Nineteenth Century Medical Guide

Chapter 413 409. Pet Socialization

1867年6月1日，上午11：00

The World Expo that the people of Paris have been waiting for officially opened in the old exhibition hall.

Without the newly completed new pavilion on the Champ de Mars, this old Palace of Arts, built of iron, glass and stone, would undoubtedly be a magnificent building with a rich artistic flair.

It was built under the direction of the architect Alfred Alderov and the decorator Victor Ruprecht-Robert, who drew on the shape of the ancient Roman Colosseum. The main hall alone has an exaggerated area of ​​200*50 meters and can easily accommodate thousands of people. 【1】

However, more than 4 tickets for the opening ceremony were sold as early as the beginning of this spring, and an additional 5 were sold in April and May. This does not include invited guests who can enter for free, French administrative officials at all levels, the garrison, security police, etc.

Less than two hours after the Palace of Fine Arts opened, all five halls were full, and even the Champs Elysées outside the iron gate was full of people.

People may just be watching the fun, and some may have objections. But for Nathan, this event is a bargaining chip to reverse France's political and economic decline and is crucial. A simple exhibition cannot do this, so the Imperial Committee racked their brains and finally came up with a countermeasure.

Different from previous exhibitions, the tens of thousands of farmers, craftsmen, businessmen, artists, and inventors participating in this exhibition not only exhibited their own exhibits, but also peacefully competed for the winning prizes in their respective fields under the gaze of the public.

The Imperial Commission specially formed an international expert jury, and the review period will last for three months from the day of the opening ceremony to mid-to-late September.

There were many rules at the opening ceremony more than a hundred years ago.

After the host gave a brief speech, the members of the Imperial Council took their seats one by one. They occupied the first row of seats in front of the podium, and sitting on both sides were senior French officials who entered next.

"Is there any? No."

Kawei looked back and saw Count Morasso standing behind him: "I'm not interested in the opening ceremony. If I had known that the scene would be so chaotic, I wouldn't have come."

In addition to these three, Pasteur, an academician of the Academy of Sciences, is naturally among them.

The only person who could squeeze into this team by surgery was Cediyo, but unfortunately he declined the invitation to the opening ceremony, hoping to stay in Vienna for a while longer.

"What was the name of the corpse that was pulled out from the Museum of Natural History?" Morasso thought of the special train that had just arrived in Paris. "They put a lot of effort into transporting it, for fear that something would go wrong during the exhibition."

Rather than sit with people you don't know and suffer for the next three or four hours, it's better to leave early. We can't do blood vessel transplantation experiments now, but we can arrange rabies vaccine experiments early. After all, we have almost caught the first batch of wild dogs.

"what?"

Carvey originally wanted to take the opportunity of the opening ceremony to find Pasteur to continue the discussion on the topic last night. As a result, the strict order of admission and seating disrupted his plan. Pasteur entered the main hall early and arranged his seats on the north side.

There are special seats and boxes on four sides of the exhibition. The podium is on the north side. Above the podium is the throne of the Three Emperors with a huge crimson velvet canopy. But compared to these, the ten trophies in the center of the hall attracted Kawei's attention more.

"Paris has spent a lot of money this year, giving away trophies and bonuses."

The former is considered a very famous sinologist and holds the position of professor of sinology and herbal medicine at the University of Paris. The latter was originally far away from the clinical front line. He still relied on profound classical medical theories and served as a theoretical professor in the medical school all year round.

"Pay attention to your identity, you are already the count of Austria." Morasso pulled him into the team with a little force, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to be a guest, just be a representative of the Austrian diplomatic corps. I just need someone to talk to me. , so idle."

Kawei was about the same height as Morasso, but a little thinner. If he couldn't defeat him, he had to stay by his side and be obedient. Fortunately, he has paper, pen and ink bottles in his small suitcase. When he gets really bored, he can write something to pass the time.

"Do you also have exhibits?" Morasso suddenly asked.

“This way there will be competition and motivation.”

"Oh, Fernan's body." Kawei thought of this guy, "That can't be considered my exhibit, it is already a museum item."

