Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1300, the shackles of ideas

"Having said that, I'm still worried."

"So I want to entrust this matter to you, and only you can reassure me."

Hongzhi looked at Liu Jin, and he could cure his intestinal carbuncle at the beginning, and it was still through surgery, which made Emperor Hongzhi trust Liu Jin very much.

He himself has personal experience. Before the intestinal ulcer was cured, he was obviously only in his thirties, but he was depressed, like an old man, unable to do anything.

The intestinal carbuncle was cured, and the body became younger and younger, full of energy, both physically and mentally.

With personal experience, he is full of gratitude and trust in Liu Jin.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, I will do my best!"

When Liu Jin heard this, he quickly replied respectfully.

"Hmm~"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded in satisfaction, then thought for a while and said: "Since ancient times, women have passed through the gate of hell when they give birth. Every year, we don't know how many women die because of this, and we don't know how many children die right after birth. "

"Every year I pass this grade, I feel a deep pain in my heart."

"Procreation is the way of heaven and human relations. Only by having more children can my Ming Dynasty be more prosperous. However, the death rate is so high. The entire population of my Ming Dynasty is tens of millions, so the number of people who die every year is extremely large."

"If a good method can be researched to greatly reduce the mortality rate of pregnant women and children, it will be a matter of great merit, and it will be a great thing for our Ming Dynasty."

When it came to this, Emperor Hongzhi looked very sad.

Empress Zhang gave birth to two sons for him, Zhu Houzhao raised them up, and the other died when he was very young. It has to be said that with limited medical technology, even the emperor's son is prone to die young.

"Your Majesty, loving the people like children is the blessing of hundreds of millions of people in the world!"

"The minister also knows something about this matter."

"Chen talked about this with the professors of Daming Medical College, and they said that there is a 30% mortality rate in this regard, which is an extremely scary figure."

"This means that one out of every three mothers is facing the threat of death, and because the newborns have not received effective measures, the mortality rate is also very high, as high as 40% (this is not a fiction, but it is really so high, In the early days of liberation, the infant mortality rate in Tibet was as high as 43%, which is an extremely frightening figure), and almost every household had children who died prematurely."

The Emperor Hongzhi in front of him really loves the people like his son, and he can think of the people of Limin all over the world when his wife gave birth to a child, which shows that he is really a good emperor, an emperor who loves the people like his son.

"That's why I thought of you. My intestinal carbuncle can be cured, and I believe that you can also reduce the death rate by a large margin."

"If the mortality rate of pregnant women and infants can be reduced to about one-tenth, there will be hundreds of thousands more people in my Ming Dynasty every year, and millions of people in ten years."

"And this is a major event with merit in the present and benefit in the future!"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard Liu Jin's words, his expression changed slightly. If some things were not counted, you would not feel terrible, but if they were actually counted, they would be very scary.

"Your Majesty, there are many reasons for the high rate of maternal and infant mortality."

"First of all, the method of delivery is very simple but ignorant. Because men and women are very defensive, the women who deliver the baby are usually illiterate women, and the methods they use are some local methods, such as whipping, Eating hair, acupuncture and other methods."

"Let's not talk about whether it is effective or not. The shadow left on the mother's heart may be lingering for the rest of her life."

"When various emergencies occur at the same time, these stable women often do not understand any medical techniques and methods, and are unable to provide first aid, resulting in the death of pregnant women and babies."

"In terms of newborns, the death rate remains high, and there are many reasons for it."

"One is that the delivery process is unprofessional, and sometimes it is even forced, resulting in the death of the baby, and sometimes the delivery takes too long to cause the death of the baby."

"In addition, if the disinfection is not thorough, it is easy to produce tetanus. The ancients said that seven days of wind, eight days of throwing is the reason."

"And then there's measles, smallpox, scarlet fever, pneumonia, typhoid, etc., which are fatal."

"The last is superstition. When you are sick, you don't go to see a doctor but ask ghosts and gods. Witches, Taoist priests, monks, etc. miss the time for treatment, which leads to the death of children."

Liu Jin also nodded solemnly after listening, and began to talk about some things in this aspect in detail.

Emperor Hongzhi listened carefully. He knew very little about this information. After all, since he was a child, all he learned, read, and encountered were Confucian classics and the so-called emperor's art and the way of governing the country.

