The Imperial Age with the Resurgence of Han Style

Chapter 69 Medical Hypothesis
"Ninth brother?"

A girl wearing a black horse-faced skirt and a cyan shirt revealed a beautiful face from the side door. When they saw Cao Ge and Li Yanliang with shocked expressions, they were startled for a moment, and then quickly came to the table. Standing next to him, he tried to take away the two human skeletons placed on top.But in the rush, a skull was knocked to the ground by her, rolling on the smooth floor.

Li Yanliang stepped forward, reached out and picked up the skull, and wanted to hand it to the girl.

However, the girl was already holding a human skeleton and had no extra hands to pick it up. She looked at Li Yanliang slightly shyly, and then turned to look at Cao Ge for help.

"Third uncle here?" Although Cao Ge has been in the navy for several years, he has never faced a bloody battlefield. He felt a chill for no reason at the human skeleton on the table and in the girl's arms.

"Well, my father and I came to Jianye last month." The girl held a human skeleton in her hands, but her beautiful face looked unusually calm, as if she was holding an ordinary girl's doll.

"Put down that... thing." Cao Ge frowned and said with a wry smile: "How can you, a female child, handle these things?"

"Brother Ninth, I'm here." The girl rolled her eyes at Cao Ge, but did not put down the human skeleton in her hand. Instead, she tilted her head and looked at Li Yanliang opposite her.

"Aren't you scared holding the skull?"

"not afraid."

"Have you ever killed someone?"

"Killed on the battlefield."

"Oh, no wonder, you are much braver than my ninth brother."

"Actually..." Li Yanliang looked at the skull in his hand and said softly, "Actually, this dead man's skull is really a bit scary."

"Then you didn't leave him behind after all." The girl pursed her lips and smiled, "Looking at your military uniform, you are from the Army, right? Why are you hanging out with my ninth brother?"

"Maybe it's because the smell is the same." Li Yanliang looked at Cao Ge who looked helpless and said mockingly.

"Giggle..." After hearing this, the girl couldn't help but laugh out loud, her eyes moved, she was indescribably cute and cute, "My ninth brother doesn't stink very much! Otherwise, he wouldn't crawl around in the mud in order to avoid it. , he went to join the navy. Since you are hanging out together, don’t you think he is particularly particular?...A few years ago, when I was still at home, I would change several sets of clothes almost every day. This made me introduce women one by one, all Feel inferior to yourself."

"Cao Xi!..." When Cao Ge heard this, he immediately lost his temper.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Brother Ninth." Seeing that Cao Ge was a little anxious, the girl smiled at him sheepishly, and then waved the attendants outside the door to come in and help her clean up the two human skeletons.

"Where is the third uncle?" When the girl was about to leave, Cao Ge asked from behind.

"Father is discussing medical science with people in the east branch hospital. ...Oh, don't go over there to say hello. It's a bit messy there. If you look at it, I'm afraid you might feel a little uncomfortable." After saying that, he winked at him, and then Then he turned and left.

"Make Yanliang laugh." Cao Ge spread his hands and said nervously.

"My sister, you are indeed a little...different."

"Oh, my third uncle has three sons and four daughters. She is the only one who is very interested in medicine. I still remember that when she was young, she followed her father to cut the cats, dogs, chickens and ducks in the mansion into pieces, leaving them all bloody. Incomparable." Cao Ge shook his head and said: "I didn't expect that after several years of seeing her, she still hasn't changed at all. Tell me, which woman would often display the skeleton of a dead person?"

"Well, you can't say that. Our country's medical achievements in surgical trauma are unparalleled in the world. It is only possible to achieve it with the tireless research and experiments of people like your uncle and your sister. Half a year ago, I was in India. Qipute was seriously injured, almost injuring his internal abdominal organs. If this had been left forty or fifty years ago, he would probably have lost his life. However, after the treatment of several skilled doctors from our country, I am now here. My recovery is as good as ever. In fact, in terms of social value, I think neither of us is as good as your uncle. ...Well, maybe not even your sister. After all, as soldiers, we are going to kill people. , but they are saving thousands of people."

"..." After hearing this, Cao Ge couldn't help but look at Li Yanliang deeply, "Yanliang, are you trying to take advantage of my sister?"

"Ahem..." Li Yanliang looked at the other party in astonishment and smiled bitterly, "Brother Cao, your position in Prince Lu's Palace is so high, how dare I climb so high?"

As he spoke, the figure of that exotic woman suddenly appeared in his mind.

