When Zhu Yijun asked Li Shizhen to come to Beijing, he actually fell in love with the artificial classification method he created. This is a scientific method that classifies organisms and minerals that are similar in practicality and form into various categories, and classifies them level by level.
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In Zhu Yijun's view, it is not surprising that Li Shizhen can be ranked alongside Zu Chongzhi and enjoy a high status in the history of world science. Although the "Compendium of Materia Medica" has many fallacies, its scientific classification method is better than that of Linnaeus, the founder of modern Western plant taxonomy.
"Natural Systems" was published a century and a half earlier and is known as the "Great Classic of Oriental Medicine". It has had a profound impact on the development of medicine, botany, zoology, mineralogy and chemistry in the world, which can be said to be far-reaching.
Later generations of biology students memorized the seven classifications of kingdom, phylum, class, class, family, genus and species. They felt that everything in the world was in order, and they took it for granted that this classification method was very simple.
As everyone knows, in the history of human civilization, taxonomy is the beginning of the bud of science. The reason why the Chinese name science "science" means "the study of divisions that reflects the objective laws of nature, society, thinking, etc." In one sentence.
, there is no way to learn without dividing subjects!
The earliest biological classification recorded by the Chinese ancestors was recorded in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is two fewer methods of biological classification than the Western scientists Lin Nei, but it is two thousand years ahead.
Later Chinese taxonomic thoughts were reflected in many documents, and the most brilliant one is the "Compendium of Materia Medica". No matter how many fallacies are recorded in it, the thoughts on biological and mineral taxonomy alone are enough to shine through the ages.
What Zhu Yijun studied in later party schools was not just the simple junior high school history of how shuttles and Jenny machines induced the industrial revolution.
He remembered very clearly that once in a party school class, a young female teacher quoted from many sources and told about the hobbies of European aristocrats and some arty bourgeoisie in geology, minerals, biology and even insects, which greatly promoted new geographical discoveries.
, and laid the foundation for modern science.
The first achievements spurred by the Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment thought in later generations were scientific investigations and explorations popular among the European leisure class.
On the one hand, they funded mathematicians and scientists, and on the other hand, they also engaged in superficial research on geology, minerals, biology, etc., which directly led to the great progress of chemistry and physics. And the first batch of rich people all came from
Start with the seemingly simple classification of geology, minerals and biology.
Darwin of later generations benefited from the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and called it the "Encyclopedia of Ancient China." - And some Chinese people of later generations, those who kept the "Encyclopedia of the British Empire" and "National Geographic Magazine" in their study rooms
Among the arty people in the world, how could any of them have the "Mo Jing", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Kao Gong Ji", "Shui Jing Zhu", "Meng Xi Bi Tan", "Tiangong Kai Wu" and so on lying next to them?
Endless Chinese treasures?
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Zhu Yijun asked Li Shizhen to return to Beijing. In addition to using one of the few scientifically literate brains in this era, he also wanted to use his character that liked research and research to engage in research on cowpox.
After the early years of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, smallpox became widespread in the empire. Zhu Yijun received a report at the beginning of the second year of Wanli that there was a doctor named Fu Sichuan in Ningguo Mansion who mastered the method of "ripened variolation vaccine". He thought that vaccination of children would be profitable, "more than a hundred people"
Vaccination in children? Only one, not two."
What Zhu Yijun didn't know was that the variolation technique spread from Fu Sichuan spread to the Arab world at the speed of light and saved the West from the raging smallpox.
The great philosopher Voltaire once commented on variola: "I heard that for a hundred years, the Chinese have been in the habit of vaccination; this is a great precedent for a nation that is considered the smartest and most polite in the world.
and role model." At the time when Western enlightenment was taking place, without Fu Sichuan's variolation technique, countless people would have died from the smallpox virus.
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This report reminded Zhu Yijun that the popularization of cowpox in the empire must be put on the agenda. He knew that smallpox was the only infectious disease eliminated by mankind. He also knew that its vaccine was derived from cowpox, but he did not know that the pus from cowpox was used directly.
Is it possible to get vaccinated against acne?
