I Am Louis XIV

Next, Little Rom took the king and his party to Fontlay Abbey Hospital-the research work on vaccinia was carried out here.

The first thing to explain here is that the King’s Bovalou Royal School of Medicine was established in Bovalou Castle, but this castle has not only served as the royal city of France, but also lived in no fewer than seven kings and ten queens. It is the birthplace of Louis XII, so this castle can only be said to be the hall of honor of the medical school. The real address of the School of Medicine is in the Abbey of Fontelet in Angers - it is the resting place of the royal family members of the Anjou Dynasty. It has also become an unspeakable crime.

Louis was not crazy enough to rob the assets of Fontelay Abbey. Fortunately, the dean of this abbey was originally a follower of Bishop Mazarin. With his wise cooperation, the abbey not only became the residence of the medical school, but also became the The largest hospital in France and even in Europe.

Before Louis XIV popularized the concept of the hospital, whether it was a place that believed in God, the true God, or Merlin, the hospital was a complex of various institutions such as nursing homes, workhouses, orphanages, prisons, and cemeteries. Generally speaking, if it is run by a monastery or a church, patients can at least get some soup and final comfort. After all, those priests and nuns are not all morally corrupt, but if it is a city council, or an official, or If it is established by a chamber of commerce, then the problem will be big.

The "hospital" opened by the latter is not so much a place for the treatment and recuperation of the sick as a big pigsty for the poor and criminals wandering on the street-crazy, demented, whores, beggars, old and infirm. People who are ill, sick, and even unemployed are imprisoned together. Sometimes the person in charge will roughly separate men and women into two places, and sometimes this procedure is simply avoided. As few as a few hundred people, as many as thousands of people, tens of thousands of people are crowded in a building with walls, no water, enough food, clothes to keep out the cold, and those who can work are taken to work , sent back to the room when the night comes - the room is usually populated by many people, and their bedding is a pile of hay, which is usually quickly soaked by human body heat, body fluids and water seeping from the walls, giving off a musty smell. odor.

No matter how many patients there are in this kind of hospital, there is only one doctor. This doctor is undoubtedly used for decoration and prevarication, and of course it is impossible to treat anyone.

Unless he's one of those medical zealots, I mean, the kind of madman who's no more than a step away from a criminal, who uses the unfortunate incapacitated for research and experimentation -- such patients are generally Mental patients, because they're healthy and young enough to have a small room, chained to a bed or to a wall, infested with fleas and bedbugs, and wounds from rat attacks - which makes the doctor in them The marks left on the body are not so obvious.

Doctors experimented with the medical methods of ironing, guanchang, and bloodletting on them, and also tested the functions of some herbal medicines. Anyway, these people are dumb animals, and they are at their mercy. What makes people wonder how to describe it is that some doctors have indeed tested some reliable and effective medical methods.

It is astonishing that at this time, such behavior does not attract much criticism, whether legal or moral-if the person suffering from mental illness is a rich or well-known person, then he or she Will be imprisoned in a suitable place by relatives, there will still be servants serving him until death. Those who are reduced to this kind of "hospital" are poor people, and the latter's voice, no matter how shrill and tragic, cannot be heard by most people, or they will not care if they hear it.

Louis was not a philanthropic saint, but he would not have liked to see science advance in this way.

The Abbey of Fontelay originally had a hospital, no, it should be said that it was a religious sanatorium. People believed that bathing in the light of God could make the disease heal without cure. This is of course impossible, unless it was just some For mild illnesses, the hospital in this monastery has only a dozen rooms, and the only treatments are holy water, herbs and prayers.

The king rented a large mountain area behind the monastery from the abbot, and built row upon row of houses on it. These houses used glass windows extravagantly, and the outer and inner walls were painted with chalk. A palace of unmelting ice and snow.

It is not only patients who live here, but also medical students, doctors, and nursing staff. The patients who can live here are not only based on their financial resources and status, but also on the severity and specificity of their diseases—because even medical students Professional professors also need to accumulate experience. There has never been a "real" hospital like this before, and doctors' service targets are limited to the upper-middle class, at least those who can afford the consultation fee, so the contact area is very narrow.

The result of the narrow contact area is that the development of medicine has always been very slow. Sometimes even the king is just experimental material in front of the doctor, although it may not be intentional. But at that time, the doctors really only had to "try this, if this doesn't work, try that, if that doesn't work, try something else..." until the patient was tossed to see God.

You can't even blame them. To put it cruelly, the foundation of medicine is built of bones. Before the little white mice and rabbits were sent to the experimental table, human beings were the victims.

But to be able to die in such a beautiful, clean, warm and comfortable room, or to receive some medical treatment, with no worries about food and clothing, this place is like heaven for poor people, and those nurses and doctors are angels.

Hundreds of years later, it may be difficult for medical staff to believe that there are some patients who are not only willing to accept any kind of medical treatment that may bring all kinds of pain and suffering, but may not be effective, even if the condition worsens. Accept, and thank you from the bottom of my heart before going to God...

This is true of every patient here, especially the poor who receive free medical care.

There are even some young patients who recovered and stayed here as nurses. After having enough food, their bodies are much stronger than the priests and nuns in the monastery, and they can easily move a patient from here to there. , It can also transport various heavy equipment or water for doctors or nurses.

Some people went to another place not far from here to work as pastoral workers, that is, ranch workers. This ranch not only provided milk for monasteries and hospitals, but also provided them with vaccinia vaccines.

