Before the Horn (2)

Luna wiped an old man's body and went to the bathroom to wash and disinfect the towel. The voice of the head nurse came from outside.

"Everyone come out! Dr. Rebecca Escoson is here!"

Luna was startled, and quickly wiped her hands, adjusted her clothes and appearance in front of the mirror, and ran out.

In addition to the medical staff who were caring for the patients, everyone at St. Cross Hospital gathered in the large conference room.

Luna arrived a little later and sat in the back row.

Dr. Rebecca Eskerson was not much different from the one published in magazines and newspapers, a 40-year-old medical professor wearing glasses, gentle, clean and dignified. He was now sitting in the front, talking to a teenager. The teenager was dressed simply, but his smile exuded a noble aura that could not be ignored.

Luna clenched her fists on her chest and widened her eyes. She didn't know how to suppress her excitement at the moment.

Luna was originally the daughter of a carpenter.

When she was young, her father was replacing a beam for a nobleman and fell down, breaking his leg. The doctor determined that the injury could not be cured, and the family's source of income was about to be cut off. At this time, a beautiful bishop passed by the village, cured him, and did not charge any fees.

Not only that, she had been in poor health since childhood and was tortured by illness. She could not step out of her room before she was ten years old.

When the bishop treated her father, he also cured her body. From then on, she could run and jump freely like a normal child.

Later, she found out that the bishop of the Goddess Church was the next successor to the Church.

After that, Luna decided to become a healing wizard like the bishop.

However, she has no magic power. She only has a weak magical sensitivity, but no magical qualifications at all, so wizards are completely isolated from her.

When she heard the news, she cried for a whole day, and the next day she started preparing for the entrance exam to a women's college. She wanted to enter medical school and become a doctor.

The dream was shattered again when she learned that no woman could become a doctor.

She also read a lot of medical papers during her studies. Medicine did not develop very fast due to the existence of wizards. Not many wizards would study medicine because it was a very common thing for them. Even if some diseases could not be cured, it was God's will. Medicine seemed to be just an auxiliary to magic.

The mechanical revolution brought some changes, and the emphasis on science also brought about the development of medical disciplines.

She studied with passion, eager to change the status quo in medicine, only to discover that women could not become doctors.

Yes, she is not the heroine in the novel.

She was just a carpenter's girl with no background. No matter how good her academic performance was, she could not become a doctor.

She was assigned to work as a nurse in a large hospital near her home.

What she had to do every day was to clean the patients, change dirty items, draw blood with a thick needle, roll up bandages, and cut off rotten and maggoty sores...

As for wizards, she didn't see them very often. Only wizards from the Church would come regularly. At that time, they had the easiest time. They would heal the injured patients cleanly and quickly.

Only those who cannot afford a wizard come to the hospital. That is the current state of the hospital.

When she first started working, there was no such thing as "sterilization". Many "surgeries" were performed in a germ-filled environment. They didn't think there was anything wrong with it at the time.

Countless patients with internal diseases died from bloodletting, but the practice continued. She felt something was wrong, but she was just a nurse, how could she deny traditional treatment methods?

In that era, more people died in hospitals than walked out safely.

A few months ago, they didn't even know what "germs" were or what "disinfection" was.

However, a new star in the medical field emerged to change all this.

Dr. Rebecca Eskerson, her teachers and colleagues discovered that the existence of "bacteria" is the root cause of the vast majority of diseases, and developed several effective "disinfection" methods, such as a chemical reagent called "oxalic acid" and the now commonly used purified "Ming wine" of a certain concentration.

She read all their papers eagerly.

It overturns many treatment methods that are regarded as the golden rule in the traditional medical community and proposes groundbreaking treatment methods.

Of course, not many people believed it at the beginning, and many people questioned them.

But when they boldly practiced medicine in this way for a period of time, the results proved everything. All they changed were some trivial habits. They achieved the highest recovery rate of all hospitals.

Many civilians who could not afford to hire a wizard and some patients who could not be cured by wizards came to them for help. This directly increased their fame.

The medical community in Quene also began to gradually recognize their achievements.

They did not become proud of their fame, but instead actively organized doctors of medicine to study modern medicine, which set off a storm of reform in the medical field.

The person at the center of this storm is naturally Dr. Escoson.

After becoming famous, the doctor did not raise the price of medical treatment in the hospital. Instead, he recruited medical talents widely and led the reform of medical infrastructure and sanitary conditions.

Not only did he give popular science lectures on modern medicine everywhere, he also called on other medical doctors to recruit talented people to jointly popularize common knowledge related to medicine and health.

From then on, even though they had never met, Dr. Escoson became the person Lunae admired the most, second only to Archbishop Bixi.

She learned the new knowledge and followed it carefully. Seeing most patients getting better day by day, she felt comforted.

Even though she couldn't become a wizard or a doctor, her desire to save lives and heal illnesses never changed.

Even if she couldn't change the medical world like Dr. Escoson did, she could follow in his footsteps and do everything she could.

This was her salvation after she had hit rock bottom and lost her way.

Wait until everyone in the conference room gradually quiets down.

Doctor Escoson nodded to the young man, who then said, "Dr. Escoson's main purpose for coming here is to train a group of emergency nurses. Please sign up after the lecture. The tuition will be reduced by half, and the food and accommodation will be subsidized by the Medical Foundation."

A determined light flashed in Luna's eyes, and she didn't hesitate at all, even if she had to work three jobs.