So he summoned Fu Sichuan from Ningguo Mansion to the capital, and after some guidance, he asked him to study cowpox. However, Fu Sichuan's method of variolation came from his ancestors, and he had no scientific research ability. He used the method of playing with variolation to deal with vaccinia.
Hiding and storing seedlings, none of them were successful.
At this time, Zhu Yijun thought of Li Shizhen again, and immediately ordered the Jinyiwei Huguang Bureau to find him and let him go to Beijing - but because the Huguang Bureau did not make it clear to Li Shizhen at the beginning, Li Shizhen did not go to Beijing to take over the task until the end of August.
Who came to Beijing earlier than Li Shizhen? There were also the "Medical Saint" Wan Quan Wan Mi Zhai, Chen Shigong, who was proficient in surgery, and many other medical masters who were already famous in the world at this time.
Although Wanquan was already over seventy years old at this time, under the emperor's decree, he still packed the "Ten Types of Wanmi Zhai Medical Books" in his luggage, including "Internal Medicine Essentials", "Preschool Education" and "Infant Care Secrets".
Inside, he and his six apprentices were brought to the capital.
Because of his fame in the world, Wan Mi Zhai caused a sensation in the capital as soon as he entered the capital. This home of a distinguished minister almost filled the house where Wan Quan rented with posts and gifts. Because this old man has high medical ethics and "treats other people's children as his own."
”, he will not refuse people, so he was scheduled to see a doctor from the first day until two months later.
Seeing that Zhu Yijun was not convinced, he was afraid that he would be tired, so he quickly sent someone to invite him into the palace, and enshrined him in the Tai Hospital like a Bodhisattva. When the doctors of the Tai Hospital saw Wan Mi Zhai coming, they didn't even think about winning.
The old man was very happy every day, and he was not acclimated at all.
After asking Wan Mi Zhai to check the health of the Empress Dowagers of the Two Palaces and himself, and giving a health class, Zhu Yijun formally summoned Wan Mi Zhai, Chen Shigong and others to tell them all about his purpose - to take advantage of the opportunity of having ample money at this time,
The medical promotion department established in the early days of Taizu was reestablished, and the first true university of the Ming Dynasty, the Capital Medical College, was established.
According to the medical school model of later generations that integrated industry, academia, and research, this medical school also imitated the organizational system of Nanyuan Martial Arts College. The first mountain chief was Wan Quan Wan Mi Zhai. Zhu Yijun built a palace wall in the northwest corner of Xiyuan, and then replaced the original
A gate was opened on the palace wall, which cut off the abandoned small school ground from Xiyuan and used it as the site of the medical school.
At the same time, Zhu Yijun also opened a small door in the newly built palace wall as the back door of the medical school. In this way, if he becomes ill in the future, he can open the small door to immediately organize a large-scale consultation. Although this may cause
The doctors at the imperial hospital felt uncomfortable, but Zhu Yijun, who had been emperor for almost two years, could not take care of their thoughts at this time.
The establishment of the medical school is no different from that of later universities in terms of structure and mechanism. After the exchanges between Zhu Yijun and Wan Mizhai and others, the medical school will establish major departments such as the Department of Medicine, the Department of Nursing, and the Department of Pharmacy, with internal medicine, surgery, etc.
Science, gynecology, pediatrics, infectious diseases, pharmacy, pathology and other specialties.
When the Nanyuan Martial Arts Academy was established, there was still some noise in the court. The establishment of the Capital Medical College was praised by the entire court. After Zhu Yijun learned about the famous double standard of Yan Guan, of course he also wanted to take some time to stimulate them.
After discussion with Chen Shigong, anatomy was also established in the medical school to conduct research on human anatomy.
What Zhu Yijun didn't even expect was that this new discipline, which led to many versions of horror stories among the people of the capital, did not cause any backlash from the censors and officials.
Only then did Zhu Yijun realize that these so-called "acting on the right path and cultivating the spirit of awe-inspiring" brothers had already exceeded the Ming Dynasty's standards when it came to matters involving their own lives and safety.