London, United Kingdom.

After trotting all the way to the gate, Mr. Joseph Graham put away his umbrella and then stamped his foot and cursed fiercely: "What the hell! ”

The light rain has been pouring down for three days.

Although he was accustomed to the weather in London, Mr. Graham still did not like the rain, especially this kind of continuous drizzle, which seemed to him better than a happy next big one, and then give a few sunny days.

"Good morning, Mr. Graham."

Seeing Graham's wolf-like appearance, the janitor couldn't help but smile and greeted.

"Good morning, Slip."

Graham, of course, didn't care about the attitude of a janitor, he carefully wiped the little rain from his body with a handkerchief, and walked into his office with his head held high. As an increasingly influential editor of a medical journal, Graham is still quite arrogant, and it is already a gentleman's act to say good morning to the janitor.

"Mr. Graham, your letters are on the table."

As soon as he entered, a young man came over and whispered while helping Graham collect his umbrella and coat.

"Thank you, Edward."

Graham nodded in satisfaction, and handed the umbrella and coat to the young man.

Sitting down and looking at the thick letters on the table, Graham could not help but admire once again Mr. Fass's wise decision to recruit Edward in. This young man who graduated from Edinburgh is very smart, although it is not a good choice to become an editor just after graduation, but the key is to be very studious and very diligent, basically all the chores of the editorial department are taken care of, which makes Graham feel more comfortable than ever.

"With him. Now I can at least focus all my energy on the manuscript. ”

After resting in his seat for a while, seeing that Fass and David had not yet arrived, Graham decided to start looking through the letters on the table.

Graham generally took letters directly to his desk.

In general, Graham's personal letters are rarely delivered here, so there is no doubt that the letters are work-related. Ordinary authors will only write the address of the journal when they submit their manuscripts. But there are also a small number of older authors who write directly to Graham. Every time he saw such a letter, Graham felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart: only the authors who approved him would write his name directly, and editors as mean as David could not be so trusted!

"University of Berlin? Huntelaar? ”

When he saw the third letter, Graham was slightly stunned.

Of course, in a split second, the veteran medical editor immediately remembered the article in the first issue of the new year's magazine, which was highly praised by Professor Felton of Cambridge University, but also made him quarrel with David!

"Is it a letter to express gratitude? The content seems to be a little bit more. ”

Graham smiled and shook the letter slightly.

It's a very thick letter. However, Graham subconsciously rejected the possibility of a paper inside.

Because of the blood group paper, Graham was very impressed with Mr. Huntelaar, and he attached great importance to the ABO blood group system, and once discussed it with Professor Felton of Cambridge University. Both agreed that the paper was clearly just the tip of the iceberg of human blood, and that there were many mysteries waiting to be revealed, but in Graham's experience, such a study would require a long period of time and effort, and would not be possible to complete in a short period of time.

"It's a pity. The repercussions of this theory don't seem to be very strong! ”

Thinking of the feedback he received recently, Graham sighed even more regretfully: "When will medicine be like physics and chemistry?" Can it get general attention? ”

It is no wonder that Graham sighed so much, Graham still valued the paper he had authorized, and others, including Mr. Fass and Professor Felton, thought it would be an epoch-making achievement, but in terms of the feedback received so far, it did not have the effect that Graham had expected.

As for the reason, Graham actually roughly guessed it.

80s of the 19th century. The work of scientists has attracted a lot of public attention, and because of the huge impact of the scientific revolution, people's respect for science is becoming more and more obvious. However, chemistry, which is mostly concentrated in fields such as mathematics and physics, and even chemistry, which was only independent from the subordinate status of medicine a hundred years ago, has received widespread attention because of the rapid rise of the chemical industry.

Relatively speaking. Medicine is going to be much behind.

After a long period of domination of traditional medical thought in ancient Greece and Rome, physicians did not have the capital to attract public attention, and it is only in recent years that they have begun to slowly improve. However, medicine in this era belongs to the era of the real elite, and only a very small number of top doctors and professors will conduct so-called research and pay attention to cutting-edge progress. Therefore, Graham can understand that for most doctors, whether there is a blood type or not, it has nothing to do with them, and naturally they will not care.

However, Graham was still limited by the times.

What he didn't know was that without real advances in surgery and widespread need for clinical blood transfusions, John's blood group theory would never have been taken seriously. But if John's paper had been published by even ten years, the effect would have been very different from what it is now, because it was an era at a jaw-dropping pace of development......

"Mr. Graham, do you need coffee?"

Just as Mr. Editor frowned and pondered, Edward's deep voice behind him rang out again.

"Oh, a drink, thank you."

