"Associate professor?"

After listening to John's self-introduction, the classroom suddenly became lively.

Such a young associate professor?

Many people have a suspicious expression on their faces, especially James, whose eyes are round, his mouth is wide open, and he looks like he has seen a ghost!

Not a lecturer? Associate professor?!

"This guy isn't kidding, is he?"

Subconsciously, a thought suddenly rose in James's heart, but soon this thought was left behind him. Although he didn't have much contact with on weekdays, he still had a rough idea of what kind of person John was, and this kind of joke didn't seem like he could make it. Other words......

"Did this guy really become an associate professor at the University of Berlin half a year after he got his degree?"

After confirming this, James was suddenly taken aback!

The University of Berlin is in a position where the professors are basically the best in Europe, and the associate professors, although slightly inferior, can easily compete for a professorship if they go to other schools. James remembered that John was only twenty years old today, and he was hired as an associate professor at the University of Berlin, and the sudden news was so shocking......

"Gentlemen! Please be quiet! ”

Facing the chaos in the classroom, John on the podium knocked on the table calmly and said aloud: "I know you may doubt my age, but you have time to verify this later, let's go to class!" ”

Gradually, the classroom fell silent.

Despite his youth, John's calmness made the students quiet down after a brief moment of doubt. After all, at the University of Berlin, there has never been a teacher who dares to blatantly lie in class, and as John just said. It's very easy to confirm this.

Under everyone's gaze, John turned around and erased his name first, and then wrote another line of large letters on the blackboard: Surgery!

The words aren't pretty, but they're powerful.

After turning around and pressing his hands on the podium, and looking around the dozens of students in the classroom, John spoke, "Gentlemen. Just a few decades ago, only internal medicine physicians were required to study at university, but surgeons were not. Of course, the status of surgeons was and still is far less important than that of internal medicine doctors......"

"But!"

Suddenly aggravating his tone, John said in a deep voice: "This situation changed fundamentally forty years ago, that is, the emergence of anesthetics and surgical sterilization technology, which allowed surgery to have a relatively rapid development in decades!" Professor Bergman gave you his first surgery lesson last week, and I think you know a lot about it. So I won't repeat it here...... In today's two lessons, I will only talk about three questions! ”

Turning again, John wrote two lines of large letters under the Department of Surgery:

What do surgeons do?

What do surgeons need to know?

What does the future of surgery look like?

"Mr. Huntelaar, there is no such thing in the textbook!"

John had just finished his last stroke, when a student in the audience shouted after flipping through the book.

"First of all, you should raise your hand before asking a question."

After turning around, John smiled slightly, "Secondly, I don't use any textbooks for lectures. And I don't think any of the current textbooks on surgery are going to be better than what I'm talking about, so ...... Gentlemen. In the future, you will only need to bring a pen and a notebook to my classes. ”

"Buzz ......"

There was an uproar in the classroom again!

There are a lot of people in the University of Berlin, and there are naturally many teachers who do not bring textbooks to class, not to mention those senior professors and associate professors, even the lecturers have many masters who can come to class empty-handed, but they can be as arrogant as this Mr. Huntelaar. To put it bluntly, there is no book that is better than him......

I don't think I've heard of it before!

"Hehe, that's what you want!"

Feeling the questioning eyes of a group of people in the audience, the corners of John's mouth curved a small arc.

A few simple classes would have been too simple for John, who had a head full of future medical textbooks, and where he worked at the hospital of a medical university. The attending doctor basically has a teaching certificate above the level, and he himself has led a few classes, so it is not difficult to fool the medical students at the end of the 19th century. But John is not willing to simply let go of this opportunity, there may not be any big bulls in the history of medicine here, but after graduation, they are basically the elites of this era, and he really wants to hold these people firmly in his hands, so that whether they will work under him in the future or not, it will be a huge resource.

The method is nothing more than two: one is a good personal relationship, and the other is high prestige!

John doesn't think too much about personal relationships for the time being, after all, he is really busy right now, and it is difficult to cover everything, but prestige is relatively easy: the first thing is to give a good lecture, and coming to the classroom empty-handed is only one of the necessary conditions, but in a place like the University of Berlin, it is not enough!

