On the first Wednesday of October 1885, when John returned home from school from his afternoon physiology class, he was surprised to see that the door of his house was ajar, and when he opened it, he was greeted by a familiar face that he had not seen for a long time: "Good afternoon, sir! ”

"Good afternoon, Henry...... Hey? ”

After subconsciously replying, John immediately reacted, and was immediately surprised and delighted: "Henry? You guys arrived so early? ”

According to the telegram received yesterday by Johan, Hans should arrange for them to rest in Hamburg for two or three days before arriving by train to Berlin. Calculating Shi Jianhua, it is more normal to go to Berlin tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

"Yes, sir."

With a smile on his face, Henry, who was maturing day by day, said respectfully: "We have only been in Hamburg for one night, and Mr. Huntelaar insisted on coming to Berlin at once...... Mr. Elber is preparing dinner for you, and Mr. Huntelaar is resting upstairs when he returns...... Would you like to go up and say hello? ”

"Of course!"

Nodding without hesitation, John threw his coat to Henry, and immediately hurried upstairs.

When old Huntelaar came to Berlin, John naturally wanted to give up his room, so after going upstairs, he ran directly to the familiar room, hesitated for a moment, and then knocked lightly on the door: "Grandpa, are you resting?" ”

"John? Come on in! ”

Soon, the slightly tired voice of old Huntelaar in surprise came from inside the door.

John pushed the door open.

It seems that old Huntelaar must have been asleep for a while, and has just sat up by this time. The moment he saw his grandfather on the bed, John's heart couldn't help but tremble. Although it may have been due to a long journey, old Huntelaar's messy gray hair and old face at this time undoubtedly indicate one thing: his appearance is aging day by day!

The laws of nature are not something that humans can compete with.

"Grandpa......"

Opening his mouth, John couldn't help but let out a greeting with a trill. I don't know when it started. This old man, whom he once regarded as a stranger, has become the most important one in his heart.

"John, come in!"

When he saw John, old Huntelaar's eyes suddenly flashed with dazzling brilliance, and he patted the bed beside him and said happily, "Come, son, sit down!" Let me take a good look...... Have you grown taller again this year? ”

"Hmm...... It only grew two centimeters. ”

After walking over and sitting down. John smiled and nodded.

In fact, his height growth has slowed down greatly last year, and this year it has almost stagnated, but his height of 1.88 meters has made him very satisfied. Because of economic reasons, Westerners in this era are far from the level of eating beef every day, the average height is only about 1.7 meters, John's height is enough to make him stand out in any country.

Looking at his tall and sturdy grandson, old Huntelaar was very happy in his heart.

Although he knew that he couldn't treat John as an ordinary teenager, it was a matter of course for an old man to care about his grandson, and old Huntelaar couldn't help but reach out and pinch John's arm. His face was even more satisfied: "Hehe, yes, there is more flesh on the body, and the bones of the body look a lot stronger......"

During the ten minutes of reunion, no one mentioned anything about the bicycle factory or the dye factory, and the grandfather and grandson chatted casually as they did when they were in New York, and there was a burst of light-hearted laughter in the room from time to time......

……

Because I was worried about delaying my grandfather's rest. John stayed only ten minutes before leaving.

At the end of the next day, John asked Bergman for two days off, planning to spend the weekend at home with his grandfather. Anyway, now the renovation of the surgical building has been completed. And Thomas, a few of them have also entered the regular stage, and his work is suddenly much easier. John certainly wasn't going to do anything new before that meeting in mid-October, because he had already decided to let clinical progress follow the laws of medicine.

The emergence of drugs is, in many cases, an accident.

For example, penicillin, sulfonamides, and so on. Their inventors relied more on luck than on perseverance, so John had a reason to take them out of the blue, when the time came.

