What is Modern Medicine?

As the name suggests, modern medicine is a concept relative to traditional medicine, which refers to the new medicine developed on the basis of physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines with the progress of modern science.

John remembers very clearly that in his previous life, he had seen countless times on the Internet the so-called dispute between Chinese and Western medicine. Those who believe in Western medicine denounce Chinese medicine as the product of feudal dross and superstition, on the grounds that there is of course no evidence to prove the so-called five elements of yin and yang and the eight veins of the strange scriptures; Proponents of traditional Chinese medicine are also lashing out at Western medicine for treating too many diseases that they can't cure, and treating them can also bring painful adverse reactions.

In this case, it will cause a fierce quarrel every time.

In fact, Western medicine has never been an accurate concept, and the real term should be modern medicine, while relatively speaking, it is the West, or the traditional medicine of Europe. Therefore, the battle between Chinese and Western medicine is actually a battle between traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine, and it is obvious that this is a completely unequal contest......

Retract the topic and return to the auditorium of the University of Berlin.

On this somewhat chilly afternoon, John had three and a half hours to prepare to give the physicians of 1892 a full account of modern medicine in his mind.

Of course, only partially.

The proposition of modern medicine is so huge that even if John had a future body of knowledge stored in his mind, it was actually only a small part of it. John picked a few at random, and it was enough for him to talk for an afternoon.

What's more, John has a lot of dry goods for today!

The first thing to talk about is undoubtedly infectious diseases, after all, in this era, he cannot avoid the great threats that the world is facing, and infectious diseases is really one of the priorities of modern medicine research in the future. On the other hand, although Koch had spoken about cholera in the morning, most of the physicians were more interested in John's theory of infectious diseases in London, and he had to spend some time expounding on it.

It's just that if John is allowed to speak, of course, it can't just talk about cholera like Koch, so there is no need.

So, just like in his lecture in London a few months ago, John combined the four principles proposed by Koch, and then incorporated the theories of infectious diseases that would form in the future, and began to quietly promote the process of epidemiological research in Europe, which he believed would be of interest to the European and American powers at the end of the 19th century, when infectious diseases were ravaging Europe, but also at the height of the colonial era.

As for the possible consequences, John didn't plan to think about it.

The more in-depth the Europeans studied infectious diseases, the less obstacles and benefits to colonization in South Asia, Africa, and Southeast Asia. In this way, the greater the competition and control of the colonies by the great powers, the more intense it will be, and it is likely to bring about a very wonderful chemical reaction. John was neither a politician nor a historian and could not predict whether the outcome would be good or bad for China in this era, but he was interested in trying it.

And rightfully so, this part of John's speech was a great success!

When John gave a lecture on infectious diseases in London a few months ago, he was greeted mostly with sarcasm and disdain, because no one believed that a surgeon could do well. But a few months later, when Koch used John's theory to control the cholera epidemic in Hamburg, using the treatment he offered to save thousands of lives; When the Europeans and Americans used countless human and financial resources to prove that the Anopheles mosquito was indeed the culprit of malaria infection more than ten years in advance, John sighed again about the epidemic, no one dared to ridicule and ridicule!

The facts are there, who dares to speak?

So John on the stage spoke step by step, and everyone in the audience listened carefully, even Koch, an authority in this field, did not dare to slack off. Although the Koch principle was highly respected in John's speech, it also contained too many new things. Perhaps for other laymen, they are still ignorant after listening to it, but for insiders such as Koch, Behring, and Kitasato Shibazaburo, John's speech today is too significant......

So an hour of presentation and half an hour of questioning is not enough for them!

But John had no intention of continuing, because he said that he wanted to talk about modern medicine and its future, and that the theoretical system of infectious diseases could only be a guiding stone......

This is an era when modern medicine has begun to take off, whether it is his fundamental anatomy and physiology and other disciplines, or the internal medicine of the pillars of the sky, or the future of Pearl Surgery, are all in a process of rapid development, and what John wants to do is to connect some things in just two hours, and say his understanding.

For example......

"There is no doubt about it!"

Under the gaze of many surgeons, John did not hesitate to say aloud: "Sir, I think the next few decades will be the golden age of surgery!" With the development and improvement of new technologies such as aseptics, anesthesia, blood transfusion technology and X-ray, as well as the advancement of new technologies such as surgical debridement and vascular end-to-end anastomosis, the mortality rate of surgical patients will drop at an astonishing rate, so that surgery can truly become a safe and effective treatment!

When he said this, there was another commotion in the audience.

There is no doubt that even though surgery has made amazing progress in the last decade, the success of appendectomy has made people realize that surgery can indeed cure diseases, and that the scalpel is no longer a butcher's knife that kills. But in this day and age, there are still too few things that surgeons can do, so the limitations of the times have blinded them to look forward, and no matter how you listen to it, John's words are a bit exaggerated.

John, of course, also noticed this, so he did not hesitate to say loudly: "You may have doubts about this, but allow me to conclude here: I believe that in the next twenty years, surgery will really mature and become the two pillars of clinical medicine on an equal footing with internal medicine......

"Boom ......"

If the remarks just now only caused a slight commotion in the audience, John's words really poked the hornet's nest!

The originally orderly auditorium was instantly transformed into a vegetable market.

Even Professor Bergman, Stafford and others, who were surgeons, were stunned when they heard John's words, let alone the other internal medicine doctors. Is it Robert, who is now basically focusing on bacterial research and rarely treating people? Koch, who also considered himself an internal medicine physician at heart, frowned at John's words.

After all, internal medicine doctors are still the unquestionable mainstream of the medical profession!

In the past few hundred years, surgeons have been "savages" in their eyes, even if in recent decades, with the advent and advancement of anesthesia and surgical disinfection technology, they have begun to face up to the role of surgery in the treatment of trauma, etc., and top surgeons like Liszt, John, and Bierrot can win their respect, but want to put surgeons and internal medicine on an equal footing?

Are you kidding! How is this possible?!

"Gentlemen, I'm not joking with you!"

Seeing that there were signs of chaos in the audience, John hurriedly waved his hand and said loudly: "In fact, the speed of development of surgical technology will indeed exceed your imagination, especially in the future large-scale battlefield, surgery will play an irreplaceable role......

……

What a failure.

I'm a little too arrogant to write such a plot, it's completely masochistic.

Admit defeat and turn around in time. (To be continued.) )