In the reception room, Snow, who had a dry mouth, poured a large sip of wine.

Arthur, leaning on the couch, was still thinking about what to do with Hadeskar.

Judging from Snow's description, Hadscal did commit improper acts in violation of the Anatomy Act, but the means were not drastic.

The reason why the Liverpool authorities have not received a report about Hadskal for a long time should not be that they deliberately want to hide this matter from Arthur, nor is it due to some gang crime, but that they have really not received a report about this doctor who wants to turn over the salted fish.

First, Hadeskar offered free treatment and medicine in exchange for the forgiveness of some of the patient's families.

Secondly, the other part of the patients who were dissected were picked up by him from the streets, and these people could not find their families, so naturally no one would go to Hadeskar to trouble.

As for whether Hadderskar deliberately murdered patients for the sake of scientific research, judging from the current situation of the disease in Liverpool, Arthur feels that the possibility is very small.

According to a report by doctors sent by the Central Health Commission to Russia last year to investigate the cholera outbreak, 50 to 75 percent of cholera patients with moderate or higher levels who develop symptoms of dehydration without proper treatment die of shock on the first day of illness, and the rest die within a week of other symptoms caused by shock. According to statistics, in the absence of medical intervention, the combined natural mortality rate from cholera can be as high as 50 to 66 percent.

In other words, the number of patients infected with cholera is very large, and the mortality rate is very high, and it is not too difficult to find such a corpse, and it is not possible to commit murder at all.

Rather than worrying about finding the body, Hadeskar was worried about whether he would contract such a deadly disease as a result of dissecting the body.

And this is probably one of the reasons why Rosenberg did not choose to expose Hadskar in the first place.

Although some doctors in Britain have always claimed that cholera is caused by miasma, the doctors who treat patients are not infected by the act of treatment.

But according to data Arthur learned from the Liverpool Board of Health, while it is true that the infection rate among doctors is not high, there is a staggering cascading infection among the group of nurses who care for patients and clean vomit and bedding sheets.

Hadeskal's medical ethics are indeed problematic, but being able to insist on dissecting patients in such circumstances at least shows that this guy's obsession with turning over has outweighed the fear of death.

He was eager to shed his hat of pharmacist and surgeon in this medical pyramid of physicians, surgeons, and pharmacists, and move towards the authority of the medical profession – a sparse number of physicians who were only responsible for diagnosing and prescribing diseases.

However, it doesn't matter what Hadscal thinks now, what matters is that his appearance makes Arthur realize that there must be many people like him who need to turn over and take radical treatment in Britain today.

Although there are not many research papers in The Lancet and the London Journal of Internal Medicine on the importance of salt supplementation, there are still a few. Since Hadskar was able to notice this and try to treat patients with intravenous injections, there must have been other doctors who were able to find out.

The key question now is how to convince the Central Health Commission and the Chancellor's Hall that this is an effective treatment option.

Knowing what's right is difficult. But even harder than figuring out the answer is proving to the world's entrenched minds why this is right.

He recalled Hadeskar's justification, and his frown gradually relaxed.

He suddenly said to Snow, who was nervous about holding the wine glass, "Mr. Snow, can you tear up a page of blank paper from that notebook just now?" I also want to write a letterhead. ”

"Of course." Snow tore off the paper and handed it over, and asked cautiously, "Who are you going to write this letter to?" ”

Arthur took out his pen and buried his head in writing, "Lord Bruham, Royal Justice." ”

"Ah......" Snow's face turned pale with fright, "Are you still not going to let Mr. Hadscal go?" ”

"As for Mr. Hadeskal, I intend neither to let him go, nor to hold on to him. Although it is not a crime to dissect a corpse, it is to take possession of a corpse illegally. However, under the provisions of the Anatomical Act, this offence has become of the same character as unlawful appropriation of another person's property.

As long as Mr. Haddeck is willing to pay the fine, then the matter can be done procedurally. But if he can't afford it, I'm not going to report him for the sake of him offering a new way of thinking.

But not reporting also means that I will not protect him, and since he wants to enjoy the benefits of breaking the law, he will have to bear the consequences of being outside the law. If a patient's family had violently attacked him during this time, the Liverpool authorities would not have rushed to deal with the attacker.

If Mr. Haddeck had indeed obtained the understanding of his family, as you say, I think he would have survived this period unharmed. After that, although his suspected illegal paper still cannot be published, I will personally compensate him financially. ”

When Snow heard this, his hanging heart finally relaxed.

Although this is not the best result, it is much better than Rosenberg's revocation of medical qualifications and loss of people and money.

With this problem solved, Snow finally began to think about his own personal problems.

The reception room was silent, save for the rustling of Arthur's writing.

Snow thought about it for a long time, and suddenly took out a report from his arms and put it on the table.

"Black ...... Mr. Hastings, I don't mean to disturb you, but can you take a look at this when you have time? ”

"What is this?" Arthur looked up at the document.

Snow stammered, "That...... It's a little bit of my own research experience, and of course, I know that as an apprentice pharmacist, the word research may be a bit too much. But I think the report's findings may have some help in the fight against cholera. ”

Arthur unfolded the document and glanced at it, not so much a document as a map, a map with a small red dot, except that the area marked with the red dot was slightly different from the one in Arthur's hand, the rest of the information was almost identical.

Arthur's eyes slowly widened, and he stared at Snow and asked with a smile, "How did you come up with this method?" Have you ever done urban surveying and mapping work? ”

"I ...... I learned it from a medical journal. ”

Snow boldly spoke: "I once saw in the London Journal of Internal Medicine that Mr. Valentine Seaman of the United States had drawn a map of the scene of the outbreak to analyze the causes of the yellow fever outbreak in New York City in 1798.

