Nineteenth Century Medical Guide

Chapter 397 393. The long illuminated road

Medicine in the 19th century gradually bid farewell to the hazy confusion and moved towards the light, but the medical equipment used to assist medicine in completing its treatment tasks plunged into the commercial circle. Unlike the medical circle, which is rich in virgins, perverts and geniuses, the business circle is rich in money and liars who love money.

There is nothing more tempting than "living".

When scammers understand people's desire for survival, it will be several levels easier to deceive. Weasel pills are used as contraceptives, skull moss is used to treat nosebleeds, European aristocrats are invited into mercury steam baths to treat syphilis, smoking is used to treat cancer, and drinking alcohol is used to treat liver disease. This has been true from ancient times to the present.

In the 19th century, patents began to appear on medicines. Several of Kawei's drugs were patented and protected by patent law, but not many.

Laws to supervise the authenticity of drugs and combat and control fraud are also emerging in an endless stream on the European continent, but very few of them are actually effective. As long as you introduce unique ingredients under the guise of treating illnesses and saving people, and then find a doctor's platform, you can make a lot of money.

The same goes for medical devices, of which Jenny and Cecilia are experts.

They did not have the legendary experience of Vincenzo Prisnitz, the modern inventor of hydrotherapy, nor did they have the courage to invent outdoor cold baths and cold wet compresses. After all, it was because of this radical approach that he was driven away to the Czech Republic to become a court official. Physician. 【1】

If they want to get a share of the sanatorium market in Austria, the birthplace of hydrotherapy, they must find new ways to do it without being banned by the Medical Administration and deemed witchcraft.

Different from the rigid Germans and the Angsa people who have no artistic ability and regard cold wet compresses as their treasure, the two sisters with more liberal ethnic and nationality actively introduced the immortal legend of the French royal family "The Glory of Saint-Cloud". 【2】

"Stern." Jenny thought for a long time but couldn't remember their address or the name of the inventor. "I remember that he has always lived in London, but I don't know where exactly."

Kawei looked at the burnt pigskin in front of him and really couldn't praise the current current stability and anti-leakage measures: "Even if we put aside safety, it is very uncoordinated to control the current release with our feet, forget it. I I want to know, who is working on electric lights now?”

"Although I think it can be realized in the future, it is really too difficult at this stage." Forrest, who specializes in the invention of mechanical structures, also thinks so. "But the electric knife switch you mentioned before can be placed not on the hand, but on the ground. How about using your feet to control it?”

"Dr. Carvey, I have to remind you that electric lights are really impractical." Jenny advised, "It's really difficult to rely on this kind of thing to illuminate."

It must be said that they laid the foundation for the further development of spa and became a modern spa. Nowadays, red wine spa is still synonymous with high-end. At the same time, there is also an alternative for middle- and low-end consumers, milk bath.

There is a saying in the circle of agents who specialize in advertising medical and medical equipment: getting Dr. Carvey to be endorsed is as unrealistic as asking the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to accept a mediocre person who can't even draw a figure.

It was impossible for Kawei to go to London to find someone for a shadowless lamp, so he might as well spend some money and let them try. Even if it fails in the end, it doesn’t matter. Just treat it as making a small contribution to the development of current science and technology: "You guys go ahead and improve it. Forest’s arc lamp can also be improved."

The entire ceremony involves performing religious prayers in a marble bathtub and drinking the highest quality wine. Finally, the spa assistant will pour expensive wine into the hot spring water like a large wine barrel on the top of the Saint-Cloud Fountain, soaking the customer's body for bathing. In the process, God will listen to Qian Qian’s devout prayers, and will keep the fool who spends money on wine to stay young forever. 【3】

Who would have thought that electrifying the operating bed and connecting a few lights would change the situation. It turns out that it’s not that Kawei doesn’t have food and salt, it’s just that there’s nothing that can catch his eye.

The first is beard medicine, which can stimulate hairless men with no masculine charm to produce thick beards in just 4-6 weeks. It is even effective for young men under the age of 17. In fact, this kind of medicine did not require too much publicity to take the entire 19th century by storm, and it was able to make steady profits in the early 20th century. 【4】

Before the emergence of this operating bed with wires connected to it, it was impossible to get Kawei's endorsement, and he would even be treated indifferently or even ridiculed by him.

