Vienna, General Medical Hospital.

Dr. Thomas was packing, he hated this wicked country, he was so young and rich, he could have gone to Paris and got a better job.

Thomas was a doctor, the greatest profession of his time, besides a banker.

"Dr. Thomas! Dr. Thomas! That idiot Grand Duke wants to challenge you! This is the challenge book that the postman just sent me, will you take it? Thomas's assistant shouted excitedly.

"Which idiot archduke?"

"It's the Emperor's younger brother, Archduke Franz Karl."

Dr. Thomas asked, confused

"That idiot is going to challenge me. What's there to be happy about, I'm a doctor, how can I duel with an idiot. ”

The assistant explained.

"Oh no, Dr. Thomas, it's not a duel, he's going to argue with you, it's scheduled for this weekend in Vienna's Central Park Square."

Dr. Thomas was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"Interesting, I accept this challenge, I want to discredit the Habsburgs."

...

Soon, the news that Dr. Thomas was going to debate with Archduke Franz Karl in Vienna's Central Park spread throughout Vienna, and some people even rushed to Vienna overnight from other places to witness this strange debate.

It's being discussed in taverns and cafes.

"Did you hear that? That idiot Grand Duke is going to have a debate with a real social elite. ”

"You say that the Grand Duke intends to use this method to persuade the doctors to comply with the new decree made by the Emperor?"

"What new decree? How I haven't heard of it. ”

"It has nothing to do with us ordinary people, it's just that doctors have to wash their hands before seeing patients."

"It's just a wash of hands, and it's not for them to pay taxes, so should those doctors disobey the emperor's orders because of this?"

"No, they always feel that they are noble, and noble people don't need to wash their hands."

"How noble? Is it nobler than royalty? ”

"It is said that Dr. Thomas, who has united many doctors before to openly oppose the emperor's decree, is going to strike!"

"Why haven't I heard?"

"Do you think those doctors are stupid? There was a lot of support, but by the time they hit the streets, there weren't many of them. It is said that this incident annoyed the emperor, and the secret police had already begun to arrest people. ”

At this time, someone at the next table interjected.

"How the news I've heard is different from yours. I heard that when a certain doctor was treating the emperor, his hands were not washed and the emperor was, and the emperor was very angry, so he asked the doctor to wash his hands before seeing a doctor. ”

"Uhhh It's really perverted, no wonder the emperor is angry..."

"Don't talk about it, let's go check it out. After all, there are not many opportunities to watch the royal family debate with people. ”

"What's there to see, this Grand Duke Franz Karl has a bad head. Last time I went to my store to buy a fish tank, I picked the largest one, but the carriage couldn't fit down, and I wanted to change it to a small one, but the grand duke directly smashed the big fish tank and put it in the carriage. ”

"Haha, Dr. Thomas is the leader of the Viennese medical community, which is even more interesting."

After all, the opportunity to humiliate and ridicule the royal family is not every day, and everyone wants to see how this idiot Grand Duke brings humiliation on himself.

On Sunday, Vienna's Central Park Square was bustling with people wanting to catch a glimpse of the idiot Grand Duke.

Dr. Thomas had already arrived in the square ahead of time, and had invited a large number of experts from the Viennese medical community, and he did not want his performance to have no audience, and he felt that with so many experts present, someone would always be able to figure out a way to deal with the Archduke.

After an hour-long wait, one or two royal carriages slowly parted the crowd.

Archduke Franz Karl jumped out of the carriage, and he could smell the wine on the Grand Duke some distance away, and thought to himself that he was really worried.

"Grand Duke, are you ready?"

"Alright. Hiccup..."

"It is well known that from Hippocrates to the present day, doctors can only be held by noble people. Water is the source of all diseases, water will weaken the function of human organs, cold water will make people cold and diarrhea, hot water will make people open their pores, so as to inhale more harmful germs, leading to tuberculosis and other serious diseases."