It was an unremarkable article, but the name New York piqued my interest, New York, New York, and I was thinking about what the old York in Britain looked like, but I hadn't seen what the new York in the United States looked like.

So, I read that article well. So when there was a cholera outbreak in Liverpool this year, I began to learn from Mr. Seaman's analysis, and in my spare time assisting Mr. Hudderskar, I visited the priests of the local parish and asked them for permission to let me check on the parishioners. ”

Arthur simply flipped through the statistical survey report bound with the map, and had to say that although Snow was just an ordinary pharmacist apprentice, his report was much more professional and detailed than Arthur's investigation report.

Although this report may still be a little immature in the eyes of real professionals and medical researchers. But it is precisely because of the unprofessionalism revealed in this profession that a layman like Lord Bruham can better understand it.

Arthur put away the map and the report, and promised Snow, "Congratulations, Mr. Snow, your report will be submitted with my letter to Lord Bruham, the Chairman of our Board of Trustees and the highest supervisor of health care in the country, Lord Breham, the Royal Justice of Britain." I am sure he will be very pleased that our University of London is about to receive such a distinguished person as you. ”

As soon as Arthur finished speaking, Snow almost squirted gin into the fireplace.

He covered his mouth, unable to believe what he had heard.

In the only time he had met Arthur, he had already reaped the promise of a university medical school and the attention of the man who held the highest power in British medicine.

This kind of good thing is no longer something that can be described by pie in the sky, Snow only feels that the world is raining gold, and all the gold is still smashed on the top of his head.

Snow covered his forehead, only feeling that the whole world was circling, and he spoke, "Black ...... I'm sorry, Mr. Hastings, but I'm not usually like that. Just today, your words ...... Ah, no, it's this gin that's so intoxicating. ”

Arthur just smiled and stood up and patted him on the shoulder: "Young man, where is this, the intoxicating is still to come." Yorkes were born to do great things, and the son of a Yorkist farmer could be a swineherd and a superintendent of Scotland Yard. Then it wasn't too much for the son of a York miner to be a professor of medicine. But you have to remember that you are lucky and have a bright future, so don't follow your teacher, you just need to take it one step at a time. ”

Snow nodded excitedly and said, "Of course, Mr. Hastings, I have taken your words to heart. But ......"

Speaking of this, Snow hesitated a little, he stared at the letter in Arthur's hand and asked, "Did you really not ask the Lord Chancellor to deal with Mr. Hadeskal?" ”

Arthur just smiled and shook his head: "Of course not, I just asked him to allow Mr. Augustus de Morgan, who just joined the University of London as a professor in the Department of Mathematics, and his students to be temporarily transferred to the Central Health Commission to be responsible for mathematical induction."

You have identified a possibility of the source of cholera through statistics, and I hope that the Central Health Commission will make good use of the resources at hand and ask the local committees to do a good job of medical statistics, so that we can know not only the number of cholera patients, the mortality rate and the recovery rate, but also whether the disease is mild, moderate or severe.

Of course, what I want to know most is what treatments doctors use on their patients at different stages, and which treatments are most effective. ”

With that, Arthur opened the door to the reception room and handed the letterhead to the guards who were waiting outside.

"Tell Commissioner Edward at the Post Office that this letter must be on the desk in the Chancellor's Hall before the sun rises tomorrow."

……

At night, the sea outside Liverpool Harbour is lit up with fishing fires.

Rolling white waves crash against fishing boats laden with fish.

The hull of the ship rises and falls, and even the crew standing on the deck also bumps up and down, making it look like butterflies dancing.

The captain walked out of the cabin with his hat in his hands and half of his mouth pulled at the corners of his mouth.

He raised his monocular and scanned the dark ocean around him, and as he observed, he commanded the sailors, "Little ones! Give me a twelve-point boost! Recently, an owl flew into Liverpool, and even the slackers with the Royal Navy have learned his habit of going out by day. Now running a boat is not as easy as before, and if you don't get it right, you have to be put into the bureau and squatting in the kiln. ”

The sailors adjusted the height of the sails and asked, "Chief, I heard that the Royal Navy's inshore cruiser opened fire in the open sea a few days ago, opening a hole in Henderson's ship, is there such a thing?" ”

"Not only that, Russell and the others seem to have been in bad luck, they had set out from the Isle of Man some time ago, and were passing through Cornwall when they happened to come across the Black Clown, who had been ordered to return from the Ivory Coast. To say that those guys who came back from West Africa are really ruthless, they don't fire a single shot, they bite your ass with the speed of the ship, and jump off your boat as soon as the distance is closer, and they don't give you a chance to escape at all. Russell and the others resisted for a while, and even the cargo and ship were handed over. ”

"Boss, shouldn't we have an accident with us this time?"

The captain put down his binoculars and glared at them fiercely: "Fuck you!" What business do Henderson and Russell do? What kind of business is Lao Tzu doing? Henderson and Russell's backers are nothing more than a few importers and the Customs Department, at most a bit of town hall relations. And Lao Tzu is directly behind the Royal Navy, and he is doing his own thing. Colonel Jefferson of the Royal Navy told me that the route was safe today, and that there would be no problem as long as we could dock before the sun came out. ”

As soon as the captain's words were spoken, suddenly, several lights suddenly lit up on the misty sea.

The smugglers were blinded by the glare of the lights.

Immediately after, they heard the sound of an order coming from the sea ahead.

"Colonel Jefferson, target ships have been spotted ahead, and the enemy has reached an effective firing range of three hundred yards!"

I saw that under the light, one arm waved down violently: "Listen to my order, hit the horns!" ”

Thundered!

Plumes of smoke and dust rose from the sea.

After the sound of artillery fire, only a heart-rending rebuke could be faintly heard.

"Jefferson, you two-faced villain! Black eats black? You're playing with me?! ”

(End of chapter)