Chapter 2475 Future
The first person to arrive in the capital was indeed Prince Gong, after all, Luozhou was not far from the capital.
However, when he arrived, Zhou Man was still imprisoned in the imperial farm. The smallpox vaccination work was still proceeding in an orderly manner, and the Imperial Medical Bureau began to transfer the technology to the Imperial Medical Bureau. Zhou Man and Doctor Lu each brought five students, starting with learning how to cultivate cowpox and determine its toxicity.
It’s actually not that difficult. You’ll get the hang of it after practicing it a couple of times.
Students of the Imperial Medical Bureau also began to be vaccinated. Once they were all immune to smallpox, it would be much easier to conduct research on smallpox.
Dean Xiao was discussing with Imperial Physician Liu and Zhou Man that they would gather all the pharmacies and clinics in the capital after a while. If nothing unexpected happened, the Imperial Medical Office would teach them the smallpox vaccination technique.
This was Zhou Man’s suggestion.
Because the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, Manbao can't help but miss his other two apprentices when taking care of Liu Sanniang, especially since the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts from Zheng Gu and Zheng Shao had been delivered to her home in advance, so Zhou Man missed them even more.
She then proposed that the personnel of the local medical bureaus be sent back to Beijing for training. She said, "Since Your Majesty intends to vaccinate more people against cowpox, this technology must be handed over to the local medical bureaus."
Xiao Yuanzheng naturally knew this, but he didn't want to teach his students so soon. His plan was to teach after there were 10,000 people.
Man Bao said, "Once the Imperial Guards are vaccinated, we won't be far from our goal of 10,000 people. Besides, we are short of manpower right now."
At the imperial farm, the Imperial Medical Bureau sent medical assistants to her and Doctor Lu, but there were still not enough people.
Moreover, cultivating cowpox also requires a large number of manpower. This task has always been done by her and Doctor Lu, and it takes up a lot of their time.
She said, "It takes time to call people back, and the local medical bureau can't possibly keep no staff. Bringing them back for training in two or even more batches would take even longer, and the cost of each trip would be high. So I think it's better to plan for the long term than the short term."
And since he had already planned it, Manbao didn't mind planning it even longer. He said directly, "The world is too big for us to walk all over, and there are too many people in the world for us few people to take care of. So I think if we really want to do a good job of vaccination, we must have someone specifically responsible for it."
Man Bao said, "Furthermore, as the nation grows stronger and stronger, the population will grow faster and faster. Every year, a large number of children will be born. These children will need to be vaccinated when they reach a certain age, so this industry will not decline. Therefore, I suggest that a smallpox vaccination department be established within the Imperial Medical Bureau, specifically responsible for studying and cultivating smallpox vaccines, vaccinating against cowpox, and researching safer cowpox vaccinations."
Imperial Physician Liu and many other imperial physicians were stunned. Imperial Physician Xiao was also stunned. Then, after being stunned, he finally remembered his main job - the director of the Imperial Medical Bureau.
He finally began to ponder the prospects of smallpox prevention and treatment. To be honest, he scoffed at the emperor's words about smallpox being eradicated in the future. Political stability was difficult, and a new emperor replaced new ministers. He estimated that vaccination would continue as long as His Majesty lived, and in the future...
Xiao Yuanzheng glanced at Zhou Man. If the successor was truly His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, then the possibility of continuing this matter would be very high. But if the successor was someone else...
Anyway, Xiao Yuanzheng would not plan things that far ahead. At most, he would plan for next year.
His plan for the Imperial Medical Service for vaccination next year was to vaccinate 10,000 people and obtain data from 10,000 people.
But Zhou Man had already planned ahead three years. She even whispered to Xiao Yuanzheng, "Imperial Physician Liu told me that you're worried about the saying 'a new emperor, new ministers.' We've spread ourselves too thin, and it'll be us, the Imperial Hospital, that will suffer the consequences. But you have to know that as doctors, our greatest strength isn't our duty as Imperial Physician, but our ability to heal and save lives."
"Now, everything we create with the help of our national strength and His Majesty's inner treasury can be passed down. At worst, we can pass on our technology to more people. Even if the Imperial Medical Bureau is gone in the future, the local medical bureaus are abolished, and even the Imperial Hospital is gone, our technology will still exist, so it won't be a loss."
So Zhou Man instigated Xiao Yuanzheng to recruit folk doctors and teach them the vaccination method, smallpox treatment prescriptions and acupuncture methods.
To be honest, after Xiao Yuanzheng talked with Zhou Man, he was in a trance. He couldn't help but look at Zhou Man and was speechless for a long time. In fact, he didn't know what to say to Zhou Man because he really couldn't say it.
Having been colleagues for many years and interacting frequently, they know each other quite well.
Xiao Yuanzheng knew that Zhou Man liked to exchange medical skills with others, so she exchanged a lot of prescriptions and theoretical medicine for two books with him. In the past two years, his medical skills have also improved.
Although it was an exchange, sometimes Zhou Man didn't care about gains and losses. For example, the acupuncture method she exchanged with them was immediately written into a medical book, printed directly, and taught to students of the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Sometimes, when she was teaching, if she mentioned a difficult disease that she had consulted them about before, she would also teach her students what she had exchanged with them with great difficulty.
She was never stingy when the imperial physicians came forward to ask for advice.
So, although it was an exchange, she just wanted to learn something from them, but she had no intention of taking possession of the treasure.
Every doctor in the Imperial Medical Bureau now knows this, so they are very conflicted.
If you want to learn something from Zhou Man without paying any price, it’s simple. Just don’t let her know that you have good stuff.
Because she doesn't know, if you ask her, she will most likely teach you; if she does know, she'll insist you give her something in exchange, otherwise she'll absolutely not teach you, and she's not willing to teach others either...
But Zhou Man had a wide range of social contacts and was a chatterbox. She knew everything about who had good books in the Imperial Hospital and what great doctors their ancestors had.
Moreover, if you were to hide these things, wouldn't you have no strengths?
Why are they so stingy with their own medical science?
This is to avoid teaching the apprentice and starving the master to death.
But if I don't let anyone know that I have such a skill, how can I ever fill my stomach?
He knew that with her state of mind, talent and intelligence, no one in the entire Imperial Hospital would be able to match her in the future.
But it turned out that he had underestimated her. He thought she was a big river, but it turned out that she had a heart as broad as the ocean. He was about to hand over the results of two years of hard work to everyone.
Dean Xiao felt heartbroken just thinking about it. He sat in his chair for a long while without saying anything. Finally, he said, "I need to ask Imperial Physician Lu about this matter."
Regarding the research on smallpox and vaccination, Zhou Man was the first to make the contribution, and Doctor Lu was the second. In particular, the most important prescription for treating smallpox was given by Doctor Lu, so you must have asked Doctor Lu.
Doctor Lu naturally didn't want to do that.
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