Angel flipped through the pages for nearly half the night, and finally saw the clue of "Snake wrapped around the scepter" in a book called "The Doctor's Oath". In this book, several scenes of ancient doctors rescuing people were drawn.
, perhaps in order to deify the status of doctors, they all wear a scepter surrounded by snakes when treating patients, and their whole bodies are shining with light.
The most magical picture among them is a four-frame comic strip, which tells an event that happened in ancient times: a man holding a snake staff had a glowing cloud in front of him. At the reminder of the "light cloud", the man was saved.
A disease spreads throughout the city.
If the author hadn't deliberately "deified" him, Angel could think of only wizards with such extraordinary power. And that "light cloud" might be some kind of large-scale healing spell.
Turning to the end, another picture with a "snake wrapped around a scepter" appears in the book.
However, this picture does not show a doctor holding a snake staff, but in a square, the "snake around the staff" has become a statue. Countless doctors in white robes clenched their fists and raised their chests, lowering their heads towards the statue.
The whole picture looks full of solemnity and sacredness.
Below it is written the name of this picture: Oath of Employment Picture.
All doctors will take an oath when they join the job. This oath includes "dedication to patients, demanding of oneself, and respect for medicine." This picture is an oath of office.
After reading this book, Angel became even more confused.
In the previous picture, the "snake wrapped around the scepter" is a tool in the hands of the doctor. In the end, it turned into the doctor's belief when taking the oath, which is very strange.
Angel thought for a while, maybe those pictures at the beginning actually refer to a certain wizard who specializes in healing. His deeds of saving people were praised by people, which led to the previous pictures. Later, the wizard left, and his
The deeds were slowly sung and became more and more deified under this long-term singing. In the end, even his snake staff became the object of the oath of office.
This is the complete logic that Angel can think of.
But... what does this have to do with Axl? What does this have to do with Pocrates?!
After searching for a long time, the "snake wrapped around the scepter" I found was just an ancient legend?! There was no mention of the name of the snake at all, let alone what its meaning was. The "Pocrates" that Angel wanted to know most
There is no record of the incident.
Angel, who felt that he had done a useless job, reluctantly restored the books in the secret library and left silently.
He returned along the original path and left the Central Library quietly. When he appeared in the square again, Angel unexpectedly discovered that there were little bits of hoarfrost floating in the air.
——Is it snowing? Only later did Angel realize that the falling white frost was actually snowflakes.
He has lived in a temperate coastal area since he was a child, and when he came to the wizarding world, he was also in a mirror world with warm seasons. Angel had seen the frozen land on the Pamidji Plateau, but he rarely saw snowflakes, and he only remembered it when he was very young.
, when I went to the capital of the Golden Bird Empire, I saw heavy goose-feather snow. Now that I suddenly met Piaoxue again, my originally depressed mood suddenly became much better for some reason.
In the drifting snow, Angel felt inexplicably quiet and walked towards where he came from step by step.
Any season has its symbolic signs. Snow is the default "gift of winter" in Angel's heart. The windbreaker Angel wears has the effect of being hardy in the cold and heat, so he basically doesn't feel it at ordinary times.
The feeling of winter. When he saw the fluttering snowflakes, he was shocked to realize that winter was really coming.
Perhaps it was Xueluo's voice that was too soft, which stirred up the long-awaited sensibility in Angel's heart.
He thought of his relatives far away, of Lyon, and of Jon.
Also in the frozen moon, he left the town of Gru and followed Moro into a mysterious world. Time passed by two years.
Two years is not a long time in the long life of a wizard. But for Angel, it still passed too fast. He has not grown up enough to protect the family, nor has he found a way to save Jon.
Now, he doesn't even know where he is.
Although he has been building himself up in his mind and will be able to go back soon, but God knows how long this "soon" will be? One month? One year? Or ten years?
Moreover, the Purification Garden is about to open. Can he rush there? This is also unknown.
Angel shook his head and suppressed these complicated thoughts. Too many negative emotions would affect his decision-making.
The night is getting darker and darker, and the snowflakes are falling more and more.
Angel did not turn on the purification force field and let the snowflakes fall on his body. He could not feel the coolness of the snow, but watching the snow falling on him and slowly melting, he felt much calmer.
Facing the goose-velvet snow, Angel discovered that the light of a shop was still on at the end of the dark street.
It was a small clinic. Angel noticed it when he arrived. The scene inside could be seen through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows——
A narrow room with bright oil lamps and simple tables and chairs. A young female doctor in a white robe sat on the chair, holding a cup of hot drink in her hand, blowing and sipping it. The white mist coming out of the cup attracted her.
His glasses were covered with steam.
This was the scene Angel saw from the floor-to-ceiling windows when he passed by this clinic, which was the only one with lights on on a snowy night.