Having a child is a relatively taboo thing. Naturally, he, who is the emperor, has very little contact and understanding.

"In your opinion, how to solve this problem?"

Emperor Hongzhi pondered for a long time, thought for a while and asked.

"Your Majesty, this matter cannot be effectively resolved at present. The most important thing is people's ideas!"

"For a long time, we have been relatively taboo about this aspect. There is a lack of research on this aspect. Even doctors can only check the pulse before delivery and prescribe anti-fetal drugs. As for delivery, doctors can't get involved .”

"Just relying on a group of stable women who have no medical knowledge and no culture to deliver the baby."

"If this kind of concept does not change, our medical technology in this area will never be improved. If we want to improve the survival rate and reduce the risk, we must have doctors involved and conduct specialized research before we can make progress."

"But this aspect of things is very taboo, and it involves the defense of men and women, so even doctors are unwilling to participate in it, and mothers and their families are obviously unwilling to let men participate."

Liu Jin also shook his head helplessly.

If you travel to ancient times, what makes Liu Jin feel helpless the most, it must be the ignorant and ignorant feudal thinking.

"I remember that Daming Medical College has a department of obstetrics and gynecology?"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly. People felt very taboo when talking about this matter, let alone operating it.

"It is true that there are obstetrics and gynecology departments, but until now it is difficult to recruit students. Few people are willing to send their daughters to the obstetrics and gynecology department to learn this knowledge."

"Until now, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has only recruited a few students. As for imparting knowledge and experience in this area, they are all traditional stable women. They are all women. They cherish their own brooms, so it is difficult to acquire any knowledge and experience, and no one is willing to ask them teenage girls to deliver babies, so it has been embarrassing until now."

"Originally, nine students were recruited, but because they couldn't learn anything, and there was no work to take over the delivery, their parents called them back and gave up studying."

Speaking of this, Liu Jin was really helpless.

Daming Medical College has carried out research and teaching in other aspects very well, and many of them have made great progress, especially in the field of surgical operations. Now the technology has improved a lot. The success rate of small operations such as intestinal ulcers is already high. to make.

But in the obstetrics and gynecology department, it is very embarrassing.

The professors in the medical school are all men, and no one understands this stuff. The best thing is to teach them how to diagnose the pulse and prescribe the prescriptions for preventing miscarriage. taboo.

So some stable women were invited to impart experience, but these stable women were worried that someone would steal their business, and worried that they would teach apprentices to starve to death, so they were unwilling to impart experience.

The point is that the experience imparted is a local method, there is no science at all, and it often kills people.

In addition, the students who study this are all girls from poor families. Seeing that they can't learn anything, and no one is invited to deliver the baby, naturally they can't continue studying soon.

"That's it~"

After listening, Emperor Hongzhi thought for a while and nodded to express his understanding, then thought for a while and said, "Then how do you think this matter should be resolved?"

"Your Majesty, I think that to resolve this matter, the first thing is to break the shackles of thinking and get rid of the influence of outdated concepts."

"One is to carry out research in this area, sum up experience and lessons, and conduct related research at the same time."

"The second is to increase investment in research in this area, invest more people and money in research, and let more people learn."

"Of course, the most important thing is to have an influential woman to set an example for the world, let the world know the difficulties of women's childbirth and the risks they face, and let more people know that pregnant women and babies are caused by improper delivery. How high is the death rate.”

"So that more people pay attention to this matter, and gradually change everyone's ideas, and promote the research and development of medical technology. Only in this way can the survival rate be truly improved and risks reduced."

Liu Jin thought about it and gave his own suggestion.

"Enough influential women to set an example for the world?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard it, he immediately understood the meaning of Liu Jin's words. This was to let the empress empress set an example and case for the people of the world.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi frowned slightly, then thought twice, and finally said after a long time: "What you said makes sense, someone should stand up and set an example for the world."

"The empress is the mother of the world, and she is a role model for the women of the Ming Dynasty. If she can set an example for the women of the world, she will definitely be able to break the shackles of traditional thinking and let the world follow suit."

"Liu Jin, I will give you full responsibility for this matter, not only to ensure the safety of the empress and the fetus in the womb, but also to use this as an example to set an example for the world!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

　The infant mortality rate in ancient times is really scary~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)