Chapter 545 A Dream of Youth 77
As Xie Ning provided more and more answers, Du Mingzhao's blank mind was gradually pulled back, until finally his jaw dropped in astonishment.
Although Xie Ning memorized prescriptions and common medicinal herbs that could be bought on the market, it was still impressive enough!
You should know that he was considered to be a very talented medical student in his family. He memorized all of this when he was eight or nine years old. Xie Ning was two years younger than him back then, right?
Manager Du became more and more satisfied as he listened, with a hint of regret in his eyes. If it had been a boy, he would have taken him on as an apprentice.
"Alright, you can identify the herbs." Manager Du told Du Mingzhao to fetch a portion of all the medicinal herbs in the shop, and then poured Xie Ning a cup of tea to soothe his throat.
"Why did Miss Xie come up with the idea of learning medicine?" Manager Du was really curious, after all, the rumors only said that Xie Ning was kind-hearted, but he didn't know the specifics.
Xie Ning put down his teacup and looked at Manager Du with clear eyes. "That day in Quanzhou, soldiers came to arrest a child who had contracted the plague and took him to the quarantine area. His mother was worried, so she went with him."
She returned home only to be divorced, simply because she had been treated by a male doctor and lost her virginity... Her brother's classmate's older sister developed a rash, but they couldn't find a doctor, so they only consulted a traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
However, the old woman doctor was not skilled enough. In the end, not only did the rash on the sister's body not subside, but it became more serious, and she was eventually rejected by the betrothal... She sat in the clinic all day, and almost all the patients were men, with very few women, and they were all old women.
"Manager, are women immune to illness?"
Manager Du fell silent; he hadn't expected Xie Ning to say such a thing.
Xie Ning glanced at Du Mingzhao, who was carrying medicinal herbs, and continued, "I don't understand, so I asked my father. He said it's not that women are healthier, but that they can endure more."
When my grandmother was young, she didn't dare to see a doctor because people would say that if it wasn't serious, she should just endure it, but if it was serious, she would only dare to see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
Indeed, Manager Du nodded. Although many women do set up stalls to sell things, they are almost all older women, or they do business with the men in their families. Young women and wives would never show their faces in public.
Just four words: strict separation between men and women.
Similarly, there is a gap between male doctors and female patients. This is less of a problem for ordinary people, who are less demanding. However, when it comes to a person's innocence versus their life, most people would choose life.
But Xie Ning also mentioned that one thing was missing: the number of women coming to see the doctor was low, and another reason was poverty.
A family would certainly spend money to treat the men in the family to medical care, but would not necessarily spend money to treat the women in the family to medical care. Only wealthy families could afford to hire a doctor.
But that was relayed by the nannies and maids in the house. As doctors, they didn't even know the patient's name or age. They only received some of the patient's symptoms and then carefully considered how to prescribe a medicine.
To be honest, they only dare to open some Taiping clinics, for fear of harming people.
"So I was thinking, if I knew medicine, I could treat women. Even if I couldn't go out in the future, it would be good to be able to treat my mother, grandmother, and aunt at home."
Her goals were certainly not limited to these, but for now, these were the only ones that could be made public.
"Miss Xie is a filial daughter."
Manager Du sighed, "The Xie family is quite open-minded, but it will be difficult for them to leave in the future. After all, women have to get married, and he hasn't even brought his own daughters to the outside pharmacy."
Standing to the side, Granny Zhang nodded in agreement. Her young mistress, aside from anything else, was exceptionally filial.
After chatting for a while, the two continued to identify the medicinal herbs. Once the basic knowledge had been tested, Manager Du led Xie Ning to the front of the hall to introduce them to the doctors and clerks of the pharmacy.
It was already afternoon, and there were far fewer people coming to see the doctor.
Manager Du introduced, "This is Miss Xie from Quanzhou. She will also be coming to our Dejitang to study starting tomorrow... Doctor Gu, we will have to trouble you to take care of her in the future."
This was to hand Xie Ning over to Doctor Gu, which had been discussed long ago. Doctor Gu was the most senior doctor in their Deji Hall, and having him teach Xie Ning was a show of sincerity.
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