"John, your letter."

As soon as he walked into the office, Thomas Hunt handed John a thick letter, and after a pause, added with a smile: "I see the address should be from England." ”

Because he is also an American, Thomas is of course the one who has the best relationship with John in surgery, and although he rarely interacts after work, the two are still very close in the hospital.

"Oh?"

John hurriedly took the envelope, but there were some doubts in his heart.

After thinking about it, John couldn't think of anything he had to do with England, and now that he knew about the magazine, who else would write to him?

But just as John was about to open the letter, Thomas hesitated, patted him lightly on the shoulder and asked, "John, the paper in The Lancet...... Did you really write it? ”

John's heart moved, and he smiled and asked, "Yes, you have seen it?" ”

"We can all read the magazines ordered by Professor Bergman......"

After John's confirmation, Thomas explained, but there was a complicated look in his eyes.

Eight years ago, he came to Berlin from Washington, D.C., and spent five years earning his M.D. from the University of Berlin, and then three full years under Bergman, while Thomas continued to work as a teacher's assistant. But this guy in front of him, who is seven or eight years younger than him, has only been in Berlin for more than a year, and he can already publish articles in magazines!

While Thomas sighed in his heart about John's talent, he couldn't help but secretly envy in his heart.

This is a time when modern medicine is just beginning, and most physicians don't yet have the idea to conduct their own research. However, physicians who can come up with their own theories and innovations can be widely respected! Thomas traveled thousands of miles to study in Germany, and even stayed in Charlotte Hospital to continue his studies after getting his doctorate, naturally he was also ambitious, and now he saw John walk in front of him so quickly, how could he not be full of emotion?

John, of course, saw the obvious yearning on Thomas's face, and his heart moved, and he said with a smile: "Actually, it is not difficult to publish a paper in a journal, as long as you put a little effort into it...... Thomas, I was studying right lower quadrant pain during this time, and I needed to look up a lot of information and cases. It's a bit too busy. Are you interested in doing it together? ”

"Pain in the right lower abdomen?"

Thomas's eyes lit up, and he blinked and asked, "Those things you've been running around investigating all this time?" ”

"Uh......"

Hearing Thomas say this, John suddenly had a black line at his end.

In order to gather enough evidence, John did always run to other physicians during this time. Go to other people's medical records. Sometimes, patients with pain in the right lower abdomen would be stopped and asked questions. Even give them a check-up. After this matter was slowly known, many people pointed fingers at him, saying that he was strange.

Seeing John was a little embarrassed. Thomas immediately knew that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly nodded and said, "John, I'm interested in this thing you said, but you checked these things, are you planning to use surgery to treat the pain in your right lower abdomen?" ”

When this question was asked, Thomas looked a little skeptical and a little worried.

In 1885, there was no word appendicitis in the medical field, and although some doctors had done a lot of research on the causes of pain in the right lower abdomen, they had not come to a convincing conclusion, such as appendicitis and pericecalitis that were more prevalent, which did not help much to solve the actual problem.

Of course, this does not mean that surgeons have not had appendectomy, in fact, this kind of surgery has appeared more than 100 years ago, but the appendix surgery at that time was a doctor who accidentally saw a perforated appendix when performing hernia surgery, so it was easily removed. Since then, doctors have not determined that the main cause of the pain in the right lower abdomen is appendicitis, and they have not known how to remove it as soon as possible when acute appendicitis occurs. However, this is also related to the fact that the previous anesthesia, disinfection and other technologies are not up to standard, and the mortality rate of appendicitis surgery is too high. Before anesthesia and surgical sterilization technology matured, the risk of appendix surgery was even higher than sitting still, so many surgeons were firmly opposed.

That's why Thomas is worried.

Although Professor Bergman has a high reputation in the field of surgery and has occupied a place in history with autoclave sterilization technology, he has a negative attitude towards blind abdominal surgery, after all, the mortality rate is too high!

"Yes, I'm going to have surgery to treat the pain in my right lower abdomen!"

Of course, John didn't care about Thomas's worries, he immediately nodded and smiled: "In fact, I now have a very mature idea, and I have solutions to many problems, such as the problem of anesthesia, such as the problem of diagnostic criteria, and the problem of surgical incision...... But since I'm the only one doing it, it's going to be very slow, so if you're interested, you can join in! ”

"Have you told Mr. Bergman about this?"