Louis didn't disturb too many people, he was wearing a white linen coat like the doctors here, there are too many people here, there must be a difference - the nurses are wearing white aprons like the paramedics in the army . The patients here, no matter whether they are rich or poor, are used to seeing doctors walking around in groups or alone to observe the patients' conditions. When a patient comes over and wants to ask something, the doctor next to the king will do it for him. answer.

"How many people are here now?" Louis asked.

"Six thousand people, Your Majesty," said little Rom.

Louis nodded. When he first built the hospital, the upper limit was 8,000 to 10,000 people. "I thought no one would want to come here, at least not so soon."

"There are Catholics, Huguenots, Jews, Portuguese, Spaniards, and Englishmen, Prussians, Bohemians, and even Turks." Little Lom took the opportunity to compliment Said: "Your reputation and kindness have spread all over the world. You are lenient enough to your enemies, and you love your people even more. Although they are loyal to their king, they have to be subdued by your brilliance."

Louis shook his head: "Pay attention to epidemic prevention." Many epidemic diseases are imported from abroad. He has always set an example in terms of cleaning and protection and has clear and strict laws, so now there are few large-scale epidemics in the country. But other countries may not be sure, and as Little Lom said, the Royal Academy of Medicine and the hospital are famous, and there must be some patients who have been declared incurable by doctors struggling to come here.

"Everything is according to your orders." Little Lom said, he lacks the fearlessness of Dr. Lom - his father made the bird's beak protective suit to go deep into the epidemic area, but he is still very cautious because he is very popular with the king. Yes, he pointed out to the king, "We are now in a position where there are mild patients, syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy, and chicken pox are all on the right wing. And each disease has been divided into areas." The king of this complex has seen Model, it is like a bird with its wings spread out, its head is on the top of a mountain, and it belongs to those who are noble and need to hide their identities. One end of the spread wings belongs to non-infectious patients, and the other end belongs to infectious patients. "Feather" is a two-story or three-story small building, separated by trees and stone walls in the middle.

Down below is like an outstretched bird's claw, stretching along the mountain all the way to the multi-storey apartment in the valley. Those lucky ones who can hardly afford the medical expenses but are left behind because of special or typical illness live there, there is no way , if there is no distinction made, perhaps some people would rather die than stay with a group of noisy beggars.

"The drainage of the infected area goes directly into the swamp." Little Rom said that the king has also seen the part that was deliberately raised.

"Very good," said Louis XIV. Although the plague was unlikely to spread through the river, it was still wise to be careful.

There is a new hidden cemetery where he can't see it. The cemetery of churches and monasteries has always been hard to find. Although this cemetery is still some distance from the monastery, it is suitable for those poor people who may not be able to afford funeral expenses. It is another place to be grateful for.

"How about the doctors, professors and students?"

When it comes to this, Little Lom has a sad face, "Some are too bold, some are too cautious." He said that there are no very devout people. In this medical school that allows dissection and research of human bodies, there are only a few people with a little faith. Can't stay - even some students or professors just run away because they can't face their conscience - their empathy doesn't allow them to treat their own kind like animals.

At the beginning, Little Lom was still worried about whether these people would affect outsiders' perception of this medical school. Some of the people who left kept silent without saying a word, and some angrily called it purgatory. Doctors and scholars all It was the devil, Louis XIV was Satan—he considered warning them, but the Duke of Orleans, who was in charge of the place, just laughed and said that this situation was just what the king needed.

Sure enough, when some people were deterred by this, more daring guys rushed over impatiently, and then little Rom remembered... His father said that a doctor must have a heart as cold as winter steel, because crying and Compassion, prayer and repentance cannot cure the patient—old Rom, who has traveled through several cities as a doctor with a beak, may have made such a choice long ago.

In a plague-ridden city, Dr. Bird's Beak is the judge who has the power of life and death. He draws a symbol, and a person, a house, or even a street will be tightly sealed until everyone inside dies. , or survive until there is no one who suffers from the disease.

"I know there will be some unworldly guys involved," Louis said, "So, I give this place to you instead of one of them." Blue eyes fixed on little Rom: "You are not that A person with talent or courage, this is not what I ask of you, Rom, you know where my bottom line is, you have to help me control them, I want to build this place into a holy city of hope , not a madhouse."

Little Rom nodded in awe.

Louis sighed softly. He felt that someone was staring at him. Although the doctors were all wearing simplified bird beak masks, it was hard to say whether anyone with a keen eye could detect his identity. He walked away before being recognized. opened.

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The Fontelay Abbey Hospital is not purgatory, but there is a place that is.

That's the Blazer Institute for Medical Research.

The Blazer Institute of Medical Research has been regarded as a club with an odd name for hundreds of years, because no doctor in it has produced papers, evidence, or even a case.

Of course not, because this research institute is not aimed at mortals, but wizards, werewolves and vampires in the other world.

The idea of ​​the members of the Blood Council is correct. Louis XIV is indeed not the kind of person who is submissive, even if his enemies are not human beings. While he managed to appease Theodric and Amon, he was also thinking about how to rule France in the night— —He already knows how to use wizards and how to control werewolves, but vampires are indeed the most powerful and unknowable family in the other world, unless there are people who belong to Louis completely among the vampires.

But this is impossible. Once a human becomes a vampire, he will no longer think from the standpoint of a human. Unless Louis also becomes a vampire, he will not be able to guarantee the loyalty of the other party. The involvement and suppression of blood relatives, these issues Louis could not even explore deeply, let alone solve them.