Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 212: Gathering of Famous Doctors
In the General's Mansion, on the martial arts field, Bai Tu was seen suspended in the air, and the wooden and stone armor around him disintegrated. Then... the military talisman floated around him, circling and scanning, and like a "3D printer", it used invisible materials to "print" a new set of armor on Bai Tu's entire body!
Compared to before, the limbs are thicker, the body is also armored, and the feathers on the head are more heroic, and still pure white...
That’s right, just now, Bai Tu finally upgraded to the gilded armor!
After falling from the air, Bai Tu gestured excitedly twice, and then said to the white-haired young man who was waiting beside the martial arts arena: "The Five Animal Play of Divine Doctor Hua is indeed mysterious and magical. I was promoted to the Gilded Battle Armor in one go!"
Lu Lingqi, who also had a gilded military talisman and had just finished morning exercises and had beads of sweat on her forehead, curled her lips and said, "No, I think it's mainly the credit of the 'General'..."
"Lingqi, you must not be rude to Divine Doctor Hua. What contribution have I made?" Bai Tu said with a straight face.
"You are the one who is rude to me. It's all thanks to my position as 'Grand General'!" Lu Lingqi said with a frown.
"Doctor Hua, I'm really sorry to have embarrassed you." Bai Tu seemed unaware of what Lu Lingqi meant.
Upon hearing this, "Divine Doctor Hua" gave a forced smile and said, "Ahem, Miss Lu is right. The Five Animal Exercises are mainly for health and wellness. If they are promoted in the military... they can only serve as a supplement to existing exercise methods."
Hua Tuo didn't really want to be praised for this reason - as a great general, he was promoted to gilded armor only after practicing the Five Animal Exercises.
I didn’t know how much of a scam the Five Animal Exercises were!
That’s right, the “Divine Doctor Hua” before him is none other than Hua Tuo, another famous doctor of the time found by Zhang Zhongjing.
Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo are arguably the two most famous doctors of the time.
Among them, the former is more inclined to the "internal medicine" of later generations. Mr. Zhang's "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" was already in drafting. After becoming the chief priest of the medical school, in order to compile textbooks, Mr. Zhang also started writing this book in advance.
The book "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" is as its name suggests. The first volume mainly writes about "febrile diseases", which means the invasion of external evils, similar to infectious diseases in later generations, and is also called "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". It has the most content and is the most complete preserved in later generations; the middle volume writes about "miscellaneous diseases", which means problems with the internal organs, gastrointestinal excretion, etc., and is also called "Golden Chamber", which was discovered in the Song Dynasty; the third volume records advanced gynecological diseases and was lost in later generations.
In comparison, Hua Tuo was better at surgery and health care. He can be said to be the originator of surgery and health care sports. Of course... surgery was too sensational in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Historically, Hua Tuo was beheaded by Cao Cao after he suggested a craniotomy to Cao Cao, and the "Qing Nang Book" was lost.
However, Hua Tuo's three disciples, Li Dangzhi, Fan A and Wu Pu, all have works that have been circulated, which can be seen as the continuation of Hua Tuo's medical skills. Among them, Li Dangzhi was good at using medicine. After Hua Tuo's death, he became Cao Cao's attending physician - of course, not long after, Cao Cao also died of illness.
Fan A is good at acupuncture and medicinal diet therapy, Wu Pu is good at Five Animal Exercises and medication...
I don’t know if they really didn’t learn it or were scared by their master’s fate, but all three of them have nothing to do with surgery.
In fact, it is not Cao Cao's fault for not believing it. Even Bai Tu, who was used to seeing surgeries in later generations, would never dare to let Hua Tuo open his skull if they were in the same position. However, Bai Tu did not suspect that Hua Tuo wanted to kill him and executed him at will.
Hua Tuo was very pioneering and enterprising, however... there were also some ignorant people who were fearless . As a modern person, even if Bai Tu had never written many medical graduation theses or major assignments, he knew how to write the word "infection"!
In modern sterile environments, there are often unfortunate people who suffer from wound infections after surgery, not to mention the late Eastern Han Dynasty when there was a lack of sterilization methods.
However, when Hua Tuo tried his skills and met Bai Tu for the first time, he happened to use acupuncture to save a passerby who had died suddenly on the street. Bai Tu immediately praised him highly. If Taishi Ci had not followed him and reminded Bai Tu quietly, Bai Tu would probably suspect that the person who died suddenly was a fake...
Although it was a bit "bold" to take action without theoretical support, Bai Tu actually had high expectations for Hua Tuo.
Even just by looking at the appearance...
If it weren't for Mr. Zhang's guarantee, Bai Tu would never have believed that the "young man" in front of him, whose facial features and skin looked only about thirty years old except for his long silver hair, was actually Hua Tuo, who was already in his fifties.
The age of military generals will generally appear younger. Lu Bu looks similar to Hua Tuo now, but... even if Lu Bu has already transcended, he will probably not be as young as Hua Tuo in another ten years.
After all, everyone has their own specialties, and Hua Tuo specialized in the internal energy used in healing and health care.
Bai Tu also immediately felt that this "Five Animal Exercises" must be suitable for him...
In addition, Hua Tuo already had certain accomplishments in trauma infection , which was the most useful technical category among "military doctors", and... if you don't know how to do it, you can learn and explore. Bai Tu likes people with a spirit of exploration the most!
Now Hua Tuo was also appointed as the chief priest of the Medical College, and was teaching the Five Animal Exercises to Bai Tu.
