Chapter 253: Historical Scriptures
What is the essence of drug identification?
Dorothy currently has no good explanation for this question. At present, she can only roughly speculate that the ability to identify poisons is deeply related to the spiritual power of "enlightenment". If she thinks more deeply, it may also be related to the demise of the Star Number Repair Society. But in general, there is still too little information to make any judgment.
"Forget it, let's not think too much about meaningless things. As long as I keep pursuing knowledge like this, I will be able to touch the truth one day."
Thinking of this, Dorothy stopped thinking about identifying poisons and instead focused her attention on the medical books in front of her.
'Then again... the secular medical books in this world are more advanced than I thought. In my original impression of the world, the medical skills in the steam revolution era were actually not that good. They would amputate limbs and bleed at will, and hospitals were like slaughterhouses.
'Although the world is still in the steam revolution, medicine has already produced antibiotics and has a relatively complete nursing program. I feel that medicine is developing much faster than industry.'
Dorothy thought so. This was a problem she discovered after studying medical books in the past few days. Dorothy was not completely clueless about this problem.
Thinking of this, Dorothy reached out and pulled out a medical book from the pile, placed it in front of her, opened it and went straight to the title page, where the author of the book was marked.
"Edwina Bulwer, Doctor of Medicine, Honorary Earl of the Royal Family, major achievements, including the development of cyanobacteria, the standardization of modern surgical operations, the founder of modern anesthesiology, and the discovery of blood types..."
Looking at the author's introduction on the title page, Dorothy couldn't help but touch her chin. This name appeared in many places in the medical books Dorothy had read before. According to the author's introduction in the book, the great strides in the development of medicine in this world are inseparable from a doctor named Edwina. Looking at these descriptions in the book, she has many achievements alone, and these achievements have directly raised the medical level of this world.
"There are many geniuses in this world..."
Looking at the name on the introduction, Dorothy sighed thoughtfully, then she closed it and put it away.
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The sun sets and the moon rises, and night falls.
North Tivian, Cathedral District.
The bright moonlight shines on the spire-shaped buildings, the heavy church bells echo in the dark night, and the sound of devout prayers echoes between the houses.
Somewhere in the church area, inside an inconspicuous building, bright lights illuminate a spacious room. In this room stand various tall bookshelves, on which are placed all kinds of books and scrolls, and there are many tables and cabinets with strange props on them. In the corners of the room, there is a faint incense burning, and the lingering fragrance floats in the space.
There are five figures in this room, both men and women, wearing nun or priest clothing. These nuns and priests are sitting in their respective seats. In front of them is a complex instrument that looks like a large microscope. These priests and nuns are carefully observing something through the eyepiece of the instrument.
The whole room was unusually quiet. Everyone was concentrating and working seriously. The only sound in the room was the heavy sound of bells coming from outside.
"Ahh~ Is it seven o'clock already? My eyes hurt a little bit from reading this..."
Sitting in her seat, Vanya stretched her body and murmured softly. Due to the dryness of her eyes caused by long-term use of eyes, she couldn't help rubbing her eyes and then looked at the large mechanical instrument in front of her.
This is an instrument similar to a microscope, with a large barrel about one and a half meters high. There are countless gears for adjusting parameters on the barrel, as well as holes for replacing lenses. Judging from the number of these holes, there are a dozen lenses stuffed in this barrel. There are also circles of mysterious symbols engraved on the surface of the barrel.
The lower end of the tube extends into a sealed metal cabinet. In the metal cabinet that is invisible to people, what is directly reflected by the objective lens at the lower end of the tube is a tattered book fixed on a table engraved with a magic circle.
This is a teleportation observation instrument, an extremely effective defense device for detecting poisons. Through the protection of more than a dozen layers of enchanted lenses, the observer can directly see a very small part of the teleportation content. With the Glow Cult as an example, many societies are using such instruments to conduct teleportation observations to defend against poisons.
This is the History and Scriptures Department of the Tivian Church, a place that specializes in studying various types of Radiant Church scriptures collected by the public or unearthed, and it is also where Vanya works. Using such instruments to observe legends every day is the daily routine of Vanya's job.
Using such large instruments to observe scriptures, determine their general content, and distinguish whether they are heretical apocryphal scriptures or orthodox canons, and then archiving these scriptures after recording them, this is the general content of Vanya's work. It can be said that she communicates with scriptures almost every day.
"Huh... It's been almost a month, and I'm finally almost done with this book... I can only read a few chapters at a time, and then I have to pray for an hour. Compared to praying to A-Ka, this efficiency is really a torture. Sometimes I really want to take the book out of the cabinet and read more in one go, but it's a pity that I can't take it out..."
Looking at the instrument in front of her, Vanya thought to herself, for a biography like this one that the church gave her to read, how much should she read each time? How long should she wait between readings? How long should she pray between intervals? There are specific regulations for all of these. Even if she spends a lot of time every day, it usually takes one or two months to read a biography.
After returning home every day, Vanya spent her spare time praying to Akka to read the biography she got from Dorothy. She could finish one book in about a week. The efficiency difference was very large. For example, she had been reading this biography, which was obviously a heretical apocryphal book, for almost a month. If the biography had not been locked in a metal cabinet with mechanical assistance to turn the pages, she would have tried to take it out and try another way of reading.
Amid the echoing bells, Vanya rubbed her eyes, glanced at other things in the house, narrowed her eyes, and thought to herself.
'I'm going to get off work in half an hour... I don't feel like I can keep watching... I'll just pray for the rest of the time.'
Vanya thought so. After finishing a round of reading, the nuns and priests in the History Department were not idle during the interval. In order to resist the slight effects that the poison might cause, they needed to pray devoutly and strengthen their faith during this period.
Although Vanya's current round of reading time has not yet ended, it does not prevent her from starting to pray in advance. She uses prayer as an excuse to slack off and spends the last half hour before getting off work.
"Oh, please forgive my laziness..." Vanya closed her eyes and clasped her hands together, praying in her position.
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