But in John? In Mr. Huntelaar's view, there are really many ways that can be used. For example, you can take out a little bit of the published results, take out a little bit of the content of the eighth edition of surgery, and leak a little bit of the shortcomings of surgery in this era and the development of the next few years......

So John had to make sure the students understood that his words were not just casual words or simple guesses.

In order to achieve this goal, what about being arrogant?

"Gentlemen!"

After knocking on the table again to silence the students, John said aloud, "I want to repeat that everyone can ask questions in class, but you have to raise your hand and wait for me to agree!" Okay, so let's talk about the first question, what exactly do surgeons do? ”

Many students had some disapproval on their faces about this issue.

All of you are medical students who have been studying for two years, and although they have not yet entered the clinic, they have a little understanding of surgeons. Of course. Most students are not very interested in this profession, and even though the University of Berlin already has a professor of surgery and this course, the power of tradition still makes them look down on it.

After noticing the change in the students' expressions, John did not care and continued: "In my opinion, compared with medical diseases that are treated with drugs, surgical diseases are mainly divided into the following categories: First, injuries. It is mainly caused by violence or other injurious factors, such as sharp wounds, fractures, burns, etc., in addition to my personal opinion, in addition to this, it should also include damage to internal organs! This is something that few physicians have been involved in so far, but after research, I believe that some patients who have been hit hard or otherwise injured are likely to have ruptured internal organs......"

"The second is infection. I think everyone has already studied bacteriology, and it is a discipline that has just flourished in recent years. Bacteria can infect the human body to form foci of infection or abscess, which can be treated with guò surgery, which is one of the most common surgeries performed by surgeons......

"The third is tumors. In cases where current drugs cannot be treated, many physicians will remove the tumor for treatment......"

……

On the second Wednesday of September 1885, in one of the teaching buildings of the University of Berlin Medical School, Johann ? Huntelaar began his first class as an associate professor.

The course is surgery, and the content is to explain the three questions.

Detached from the lecture notes provided to him by Professor Bergman, from any textbook on the market, and even from the knowledge of surgery in this era, he stood on the podium and talked eloquently.

When answering what the surgeon is going to do. In addition to the removal of glands to treat endocrine diseases, which were not yet incomprehensible in this era, John mentioned most of the surgeries in later generations. Although these surgeries are still unknown to surgeons. But John came out in the name of conjecture and inference.

In addition to a series of common sense such as anatomy, physiology, and pathology, John added pharmacology, bacteriology, parasitology and other emerging disciplines, as well as current hot topics such as sterility and anesthesia, and of course, cutting-edge knowledge such as blood type and blood transfusion.

When it comes to answering what the future of surgery will look like. John is super bold in making predictions, including not only medical equipment and instruments that may appear in the future, but also many drugs that are used in surgical clinics; It includes vague theories including perioperative, surgical nutrition, and humoral and metabolic balance, as well as concepts such as surgical emergency, day surgery, and perioperative care. This includes abdominal surgery, which will be the focus of surgeons for the next decade or so, as well as neurosurgery, which is already being tried. Of course, it also includes heart surgeries that will not be involved until decades later, and even when talking about the rise, John vaguely pointed out the possibility of a human transplant......

Like listening to Verne's science fiction, seventy-six students listened to both lessons in the classroom.

Some people are excited, some yearn for it, some people disdain, some people question it.

Each of the seventy-six students had their own experiences and feelings, but without exception, they all understood why Mr. Huntelaar had been hired as Professor of Surgery – his breadth of knowledge and understanding of surgical techniques was truly breathtaking. But again, almost all of them thought that these contents were nothing more than Mr. Huntelaar's usual fantasies. After all, with the surgical ...... of this era Or at the medical level, most of the content would be impractical.

Even so, the content was so fresh and interesting to the students that many picked up pen and paper and took notes on the main points of Mr. Huntelaar's nearly two-hour lecture.

One hundred years later, a total of three notes have been preserved intact.

Although no one cared at first, when a few years later a paper confirmed some of Mr. Huntelaar's ideas, but the advent of new technologies proved his predictions, almost every owner of the note regarded it as the most precious collection - it is almost the history of surgery for decades to come!

So a hundred years later, when one of the notes was auctioned off for $360,000, the two sessions in Berlin in 1885 were given a semantic pun by the surgeons......

Surgery Lesson 1! (To be continued......)