards are better. They are divided into three levels: A, B, and C. There are single rooms, two-person rooms, and three-person rooms. Patients will feel more comfortable living here. It is mainly for the middle class with a little extra money. It is equipped with bedside tables, wardrobes, washrooms, etc., while the nurse's room, duty room, pantry, etc. are public.

The high-end wards are completely exclusive to the privileged class.Not only is each ward separate, but it also has a lounge, bathroom (and toilet), nursing room, office, and reception room.

The room is covered with soft Persian carpets, and there is a washbasin with a huge mirror in the bathroom. The hospital bed is also made of high-quality nanmu from Xuanhua (Timor Island), with exquisite patterns carved on it.There is a bedside table in front of the hospital bed, a wardrobe in the room, flowers on the windowsill, and even the curtains are made of silk.

Outside the high-end wards, there are also dedicated nurse rooms, pantry rooms, examination rooms, etc. If the patient has any emergency, the treating (or on-duty) doctor will arrive as soon as possible.

After Song Wenru looked around the ward, he sighed slightly in his heart and turned his eyes back to the face of the sleeping lady on the hospital bed.

"My mother has often fallen into drowsiness since she fell ill. Every time she wakes up, she is dripping with sweat, slightly deficient, and looks very bad." A middle-aged man in Chinese clothes who was nearly forty years old said softly: "Several people The doctor who treated her said that her mother was terminally ill and that she might not be able to save her. Her final days may be... just these few days. Recently, many members of the royal family have come to visit my mother to express their condolences."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Aren't you worried that your mother still hasn't forgiven you?" A luxurious woman in her thirties said coldly: "If I see you and become anxious and sick, you will be blamed!"

"Third sister!" The man in fine clothes scolded in a low voice: "How do you speak?... She is your eldest sister!"

"She has been away from home for more than 20 years and her mother doesn't recognize her anymore. How can she still be my eldest sister?" the luxurious woman responded unceremoniously.

"Third sister, you are still as bitter and stingy as you were when you were a child." Song Wenru glanced at the woman and shook her head gently.

"Huh, am I bitter and stingy? I'm better than some rebellious and unfilial woman!... For more than 20 years, I have been indifferent to my mother and ignored me, the Song family!"

"Stop saying a few words." Song Changqing saw Song Wenru biting her lower lip tightly and her eyes were red. She sighed slightly and waved her hand to stop her: "Wenru was summoned by your mother. Don't make any more noise. ... …Oh, we are all one family!”

After hearing her father's questioning, Song Wenning didn't say anything more. She just glanced at Song Wenru hatefully, then sat down on the leather chair beside her and looked at her mother on the hospital bed with concern.

Now that my mother is gone, our Song family may become a little more distant from the royal family.

"...Father, mother's illness..." When she thought that she had not seen her mother for more than 20 years and saw her again in a place like this, and she was still seriously ill, Song Wenru's nose suddenly became sore and her tears stopped. It keeps flowing down. "Dean Liu said that your mother's condition is not very good..." Song Changqing said softly: "The day before yesterday, when I woke up a little, I suddenly said your name. So, I asked Wenyan to bring you here... You Mother still misses you in her heart. Alas, why have you, a child, suffered for more than 20 years?"

"Since the doctors in Chang'an are not good, we will send my mother to Jianye. Will the medical conditions and technology there be better?" Song Wenru wiped her tears and looked at Song Changqing hopefully.

"When my mother was seriously ill, two doctors were invited from Jianye." Song Wenyan interjected: "But after careful examination, they also thought that my mother's illness was... too late. They said that it might be the mother's stomach ache. The head and digestive system were damaged, resulting in constant vomiting of blood, swelling of the upper abdomen, and difficulty in eating."

In Qi State, when it comes to medical means and technical level, it is Jianye General Hospital.As early as the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, when Jianye City was still the temporary capital, Qi State established its earliest medical and health system in order to deal with various infectious diseases that were prevalent during the immigration and land reclamation period.Later, a series of medical research institutions were established, including the Institute of Frontier Medicine, the Institute of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Institute of Virology, and the Surgical Experimental Center.

As soon as these health research institutions were established, they carried out a number of medical and health experiments, water quality testing, pharmaceutical production and testing and other tasks.We have also begun to prevent and treat various infectious diseases such as measles, plague, scarlet fever, yellow fever, diphtheria, smallpox, and malaria that are rampant in Hanzhou and overseas territories in Southeast Asia, and actively improve basic medical support such as maternal and child production health care and child malnutrition. Work.

Through years of in-depth research and continuous collection of various prescriptions from the mainland, Qi's Chinese herbal medicine has made great progress.Relying on thousands of Chinese medicine books imported from the mainland over the past decades, researchers have repeatedly verified and experimented with various ancient Chinese medicine books and prescriptions. At the same time, they have scientifically discussed and verified traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions that have been used since ancient times. Human trials must also be conducted to find out the facts.

