“…… So overall, the results after publication were mixed. ”

After finally drawing a conclusion to John's thesis, Professor Bergman and Professor Wolfgang couldn't help but smile at each other. Although Johan had left Europe, he was still a student at the University of Berlin Medical School in the minds of the two professors, and naturally he didn't want that kid to get into more trouble.

And......

John is a student of Berlin in a sense, and he is one of the best students of the two by default, and the higher the student's achievement, the more glorious they are, right?

"But relatively speaking, I am more concerned about the second article."

After a quiet moment, Mr. Wolfgang quickly turned his attention to the paper that really appealed to him, and asked in a slightly less certain tone: "Professor Bergman, that paper on vitamins...... What do you think? ”

Whether it is blood type, genetics, or genes, it is not the scope of Professor Wolfgang's research or work, although he does not say that he does not understand it at all, but he is not very interested. But the second paper was different, it was closely related to his work as an internal medicine physician, and he even studied some things, so he was naturally particularly interested.

"This ......"

Professor Wolfgang's question was also a little hesitant.

In addition to the paper on blood type, the Lancet also had a paper on "vitamins" at the same time, and the author was also John? Huntelaar. In this paper, John, after discussing the study of diseases such as sepsis, rickets, beriberi, and night blindness, proposes a word that has never been used before: vitamins! In this treatise, John argues that there is an essential element in the human body, which is very small but indispensable. It is necessary for the human body to maintain health. When the human body is deficient in these trace elements, various problems will occur, such as sepsis and beriberi.

This word, which had just been coined, caught the attention of the two professors in an instant!

In those days, there was no concept of vitamins.

For hundreds of years, Europeans knew that citrus could be used to prevent and treat scurvy. There is also evidence that cod liver oil can treat rickets in young children, but no one understands why these things can treat these diseases. Medical scientists and physicians have come up with countless possibilities, but none has ever been recognized, and with the rise of Pasteur and Koch's bacterial theories in recent years, there are two mainstream speculations: one is that these diseases are caused by a certain bacteria, and citrus and cod liver oil have something that can kill them; The other is that these diseases are due to chemical poisoning, which can be detoxified by certain foods.

The world doesn't know how many people are looking for these things in citrus and cod liver oil.

This is not a fantasy. You know, when the future Nobel laureate Mr. Aikman first studied beriberi, he found that people are prone to beriberi when they eat polished rice, but brown rice with silver skin can treat this disease, so his desperate work at that time was to try to find germs from polished rice, and find healing factors from the silver skin of brown rice......

Therefore, the concept of vitamins made the eyes of the two professors shine at the same time!

"I have to say, it's a really wonderful idea."

After a moment of silence. Professor Bergman nodded: "Such an idea can indeed explain the causes of these diseases, but ......" "But there is no evidence!" ”

Needless to say. Professor Wolfgang had understood what Bergman's concern was.

The late 19th century was far less receptive to new things than it was in the 21st century, and the theory that John put forward was a little difficult for both professors to accept: there was no relevant premise in theory, and no one had ever found such a thing in the laboratory, so how could it be proved?

After a moment's hesitation, Professor Wolfgang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "So. I'm going to try it out in John's paper to see if I can actually cure or improve the condition of these diseases...... But if you want to do that, you'll have to wait for the next issue of The Lancet to be published. ”

At the end of the paper, the editor previews three papers to be published in the next issue, one on rickets, one on night blindness, and one on beriberi. No doubt. This is a little trick played by The Lancet, they know that whether the paper on vitamins will be accepted or not, it will definitely attract a lot of attention, and throwing out the general thesis first, and then releasing three papers on the three diseases, will inevitably make the next issue of the journal more attention! This made Professor Wolfgang scold the magazine for being inauthentic, and at the same time, he could only look forward to the new issue of The Lancet.

"Oh?"

With a frown, Bergman looked at Professor Wolfgang with a hint of surprise.

Although there are not many beriberi patients in Europe, night blindness and rickets are not uncommon, and it is not difficult for Professor Wolfgang to test John's theory. But...... The professor of internal medicine at the University of Berlin sitting in front of him would not easily accept a completely new theory unless he proposed it himself, but he did not expect that today he would accept John's argument so simply.

Not paying attention to Professor Bergman's surprised gaze, Professor Wolfgang said lightly: "Although John is a surgeon, don't forget, he is also the inventor of sulfonamides, aspirin, local anesthetics, and the pioneer of abdominal impingement and appendectomy, and even proposed the theory of blood group system...... I trust him, what's so strange? ”

"Hmm...... That's just as well. ”

After being stunned for a moment, Professor Bergman nodded and smiled bitterly.

Unknowingly, that young boy has made so many achievements, and even surpassed himself, a professor of surgery at the University of Berlin, so what's so strange about Wolfgang accepting his theory? At the same time, Professor Bergman subconsciously felt a sense of loss: compared with his former students, Bergman was now lagging behind......

And in addition to hospitals, school laboratories can also try to discover and purify so-called vitamins...... Hey? ”

Just when Bergman was secretly lost, Professor Wolfgang continued to talk about his thoughts, and then, as if he remembered something, he let out a sigh of surprise and immediately began to flip through the magazine in his hand.

"What's wrong?"

Bergman woke up from his complicated mood and hurriedly asked.

"This ......"

After flipping through the magazines in his hand, Professor Wolfgang's eyes suddenly revealed a look of shock, and he opened his mouth and said: "Professor Bergman, you take a closer look at these two papers!" ”

"Well, I don't quite understand what you mean."

Blinking, Professor Bergman continued to ask, puzzled.

Since he got the journal in the morning, Professor Bergman has read the two papers two or three times, what else is there to read? It's just that looking at Professor Wolfgang's expression, he seems to have found something extraordinary, which can't help but make Bergman a little surprised.

"Didn't you notice?"

Swallowing hard, Professor Wolfgang's eyes widened and he said, "What if...... I mean, if the contents of these two papers prove to be plausible in the end, wouldn't that be ...... John created two theories at once? ”

"Pioneering? Theoretical system? ”

After hearing this, Professor Bergman was also stunned.

Needless to say, vitamin-related theories have hardly been proposed before, and John's work can definitely be called groundbreaking. As for the theory of heredity, although many botanists and botanists have studied it and published related papers, it is not in the field of medicine after all, and no one can summarize it so systematically and clearly as John, so it is barely reasonable to say that his paper is groundbreaking.

What's more, these are definitely two completely new medical theories!

In the history that John did not travel, Aikman, who laid the foundation for the discovery of vitamins, won the Nobel Prize together with the Englishman Hopkins, and Morgan, who discovered the role of chromosomes in heredity, also won the Nobel Prize, which shows the importance of these two papers......

"Goo-dong!"

Professor Bergman swallowed hard and said with some difficulty: "Yes, if the future can be proven, as you say, then John has really written two remarkable papers...... (to be continued......