"Dingding!"

"Gentlemen, please be quiet!"

As Liszt tapped his glass, his shouts were quickly heard. The nearby physicians soon fell silent, and then, like ripples, the silence soon spread throughout the hall.

After more than ten seconds, there was a complete silence.

"It's a great pleasure to be here, gentlemen."

Under the gaze of everyone, Professor Liszt laughed loudly: "Today's gathering is to celebrate the victory of the afternoon's race, and at the same time, it is also to welcome a friend from across the ocean. This friend is the majority shareholder of our scalpel club and one of the best surgeons in the world today, Mr. John Huntelaar! ”

"Whoa......

Amid the applause, John stood beside Liszt with a smile on his face.

The applause wasn't very enthusiastic, but it didn't seem to snub John? Mr. Huntelaar. After all, for many people, it is quite frustrating to have an American become the majority shareholder of a football club. However, the name Huntelaar has begun to have a certain status in the field of surgery, and there are many people who have seen John, so their applause is relatively warm.

For the rest of the day, it's the regular and boring part.

Liszt thanked John for his self-help club loudly, and then publicized his achievements, which was considered to have completed the task of organizing the party...... Although he used to devote himself to the research and promotion of surgical sterilization, he can now serve as the president of the Royal Society in the future. Liszt was not the kind of pure scientist who ignored mundane things, and knew very well what John wanted.

But......

Just when Liszt had finished introducing John and was about to invite him to speak a few words. A voice in the crowd suddenly shouted: "Mr. Huntelaar, what do you think of the two tragic events that happened a few months ago?" ”

"Tragedy?"

John was stunned for a moment, and when he couldn't react for a while, Liszt's face beside him suddenly sank.

In the crowd, there was a slight commotion.

It was a bit abrupt, but everyone quickly understood the meaning of the tragedy as much as John. The two massacres that took place a few months ago were sensational and sparked a debate about whether blood types can be inherited. And more recently, because of John's paper published in The Lancet. There has been a resurgence in this discussion.

After all, the initiator of these things is Mr. Huntelaar in front of him.

Liszt opened his mouth to say something, but John gently touched his shoulder and closed his mouth again. After taking a deep breath. John stepped forward and said aloud: "Although I am in North America, I have heard about the tragedy that happened in Europe through the letters and newspapers of friends, especially the one in Liverpool, and I heard that it was a kind and amiable gentleman...... on this. Personally, I would like to express my great regret and sadness......"

"The question is. Can regret and sadness save everything? ”

When I heard this, the voice rang out again.

This time Liszt did not let John speak, he said loudly with a calm face: "Which gentleman is asking?" Is it okay to stand in front of you? ”

After a moment of silence, the crowd parted ways.

A middle-aged man in his fifties, no, an old man by the standards of this era, stepped out of the crowd and stood in front of Liszt without fear. And after seeing this person, Liszt's face sank again. Because he recognized the other party's identity almost immediately: Cariponte, University of London, one of his staunchest enemies!

This is also a physician who graduated from the Edinburgh Medical School. At the same time, he is also one of the most famous doctors in the city of London, but this guy has always been a physician of the royal family, and has never taken Liszt seriously, especially when he first put forward the theory of surgical sterilization and tried his best to promote it, Caribont began to ridicule and ridicule, until now at the doctors' gathering, this old guy who has not kept up with the times will still "panic" and shout from time to time: "Everyone hurry up and close the door, those little things of Liszt are coming in!" ”

There is only one assessment of this guy Liszt: he has been completely abandoned by the times.

Hungary's Semmelves was a pioneer in surgical disinfection, but like Bruno, the result of being too ahead was to be attacked by the stubborn conservative forces. While people were insisting on the theory of spontaneous occurrence that the "miasma" in the hospital was responsible for the deaths of the mothers, Semerweiss blamed all the blame on the doctors, which naturally aroused the resentment of everyone, and eventually even his closest friends betrayed him.

But can Liszt be the same compared to Semmelweis?

Semmelweis's theory was born nearly 50 years ago, when the theory of spontaneous generation was still absolutely dominant, and people were not aware of the existence of disease-causing bacteria, and blamed all kinds of unexplained diseases on "miasma" and "body fluids".

But, what about now?

Many experiments began to refute the theory of spontaneous generation, and the Pasteur gooseneck experiment and his polemic with Pucher made the theory of spontaneous generation more and more untenable, and it has begun to be slowly abandoned. On the other hand, the research results of Pasteur and Koch have proved that there are really some small things in the world that are invisible to the naked eye, and they cause many diseases. Especially in recent years, the Germans, the French, including the current Mr. Huntelaar, their innovation in the field of surgical disinfection has greatly reduced the mortality rate, especially in the hospital delivery room, which is exciting!

However, the Caribont in front of him did not conform to the development of the times and was bent on opposing Liszt's theory.

For Liszt, this was his most important enemy, because it was clear that Caribont was not one of those poor doctors in the country, and in London, the capital of the world, he had access to all the most cutting-edge research results, and the reason why he chose to continue to oppose himself was self-evident......

But just as Liszt was about to scold him and argue with the other party as usual, John pulled his arm again and stood up himself.

Glancing at the other party, John said lightly: "Sir, let's not discuss whether those arguments are correct or not, I just want to ask, do you think the reason for these tragedies is because of those papers?" Or is it because of my blood group inheritance theory? ”

"Isn't it?"

Raising an eyebrow, Caribon asked loudly.

During this time, there were two points of contention, one was whether the blood group theory was correct and whether it was really possible to determine the blood relationship of the children, and the other was about the theorist John and the author of the novel, Conan Doyle.

Squinting his eyes slightly, John felt a little impatient with the person in front of him.

However, looking at the number of doctors in the hall who were paying attention to him, John could only forcibly suppress the displeasure in his heart, shook his head calmly, and said: "I'm sorry, as a physician and scientist, I never think there's anything wrong with proposing a new theory, even if it causes a tragedy like Liverpool's...... In fact, it seems to me that the progress of the world may always be accompanied by unacceptable suffering, such as the replacement of freight carriages by trains, the loss of many coachmen and the closure of car dealers; For example, the development of the woollen industry drove all the farmers out of their land. More uttered a wail of sheep eating man; For example, when the British Empire helped those ignorant countries to develop, it was always accompanied by the sailing of warships and the roar of artillery......"

"Buzz ......"

As John said this, there was another commotion in the hall.

Not to mention the others, even Liszt was stunned at this time, and looked at John a little blankly. He didn't know why John was talking about these things, after all, it was a bit far from the subject of the debate, and the words of these things were ......

When the commotion arose, John's words also stopped.

Although he wanted to vent the dissatisfaction accumulated in the past few days due to various things, John also knew that a proper counterattack could indeed shut people up, but it would not be a good thing if it was overdone.

So after a moment of silence, John shook his head at Caribonte and said, "Sir, while I can't understand why you attribute the cause of those tragedies to the scientific theories I have proposed, I just want to remind you that even if you want to attribute them to science, you should go to a sociologist, not me, a surgeon......" (To be continued......