There are many people who read Nature magazine, but it has never been limited to scholars. Many ordinary people also subscribe to this scientific academic magazine. After all, this is an era that advocates science. Of course, not everyone can understand this academic magazine.

But for a doctor like Peng Kefu, it was not difficult to understand him. Even though he was a doctor, he still subscribed to Nature magazine all year round. Doctors in the Ming Dynasty often liked to subscribe to the Journal of the Imperial Medical Society, but Peng Kefu was different from most famous doctors. He did not stay in the empire, but came to Bechuanaland, the coal capital of the empire.

Bechuanaland, known as Botswana in another world, is inhabited by Tswana people. It was here that the Imperial Army carried out the first airdrop in human history, successfully blocking the British in the area south of Bechuanaland.

Facts have proved that the empire's military expedition was correct. Just one year later, geologists discovered a rare large coal mine here. Not only was the coal of excellent quality, it was low-sulfur and low-ash high-quality bituminous coal, and it was an open-pit mine. Thus, the empire began to develop the mining industry in the Bechuanaland region. The railway was built from the Bay of Walvis on the West African coast across the desert all the way to Bechuanaland. Now, tens of millions of tons of coal are transported to the Ming Dynasty by rail every year.

It was at this time that Peng Kefu came to this mining capital with countless black gold reserves and became a doctor in the mining area filled with coal dust.

The mining area was full of dark-skinned miners. Not to mention the indigenous people, even Peng Kefu's white medical uniform was covered with dust and coal powder. As usual, when he entered the office, Peng Kefu asked.

"Has the magazine arrived?"

After learning that it had not arrived, he shook his head and muttered to himself.

"What's wrong with this month? It's ten days later than usual."

After taking the white medical uniform from the hanger and shaking it a few times, just as Peng Kefu was preparing to work, the door suddenly opened, and several natives came in carrying a stretcher, gesturing to him and speaking in stiff Chinese.

"Corpses, corpses, one by one, one by one..."

"Miss Shirley, please pay the bill."

While speaking, Peng Kefu had already started examining the body. The body had just died. After a brief examination, the corners of his lips slightly raised and he gave instructions to the nurse.

“Shirley, call Narita and ask him to come over.”

As he spoke, he pushed the corpse into the autopsy room himself. After turning on the shadowless light, he used a water pipe to clean the blood stains on the corpse.

At this time, Peng Kefu looked at the corpse with a very serious expression.

This corpse was exactly what he needed - young and standard muscle tissue and skin, which he could dissect and then make into a specimen.

This was exactly why he came here. As a medical student, when he was studying in medical school, he had been annoyed by the outdated anatomy books, which were not only outdated but also very rough.

"We grow up in this era of scientific enlightenment and rapid progress. We have the responsibility to leave a new chapter for the world medical community!"

Three years ago, Peng Kefu, who had become a well-known doctor in the country, gave this speech at the annual meeting of the Medical Association. Then he left Ming Dynasty and came to this colony.

Why are you here?

It was for the corpses here—one corpse for one dollar. It was difficult to buy corpses in the Ming Dynasty because the Chinese people valued a burial, and the same was true for Europeans.

But in Africa, the local natives are not so particular. As long as they are paid, they are willing to sell everything.

In the past three years, many local people have learned that there is a doctor who buys corpses. After many people die, they send their corpses to him in exchange for money. Faced with so many corpses, Peng Kefu is very happy. As a workaholic, he sometimes works 18 hours a day without feeling tired.

When he was working, he would sometimes dissect corpses while holding a lunch box, and he also hired a group of painters to draw the dissected human body, tissues, and organs for him...

This drawing job is not only extremely difficult, but also requires strong hands-on skills. Sometimes the fascia has to be scraped off first, and then the bones are sawed open, so that the painters can draw the detailed artery map.

Narita and others were painters he hired after he came here. As a well-known doctor, he spent almost all of his fortune on anatomy.

"There's no more room in the freezer, or else I won't accept them anytime soon..."

Looking at the perfect corpse on the dissecting table, Peng Kefu was a little reluctant, fearing that he would miss the opportunity to buy other corpses.

"Or else, rent a cold storage."

Penkovo ​​said to himself.

Bechuanaland not only has coal mines but also a developed animal husbandry industry, so beef is produced in abundance, and of course there are a large number of cold storages. Faced with the situation of overcrowding in the autopsy room, Peng Kefu chose to rent a cold storage to store the bodies.

In the following days, Peng Kefu continued to lead a dozen assistants and continued to dissect and study corpses, while painters painted exquisite paintings on the side. These painters, who graduated from Edo or Nagasaki Art School, had no idea what these exquisite paintings they painted were.

But just a few years later, as Peng Kefu said - this is a gift from the Ming Dynasty medical community to the medical community around the world - "Atlas of Human Anatomy", as soon as it was published, was unanimously recognized by surgeons as the most beautiful human body reference book on the earth!

The details and colors of every page and every anatomical picture in the book are so exquisite that they are unprecedented and unparalleled even now!

A picture of the internal organs' anatomy had more than 300 annotations, and many professional terms were first coined by Peng Kefu and had never been heard of before.

The skin, muscles, soft tissue, nerves, organs, and bones in the anatomical diagram are drawn with incredible detail and precision.

The sensation this book caused in the medical community was unprecedented. Many doctors even believed that its appearance pushed surgical medicine forward by thirty years! It completely ended the ignorant era of surgery!

However, no one thought that it all started from a humble two-story building near the Bechuanaland mining area. No one thought that just a few years later, this place would become the largest surgical academic center in the Ming Dynasty, and almost all surgical students in the Ming Dynasty would conduct research and study in the anatomy room here.

Of course, this does not mean that Penfoucauld's research was going smoothly. Funding has always restricted his research. Once again, after working for more than ten hours in a row and taking a short rest, he once again wrote a letter to the President of the Royal Society of Medicine, emphasizing the importance of anatomy in surgery and hoping to get funding from the Medical Society.

Of course, he did not forget to apply for funding from the colonial authorities...

Today is the Lantern Festival? ? It seems like there is no feeling... I wish everyone a happy Lantern Festival!