Generally speaking, things are rare and precious, and traditional Chinese medicine is very difficult. If you want to achieve something small, it is no less than a scholar's hard work. With the profound knowledge and the perseverance of trying all kinds of herbs, and after years of practicing medicine, you might as well go directly to the imperial examination.

During the Ming Dynasty, it took at least ten years to become an imperial physician.

Although the Hanging Hu Jishi is respected and has a great income, its social status is far inferior to that of an official. Take the Imperial Hospital as an example. The hospital with the highest status is only a fifth-rank official, which is already the highest official position that a doctor can achieve.

Therefore, doctors are always rare, and there are even fewer famous doctors with excellent medical skills. Even if the Xu family wants to invite a famous doctor in the capital, they have to send special people to urge them to invite them. Each time they come, they have to pay at least twenty or thirty taels of silver for carriages. The cost of imperial doctors is several times or even more than that of ordinary doctors.

If the Xu family treats the servants harshly, they really can't afford to hire them. There are so many servants in the family, and if anyone who has a headache or fever wants to hire a doctor to see a doctor, the Xu family will lose everything within a year.

Besides, if you don’t have enough status, you can’t invite others. Xu Hao once asked several doctors who came to their home for treatment. It turned out that traditional Chinese medicine had become a very rigorous and professional industry by the Ming Dynasty. It was no less difficult to become a doctor than to pass the exam for a scholar.

And it is not that a Chinese medicine doctor can cure all diseases as I imagine, but that more than ten specialized departments have been subdivided into it, such as Dafang Mai, Xiaofang Mai, Typhoid, Gynecology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, Oral Dentistry, etc.

When Xu Hao lived in the village, he saw people who were sick and unable to afford to hire a doctor or who were useless in the countryside. The miserable scenes of the people who suffered were still vivid in their minds.

In fact, the most terrifying thing is that when you encounter a quack doctor, you often delay minor illnesses and even lose your life in a confused manner.

In view of this, coupled with Qingwen's sneer, Xu Hao's idea of ​​self-reliance was strengthened. He remembered that he had seen Dae Jang Geum, why not let his maids learn medical skills? This way, he can not only treat his own family but also treat the people around him.

Traditional Chinese medicine has always been famous for its extensive and profoundness. Xu Hao naturally would not let the maids learn everything, and specialize in gynecology, pediatrics and common diseases. As for the bad customs that women will be discriminated against when studying medicine, Xu Hao doesn't care at all, and it's not open to outsiders. Can you control me when I close the door?

There were female medical officials in the Ming Dynasty Palace, and there have been records of several famous female doctors since ancient times. Although medical families have rules that pass on their sons but not women, there is no ban on women not allowed to practice medicine. As for learning medical skills to kill people, it is better to take a shower and go to bed quickly. As long as this kind of thing is a normal family, the chance of happening is no less than that of the top scorer in high school.

Xu Hao came out and asked the manager to invite a doctor back, thinking about how to get a famous doctor to teach the girls' medical skills. Often those famous doctors who cherish their own brides will see more life than their years of experience in practicing medicine, and they cannot count on it. This is also one of the root causes of why traditional Chinese medicine gradually declined under the impact of Western medicine.

When I sent someone to inquire about the elderly and children in the palace, I invited my maids who were interested in studying medicine to recognize their godmothers and take care of their elderly parents, so that I would not have to worry about not being able to learn relevant medical skills.

As for the enlightenment of medical skills, it is very simple. If a scholar is a professor, he will teach. Starting from "The Classic of Internal Medicine" and "Compendium of Materia Medica", he will slowly find some doctors with broad minds to teach for a while. With a theoretical foundation, he will have to find a way to practice. It is probably impossible to explore and treat it while you are exploring.

Learning a skill is very attractive to most people. The maids learn that they can pass it on to their descendants in the future, so they have no worries that no one can learn medicine.

Xu Hao thought about opening a school in the garden first, and if it is effective, it will also be opened in the village. Unfortunately, Western medicine has just developed these days, otherwise he would really want to combine things and open a regular hospital.

It was almost midnight, and the manager finally invited a middle-aged doctor back. Xu Hao led the man into the inner house without saying a word. The maids such as Zhulan and Qingwen opened their eyes wide. Unexpectedly, the young master really invited the doctor.

The doctor practiced medicine for many years and looked as open-minded as he entered the bamboo garden. On the contrary, Qiuxiang felt embarrassed. Xu Hao frowned and said, "What can I avoid when I treat the disease? Even if the empress in the palace is sick, she has to do this."

Qiuxiang was just a headache and fever caused by wind and cold. After the doctor was diagnosed, he prescribed several doses of medicine, said a few precautions and said goodbye and left. Xu Hao had already ordered people to prepare ten taels of silver to deliver.