At this time, it’s time for her to marry into the royal family of our Qi Kingdom! ——
"The human body is like the most sophisticated industrial instrument. Under the instructions of our thoughts, it keeps running until the end of life." Cao Chengcuo held a pointer in his hand and pointed at a diagram of the human body on the wall. He introduced to several colleagues in the Jianye medical field present: "The brain is our command system, the heart is like a pump, and muscles, cartilage, fibers, and blood vessels are like levers, springs, pulleys, and pipelines. When this When each machine is running normally, we are living lives and our bodies are in good health."

"However, when a machine fails, such as when the machine stops working, lacks fuel, or excessive mechanical friction, it means that there is a major pathology in a certain function of our body, affecting our normal operation. We have solved After studying many cases, we all know that many diseases are caused by internal organ infection, blood vessel obstruction, parasite invasion, etc. We can relieve and cure these diseases through surgery or medicine. It is like a steam engine that joins the whale. Oil, or cleaning parts, and finally repairing the damaged machine. However, due to the lack of various technical means, we are still unable to replace the damaged parts, which has to be said to be a big regret. But, this It is also the biggest challenge and opportunity for our medical community in the future." As early as 80 or [-] years ago, some amateur doctors in Qi State began to have a preliminary understanding of human organs, bones, and blood through a large number of "substantial" research, and It laid the foundation for Qi's early career in surgical medicine.

Later, with the emergence of various advanced instruments, especially the advent of high-power microscopes, medical researchers in Qi entered deeper areas of exploration and research on pathology.They informed the world of the most simple medical theory through countless autopsies of corpses, that is, the disease is located in specific organs, and the symptoms of the disease are basically consistent with the organ damage found after autopsy, so it is a pathological change of human organs. Produces external manifestations of disease.

This conclusion not only shocked the entire country of Qi, but also caused violent shocks around the world as the information spread.Although those traditional Chinese medicine doctors have accepted some modern medical knowledge after arriving in Qi State, many of them have a skeptical attitude, especially for some internal diseases.

However, the researcher introduced the occurrence and lesions of the disease in great detail through the autopsy instructions and corresponding supporting pictures, so that everyone had to believe this conclusion in the face of irrefutable facts.This is undoubtedly crucial to the innovation of everyone's concepts and the promotion of modern medicine.

When it comes to human anatomy, we have to mention that because of this situation, both the practitioners themselves and the entire Qi State have endured huge criticism and ridicule.

Although the ethos of Qi State is already extremely enlightened, and the people's wisdom is broadened almost like universal education, people's acceptance of autopsies is still not very high. This may be because traditional ideas still remain.After all, since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the dead are the most important, and they are buried in peace."Not to mention the Qin State and Europe on the mainland. At that time, dissecting corpses was either a treasonous thing or a job for lowly people.

Therefore, in other countries, including the Qin State, medical researchers from the Qi State frequently disembowelled the bodies of dead people and studied their various internal organs, blood and bone tissues, which can be described as "extremely evil" and "extremely cruel" , despised by the world.

What's more, some people say that the Qi State is not as civilized as it is advertised. It is rumored that the Qi State's violent agencies and medical researchers conducted in vivo research and various drug human experiments on countless Hanzhou natives and Nanyang natives. This kind of immoral behavior is even more despised by "certain countries and forces", who believe that this is a behavior more evil than "witchcraft" and is deviant.

But no matter what kind of criticism or ridicule, the new science of medicine is now developing in a broader and far-reaching direction in Qi, and it is becoming more and more popular.For those who have received eight years of complete compulsory education, no matter what their parents say, they have a more positive attitude towards this relatively rigorous and empirical science.After all, this is in line with the systematic education concept they received when they were in school. Old and outdated ideological shortcomings will eventually be eliminated.

It's ridiculous to say that those European countries, while lashing out at Qi for using some "evil" and "shady" means to research medicine, continue to spend a lot of money to buy and steal medical methods and technologies from Qi, as if they have never Stop stealing Qi's industrial technology.They even secretly bought some textbooks for junior high schools and primary schools in Qi State, as well as epidemic prevention and hygiene manuals, and took them back for careful research and copying.

I heard that in London and Paris, they have each established a large-scale translation library. In addition to recruiting scholars to teach Chinese, they also collect some basic textbooks, scientific magazines, and medical journals from Qi that have taken various risks and huge sums of money. Translation and reproduction of books, periodicals and even ordinary newspapers published in various places.

