Chapter 65 The Doctor Possessed by the Evil Spirit

Vienna, General Hospital.

Doctor Thomas is packing his bags. He hates this evil country. He is so young and rich, and he can speak French. He can find a better job in Paris.

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 letter just delivered by the postman. Will you accept it?" Thomas' assistant shouted excitedly.

"Which idiot Archduke?"

"It's the emperor's brother, Archduke Franz Karl."

Doctor Thomas asked doubtfully

"That idiot wants to challenge me. What's there to be happy about? 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 with you. It will be held in the Central Park Square in Vienna this weekend."

Doctor Thomas was stunned for a while, and suddenly laughed.

"Interesting, I accept this challenge, I want to discredit the Habsburg family."

Soon, the news that Dr. Thomas was going to debate with Archduke Franz Karl in Vienna's Central Park spread throughout Vienna, and some people even rushed to Vienna overnight from other places just to witness this bizarre debate.

Everyone in the pub and cafe was discussing this matter.

"Have you heard? That idiot Grand Duke is going to have a debate with a real social elite."

"You said that the Grand Duke intends to use this method to persuade doctors to obey the new decree made by the emperor?"

"What new decree? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"It has nothing to do with ordinary people like us. It just stipulates that doctors must wash their hands before treating patients."

"It's just washing hands, not asking them to pay taxes. Are those doctors going to disobey the emperor's order because of this?"

"That's right, they always think they are noble, and noble people don't need to wash their hands..."

"How noble? More noble than the royal family?"

"It is said that Dr. Thomas has previously united many doctors to publicly oppose the emperor's decree and even went on strike!"

"Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Do you think those doctors are stupid? There are many who support it, but when they take to the streets, there are only a few left. It is said that this incident angered the emperor, and the secret police have begun to arrest people."

At this time, someone at the next table interrupted.

"Why is the news I heard different from yours? I heard that a doctor didn't wash his hands clean when he was treating the emperor, and the emperor was very angry, so he asked the doctor to wash his hands before treating the patient."

"Oh, it's so perverted, no wonder the emperor was angry"

"Stop talking, let's go and see. After all, there are not many opportunities to watch the royal family debate with others."

"What's so good to see? This Archduke Franz Karl is not very smart. Last time he went to my store to buy a fish tank, he picked the biggest one, but the carriage couldn't fit it. I wanted to change it to a smaller one, but the Archduke smashed the big fish tank and put it in the carriage."

"Haha, Dr. Thomas is the leader of the medical community in Vienna, this is even more interesting."

After all, the opportunity to humiliate and ridicule the royal family is not available every day, and everyone wants to see how this idiot Archduke humiliates himself.

The Central Park Square in Vienna was crowded on Sunday, and everyone wanted to see the style of this idiot Archduke.

Doctor Thomas had arrived at the square in advance and invited a large number of experts in the medical field of Vienna. He didn't want his performance to be without an audience. In addition, he felt that with so many experts, someone would be able to come up with a way to deal with the archduke.

After an hour of waiting, one or two royal carriages slowly separated the crowd.

Archduke Franz Karl jumped off the carriage. He could smell the alcohol on the archduke from a distance and thought that he was really worrying too much.

"Archduke, are you ready?"

"Yes. Hiccup"

"It is well known that from Hippocrates to the present, doctors can only be noble people. And water is the source of all diseases. Water will weaken the function of human organs. Cold water will cause people to catch a cold and have diarrhea, while hot water will open people's pores, thereby inhaling more harmful bacteria, leading to serious diseases such as tuberculosis..."

Thomas talked endlessly about the rules that were regarded as golden rules by doctors in this era. Archduke Franz Karl obviously didn't listen and interrupted him directly.

"I'll ask you a few questions. I ask, you answer."

Thomas was very unhappy, but the difference in status made him unable to be tough.

"You say."

"Will you wash your hands before operating on me?"

"No, the doctor's hands are noble and holy."

Dr. Thomas tried to resonate so as to get rid of the archduke as soon as possible.

"Will you wash your hands after the operation?"

"Yes, after all, it's sticky and uncomfortable."

"Then why didn't you wash your hands before the operation?"

"Because nothing was touched"

"What do you mean?"

"Blood, internal organs, anyway, those things on 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 that members of the Habsburg family are worse than the toilet paper 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’ assistant as witness.”

Thalia picked up another notebook. Dr. Thomas was excited and wanted to snatch it, but was knocked 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 they die. 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 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 just putting 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 dirty 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.