After sending the person away, Xu Hao deliberately sighed and said, "Actually, I can cure this disease. It was Qingwen who squeezed me out at that time. I felt sorry for these ten taels of silver."

Qingwen held the prescription in her hand and said, "If you go to hire a doctor if anyone gets sick after this time, even if I am a maid for you for the rest of my life, I will be willing."

Zhulan and Musk Yue didn't say anything, but their eyes were somewhat expectant. Qiuxiang, who was lying on the bed, sighed: "Don't make things difficult for him. I feel so upset that I have spent three months of monthly money for me."

"If you are sick, you have to be treated." Xu Hao said with a deep thought and walked around with his hands behind his back. "It's better to learn some medical skills by ourselves. There is no need to ask someone for minor illnesses or disasters."

Zhulan's eyes lit up and she said, "This is a good idea. The doctor in the village relied on learning acne skills for a few days in his early years, and he ate and drank spicy food all year round. I don't seek wealth and learn some useful common sense, and I also cure some minor injuries and illnesses for my sisters and family."

"Acne? Is the type to treat smallpox?"

Xu Hao hurriedly asked, saying that in the Qing Dynasty palace novels and other books, films and TV series he had read, children often died of smallpox and chickenpox in the Qing Dynasty, which was very terrible, among which smallpox is a malignant infectious disease.

Zhulan nodded and said, "That's right, we have been raped by the doctor since we were young, and we haven't seen anyone have had rashes again in recent years. It's a blessing. It's not that the old lady has to send a filial piety to the doctor every year. The older generation said that because of smallpox in the early years, many people will die in the village."

Xu Hao was stunned. He never expected that there would be acne? In fact, he was really ignorant. At this time, the whole of Europe was ravaged by smallpox. More than 150 million people died in centuries. The death toll in China during the same period was far smaller than that of any small country in Europe.

It is said that this acne was passed down from the Song Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, he had rich experience in treating acne rash. He was passed down from generation to generation. Smallpox is not a serious threat to children's premature death, especially most children in the south have been vaccinated with acne early.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the people did not trust traditional Chinese medicine, especially the southerners, and the influx of Westerners, smallpox became the biggest killer of the Qing royal family. The two emperors Shunzhi and Tongzhi died of smallpox. Although Kangxi and Xianfeng survived by chance, they also left a slut.

Four of the eight princes in Shunzhi died, five of the six princesses died, fifteen of Kangxi's thirty-five sons died early, and thirteen of the twenty-five princesses died, which shows how harmful smallpox was at that time.

When smallpox appeared during that period, the entire area would be completely blocked and no one could enter or leave. If anyone dared to conceal it and not report it, the government would be guilty of death.

It was not until the 17th year of the Kangxi reign that the method of human acne from the south was introduced to the north and the palace. Kangxi attached great importance to this and quickly promoted it to all the Eight Banners children, Mongolian grasslands, North Korea and Japan. At that time, Russia specially sent people to China to learn this technique, and it began to be introduced to Europe. After more than 100 years of the Qing Dynasty, there was no record of death from smallpox. Finally, according to this method, the West invented cowpox to benefit all mankind.

What’s interesting is that in those Qing Palace novels, the male and female protagonists often invented cowpox and saved the princes and princesses, and they were often the Kangxi Dynasty where time travelers gathered.

After this incident, Xu Hao became more and more respectful and trusting about traditional Chinese medicine. The next morning, he told his elder sister about the plan to let the maids learn medicine. Xu Qinglian was worried that she had nothing to do and recommended herself to become an enlightenment teacher.

This matter spread quickly, and many maids begged for learning with a try attitude. Xu Qinglian selected seven or eight literate disciples, with steady and patient and honest disciples, including Zhulan and Musk Yue. Qingwen was screened because of her impatient personality.

Xiao Yushi was also quite interested in this and took a class with the maids. Xu Qinglian first taught the Internal Classic word by word, and explained it tirelessly. Xu Hao knew that studying medicine would not be a day's achievement, and it would be good if one person could become a talent by then.

When he was fine, he thought about related things. Xu Hao felt that production was a very dangerous event in ancient times. No matter how many people there were to help him, he would not be too much.

Xu Hao immediately prepared for the future and invited an experienced old lady. Because he was inconvenient to explain the knowledge from modern times, such as confinement, he spoke it through the old lady. When Xu Hao's cousin gave birth to a child, his brother-in-law was far away from abroad. He served his cousin for a full month and had rich theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

The woman initially accepted his benefits, but she didn't agree with it. She gradually realized the truth and began to accept it humbly, remember all the fresh words in her head, and applied them to them. She once gave birth to people a lot of words, such as nutritional education and eugenics and good parenting, which made people admire her very much. Unexpectedly, she gradually became a famous confinement lady from now on. Countless officials and nobles hired her to deliver her and serve her confinement.
Chapter completed!