Chapter 65 The Demon-Possessed Doctor
Vienna, General Medical Hospital.
Dr. Thomas is packing his bags. He hates this evil country. He is young, rich, and speaks French. He can go to Paris to find a better job.
Thomas is a doctor, the greatest profession in this era besides banker.
"Doctor Thomas! Doctor Thomas! That idiot archduke wants to challenge you! This is the challenge just sent by the postman. Will you accept it?" Thomas' assistant shouted excitedly.
"Which idiot archduke?"
"That is the Emperor's younger brother, Archduke Franz Karl."
Dr. Thomas asked doubtfully
"That idiot wants to challenge me. What's so exciting about that? I'm a doctor. How can I duel with an idiot?"
the assistant explained.
"Oh, no, Doctor Thomas, it's not a duel, he wants to debate you, and it's scheduled to be in the Central Park Square in Vienna this weekend."
Dr. Thomas was stunned for a moment and then burst into laughter.
"Interesting. I accept this challenge. I want to discredit the Habsburg family."
Soon, the news that Dr. Thomas was going to debate Archduke Franz Karl in Vienna’s Central Park spread throughout Vienna, and some people even rushed to Vienna from other places overnight just to witness this bizarre debate.
This matter is being discussed in pubs and coffee shops.
"Did you hear that? That idiot archduke is going to have a debate with a real social elite."
"You said that the Grand Duke planned to use this method to persuade doctors to abide by the new laws issued by the emperor?"
"What new law? Why haven't I heard of it?"
"It has nothing to do with ordinary people like us. It's just a requirement that doctors must wash their hands before treating patients."
"It's just a matter of washing their hands, and it's not asking them to pay taxes. Are those doctors going to disobey the emperor's order because of this?"
"Isn't that right? They always feel that they are very noble. Noble people don't need to wash their hands..."
"How noble? More noble than the royal family?"
"It is said that Dr. Thomas, who had united many doctors to openly oppose the emperor's decree, is going on strike!"
"Why didn't I hear about it?"
"Do you think those doctors are stupid? There are many supporters, but by the time they take to the streets, there are not many. It is said that this incident has angered the emperor, and the secret police has begun arresting people."
At this time, someone at the next table interrupted.
"The news I heard is different from what you heard. I heard that when a doctor treated the emperor, he didn't wash his hands and rubbed feces all over the emperor. The emperor was very angry, so he asked the doctor to wash his hands before seeing a doctor."
"Well, what a pervert, no wonder the emperor is angry."
"Stop talking, let's go take a look. After all, there are not many opportunities to watch the royal family debate with others."
"What's there to see? This Archduke Franz Karl has a bad brain. Last time I went to my store to buy a fish tank, I picked the biggest one, but the carriage couldn't fit in it. I wanted to change him to a smaller one, but this The Grand Duke smashed the big fish tank and loaded it into the carriage."
"Haha, Dr. Thomas is the leader of the medical community in Vienna. Now it's even more interesting."
After all, the opportunity to humiliate and ridicule the royal family does not come every day. Everyone wants to see how this idiot archduke humiliates himself.
On Sunday, the Central Park Square in Vienna was crowded with people, everyone wanted to have a glimpse of the idiot archduke.
Dr. Thomas had arrived at the square in advance and invited a lot of Viennese medical experts. He didn't want his performance to be without an audience. Besides, he felt that with so many experts there, someone would always be able to figure out a way to deal with the Archduke.
After an hour-long wait, one or two royal carriages slowly separated the crowd.
Archduke Franz Karl jumped out of the carriage. He could smell the alcohol on the Archduke's body some distance away, and thought to himself that he was really worrying too much.
"Grand Duke, are you ready?"
"Okay. Hiccup."
"It is well known that from Hippocrates to the present, doctors can only be held by noble people. Water is the source of all diseases. Water will weaken the function of human organs. Cold water will cause colds and diarrhea, and hot water will cause pores. Open, thereby inhaling more harmful germs, leading to serious diseases such as tuberculosis."