Regardless, this is a pretty pragmatic move.At present, more than half of the medical staff (including senior nursing staff) and 80.00% of the experienced doctors in Qi are trained in traditional Chinese medicine, including many well-known doctors from Qin and North Korea. Many of them once opened local medicine shops to take pulses of patients. She has extensive experience in prescribing medicine.

However, during this period, after all, there was an extreme lack of modern medical equipment and modern drugs, and Qi's medical institutions were still unable to provide absolutely targeted and effective treatment.The people of Qi could only try to find out what was useful to the medical cause from the vast collection of ancient Chinese medical books, and eliminate the essentials from various traditional Chinese medicine methods, theories, and prescriptions. Experiment, develop the most cutting-edge medical methods and technologies, and strive to promote the development and progress of Qi's medical and health undertakings.

In addition, in addition to studying various adult diseases, as an immigrant country with a very short population, Qi's medical and health departments have undoubtedly also conducted a lot of research on childcare, pregnancy and gynecological diseases.At present, considerable achievements have been made in this regard. The maternal mortality rate has been reduced to 10%-12%. During the same period, the maternal mortality rate in Europe was as high as 30%-35%; the average mortality rate of infants under one year old is It has also dropped to 2% to 3%. The infant mortality rate in Europe is 8% to 12%, and the mortality rate of infants sent to wet nurses to feed has reached a terrifying 66%.

To put it bluntly, after babies are born in Europe, they are usually given to wet nurses to nurse and raise, rather than being breastfed by their biological mothers.For a long time in the past, Europeans generally believed that breastfeeding would destroy a woman's breast shape, endanger her health, and also affect her nature and life (because nature and life will corrode breast milk). Therefore, only the bottom of society Only women choose to breastfeed.

However, these lower-class women are often engaged in heavy manual labor, which deprives them of the time to breastfeed. Therefore, hiring wet nurses has become the choice of the vast majority of European mothers.Wealthy families may invite wet nurses to their homes, but most children will be sent to the wet nurses' homes for feeding. Most of these wet nurses live in the countryside, and their homes are in dilapidated condition. Most of the children sent to be fostered will die early. .

During the founding of Qi State, the medical and health departments vigorously advocated infant breastfeeding, which played a key role in improving infant survival rates.At the same time, in order to increase the nutrition of infants and young children during their growth period, the civil affairs department in Qi also provides financial subsidies for auxiliary infant and young child foods such as cow's milk, goat's milk, and malt to some families who lack breast milk.

These various medical and health measures have laid a solid foundation for the development of maternal and child health care in the country.

It can be said that in terms of medical and health care, the development level of Qi has far exceeded that of traditional Eastern countries such as Qin and North Korea. Compared with European countries, it is even further behind them by an Indian Ocean distance. Those who have come from "Tony the Barber" European witch doctors who were transformed from carpenters had no effective treatment methods except bloodletting, amputation, enemas and other crude methods.Holy water, opium, and mercury are the "miraculous elixirs" they use to cure all diseases!
Medical researchers in Qi have always believed that reducing deaths from disease is more important than encouraging births.The State of Qi is a country built on a barren and barren land, and the virgin land of the wilderness means that it is uninhabitable, or that this land has not been environmentally modified and is full of various disease-causing factors. This has been true since the early days of the founding of the State of Qi. This can be seen by the large number of people dying every month from various epidemics.The environmental and geographical conditions in the eastern, southeast, and southwest regions of Qi are slightly better. Jianye Prefecture in the north, Weihai Prefecture in the northeast, vast inland areas, Weiyuan (now New Guinea Island), Xuanhua (Timor) The natural environment in the surrounding territories such as the island), Jingping (now Sulawesi), Borneo, Luzon, and Sumatra is not so friendly.

In those places, only a few people may die from indigenous attacks in a certain settlement every year, but the number of people who die from various epidemics, tropical diseases and even unknown diseases is often several or more than ten times that, which is shocking. Incessantly.

It's no wonder that the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish have been immigrating to the Americas for so long, but there are only so many people. The mortality rate is really too high.Of course, Virginia and New England in North America are also very similar. When they were first opened up, a large number of people died of various diseases, which was really a headache.

In other words, without a better medical system and health and epidemic prevention knowledge, the work of exploring the wilderness will become extremely dangerous.Especially in the early days of Qi State, most of the population still had to be transported thousands of miles from distant continents. The desire for a good health system and medical system was even far greater than that of the colonial countries in the old continent - well, our Qi State did not have that. So many gray animals are used for land reclamation.Of course, it is precisely for this reason that the Qi State has used and exploited the Nanyang natives to the extreme, using their piles of corpses to carve out patches of livable fertile soil in the vast wilderness.

Therefore, whether in the past, now, or even in the future, Qi's investment in medical research will continue.In this colonial era of great strife, population was always the most important resource.

(End of this chapter)