This caused the vitality theory and humoral theory that had been popular in Europe for hundreds of years to be gradually abandoned. At the same time, they also learned from Qi's medical development model and began to train professional doctors and nursing staff, instead of recruiting carpenters, carpenters, and nurses as before. Barbers and other personnel act as surgeons because this seems too unprofessional and dangerous.

In this period, when it comes to surgery, especially amputation surgery, which one is the most skilled? If the country's surgeons are ranked second, no one in the world would dare to be ranked first.

You should know that when amputation occurs, the most dangerous symptom is severe damage to the limb or the occurrence of jaundice.After many years of "practical" practice, Dr. Qi Guo has learned during the treatment process to remove more bones when preserving the most soft tissue, so that the skin can cover the bones so that they can form a layer that can adhere to them after a period of time. On the stump of the injured limb available.Regarding how to stop bleeding during surgery, the people of Qi also learned to use blood vessel ligation after countless dissections and experiments, instead of using the traditional methods of boiling oil and cauterizing the wound with a soldering iron to stop bleeding.

Therefore, extensive anatomy practice will be one of the essential conditions for cultivating a skilled surgeon.Only through a lot of study and practice can people fully understand the structure of the human body. Recruiting "Teacher Tony" as a surgeon like in continental Europe - what's even more damning is that they are all part-time, which is simply a waste of human life.They would simply chop off the hands and feet, and leave it to God to decide whether they can be cured in the end.

"According to what Brother Cao said, internal organ transplantation is like replacing parts of a machine, so it should be theoretically feasible." Peng Zongyu, senior professor and head of Jianye Medical College, stood up and walked to the diagram of the human body. , holding his chin, said thoughtfully: "But the problem is, when inserting a new part into the machine, how to make it closely and seamlessly connect with the original parts, and also give full play to the original parts?" What is the effect of it? Through observation under a microscope, we can all see that the blood vessels in the human body are as thin as a hair. Oh, no, they should be even thinner than a hair. How do we connect these blood vessels together, just like laying the groundwork for the machine? Like an air supply pipeline, it continuously restores blood supply to new organ parts."

"Mr. Peng's doubt is also the biggest confusion I have had over the years." Cao Chengci smiled bitterly and said: "With the means and technology we currently have in Qi, I think the replacement and transplantation of internal organs is simply impossible. Perhaps, as time goes by and technology and tools develop and advance by leaps and bounds, our medical ideas can become reality. Over the past ten years, I have conducted countless animal experiments, but none of them have been successful. The biggest difficulty is It is the connection between the blood vessels and nerves attached to the organ.”

"Indeed, what cannot be done with current technical means may not be possible in 50 to 100 years, or even 100 years from now." Ji Zupei, a professor at the Jianye Institute of Surgery and Medicine, said with a smile: "This would have been possible 200 years ago. Who would have thought that there would be speeding steam locomotives on land, and who would have thought that in this world, only a copper wire can transmit sound thousands of miles. Maybe one or two hundred years later, people will be able to change the A head will do!”

"If we have to change a head, is this person still the same person?"

At this time, Cao Xi happened to walk in holding a human skeleton. Hearing this sentence, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Oh?" Everyone present was stunned when they heard Cao Xi's question.

Yes, if a person changes his head, is he still the same person?
"Styles are different at the same time, things are different and people are different, so what can I do?" Peng Zongyu smiled and quoted a poem from Cao Pi's "Wu Zhi Shu" with Chao Ge Ling, "This has not yet been accomplished, but we are worried about its ethics. , I’m afraid it’s a bit unfounded.”

"Mr. Peng, the little girl is thinking, does a person's thinking lie in the heart or in the brain?" Cao Xi held on to this question and continued to ask: "If it is in the heart, then how does it continue to produce blood and be a human being at the same time?" Provide thoughts for thinking? If it is in the brain, does that mean that the mind can still continue to think even when it leaves the body?"

"..." When everyone heard this question, they all looked at each other for a while, but no one gave a definite answer.

Although, at this time, many scholars basically believed that the "brain" produced thoughts, and the heart was just a "muscle".But how the brain generates thoughts has not been proven.Now, this question was raised by a girl in person, which stumped everyone.

"Haha..." Cao Chengcuo looked at his daughter with a cute face, smiled, shook his head, and said softly: "We don't have a conclusion on this question yet, and we will prove it later. ... By the way, come from the front yard. Who?"

"It's Brother Ninth who is back." Cao Xi responded with a smile: "I think he got a leave from the army and returned to Jianye. He also brought back a companion. ... I guess he might invite some colleagues and friends to gather at this time. Let's get together, drink and talk. Hehe, it will probably last until midnight."

(End of this chapter)