Thomas kept talking about the rules that doctors of this era had regarded as golden rules. Archduke Franz Karl obviously didn't listen and interrupted him directly.
"Let me ask you a few questions. I ask, you answer."
Thomas was unhappy, but the gap in status made it hard for him to be tough.
"You say."
"Do you wash your hands before you operate on me?"
"No, the doctor's hands are noble and holy."
Dr. Thomas tried to resonate so that he could get rid of the big guy as soon as possible.
"Do you wash your hands after surgery?"
"Yes, after all, it's uncomfortable to be sticky."
"Then why didn't you wash your hands before surgery?"
"Because there is nothing on it"
"What are you referring to?"
"Blood, internal organs, in short, those things in the human body."
"Oh, then you have to wash your hands after touching people, why don't you wash your hands after touching other things?"
"I"
"Do you think the members of the Habsburg family are worse than the papyrus you used?"
"I don't!"
"Then why did you disobey my brother's decree?"
"I"
"They call you a civilian killer?"
"This is because."
But before Dr. Thomas could explain clearly, Archduke Franz Karl continued to ask.
"Why did you murder the people of the Austrian Empire!"
"I didn't! That's my duty, I'm just a doctor! I'm just treating illnesses and saving people."
At this time, Thalia walked onto the podium with Thomas' assistant and two thick notebooks.
"There are two notebooks here. One records Dr. Thomas's medical practice records in the past ten years, and the other is Dr. Thomas's observation diary."
Thalia opened Dr. Thomas's medical records first.
"It is clearly recorded here that Dr. Thomas has a habit of washing his hands with strong alcohol before treating nobles. His success rate in treating nobles is very high, which is why he can become the president of the Medical Association."
Thalia immediately changed the subject.
"But according to his assistant's records, Dr. Thomas would never wash his hands with strong alcohol when treating civilians. Instead, he would deliberately smear strange things on his fingers, such as cow dung and ginkgo tree sap. There are notes on this and Dr. Thomas’s assistant as witness.”
Thalia picked up another notebook. Dr. Thomas was excited and wanted to snatch it, but was punched down by Archduke Franz Karl.
"This is Dr. Thomas's diary. It records in detail the symptoms and comments of infected patients before their death. Dr. Thomas enjoys recording the pain of these infected patients before their death. He is a murderer!"
Everyone was in an uproar.
"That highly respected Dr. Thomas actually has this habit."
"That's not necessarily true. There's no such thing as a guy with a human face and a beast's heart. Maybe he's possessed by a demon."
Vienna's police chief, Vons Casiraghi, arrested Dr. Thomas on the spot. As for the charges, of course, he was in contempt of the royal family and suspected of more than 600 murders, as well as being possessed by an evil spirit.
"Quiet! Quiet! This Doctor Thomas blatantly disobeys the emperor's order and just wants to continue his evil research. Before finding out whether this demon-possessed villain has any accomplices, all doctors must persist. handwashing."
Just as the police chief finished speaking, Archbishop Rauscher also appeared on the stage.
"The church has received a revelation that to purify evil, we must rely on the power of God. We have discovered a sacred substance that can purify evil. I call it divine radiance. It can purify evil by simply placing it in water. It sells for 5 francs per ounce. Rollin."
In fact, what Rauscher calls divine radiance is calcium hypochlorite, which is bleaching powder.
Bleach powder can not only sterilize and disinfect, but it is also very cheap. It is of high quality and low price.
Bleaching powder could be synthesized as early as 1789, but people in this era could only use bleaching powder to bleach clothes. Its main function in modern times is sterilization and disinfection, which is not widely known.
Cholera, dysentery, and malaria were common occurrences in this era, and many important people died from such minor illnesses.
Before Pasteur founded the germ theory, it can be said that the Western world was in this state of five-guarantee households.
There was no family planning in this era, but the slow population growth is the best evidence.
Franz did not intend to let the murderer go, let alone give him a chance to explain, but in order to convince the people and increase his influence, he could only use this despicable method.
The result was that Thomas would be prosecuted for the murder of 670 subjects of the Austrian Empire, and his body would be taxidermied for future medical students to study.