Zhao Hao waited in the ward for half an hour before the test results came out.

As expected, Wan Mi Zhai discovered white insect eggs in the test samples.

Although the two great players had already determined based on their experience that Pan Jixun was suffering from schistosomiasis.

But being able to get solid evidence to confirm a diagnosis without relying on experience but only on scientific tests is absolutely of great significance!

Because one of the biggest problems that has troubled Chinese and foreign doctors for thousands of years is the difficulty in making a diagnosis.

Doctors in our Ming Dynasty must have solid medical knowledge, practice medicine under the guidance of famous teachers for many years, and accumulate rich clinical experience. Only then can they give a relatively accurate diagnosis by observing, smelling, asking and feeling the patients.

However, this is too subjective and requires a lot of experience and intuition to improve the accuracy of diagnosis, which makes it very difficult for doctors to practice.

Even two famous doctors may give different diagnoses to the same patient.

However, most doctors are not well-trained and basically rely on guesswork when treating patients, which leads to a large number of misdiagnoses.

As for Western medicine at that time, it was completely synonymous with unbridled and careless treatment of human life...

The emergence of the microscope provided an objective basis for medicine, greatly reducing the difficulty of doctors' diagnosis and the chance of misdiagnosis.

In this way, it will be easier for disciples to learn medicine and become a master.

This is a qualitative leap for medicine!

This realization made Wan Mizhai, Li Shizhen and Li Lunming extremely excited. If their age and status did not allow it, the three old men would have shouted a few times to vent their excitement.

Zhao Hao struck while the iron was hot and proposed to establish a special medical school to study how to integrate technology and medicine and push Chinese medicine into a new realm.

"By then, your names will surely be listed alongside those of Bian Que, Hua Tuo, Sun Simiao, and Zhang Zhongjing!" Young Master Zhao tried his best to persuade the three of them.

"Because you have opened up a whole new world for Chinese medicine, benefiting the Chinese people for generations to come!"

The three medical masters, who were 180 years old in total, were so fooled by Zhao Hao that their faces turned red and they agreed in unison.

"Okay! Let's build a medical school and do something that even the medical saints have never done!"

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After Li Shizhen and Wan Mizhai discussed the prescription and asked their disciples to pick and boil the medicine, the four of them could not wait to discuss how to prepare for the medical school in front of Pan Jixun's bed.

"I don't know much about medical school, so I'm just talking nonsense. You guys just listen to me." Mr. Zhao, who knows a little bit about everything, started by throwing out some ideas:

"I think medical schools and hospitals are inseparable and complementary, but also have clear functional differences. The former is a place to study how to treat diseases and train medical staff, while the latter is where the former is put to use and where the former's theory is combined with practice."

"Hmm." Wan Mizhai tried to gather his beard out of habit, but found that he was still wearing a mask. "Indeed, we need a medical school like this in addition to the hospital."

"The medical school can be roughly divided into two parts: basic medicine and clinical medicine." Zhao Hao continued, listing them one by one:

"Basic medicine is the study of medicine using scientific methods. It generally includes pathology, microbiology, pharmacology, and forensic medicine."

"Are you talking nonsense?" Li Shizhen rolled his eyes and said, "I think you have been planning this for a long time."

"Everything else is easy to explain, but what is forensic medicine?" Li Lunming asked when he didn't understand.

"Well, to put it simply, it's coroner's medicine." Zhao Hao touched his nose.

"This..." The three doctors were all stunned. "A medical school is also responsible for training coroners for the government?"

You have to know that in this era, doctors, especially famous doctors, still had a very high social status, only one level lower than officials. Coroners were considered to have a lowly job because they had to deal with corpses.

If Master Zhao had not completely conquered them, the three doctors would have scolded him on the spot for his nonsense.

"Don't worry, three of you." Zhao Hao had expected the three of them to be resistant. He smiled faintly and said seriously, "The role of forensic medicine is to 'defend the rights of the living and speak for the dead', which is also very noble and important."

"I have also read Song Tixing Xiyuan Jilu, and it is indeed closely related to my medical family." When Li Shizhen heard the sponsor say this, he immediately changed his mind and said, "Since it can uphold justice and reduce wrongful convictions, I support the establishment of 'forensic medicine'."

"Haha, I have no objection to that." Li Lunming is a surgeon and is extremely familiar with "Xi Yuan Lu". In fact, he often draws lessons from this book when he practices medicine.

"Since you all support it, then I agree too." Wan Mizhai also nodded with a smile. If he didn't have an open-minded attitude, he wouldn't be here.

"Good!" Zhao Hao bowed to the three of them in admiration and said, "It is true that doctors are kind-hearted. This is absolutely true."

"Then you are also a doctor." Li Shizhen flattered with a smile.

"Hahaha, I take doctors as my teachers." Mr. Zhao was humble for once, then changed the subject and whispered:

"In fact, the establishment of 'forensic medicine' is extremely important for our medical progress."

"Oh, what do you mean?" the three doctors asked in confusion.

"Excuse me, what is the object of doctor's research?" Zhao Hao asked in a deep voice.

"The human body." Li Shizhen replied with a smile.

"What does the coroner study?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"Corpse." Li Lunming replied.

"Don't coroners examine the injuries of living people?" Zhao Hao asked back.

"Of course I gave it to you." Li Lunming changed his words and said, "Then it is also a human body."

"Both of them are studying the human body," Zhao Hao asked calmly, "Do doctors know more about the structure of the human body, or do coroners know more?"

"Of course it's our doctor..." Li Lunming felt more and more guilty as he spoke until he fell silent.

"To our shame, doctors like me rely on the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine and the Cunzhen Diagram to know where the internal organs are, but almost no one has seen them with their own eyes."

But the coroner has actually dissected a human body and seen with his own eyes what is inside. He can determine the cause of death of the deceased based on the abnormalities.

In this respect, doctors are not as good as coroners.

"It goes without saying that if we want to study medicine using scientific methods, then our doctors must learn from the coroners with an open mind. There is always a teacher among three people."

Zhao Hao said in a deep voice: "As a doctor, you treat patients all day long, but you don't know what the human body is made of, how the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys work. This is really unacceptable."

"This..." Li Shizhen wanted to refute him. In fact, we can detect internal organ diseases by taking the pulse.

But now we are talking about how to use science to promote medicine, and of course we have to be realistic - in fact, he is extremely curious about the structure of the human body!

It's just that due to laws and etiquette, they dare not destroy the corpse.

Wan Mi Zhai's eyes suddenly lit up, and he slapped his thigh and said, "I understand. Since you have established forensic medicine, we doctors can legitimately dissect corpses!"

Apparently he was also very interested in the human body.

Not to mention Li Lunming, he is a surgeon.

"Well, we still have to be more particular." Fearing that the three of them might overdo it, Zhao Hao dryly coughed twice and said, "For example, you can watch from the sidelines when the coroner is doing the work. This way you can avoid causing trouble."

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