Chapter 37: Debridement
Early in the morning, Huntelaar Manor.
Today John got up earlier than usual, washed up a little, and jogged in his garden. Although the area of the Huntelaar estate is not particularly large, the garden is not much smaller than a football field, so at the beginning of the design, John had a small path built around it for his own morning exercise.
Breathing in the fresh air of the garden, John's body was warm and comfortable.
After entering the end of October, the weather in Berlin became colder day by day, and the morning was at most five or six degrees, which made John miss those light sportswear a hundred years later. It's not like now, you have to wear thick clothes for every step you run, and it's uncomfortable to sweat all over your body......
"Drop! Drip! ”
Halfway through the third lap, John heard two familiar whistles. Without looking up, John knew that there would be no one but Anna who had arrived in the car so early.
Picking up a slight speed, John quickly ran back to his door
When John ran back, Anna also happened to get out of the car, and when she saw John sweating profusely, she was a little distressed, and quickly took out her handkerchief to wipe her fiancé's sweat, and complained while wiping it: "It's so cold today, what are you going to run......"
Smiling, John didn't say anything more.
Since the two got engaged, John has been instilling in Anna the benefits of sports, but unfortunately this concept does not exist in this era after all, and it is good for Anna to exercise with John from time to time.
After washing his face and wiping his sweat and changing his clothes, John went downstairs to have breakfast with Anna.
Since John moved back to his new home and left Brister Manor, Anna would often come over to breakfast with him in the morning. This has become a habit for the two. After breakfast, if it's a weekday, they go their separate ways, if it's a weekend, they stay together for a day, plus the days when they lived in Brister Manor before, the strangeness of the year has long since dissipated without a trace, and the relationship has become more and more intimate.
After breakfast. Anna asked cautiously, "John, Anna told a lot of my friends after seeing you last time, and they want to see you too...... Tomorrow is the weekend, do you have time? ”
When she talked about it, Anna was still a little shy.
After bringing her fiancé to meet a girlfriend, it was only natural that other friends would make similar requests, and Anna really couldn't say no. And to be honest, because John is really good enough, every time he talks about him, his girlfriends are envious. This also makes the little girl very useful. With such a fiancé, she naturally doesn't mind taking it out often to show off.
It's just that today John groaned slightly after listening to her words, and then shook his head apologetically and smiled bitterly: "I'm sorry, Anna, I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow." ”
"Huh?"
Anna, who was slightly surprised, immediately darkened her eyes.
"And, I'm afraid it won't be next weekend either."
Although he was a little apologetic, John reluctantly explained: "I have a very important meeting to attend next weekend. So I also have to go to the hospital on the weekends to prepare things for the meeting...... But when the meeting is over, I should be able to take a break completely. ”
"Oh. That's right. ”
She pouted, and although she was still a little disappointed in her heart, Anna nodded obediently. He also knew that John now had a lot of money to his name, and that he valued the work of a surgeon, that it was normal for him to be busy, and that her parents had instilled in her a concept countless times. That is, as a fiancée, she must support each other well, so naturally she will not be unreasonable at this time.
However, seeing her disappointed look, John couldn't bear it, thought about it and said with a smile: "Anna, I may have to go to Paris and London after next weekend's meeting, are you interested in traveling with me?" ”
"Paris and London? Didn't you just belong? ”
Blinked. Anna couldn't react for a while.
"The purpose of going is different."
With a smile, John patiently explained: "In the future, I plan to build a pharmaceutical factory in England and France, and I am going to inspect it before I leave Europe...... Come with me if you want, and we'll go to New York when the time comes, okay? ”
"Okay!"
After hearing this, Anna's eyes had completely lit up, and the disappointment on her face just now had long since dissipated without a trace......
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In John? Before Mr. Huntelaar arrived, the surgeon August? Fisher and Ben? Lesitt was putting the finishing touches on the materials on the table.
It has been three months since Huntelaar's return.
Over the course of three months, the two surgeons completed hundreds of animal experiments under the guidance of the poor little creatures, experimenting with techniques such as surgery, suturing, and sterilization, accumulating a thick stack of various data, and the results of the experiments also made the two surgeons even more respectful of Mr. Huntelaar's book.
Today, it's time for the final summary.
So when John pushed the door open and walked into the office, the two young surgeons immediately stood up and greeted him respectfully. Lesitt brought John a hot cup of coffee.
"It's all done, right?"
Taking a sip of his coffee, John asked with a relaxed expression.
"It's done."
Take a deep breath, Ben? With a look of excitement flashing in her eyes, Lacet nodded, "The results of one hundred and four animal experiments and eleven clinical trials are already here. Mr...... You are amazing! ”
Smiling slightly, John didn't say anything.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was arguably the fastest time for the development of surgery, and techniques such as anesthesia and sterilization revolutionized the discipline, transforming it from a craft to a science. But just like Americans inject milk into patients who have lost too much blood, surgery in this era has its limitations, for example, before the advent of anesthesia technology, or when anesthesia technology is not safe enough, surgeons will deliberately pursue the speed of surgery, because the faster the speed, the less pain the patient will have, and the greater the chance of success. In order to complete the operation as quickly as possible, surgeons often do not consider the size of the incision or what kind of damage will be caused to the patient's body during the operation, because the mortality rate of the surgery itself is frightening. It was not until the advent of anesthetic drugs, especially local anesthetic drugs, that some surgeons began to pay attention to these things, so there was the emergence of hemostats and the progress of various basic techniques.
It's just a pity that the most basic technology can't be achieved overnight.
The progress of science has always been a process of accumulation, and any bit of success is followed by countless failures, for example, the blood transfusion technology that John and Kelly are studying will be a basic medical technology in the future, but it took hundreds of years from sheep blood to human blood, from direct blood collection to blood banks, from direct blood transfusion to indirect blood transfusion. Therefore, John laid out the various basic surgical operation techniques that will be gradually perfected in the next 100 years, and the value of this era can be imagined.
After reading the summaries of the two surgeons, John was also very satisfied.
He didn't have time to follow the two surgeons to conduct all the experiments, only about a tenth of them, but judging from the information in their hands, the two of them really didn't lazy, and carried out very rigorous experiments and recorded them in full accordance with John's plan.
The results of the experiment, of course, are very satisfying.
In John's view, the most important thing for surgery in this era is not to open the patient's abdomen, chest cavity or cranial cavity, but to standardize these most basic operating techniques, because after all, there are very few surgeons who can open the body cavity. These basic techniques can greatly reduce the mortality rate of patients under the control of most surgeons, and improve the status of surgery as a whole.
This is a question that John figured out a few years after he re-chose the profession of physician.
So after reading the entire experiment log, John finally let out a long breath and nodded emphatically, "Gentlemen, I am very satisfied with your work, then we can start learning and trying the final debridement in the next week......
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I'm sorry, I had a reunion with my classmates yesterday, and I fell asleep at the end without finishing it, so I made it up today. (To be continued......)