Chapter 45: Both Sides

Between jokes, John made old Huntelaar understand two things.

The first thing was that John had not been idle for more than a year in Berlin, and had designed a newer, better light bulb, and the elder Huntelaar suspected that this was not his only gain. The second thing is that old Huntelaar once again confirmed that if his grandson really went to be a doctor, it would be something he couldn't accept!

However, old Huntelaar still did not bring it up directly.

Huntelaar, who was in his sixties, understood this, and he knew that it was difficult for a young and gifted little guy like John to really listen to other people's opinions, especially in a hurry.

Thankfully, he still has time......

……

London, United Kingdom.

In the small office of The Lancet, Fass finally informed his editors: "My final decision is to review this article, and if so, to do so!" Mr. Graham, if you don't mind, visit a few physicians and professors today and tomorrow...... I'll reserve a space for you in this issue, so you'll need to get a reply from them as much as possible! ”

"Yes, sir!"

Overjoyed, Graham immediately agreed. He had been worried about Mr. Fass's attitude and final decision on the paper since yesterday, and now he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Graham didn't mean to be angry with his colleague David, but because after reading this paper, his mind never stopped tumbling, the wonderful four blood types are like four long knives, which turned his traditional common sense upside down, and all kinds of speculations about clinical blood transfusion made him feel uneasy and difficult to let go!

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Graham asked in a deep voice, "Mr. Fass, which three gentlemen do you think are suitable to review this paper?" ”

One of the basic principles of review is to have an odd number, so that if everyone disagrees, at least the principle of the minority obeying the majority can be adopted, and the Lancet magazine generally chooses three people to judge.

"Mr. Felton of the University of Cambridge, Mr. Hampling of the Royal Society, and Mr. Henry of St. Mary's Hospital!"

After a moment's hesitation, Mr. Fass gave the names of the three men. These were gentlemen who were usually close to magazines, and Graham was very familiar with them, so it was clear who they were referring to without having to say their full names.

However, after hearing the names of these three people, Graham was a little surprised, and asked cautiously: "Mr. Fass, why don't you invite Mr. Liszt?" He is now one of the most well-known surgeons in the UK, and should be very interested in this innovative argument, right? ”

"Mr. Liszt?"

Mr. Fass frowned, and quickly shook his head: "His achievement is basically the application and promotion of disinfection technology, I am afraid there will not be too good opinions on this new argument, and do you think that a person who can only do fracture surgery understands what blood transfusion is......"

Although his tone seemed to be objective, there was a hint of disdain in Fass's eyes.

“…… Good. ”

As if he understood something, Graham immediately nodded and went out.

Graham once heard a rumor that Mr. Fass, who graduated from Edinburgh, had a particularly bad relationship with Liszt, and after taking over the editorial department, he repeatedly said that Liszt was just lucky, and he was just a little cheaper with Pasteur. Moreover, as a well-known surgeon, Liszt's work was mainly focused on fractures, and only in the last two years has he begun to involve abdominal surgery, and there are still few successful examples, which is difficult to convince orthodox doctors like Fass.

However, the battle between the bigwigs, it is better not to get involved with it......

……

Holding John? Mr. Huntelaar's paper walked out of the editorial office, and Graham began to run around the London city of Noda. And in Berlin, thousands of miles away, there is also John in charge of handling the signature? One of Huntelaar's papers, Hines, editor of a local medical journal in Berlin, German Medicine, was much happier, because there was a name he knew very well in front of that name: Ernst? Bergmann – the current professor of surgery at the University of Berlin!

So after reading the whole article, Mr. Hines was immediately overjoyed, trotted all the way to Mr. Byrne's office, and said happily: "Mr. Byrne, you must read this paper, which Mr. Bergmann of the University of Berlin has just sent!" ”

"Oh? Mr. Bergman has a new paper? ”

Mr. Bourne was also very happy when he heard this, and hurriedly took the paper and looked through it.

Bergmann's reputation in the German medical community is still quite large, especially when he took over as professor of surgery at the University of Berlin, so when Mr. Byrne finished reading Bergman's paper, he slapped the table and said excitedly: "Great, this is definitely the best paper of the year in our magazine...... Not one of them! ”

It was close to the end of 1884, so Mr. Byrne was very sure.

Hines nodded repeatedly, clearly agreeing with his boss's point of view. In recent years, surgical disinfection and sterilization are at their hottest, and more and more surgeons have begun to accept this new concept that can greatly reduce patient mortality, and more and more have begun to pay attention to this research.

Autoclave?

It's so surprising and exciting to hear the name!

"But, Mr. Bourne......"

After a short period of excitement, Hines suddenly remembered something and said anxiously: "Our latest issue of the magazine has already been finalized, and the decision is over...... If you want to make the most of the kuài table, it may be too late! ”

"Huh? That's right! ”

Mr. Byrne remembered this, too, and cried out in annoyance after slamming his fist hard.

It's the New Year, and everyone is working overtime to get out of this issue of the magazine in advance to welcome the arrival of the festival, and it will start printing soon. It is also a common practice in German Medicine that every year before the New Year, an issue of the journal is pushed out in advance, and then the editors can take a few more days off to rest.

But today, this routine is frustrating for both Byrne and Hines.

When the layout is set and the printing is about to start, it is unrealistic to cram such a long paper, because it not only means that the editors of the magazine have to work overtime again, but also means that the work done in front of the magazine is in vain, and the loss of time and money is huge!

Neither of them discussed the content of the article.

Unlike the editors of The Lancet who had to argue about the correctness of John's novel theories and ideas, the two editors did not need to doubt it at all in this conversation with Berliners, because the first one of the authors of that paper was Ernst? Bergman! Although immediately followed by the second person named John? Huntelaar was a stranger, but the two didn't care, and neither thought it was just a student or a student of Bergman.

What gives them a headache is just the layout.

So, after a moment of struggle, it was finally Bourne who decided: "Then put it in the first issue of 1885, and start the new year with a heavyweight article, which is really appropriate......"

Even the first issue of the new year has actually been finalized, but it has not yet been printed, but in this case, just replacing one or two articles can solve the layout problem, and the two of them naturally do not need to discuss too much.

"That's it."

Although he regretted that he could not complete the paper, Hines could not think of a better way, so he could only nod and agree to Mr. Byrne's arrangement.

Neither of the editors could have imagined that far across the Channel, in London, there would be a rival of theirs shuttling through the sprawling city, looking for voices to support John's thesis. What they didn't expect was that many years later, people began to look for John with a magnifying glass? For any trace of Huntelaar's history and the path he has traveled, what will one think of the two editors who inadvertently missed John's first research paper......

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