Among the scholars at the Collège de France, there are many acquaintances of Carvey, such as Landreth, the current director of surgery at the Diocesan Hospital, and Hot, the president of the Surgical Association.

Including ministers, marshals, admirals, members of the emperor's family, senators, councilors, members of the State Council, the Court of Appeal and the Court of Auditors, scholars of the French Academy, as well as representatives of religion, courts and the city of Paris.

Just when he made up his mind and was about to run away, a big hand suddenly grabbed his collar: "Why are you still hanging around here? Come in with me."

But none of them rely on surgery.

Because Kawei was only an invited guest, even though he had a personal invitation letter from Nao San, he was still ranked last. The seats are on the east and west sides, which is very different from Pasteur.

Morasso didn’t understand why Carvey could care so little about this corpse: “But there are traces of your surgery in it, which is a unique and very important teaching material.”

"Let's not talk about it for now." Kawei was not interested in the ownership of the body. "Did you just say that the body was transported to Paris?"

"Correct."

"Where are you now?"

"It should be sent to a museum. I don't know which one specifically." Morasso felt strange, "Why are you suddenly curious again? If you really want it, just ask, where are those old guys? Fight wherever you have the confidence.”

Kawei is only interested in living people, and the reason why he cares so much about Fernand's body is because of the upcoming vascular transplant experiment.

Vascular transplantation is an allogeneic transplant, which is different from autologous transplantation of skin flaps and will definitely encounter rejection reactions. It is definitely not appropriate to directly cut blood vessels from corpses for transplantation. The entire blood vessel may undergo a violent inflammatory reaction due to rejection within a few days of transplantation, leading to scrapping.

In the backward 19th century, rejection was a serious postoperative complication that was unexplainable and extremely difficult to deal with. To solve it, it needed to be avoided before transplantation.

Rejection reaction is an immune response of the body to foreign tissues.

In modern times, faced with rejection of organ transplants, patients choose to take immunosuppressants for life. When faced with blood vessel transplantation, they did not do this. Instead, they started directly from the material and directly changed the allogeneic blood vessel graft into artificial blood vessels.

After the artificial blood vessel is implanted, the patient's body does not produce a rejection reaction, which means that compared with allogeneic blood vessels, artificial blood vessels do not have antigens that cause rejection. Kawei couldn't get an artificial blood vessel, so he had to find a way to remove allogeneic vascular antigens if he wanted to complete the operation.

Fortunately, blood vessels are not organs with various functions. They can withstand the torment as long as they can maintain blood flow. Kawei thought of many ways these days, but never thought that "disposing of the body" was also a way. Seeing him sitting there in a daze again, Morasso couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong with you?"

"Oh, it's nothing." Kawei stopped thinking and simply changed the subject, "By the way, madam? Queen Elizabeth's biological sister should be on the mission list as usual."

Mentioning Mariana, Morasso could only give a wry smile and pointed to the opposite side: "I don’t know what method she used to get into a relationship with Princess Mathilde in the past two days. Let the princess get married early this morning The escorts were asked to leave, and the members of the royal family were seated opposite."

Marianne and Mathilde may have heard each other's names, but they are completely unrelated people. Even if they bump into each other on the street, it’s just to the extent that they appreciate each other’s dressing sense and nod to each other.

Moreover, their status is not equal.

Even with the relationship between Queen Elisabeth and Morasso, Mariana was only a countess, not considered royal orthodoxy, and basically could not enter Mathilde's social circle.

The focus of this relationship is not Mariana's identity as the Austrian Queen's sister, nor how considerate she is, but simply because of an external factor that is enough to surprise Morasso.

At first, just to fit in with the upper class life in Paris where everyone walked their dogs, Mariana took the black cat named Buster with her on a whim when she went to a department store.

She specially dressed Buster in a light blue "military uniform" with the Austrian flag embroidered on the back, and Nora followed her in her arms throughout the process.

In Paris, pet cats are rare, and special pet cats like Buster are the only ones that exist, attracting the attention of many people along the way. Soon after entering the department store, it was spotted by Mathilde who appeared there, and was invited to her studio, becoming a rare pet model.

"Oh, Buster." Mathilde, who had taken her seat early, carefully took the black cat and held it in her arms. "I never thought that I also like cats."

