In the development of traditional medicine, Fang Nan has not forgotten the masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica".

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" has a total of 52 volumes, which was written by Li Shizhen from the 31st year of Jiajing (1552) to the end of the 6th year of Wanli (1578).

This book adopts the style of "Outline with Outline", so it is changed with the famous book of "Outline" and the "Evidence Materia Medica".

The preface in the book is equivalent to a general treatise, describing the essentials of materia medica and the theory of medicinal properties; Volume 1 "Materia Medica of the Past Dynasties" introduces 41 major materia medica before the Ming Dynasty; Before the Ming Dynasty, the collection of treatises on the smell of drugs yin and yang, the five flavors should be avoided, the yin and yang of specimens, the ups and downs, the laxatives, the quotation of scriptures, and various drug contraindications, etc., among which the Jin and Yuan dynasties were the majority.

Volumes 3~4 are "Principal Drugs for All Diseases", which follows the old example of "General Drugs for All Diseases" in the "Syndrome Materia Medica", and lists the names and main effects of the main drugs based on the pathogen, which is equivalent to a clinical medication manual.

Volumes 5~52 are monographs, with 1892 kinds of drugs and 1109 kinds of drawings.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" can almost be called the "encyclopedia" of traditional medicine in this era, and the apprentice can basically become a teacher as long as he can memorize the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and then practice for several years under the care of the teacher.

Other experienced doctors can also read the "Compendium of Materia Medica", no matter how experienced the doctor is, it is impossible to know all the symptoms.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" has been printed and distributed in the Ming Dynasty, but the scale is still small, and there are not many people who know about it, and the Military Intelligence Department has brought back several copies of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which has been printed in batches and put them in Wenhua Bookstore for sale, and recommended doctors and apprentices under their rule to buy the "Compendium of Materia Medica".

When the medical university is established in the future, students who study traditional medicine will definitely study the "Compendium of Materia Medica".

Compared with the slow development of traditional medicine, the development of modern medicine is a little faster, not because the knowledge of modern medicine has increased, but the number of people who can barely be counted as learning modern medicine has increased greatly.

In the eyes of most people, acupuncture and decoction belong to traditional medicine, and surgery belongs to modern medicine, in fact, before the Yuan Dynasty, the doctors in the land of China have developed a lot in surgery, but it is a pity that in the Ming Dynasty, the conservative treatment based on acupuncture and decoction was popular, and surgery has declined.

For example, on the battlefield, a soldier's arm was cut to a big opening, and there was a lot of blood, and the treatment method was to use ten ashes to stop bleeding or gold sore medicine to stop bleeding, and then use a cloth to bandage, and it was more cruel to encounter a situation where bleeding did not stop, and it was necessary to burn the blood vessels to achieve the purpose of stopping bleeding, because there was no anesthetic drug, and the wounded needed to endure severe pain to heal.

There were very few doctors in the Ming army, and the soldiers were often not effectively treated when they were injured, and they were seriously injured and waited for death directly, and they could also die of minor injuries due to wound infection.

As for the use of needles and threads to suture wounds, they were basically invisible in the Ming army.

Compared with the Ming Army, there are very few doctors in the People's Army, but there are many hygienists, doctors are described as people who have mastered certain medical skills, and hygienists only have very little medical knowledge, mainly to treat wounded comrades, and suturing wounds with needles and threads is the most important medical skill that hygienists need to master.

These hygienists were barely counted in modern medicine, and the real people in the People's Army who were interested in modern medicine were in the "Institute of Modern Medicine" in Guangzhou City, and the director was Luo Yan, a student of Fang Nan.

As early as when the People's Army was still hiding in the mountains, Luo Yan led the medical team to follow the People's Army, and the People's Army went to encircle and suppress the bandits, and Luo Yan led people to study the corpses of the bandits.

The Institute of Modern Medicine has at least figured out the general results of the human body, and also knows that the blood types in the human body are different, and then use death row prisoners for research, and the Institute has almost mastered the technology of transfusing blood of the same blood type, but this technology cannot be used for the time being, and the needle for blood transfusion is a problem, and the detection of human blood model is also a problem.

The KPA is still in the research stage of modern medicine, and it will not be used in a short period of time, such as transfusing one person with another blood, which is something that the vast majority of people cannot accept.

Fang Nan plans to wait for the establishment of a newspaper in the future to publish newspapers, and gradually publish some information in the newspaper, so that the people can slowly understand all kinds of novel knowledge, and when the time comes, it will not be abrupt to talk about hemorrhagic knowledge.

At present, the institute has two main tasks, one is to continue to study the human body, and the other is to find practical anesthetic drugs or methods.

When performing surgery, the biggest problem is that the patient will feel severe pain, is it necessary to knock the patient unconscious and operate? Knocking out a patient is also prone to accidents, causing more pain to the patient.

Anesthetics are essential if you want to perform a surgical procedure.

In addition, the emergence of microscopes is good news for medical research in research institutes, the addition of microscopes can make the research of human beings in research institutes enter the cellular level, but the microscopes that have just been researched and manufactured can barely be used, and more and better microscope research will be produced.

It is also because the research institute of modern medicine conducts research on the human body, which is too bloody, and it is easy to misunderstand when it is discovered, and then demonize the people's army, so the place where the institute is located is a forbidden area, and there are elite people's army garrisons, and outsiders cannot enter at all.

The speed of medical development is too slow, Fang Nan doesn't pay much attention, and only the modern medical research institute reports on the new progress of the research will make Fang Nan happy.

Fang Nan felt that it would take almost ten years for medicine in the KPA-ruled areas to develop somewhat, and it would take at least 15 years for a large development to take place, and it would take more than 30 years for everyone under the KPA to go to the hospital and afford to see a doctor.

The development of medicine is longer than the development of education, and now Fang Nan is more concerned with military affairs and the war that does not know when it will come.

Basically, since the second half of this year, Fang Nan has presided over meetings directly or indirectly related to the war, and the deployment of officials, material preparations, military transfers, etc., have kept Fang Nan busy.

The next war is too important for the People's Army, it is expected that the People's Army and the Ming Court will invest more than one million troops, and the People's Army is very confident that it can defeat the Ming Army, and then occupy more territory, and the new occupied territory is a big problem no less than the People's Army defeating the Ming Army.

It is easy to fight the country and it is difficult to defend the country, and in history, I don't know how "anti-thief" quickly laid down a piece of territory, but there was a big problem in the governance of the territory, and it was finally destroyed, so Fang Nan attached great importance to the matter of governing the territory, and he could not repeat the mistakes of the past.