Three days later, in the anatomy room at the University of Edinburgh.
Arthur was wearing protective clothing and standing in front of a corpse, surrounded by hundreds of students.
"Ladies and gentlemen."
Professor Joseph Bell stood on the podium, using his broad and high voice to preach to the students.
When everyone heard "ladies", they couldn't help covering their mouths and snickering, and looked at the two people at the end of the team.
Amidst these contemptuous looks, Jabi and Ferid lowered their heads in embarrassment.
In eighteenth-century Europe, although women had integrated into all walks of life, they were still rare in the medical field. In fact, there was not a single woman in the entire Edinburgh medical department.
Men feel that if women are to face blood and corpses, apart from making them scream hysterically, the most likely possibility is that they will faint on the spot.
But Jabi and Ferid are just such people. Not only are they afraid of dead people, Jabi also has an ugly record of vomiting in public and fainting several times in anatomy classes.
Professor Bell inspected each of his students, and finally set his sights on his beloved disciple Arthur in front of the corpse.
Arthur has typical Irish golden curly hair, eyes as deep as the Caribbean Sea, a thin face, and high cheekbones, which makes him look a bit rigid and aloof.
Although he is not the most handsome among students, his unique temperament still attracts a lot of attention to him.
"Here are some of the greatest and most outstanding students in the history of our University of Edinburgh."
At this time, all the students looked at Arthur in unison, with fanatical admiration and some unkind jealousy in their eyes.
Ferid complained to Jabi beside him: "He is just a lucky guy who accidentally found, uh, what is that called in the soil of strawberries."
Listening to Ferid tell bad things about his friends made Jabi feel very unhappy.
"Shut up Ferid, you don't deserve to talk about Arthur at all. You are just relying on the reputation of the Prieto family, but Arthur saved the world!"
Ferid rolled his eyes and said with even more disdain: "The whole world? Jabi, you are exaggerating! And aren't you also relying on Fraser's surname?"
Indeed, if they had not relied on their family status, they would have been expelled from the University of Edinburgh long ago.
Jabi snorted and ignored him, but Professor Bell continued to praise him in his singer-like tone, "He is the hero of England and Scotland, the terminator of cholera, Arthur Conan Dow. Mr. Er.”
This series of long and somewhat exaggerated titles made Arthur, who had always been extremely calm, couldn't help but blush a little.
No matter what everyone's thoughts were at this moment, everyone gave him warm applause in time, and Jabi whistled exaggeratedly.
Because they are both members of the University of Edinburgh, all this will be their glory.
After Arthur expressed his gratitude to the classmates and Professor Bell around him, he gradually began to calm down. He did not rush to operate the scalpel, but carefully examined the body around the body.
This was also his professional habit as a forensic doctor in his previous life.
Caution and patience when facing corpses are two indispensable talents for a forensic doctor.
The body was thin and thin, with thick calluses on his hands and feet, indicating that he had been a manual laborer during his lifetime.
The redness and hard muscles on his shoulders made it easy to guess that he mainly made a living by carrying things, so the image of the stevedores on the dock naturally appeared in Arthur's mind.
But when he saw a deep cross-cut mark on the back of the corpse's neck, he couldn't help but frown slightly.
After a detailed examination, he finally picked up a sharp scalpel. Due to his previous experience, Arthur performed perfectly during the dissection.
Just like a machine, every step is done quickly and very accurately, and the organs removed from each part are placed in the prepared vessels in an orderly manner.
The whole process was as orderly as if he had done this job hundreds of times.
This smooth and precise operation process made the students around them marvel.
Professor Bell even used his exaggerated tone to praise loudly: "Look! This is simply art. The smooth blade is like the lines drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, and the nimble hands are like playing Mozart's violin. in the key of C major."
As he spoke, Bell actually waved his hands on the podium like a conductor, and he was extremely rhythmic.
"I don't know what Professor Bell thinks of calling anatomy an art," the surrounding students couldn't help but complain in their hearts.
But Jabi and Ferid couldn't bear it anymore. They covered their mouths and ran out of the classroom in embarrassment together.
Professor Bell really wanted to catch the two of them, kick them hard on the butts, and kick these two unlearned bastards out of the University of Edinburgh.
After the autopsy was completed, Arthur cleared his voice and said, "Gentlemen, the body is that of a male, probably between 30 and 37 years old."
Arthur's judgment on the age of the corpse immediately caused a commotion among the surrounding students, who all started talking quietly.
Some people said he was trying to impress others, while others said he was not rigorous enough. Even Professor Bell frowned unconsciously.
Arthur ignored the reactions of the classmates around him. Based on his past life experience, if it were not for the lack of instruments now, he would be able to limit the age error to two years.
"The deceased's heart was intact, his liver was slightly swollen, his lungs were edematous, and his kidneys also showed signs of failure."
Today he mainly talked about the onset of cholera to the people present.
So he finally took out the small intestine of the deceased and said, "Look, this is what I call the hotbed of Vibrio cholerae. They multiply here and then produce enterotoxin, which causes severe diarrhea and vomiting that the human body cannot control. It causes dehydration in our body and leads to death.”
Cholera is still less prestigious than the Black Death (plague), which made Europeans so distraught after hearing about it.
However, because of its acute onset, rapid spread, and extremely high fatality rate, it became the second most deadly disease in Europe in the 18th century.
In the last cholera outbreak in the 1950s, more than 6,000 people died in Edinburgh alone, turning the Scottish capital into a city of hell.
London was even more disastrous. The unrest caused by people's fear of the disease almost overturned the entire Windsor dynasty.
What is scary about cholera is not only its high fatality rate, but also the extremely terrifying and miserable state in which patients die.
People often see that a person who was originally very strong turns into a withered, mummy-like corpse due to dehydration in just seven days. Such a horrific scene makes people begin to think that this is A sign of the coming of the devil into the world.
So when Arthur peeled open the small intestine and showed the white mucus inside, everyone immediately covered their mouths and noses.
Although Arthur had said countless times and had verified that cholera could not spread in the air, everyone still involuntarily backed away, as if they were avoiding the devil.
Arthur could understand their mood and did not stop or sneer. Instead, he pointed at the white mucus and continued to explain: "This is the source of the disease. It has been shown that the deceased was indeed infected with Vibrio cholerae before his death, but the symptoms were only in the early stages. .Based on the health of the deceased, if rescued in time, there is a 70% chance of recovery."
"So he didn't die of cholera?"
A few bold classmates couldn't help but curiously asked about the cause of death of the corpse.
Professor Bell took over from Arthur and replied: "The poor man committed suicide. He hung himself from the rafters."
After finishing speaking, he glanced at his students and said in a more passionate tone: "Cholera, this devil has killed too many people, making us feel scared and overwhelmed whenever we hear its name. But now we have Arthur, who gives us the courage to fight this evil again."
The entire anatomy room suddenly burst into warm applause.
At this time, Arthur suddenly said in a low voice: "No, he was murdered!"