"Buster is definitely different from an ordinary black cat."

"It's incredible that after being so seriously injured, he can still enjoy life peacefully."

There is no need for Mathilde to introduce it specially. Bastet's unique style is naturally the object of attention of Parisians, not to mention that the people sitting here are all royal nobles who love art. There was a lot of talk for a while, making the lifeless atmosphere instantly lively.

"This domineering prosthetic limb reminds people of the knight Gertz von Beilichingen who lost his right hand in the siege of Landshut more than three hundred years ago."

"Are you talking about Iron Fist Gaz?"

"He is so famous. In addition to his illustrious military exploits, he also has a mechanical prosthetic hand that can only wear shields and weapons. Although he is an enemy, he deserves respect as a warrior of the Holy Roman Empire." [2]

"I think the glass prosthetic eye is more impressive. It looks like it was made by a famous glass prosthetic eye factory in Venice, Italy."

“The Italians do make beautiful glass.”

Mariana explained: "Dr. Carvey asked someone to help make the prosthetic limbs and eyes, and it took a lot of effort."

Upon hearing Kavi's name, everyone nodded: "That's no wonder. He is an Austrian with Italian ancestry and the most famous surgeon. It's not surprising that he makes such high-quality prosthetic eyes and limbs."

"The key is whether this cat is worthy of these things"

Mathilde smiled and stroked Buster's back hair, with a doting expression on her face: "I heard that he also has psychic abilities that are enough to be recognized by the Pope."

"Is there such a thing?"

"Being able to lie leisurely in the arms of Her Highness the Princess already speaks for itself."

"I see. No wonder I can't look him in the eye. I always feel like there is an invisible force peering into my heart."

Mariana and her black cat became the focus of the seats on the north side. The entire entrance ceremony lasted for more than an hour, and the royal nobles also chatted for more than an hour. Passed from one to another, the description of Buster became more and more outrageous. In the end, everyone couldn't help but come forward and rub their hands, hoping to bring good luck to themselves.

Originally, Mathilde wanted to hold it until the opening ceremony.

Unfortunately, pets are pets after all, and Buster returned to Mariana's hands in the end. For it, only by staying with its owner can it sleep peacefully in such a noisy environment.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the opening ceremony finally reached its climax.

Wearing an all-white dress and a diamond-encrusted crown, Emperor Nicholas and his wife, Empress Eugenie, together with their son Prince Louis and Honorary Chairman of the Imperial Council, Prince Napoleon, were escorted by cannon fire and the Paris Guard. , riding into the Champs Elysées in a royal gilded carriage.

Immediately behind them was another carriage convoy, in which sat the Ottoman monarch Abdulaziz Sultan. This is the first time that a Turkish monarch has left the Bosphorus for a Christian country, which is enough to highlight the extraordinary nature of this World Expo.

Fifteen minutes later, the two motorcades arrived at the entrance of the Palace of Fine Arts and were warmly welcomed by the three vice-chairmen and members of the Imperial Council, as well as other visitors.

When the two monarchs slowly walked into the palace hall of the Palace of Fine Arts, the band played "Song of Emperor Napoleon III and His Brave People", which was the opening ceremony of the World Expo by the famous Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. It was composed by a chorus of 300 musicians seated on the east side of the hall.

After everyone was seated, Eugene Ruhl, Vice Chairman of the Imperial Council, read an opening report, calling it "a glorious page in the history of Napoleon III and the greatest exhibition of the 19th century."

This was the sound Nazan wanted to hear the most.

Several pages of eloquent praise and endless applause were more effective than yam tincture, and even temporarily cured the stones and gout that had tortured him for so many years.

Under the watchful eyes of thousands of spectators, Nassan stepped onto the podium: “The World Expo brings all nations together in Paris, and through mutual wisdom, competition, and cooperation, they embark on the road of endless scientific progress and move towards a world that is always close to but... An ideal progress that can never be reached.

I sincerely hope that 1867 can become the first year of a new era of harmony and progress, and that this exposition can become an important step in the rapid development of science and serve a better life for mankind.

I hereby announce that the 1867 Paris World's Fair has officially opened! ! ! "

(End of this chapter)