Of course, in fact, Bai Tu was able to be promoted, as Lu Lingqi said, mainly because of the official position of "General" - as long as he did not start a new one, the generals in the Han Dynasty were already the maximum number of military officers.
Even He Jin, who was born as a butcher, was promoted to the rank of gilded general...
In fact, looking at the feathers in Bai Tu's picture, you can tell that the Five Animal Play has limited effect. It is obvious that the "Eighteen Styles of Black Bird" taught to him by Lu Bu played a greater role. When you compare the feathers on his head with Lu Bu and Lu Lingqi, you can tell that they are a family of three.
"It's good for health care! Doctor Hua, please make sure to complete the version for military practice as soon as possible, and also... the version for popularization among the people." Bai Tu said.
"As Mr. Bai has ordered, I will do my best." Hua Tuo said with a smile.
But Hua Tuo, who looked very young, even a little handsome, with a head of silver hair that was dense enough to make many officials jealous, felt a little awkward when he called himself "old man"... It also made people feel that he was deliberately showing off.
The process of recruiting Hua Tuo was also very simple, or in other words... the reason why Hua Tuo came to Jinling was that he recognized and was optimistic about Zhang Zhongjing and the "medical school" he talked about.
Zhang Zhongjing also reminded Bai Tu in advance that Hua Tuo was a more "reserved" person, and if the time came, as long as Hua Tuo was written first in the column for Grand Priest, he would most likely agree and try even harder.
Well, a hidden talent... In Baitu’s hometown dialect, it’s called “repressed and shy”.
A medical school is not only a place for teaching and educating doctors, but also a place that is at the forefront of medicine and provides more ways of survival and health for people all over the world.
Bai Tu could provide abundant experimental sites and equipment, and even...privately hinted to Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo that they could ask for it when they needed corpse experiments. As for animal dissection, the supply was even more liberal.
Zhang Zhongjing's research direction was determined to be on "typhoid fever", that is, infectious diseases - although he was also proficient in other pathologies, but... Zhang Zhongjing's research on typhoid fever was the most thorough, which was also related to his early experiences.
Hua Tuo wanted to go straight to surgery. He had just been in Nanjing for less than a month and in medical school for less than ten days, but he was able to completely remove the frog's spine.
However, before the concepts of sterile environment and infection were perfected, Bai Tu thought it would be better for Hua Tuo to continue his research in the direction of health care, especially after discovering that there was no coal or oil...
When Lu Kang learned about the medical school's latest research project, he also talked to Bai Tu about the issue of promoting "fitness exercises" among the public - once you start exercising, your appetite will also increase!
Besides, isn't it enough for ordinary farmers to farm? Do they need extra exercise?
Firstly, he was worried about food shortages, and secondly... Lu Kang was also worried about the problem of "knights breaking the law with force". Throughout the dynasties, there were only restrictions on civilian force, and he had never heard of promoting it!
However, Bai Tu has a different opinion. First of all, the martial arts methods promoted by the people are definitely not mainly aimed at killing, but involve some aspects of "qi training" - as mentioned before, normal martial artists focus on physical training when they get started, and very few of them practice qi right from the start. On the contrary, martial artists like to focus on qi training in their traditions.
In fact, after promotion, it will not actually cause much destructive power. It is good enough if it can prolong life and strengthen muscles and bones.
Bai Tu persuaded Lu Kang with the reason that increasing the average life expectancy is equivalent to increasing the population base, and... it is also more convenient to discover military talents to fill the army!
As for the extra food consumption, Jiangdong and Huainan can fully afford it with the gradual improvement of water conservancy and the buff of the white map.
Of course, there is actually one thing Bai Tu didn’t say, and that is that the most important topic for Pang Tong now is the kinetic energy conversion of "true qi" - true qi is the name given by Bai Tu, which is the state of internal breath after it is manifested externally.
The relationship between internal breath and true qi is equivalent to that between water vapor and water mist...
In addition, in terms of teaching, Zhang Zhongjing and his disciples were mainly responsible for teaching medical students, who were referred to as "traveling doctors", who would be equivalent to half-officials in the future, responsible for traveling around the countryside and diagnosing farmers. Those with certain experience or those who were outstanding would enter county hospitals or prefecture hospitals.
Hua Tuo and his disciples were mainly responsible for the establishment of the "military medical" system. They mainly learned wound treatment, bandaging, emergency treatment of trauma complications, etc. In the future, they would be medical soldiers, and some students would even be sergeants and squad leaders directly drawn from the military!
Not only Hua Tuo, but Bai Tu also invited many famous doctors to Jinling Medical College at once, which naturally formed a virtuous circle. Some famous doctors that Mr. Zhang was not familiar with were introduced by other people, or even heard the news from other channels and rushed to Jinling to recommend themselves to Bai Tu.
After all, not all famous doctors have the same experience as Mr. Zhang, who cannot ignore "power" and "fame and fortune".
With all the doctors gathered here, patients would naturally be happy to come to Jinling for medical treatment. Originally, Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo, who were extremely famous and had no fixed place to live, were the attractors of distinguished patients.
As for the patients who are not noble? If they are not noble, how can they afford to seek medical treatment everywhere? I am afraid they can’t even afford to see a doctor near their home!
Bai Tu also had a laissez-faire attitude towards this. While maintaining the normal order in the city, he did not specifically investigate the identities of these people. Even if they were his rivals, the staff of Cao Cao and Liu Biao, Bai Tu would not refuse to let them see a doctor when he was sick.
On this day, a man who looked older but very strong came to Jinling with his pale-faced son who looked about 13 or 14 years old...