"If you want to light up the whole room, you have to take up 1/4 of the area. It's still too big, although it's much brighter than a candle." Forrest is not satisfied with his transformation, "And if you want to drive it, We also need to prepare several hand-operated generators.”

"Vienna?" Forrest shook his head, "No one in Austria studies this thing."

Faced with such innovative sisters, Kawei rejected numerous endorsement invitations.

Then there is an adjustable YinJing ring made of clean cow eyelids and metal wire buckles to show the masculinity, and even the eyelashes are specially kept to add interest. It also uses an electrically heated cushion to warm and stimulate the "brain of the abdomen" - the prostate, thereby improving certain functions, which is similar to the modern prostate warming instrument.

"Oh? What's your name?"

Kawei only knew how the modern light bulb was invented, but did not know the complete history of the development of light bulbs and the specific year. After being informed by Jenny and others, he learned that the invention of electric light is still in the exploratory stage.

Starting with hydrotherapy sanatoriums, then various electronic therapeutic "devices", culminating in Alphonse's surgery.

Then there is the tear of the times, an improved version of the enema device - the rectal rotator, which is used to massage the muscles in the rectum to promote the prostate and colon to be strong enough to keep the front and back very smooth. Of course, it was quickly stopped by the church and the administration, and there was no mass production.

However, in order to truly meet Kawei's requirements, it is still very difficult to put a shadowless light on the operating bed. Not only are the generators and batteries not powerful enough, but it is also very difficult to get a stable enough light bulb.

"Neither the United States nor France." Jenny thought for a while, and suddenly recalled a physicist she had met before, "I know an Englishman, and I heard that he was going to visit an inventor who was once keen on the invention of incandescent lamps. Home."

"No other generators?"

"Huh? You mean electromagnetic generator?" Forrest shook his head, "That's too expensive, and the power generation is not enough. From a practical point of view, gas lamps are much better than this thing."

The fact is exactly what he said. If you want to get the ideal brightness, you definitely can't rely on the current generator alone. But what Kawei was thinking of was not lighting, but other uses: "Don't you consider injecting some special gas into it?"

"What gas? Air? Air is not good. We are all trying to prevent air from entering."

"I'm talking about other gases, such as mercury vapor." Kawei thought of the mercury lamp he had used before. "If it can be done, I would like to see it."

Forrest always felt that Carvey's ideas were particularly novel, but his way of thinking when considering mechanical structures and principles was like a layman's. Just like filling in gas makes people's eyes brighter, because they are pursuing vacuum.

"Can it be done?"

"It's difficult, but I can try."

Kawei thought about the previous ultraviolet disinfection room and warned: "If it succeeds, it should emit a strange blue-green light. Don't get too close, and don't look at it too often. It will hurt your eyes." "Uh."

While Kawei was discussing incandescent lamps, arc lamps, and electrosurgical operating tables with them, Waterman and Meadows on the other side were having other ideas.

"Sir Nuttel Hagg, we are discussing with you, not quarreling." Meadows had already made up his mind, and now he is just talking about it. "At the beginning, we, the Medical College, the Municipal General Hospital and the College of Surgery , The Medical Museum has discussed this with you."

"No need to talk!" Hager, with his big belly, didn't give him a chance at all. "The corpse has been made into a specimen and now belongs to the Natural History Museum."

"That's the World Expo!" Waterman couldn't help but interjected, "Don't you old boy go and show your face?"

The corner of Hager's mouth curled up slightly, showing an extremely disdainful expression: "A bunch of scum who made their fortune by borrowing interest gathered there to discuss how to further make money in a dirty meeting. What's there to attend?"

"It's normal to make money." Meadows said with a smile, "Who doesn't love money."

"I knew you had changed!" Hager slapped the table, pointed at his nose and cursed, "It's the end of the road for the University of Vienna School of Medicine to be handed over to you. Think about it, in the future the streets and alleys of Austria will be full of people. It’s sad for doctors who only care about money.”

"Don't think about it, it's everywhere now." Meadows glanced at Waterman, who immediately understood, "But not Kavi!"