Graham awoke from his contemplation, and immediately put aside the loss in his heart, and opened the letter in his hand. In any case, he is very optimistic about this Mr. Huntelaar, or he is very optimistic about the future of the blood group theory, and is naturally willing to communicate more with the author.

"Huh?"

Flipping through the thick white paper, Graham blinked and sighed. Although I didn't look at the content in detail. But he saw some very carefully drawn sketches on many of the pages!

"Is it a thesis?"

Graham's mind immediately gathered, turned the first page again, and read it carefully.

The first two pages are a short letter thanking Graham for the work he did on the last paper. Mr. Huntelaar's tone was flat, but he fully expressed his gratitude between the lines, and after a few short sentences, he got to the point. The main purpose of the letter was spoken.

"Is it really a paper?!"

After reading the short letter, Graham's eyes widened: "And it's not a follow-up study on blood types, it's a paper on surgical sterilization norms!" ”

Graham was utterly surprised!

I have to say, Mr. Editor really didn't expect that John would not only send another paper in such a short period of time, but also turn his attention to the field of surgical disinfection......

"How could he do this?!"

After just two or three seconds of surprise, it was as if his throat had been blocked with something, and a wave of anger burned in Graham's chest!

He couldn't understand it!

What a great discovery of the human blood group system! Although there are still few people who can understand him. But Graham, the editor of that paper, was convinced that with the passage of time and advances in medicine, sooner or later people would realize the great value of this set of theories! When he sent John a sample, Graham enclosed a letter that enthusiastically explained this point and encouraged John to continue his research!

But......

How could he change the direction of his research?!

"Bang!"

Unable to hold back the anger in his heart for a while, Graham's fist slammed into the paper in front of him!

Graham did not hesitate to offend his colleagues in order to get the article published, and repeatedly assured him in front of Mr. Fass. And after the publication of the paper. And to face David's cynicism – there are indeed readers who write letters to praise this great discovery, but all the same. There are even more critics, including religious figures!

Graham really paid a lot for this article!

But in just two or three months, this Huntelaar changed his research direction, and went to engage in some surgical disinfection, and what kind of norms did he claim!

Mr. Liszt would not dare to say that!

"What's going on? Mr. Graham! ”

The loud noise startled Edward, and he quickly got up from his seat. asked cautiously.

"Sizzle......"

After taking a deep breath, Graham tried to calm his mood a bit, waved his hand, and said, "It's okay Edward, I'm just ...... Alas, it's fine. You're going to be busy with your own business. ”

"Yes, sir."

Glancing cautiously at his colleague, Edward retracted to his place.

After a long time, Graham smiled bitterly.

After a brief moment of anger, Graham knew that he was a little too excited, because he was really optimistic about the blood group theory, and at the same time hoped that this Mr. Huntelaar would continue to work on it. But now that you think about it, what is the freedom of the other party, and what reason does he have as an editor to be angry and disappointed?

After a moment of silence, Graham suddenly felt a little distracted, turned his head and said, "Edward." ”

"Do you have any commands? Mr. ”

Edward immediately stood up and looked over.

"There's an article here, you can take it and read it first."

After a slight pause, Graham said with a flat expression: "Don't you admire Mr. Liszt very much?" Then you should know more about surgical sterilization, right? This is an article on surgical sterilization, take a serious look at it, and tell me what you think! ”

"Yes, sir!"

Hurriedly took the manuscript from Graham's hand, and Edward immediately set his eyes on the title of the first page, which was written in a clear and beautiful font with a line of large characters - "The Construction of Surgical Disinfection Standardization Techniques"!

……

Life's chances are always so wonderful.

When Graham Sees John? In his first article, Mr. Huntelaar was very sensitive to the great value of the ABO blood group theory, and despite the cynicism of his colleagues, he insisted on publishing the paper, thus writing himself into history. But when he saw John's paper for the second time, his mood was completely different from the last time. Because of the overemphasis on blood group theory, Graham was a little annoyed that John had changed the direction of his research so quickly, and in a distraught mood, he handed over the paper to his assistant Edward? Schmidt, let the young man do the initial review.

Schmidt, who had just graduated from the Edinburgh Medical School, was a big fan of Liszt, so when he first saw the title of the paper, he was a little annoyed, and the first feeling was that this author was so arrogant that he had written a thesis that only a great man like Liszt could be qualified to write.

But when he spent more than an hour reading the paper, his idea was shaken.

Next, when Edward, who was extremely interested in surgical sterilization technology, saw John? When Huntelaar associated him with an article published in the German Medicine not long ago, he could not have imagined that the trajectory of his life had been deflected at this moment, on a path that he could not have imagined...... (To be continued......)