However, advances in clinical knowledge are not accidental, they depend on advances in relevant basic knowledge such as anatomy, physiology or pathology. Coupled with the systematic summaries of clinicians, sometimes even the lessons of countless failures. For example, the discovery of McCephalic dot and the maturation of appendectomy, if there is no surgeon's study of the anatomy and pathological changes of the right lower quadrant, and there is no exclusion of wrong diagnoses such as appendicitis and pericecalitis, how can any surgeon be able to find it? Another example is the introduction of the surgical sterilization method, because doctors found that the mortality rate of hospitalized women is dozens of times higher than that of women who give birth at home, and his progress and perfection have gone through hundreds of years -- surgeons continue to learn from their mistakes, and they have bought it at the cost of countless patients' lives!

It was impossible for John to simply omit these processes.

Our John? Mr. Huntelaar does not want to be more mysterious in the future, but hopes that everyone can think that everything he has achieved is obtained in accordance with clinical laws, to put it bluntly, in addition to countless clinical knowledge, John also has to improve the methods of clinical research in later generations in advance.

So before proposing McSley Point and Appendectomy, John needed to collect hundreds of cases and perform autopsies on patients who died of pain in his right lower abdomen, and it was because of this that he was able to convince Thomas and others, and finally Mr. Bergman, a professor of surgery, so easily......

Naturally, Bergman happily agreed to John's request.

In fact, from the time the appendectomy attempt was completely successful, Bergman had stopped treating John as his subordinate or as a young surgeon.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Bergman had already regarded John as a figure of his own level, after all, no matter what country he was, a surgeon who could greatly improve surgical sterilization techniques, pioneer local anesthesia techniques and appendectomy was enough to make people give him the most lenient treatment. Coupled with the fact that the kid had made it clear that he would return to the United States in a year or two at most, it was impossible for Bergman to demand John by the standards of ordinary people.

However, while agreeing, Bergman also seriously reminded him: "John, you must not forget what will happen in two weeks. I'm not sure exactly how many people will be attending, but so far I've received more than a dozen letters, and at least twenty or thirty people...... This kind of thing is not to be sloppy, you have to be prepared! ”

"Don't worry, Professor!"

Haha, John agreed, and almost patted his chest and promised Bergman.

Both German Medicine and The Lancet were so powerful that a "notice" was attached to the end of John's paper, announcing that starting on October 15, the Department of Surgery at Charlotte Hospital would hold a small symposium in Berlin, focusing on surgical sterilization techniques, local anesthetic techniques, and appendectomy. This kind of small meeting by a hospital over a certain technology was still very rare in Europe at the end of the 19th century, at least John had never heard of it, so it is not clear whether anyone will come, or how many people will come.

But for John, twenty or thirty men were enough.

In 21st-century Europe, a conference of sufficient weight could attract thousands of physicians from all over the world, but in Europe in 1885, thirty surgeons were willing to spend days or even a dozen days in Berlin to study, and that was enough to satisfy him. Don't forget, in terms of traffic conditions in this era, it was not easy for even Germans to come to Berlin, and Johann spent almost a day on his way back from Karlsruhe the other day!

And on the other hand, overhead is also a big problem.

It is common for surgeons to earn a small amount of money, and it is unknown how many people are willing to spend a few days in Berlin for a week's worth of money, all of which are paid by the surgeons themselves. If you have a slightly lower salary, you will get in for a month or two of your salary for attending an academic conference, and if you are a doctor who practices by yourself, you may even have a problem with eating if you are out of business for more than half a month......

So for the surgeons who can come, John will give enough respect!

In addition to printing hundreds of copies of the appendectomy details for the surgeons in Berlin, John told Thomas to prepare them for a complete appendectomy up close – nothing could be more effective for the surgeons than to see the surgery up close.

As for surgical disinfection technology and local anesthesia technology, it is even better.

"I'm all set!"

Facing Bergman's somewhat worried gaze, John swore and said: "In order for this meeting to be held smoothly, I have prepared hundreds of sets of isolation gowns, masks, hats and gloves, as well as samples of iodine tincture, and I can sell them at cost price when the time comes." At the same time, they also prepared enough local anesthetic drugs to try on their own bodies...... (To be continued......)