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When Hager heard the name, his expression softened significantly: "I know Kavi is not, so what? Now, whether it is a legal or physical level, this body belongs to the Natural History Museum and has nothing to do with you. Of course it has nothing to do with Kawhi.”

"Kavi also went to the expo." Waterman said with a smile, "I was personally invited by the Third Emperor."

"I know, I know, the newspaper has already said it." Hager waved his hand impatiently, "Go away quickly, I won't agree."

"Don't be anxious." Meadows said quickly, "Everyone has been quite busy recently. It's rare to get together and have a good chat."

"You know the idea of ​​targeting this corpse!" Hager took out a photo from his arms and handed it over, "I can give you the photo, but forget about the corpse."

Meadows looked at the photo and wanted to play Tai Chi with Smiley Face. Then he acted according to the situation. Unexpectedly, Waterman quit and followed suit. He slapped the table with his hand and pointed at Hager's big round nose. Said: "We are here just to kill it! What's wrong? Who are you trying to fool with a photo?"

"Okay, I finally stopped pretending."

"The value of this corpse lies in the intra-abdominal surgery, every cut and suture. It's not some bullshit history of being crazy and eating human eggs! Besides, it's only been dead for a few months, and it has a history of pornography!"

Waterman began to tell him the truth: "He was originally a patient of the Municipal General Hospital. The surgeon was from the Municipal General Hospital, and the assistants were all from the Municipal General Hospital. These doctors from the Municipal General Hospital also graduated from the Vienna Medical College. Excellent graduate, what does it have to do with your Natural History Museum?”

"This is what I represent, and on behalf of the Natural History Museum, I bought this with my money! It belongs here!"

Hager was so excited by the rebuke that he even stuttered when speaking. Meadows knew that the opportunity was almost there and sent an assist: "Oh oh oh, it seems that you are also a helpless person who completely ignores the medical value and only knows how to use money to collect collections to reflect your self-worth."

"You guys," Hager's fat face turned red, "you are right, it's too much!"

"Okay, okay, have a good time." Waterman stood up and acted like a good old man again, "I know you spent a lot of money, but we didn't want to keep it for ourselves, we just borrowed it and sent it to Paris for the exhibition. Let those Italians who are proud of making anatomical molds take a closer look at what real anatomy teaching aids are!”

"Yes, as the owner of the corpse specimen, you can also benefit from it."

Although Hager was knocked unconscious by their punches, and even now he was a little submissive and ready to do what they said, but his decades of work as a curator made him immediately start to imagine the transportation of corpse specimens: "The World Expo is about to happen. Will the specimens rot in such hot weather throughout the summer? "

"Did you use the carbolic acid Kavi said?"

"used."

"That's fine. I'll definitely send it to a museum in Paris. As long as it's soaked in carbolic acid as it is now, it won't go bad."

Hager couldn't believe this completely, and quickly worked out several conditions in his mind: "No, if you really want to borrow the body, you must insure it for me first. After insuring it, you must ensure the safety during transportation. The problem is, after all, it’s a glass cabinet. If it gets damaged halfway, it’s all over.”

"no problem."

"In addition, you must ensure low temperature throughout the entire process and require a freezer!"

"Ah? What kind of machine?"

"It's just like an ice machine. An American friend of mine said he saw it in Melbourne. It's specially used to freeze meat." Hager said in a serious tone, "It doesn't matter if you haven't seen it before. Go find that vampire Laszlo." Go, there must be one there!”

Just as people were preparing to attend the World Expo, the Imperial Council of Paris postponed the opening ceremony of the World Expo for two months. It was postponed from the historical April 4st to June 1st. It was claimed that the theater fire at the end of last year delayed the preparation time.

Later, some people said that Carvey and Elizabeth's temporary visit to Paris mobilized too much security, manpower and material resources, which affected the committee's arrangement of the exhibition hall.

However, in the 19th century, when everything took a lot of time, people did not have a too persistent concept of time. Many businessmen spend almost a month just on the road. Coming to Paris early can promote their products in advance and appreciate the newly renovated main city.

In short, just after spring, people from all walks of life began to gather in the romantic flower capital of the world, and the World Expo, known as the most successful World Expo in the 19th century, was about to open.

(End of this chapter)