After listening to John's words, Thomas's expression finally became solemn.

Even if John had said this to him yesterday, he might have laughed and laughed and not taken it seriously, but after seeing this "The Lancet" this morning, Thomas, like Professor Bergman, had a drastic change in his attitude towards John! And listening to these things that John said at this time, Thomas sensitively saw John's serious attitude and rigorous plan!

However, Professor Bergman's attitude is the key!

John hesitated slightly, then shook his head and said, "I haven't mentioned this matter to him yet, but I've been preparing for it for a long time, and whether he is in favor of it or against it, it will definitely go on!" ”

"What did you say?!"

Thomaston was taken aback.

Faced with Thomas's surprise, John smiled slightly: "Thomas, I will spend another three months to collect, organize and prepare the relevant materials, and then officially mention this matter to Professor Bergman in early April...... So I hope and need you to join in! ”

"But what if Professor Bergman objected? What else can you do at Charlotte Hospital? ”

Thomas asked, frowning.

"If he is against it, I will have to find someone else to support it."

Shaking his head, John smiled helplessly: "But fortunately, I published this article, and the article on respiratory foreign bodies will be published soon, I think there should be a place willing to take me in......"

……

John was not worried about the possible obstruction of Professor Bergman, and in fact, as he had just said, with the appearance of three articles, he did not need to worry at all that he could not find a hospital that would allow him to study freely!

The inventor of the new disinfection technology, this title alone is enough.

Therefore, after Thomas made it clear that he would seriously consider it and left with a solemn face, John opened the letter in his hand with a smile and quickly browsed it.

The letter was written by Professor Felton of the University of Cambridge in England.

The Lancet reviewer, a brilliant physiologist, enthusiastically praised John's groundbreaking discovery of human blood group, while also slightly questioning the paper's description of the promise of clinical blood transfusion. On the whole, however, Professor Filton gave John a high opinion of his research, and kindly invited him to visit the University of Cambridge, where he would prepare a lecture......

Of course, John didn't care about inviting anything, at least this year he didn't plan to leave Berlin for a single step. But what Professor Felton mentioned at the end of his letter made his brow furrow.

"As mentioned earlier, there will certainly be many conservative and stupid physiologists or physicians who will criticize and attack your arguments, so I personally recommend that you do your best to carry out the next step of research and fight back against them with strong facts! And I think the key is to make sure that as many scientists, physicians, and the general public as possible know the meaning of blood type......"

After reading this passage, John fell into deep thought.

The research and discovery of blood groups is essentially John to prepare for future major surgeries, which is the most important value of this theory at present. But he also knew that to come up with this theory was to be prepared to face attack.

Here we will repeat again, it is 1885.

Before 1900, the blood type of human beings was an absolute super-cutting-edge theory, not to mention ordinary people, even doctors could not necessarily accept it. The reason is simple, they are all debts left by those surgeons in history!

Blood has been mysterious and important since ancient times, because people will die once they lose it, so people in the West firmly believe that blood is the soul of people, and once the blood runs dry, it means that the soul leaves the body and dies naturally. In the Middle Ages, surgeons infused dying knights with horse and sheep blood, but none of them were saved, and two hundred years ago, the surgeon Dennis gave another blood transfusion to a teenager after his death, and the French even legislated not to allow blood transfusions. It wasn't until decades ago that experiments with human blood were carried out with success, but just as physicians were encouraged to start practicing it again frequently, the frequent deaths due to incompatible blood types caused by inconsistencies caused by people to condemn it......

Therefore, in a short period of time, John must have been indispensable to opponents and attackers.

"I can only follow them, will they still come to me to duel?"

Thinking about it, John could only shake his head helplessly. During this time, his main task was to gather enough information and evidence to persuade Bergman to allow him to perform appendicitis resection, and the rest of the matter had to be put on hold. And after his article was published, some people opposed it, and some people supported it, and this Professor Felton is a good example. And John is sure that there must be surgeons who will put their theories into practice, so it is only a matter of time before the public accepts the blood group theory...... (To be continued......)