Angel only paused for a moment before he was noticed by the female doctor who had been watching the snowflakes fall in boredom. She took off her glasses and smiled at Angel.
Angel was stunned and subconsciously wanted to put down his hat and leave quickly. But his thoughts changed and he remembered "The Oath of the Doctor" he had seen not long ago. He stopped again. Instead, he nodded to the female doctor and pushed away.
Walk through the clinic door.
The female doctor was startled, then immediately put down the cup in her hand and came over.
"It's snowing too much outside, let's have a cup of hot tea." The female doctor did not ask any questions. She could tell that this strangely dressed man had no intention of coming in, and judging from his straight back and the pace of his movements,
Look, he didn't seem to be sick. She guessed that he was here to avoid the snow.
The female doctor methodically took out the water cup and mixed it with a cup of hot tea.
He thought the other party would make fermented tea, so Angel originally wanted to refuse, but when the female doctor approached, he smelled a faint milky fragrance.
"I particularly like to drink milk tea, so I only have milk tea here." The female doctor said a little embarrassedly: "Sir, you can try it. This is Wimton milk tea. It is especially warm when you drink it on a cold day."
Angel was stunned for a moment, but he still took it.
However, he did not drink it. Instead, he put it on the table, took off his tall hat and put it aside, and smiled at the female doctor.
Only then did the female doctor realize that the "sir" she was talking about was just a half-year-old boy. He was blond and blue-eyed, and his skin was as smooth as fine white porcelain. He was very handsome, even more handsome than the senior she had been obsessed with when she was studying. In the end,
The important thing is that the other person is so good-looking before he has grown up. When he matures, how many women will miss him?
The female doctor couldn't help shaking her head secretly, hating that she had married too early.
"My name is Shirley, and I am the attending physician of this Shirley Clinic." The female doctor Shirley smiled warmly at Angel and said, "The snow came so suddenly, sir, why don't you stay here for a while and wait until
Will we go back when the snow has subsided?"
Angel nodded casually, and then asked: "Dr. Shirley, did you graduate from Golden Cross Medical College?"
Shirley was stunned for a moment, then with a look of embarrassment on her face: "Golden Cross is the best medical school in Fuxu Royal Court, and my grades are not up to their admissions standards. I graduated from Folan Medical College, although
My alma mater is not famous, but it has actually produced many famous doctors. Ms. Caroline, a Chinese doctor who now lives in Waterglass, was once a student of Folan Medical College."
Angel didn't care about the answer, he just used this conversation to continue asking.
"I heard that when graduating from medical school, there will be an oath. I am very curious about this. Dr. Shirley, can you tell me about it?"
Shirley was a little confused and didn't know why the other party asked such a thing. But after all, it was not a private matter. It was rare for someone to talk to someone during the night shift, so she didn't hide it.
"I didn't expect you to understand it quite well. Do you also want to be admitted to medical school?"
Angel didn't answer, he just raised the corners of his lips and smiled.
Shirley secretly cursed that her smile was so attractive at such a young age...
"You are right, we will take an oath of office as a doctor when we graduate, but in fact it is not just graduation, we will also take an oath when we first enter school. And the oath has not changed, I still remember it to this day..."
Shirley recited the oath.
It is basically the same as the oath that Angel read in "The Physician's Oath", but there is an additional tenet on the theme of "being responsible for patients, being demanding on oneself, and respecting medicine":
——"Abandonment of Theology".
Angel narrowed his eyes slightly. This extra point is very interesting. Even a civilization like the earth that purely climbs the technological tree has not said anything to death, leaving a ray of room for "mystery". Even famous scientists have called for
"The end of science is God", although this is controversial, it is quite philosophical.
On the contrary, the wizarding world, which truly possesses "metaphysics", actually has such words as "resolutely abandoning theology", and even wrote it in the oath.
"Dr. Shirley, I understand what it means to patients, self, and medicine. But why should we abandon theology?"
Shirley: "Because theology is a way for the powerful to fool the common people. There is no God in this world. Moreover, if the patient is convinced that God can cure him, how can we as doctors save him? My professor once said that theology is a stain on medicine.
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Angel nodded, and he generally agreed with Shirley's words. Any security measures were thought up by the powerful: such as theology, moral standards, and legal standards.
Even what Shirley said about patients believing in God but hiding their illnesses and avoiding medical treatment does make sense.
However, it would be too much to say that theology contaminates medicine.
Angel's understanding of the so-called theology is not religion, but something unknown to mankind. It may be people's guesses and conjectures, which may be as good as God, or as bad as the devil.
To sum up, these are actually “unknown”.
It is already "unknown", how do you know that it will "tarnish" medicine. Compared with other words in the physician's oath of employment, this word "tarnish" is used too harshly.
Although Angel thought so, he did not refute Shirley, but asked: "Do you think there are extraordinary things in the world?"