Thomas gushes about the golden rule of the era, but Archduke Franz Karl apparently didn't listen and interrupted him.

"Let me ask you a few questions. I ask, you answer. ”

Thomas was very unhappy, but the gap in status made him really hard.

"You say."

"Do you wash your hands before you have surgery on me?"

"No, the doctor's hand is noble and holy."

Dr. Thomas tried to get the Archduke down sooner rather than later.

"Do you wash your hands after surgery?"

"Yes, after all, it's sticky and weird."

"Then why don't you wash your hands before surgery"

"Because I didn't get anything"

"What are you referring to?"

"Blood, internal organs, in short, those things in people."

"Oh, so why don't you wash your hands after touching other things?"

"I..."

"Do you think that the members of the Habsburgs are inferior to the papyrus you used?"

"I didn't!"

"Then why did you disobey my brother's decree?"

"I..."

"They call you a civilian killer?"

"This is because..."

But before Dr. Thomas could explain, Archduke Franz Carr continued to ask.

"Why did you murder the people of the Austrian Empire!"

"I didn't! That's my duty, I'm just a doctor! I'm just curing and saving people.."

At this time, Talia took Thomas's assistant and two heavy notebooks to the podium.

"Here are two notebooks, one of which records Dr. Thomas's practice of medicine for nearly a decade, and the other is Dr. Thomas's diary of observations."

Talia opened Dr. Thomas's medical records.

"It is clearly recorded that Dr. Thomas had a habit of washing his hands with spirits before treating nobles, and he had a high success rate in treating nobles, which is why he became president of the Medical Association."

Talia then turned to the opposite of each other.

But according to his assistants' records, Dr. Thomas never washed his hands with liquor when treating civilians, but instead deliberately smeared strange things on his fingers, such as cow dung and the sap of the ginkgo tree. This is evidenced by notes and Dr. Thomas's assistant. ”

Talia picked up another notebook, and Dr. Thomas was thrilled to snatch it, but was knocked out by a punch from Grand Duke Franz Carr.

This is Dr. Thomas's diary, which details the symptoms and comments of those who were infected, before they died. Dr. Thomas took pleasure in documenting the pain of these infected people before they died, and he was a murderer! ”

The crowd was in an uproar.

"That respected Dr. Thomas has this kind of habit."

"Not necessarily, what kind of guy with a human face and a beast's heart doesn't. Maybe it's a demon..."

Vienna's police chief, von Casirač, arrested Dr. Thomas on the spot, and of course for contempt of the royal family, suspicion of 600+ murders, and demonic possession.

"Quiet! Be quiet! This Dr. Thomas, who openly defied the emperor's edicts, wanted to continue his evil research. Before finding out whether this demon-possessed villain still has allies, please insist on washing your hands. ”

As soon as the police chief finished speaking, Archbishop Rauscher also took the stage.

The church has been inspired that the purification of evil must be done by the power of God. We discovered a sacred substance that purifies evil, I call it Divine Radiance, which purifies evil simply by putting it in water, and sells for 5 florins per ounce. ”

In fact, Rauscher's so-called divine brilliance is calcium hypochlorite, that is, bleaching powder.

Bleaching powder can not only sterilize and disinfect, but also very cheap, which is good quality and low price.

Bleaching powder can be synthesized as early as 1789, but people in this era will only use bleaching powder, bleaching clothes, in modern times, the main role of sterilization and disinfection, is not widely known.

Cholera, dysentery, and malaria were common in this era, and many big people died from such minor diseases.

Before Pasteur founded the germ theory, it can be said that the Western world was in this state of five guarantees.

There was no family planning in this era, but the slow rate of population growth is the best proof of this.

Franz did not intend to let the murderer go, let alone give him a chance to explain, but in order to convince the people and increase his influence, he could only use this kind of indiscriminate way.

As a result, Thomas would be prosecuted for the murder of 670 subjects of the Austrian Empire, and his body would be made into a taxidermy for later medical students to study.