However, after the lecture, when they were about to start registration, the boy spoke again.

"I want to emphasize a few things before signing up."

All those who had squeezed in to register had to sit back down and listen quietly.

"Given your ages, I think none of you have ever experienced war, right?"

Luna looked around and saw that there were actually quite a few people here who had just become nurses.

Even she herself, with several years of experience, had only treated a small number of patients.

Those with severe external injuries basically cannot be saved and are simply abandoned. Those with severe internal injuries have no choice but to wait to die in the hospital. Because the hospital environment is not as good as at home, most people choose to wait to die at home.

In peacetime, there are more seriously injured patients only during major disasters, and wizards are the main force at that time.

They have no clear concept of war.

The boy spoke solemnly to the person who was about to become a trainee first aid worker.

"If you were on the battlefield right now and saw people with missing arms and legs, skin burned and rotten, intestines spilling all over the floor... people like this were sent in one after another, and you had to receive these injured and sick patients for days or even months without a break, and you couldn't even find time to sit down and rest or have a meal..."

As Luna listened, her face turned pale and she covered her mouth.

Her stomach began to churn.

She recalled a fire she had experienced before. At that time, she was just a trainee nurse who was called to help, but she could basically do nothing. Her seniors thought she was a nuisance and kicked her aside.

That was her nightmare, but she hated herself even more for being unable to do anything in that situation.

But what she thought about most was why she was not a wizard?

Maybe she overreacted, and when she raised her head, she saw everyone was staring at her.

Her face turned even uglier, and she was about to deny it outright.

The boy gave her a bitter expression, but he smiled with encouragement in his smile.

"You are the only one among the fifty-seven people present who imagined such a scene and felt the same way as them. Don't feel ashamed. This is a very precious quality. Please never forget such kindness and don't be numb to the pain. Even if you can't become a wizard, you can still save lives on your own. Your hands can bear the weight of life, which is amazing. If you have made such a determination, please do your best. All your efforts will not be in vain. I'm counting on you."

The others looked at each other in confusion.

Luna looked up at him in a daze.

She felt her vision suddenly covered by a layer of blurry mist and her nose suddenly felt sore.

She reached up and wiped her eyes.

Tears kept flowing out from between her fingers.

When Inger went out, Dr. Eskerson said goodbye to him privately and respectfully, but he didn't pay much attention to it and got into the carriage he had taken when he came.

Noriha was waiting for her inside.

Her smiling face always gave him the impression that she had ill intentions.

Inger touched the goose bumps on his arm and asked, "What's wrong?"

Norihua smiled meaningfully and said, "Nothing, I just didn't expect it to get to this point. The national tour is over now. I originally thought that you didn't need to go along in person, but after seeing the scene, I feel that some words, when spoken from your mouth, are so different from those spoken from other people's mouths."

"Are you complimenting me or insulting me?"

"Why, I've been racking my brains to come up with new words to praise you!"

"Thank you. I'll save you time on this next time."

Noriha looked at Inger's calm profile as he looked out the window.

What she said to Inger was just the tip of the iceberg. There were so many shocks that even she felt her vocabulary was beginning to be insufficient.

A few months ago, when Inger approached her to discuss how to change the status quo of medicine, she had no idea of ​​what would happen next.

So far, the cooperation with Inger has been profitable.

A project that only burns money but does not make money is naturally inconceivable to her.

When Inger suggested that she find some vain medical doctors who were keen on fame and fortune and some professors who were keen on studying medicine, she did so, but still didn't understand what he was up to.

After a while, she couldn't help asking, "Did you guess this would happen?"

Inger turned his head: "What?"

Norihua asked suspiciously, "Could it be that you wrote those papers for them? Just like the new book of spells."

Inger laughed it off: "How is that possible? I don't know much about medicine, how can I write such things?"

"But………"

He asked her to find all those people who caused a storm in the modern medical field, right?

"I just... gave them a little push, provided some funding, and did some publicity. They were the ones who did the experiments and research, and they were the ones who summarized it into a paper. It was all their own hard work. I just used the funding as a handle to threaten them to do what I wanted."

[Even that dial is the crystallization of the wisdom of the predecessors in another world, not mine. ]

All in all, things were going the way he wanted, and Inger was quite satisfied with it.

Norihua was so shocked that she laughed out loud: "You always say that."

Inger looked at her strangely, not understanding what she was laughing at.

After Nolihua finished laughing, she suddenly had some enlightenment.

It seems that there are things she can do besides making money.

Time passed quickly and it was December. Inger took a break from his busy schedule to read the newspaper and saw two pieces of news.

He cursed softly, "That Alex guy!"

After the succession ceremony in August, Princess Aura officially became the second empress in the history of Cune.

With the assistance of Alex, Lanmore and other members of parliament, drastic institutional reforms and preparations for war were launched.

In the past few days, Aura suddenly arrested the fourth prince on charges of attempted assassination of the crown prince.

Inger, the first victim, actually learned about the verdict from the newspaper. Of course, the newspaper did not mention any news about him.

The fourth prince Rudolf was finally stripped of his royal citizenship and was exiled to the northeastern border.

On the other hand, the first restoration revolution soon took place in Zalambra. This time it seemed to be the restoration of the old dynasty. Andrenon was ruthless and the rebel leaders were beheaded in public as a warning to others.

Andrenon appointed himself Chief People's Deputy Executive Officer, but there was no news about the defected Queen Lucia.