The days when I was an obstetrician and gynecologist in Chang'an

Chapter 958: Five more years (Eleven) Five obstetrics and gynecology clinics
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Over the years, some of the women who had attended Li Sanniang's new-style midwifery school in the women's support association next to the Li family had been admitted to the Imperial Medical Bureau, while others had been sent by Li Sanniang to open obstetrics and gynecology clinics elsewhere in the Tang Dynasty.

Later, some people became teachers in this midwife school, teaching batches of people who came here from all over the Tang Dynasty to study how to become a new type of midwife.

Among these people, there are only three people who have the title of master and disciple with Li Sanniang.

The eldest disciple Qiuxiang has always been with Li Sanniang.

In the two years before Li Sanniang entered the Imperial Medical Bureau, Qiuxiang often followed her around and saw patients in the third medical hall of Yongpingfang.

But in fact, Qiuxiang has always been performing the work of a disciple in name but a guard in reality.

A few years ago, Li Sanniang had discussed with Qiuxiang whether they should remove her from the group of bad guys, so that she would no longer be Li Sanniang's bodyguard, but should go out and live the life of an ordinary person.

Qiuxiang refused.

She said that she had gotten used to staying with Li Sanniang, and she felt good about living with her from now on.

Li Sanniang's second disciple was Song Fuling, who always followed her.

Song Fuling's name was given to her by Li Sanniang on the day she accepted her as her disciple.

Although Li Sanniang said that she wanted to send Song Fuling out to a place outside Chang'an to gain some experience;
However, after so many years and having stayed with Song Fuling for a long time, as Li Sanniang's official position became higher and higher, Song Fuling helped her more and more.

Now, Li Sanniang can't live without Song Fuling.

But Li Sanniang has already made up her mind that in another year at most, Song Fuling will have to go out and practice independently to gain some experience.

As for Li Sanniang’s third disciple, wasn’t she the Lily of the Valley who originally lived in the Shihua Tower in Pingkangfang?

After adopting Xiao Ping'an, the child of Jiu Niang and the chivalrous hero, Linglan left Shihualou, bought a yard near the Li family, and lived an ordinary life.

Because Li Sanniang had worked as a female doctor in Shihualou for some time, Linglan became interested and started to learn from Li Sanniang. In the days that followed, she returned to Pingkangfang and became the female doctor behind each brothel, specializing in diagnosing and treating the women in the brothels.

After Li Sanniang became the chief physician in the Imperial Medical Bureau, she proposed to set up a gynecological clinic in Pingkangfang, Chang'an City.

Suitable people were selected from nearby brothels to learn medical skills and specialize in treating the girls and women in Pingkangfang.

It was at this time that Linglan was directly appointed by Li Sanniang as the head of the Women's Medical Hall.

Of course, Li Sanniang's proposal to set up a gynecological clinic in Pingkangfang was not accepted by others in the Imperial Medical Bureau at first.

Later, Li Sanniang wrote a special memorial and presented it at the grand court meeting, in which she illustrated the importance of setting up a gynecological clinic in Pingkangfang and its relationship with the number of syphilis patients, the speed of syphilis transmission, and the number of people in the entire Chang'an city.

Especially those civil servants in the court who loved to go to Pingkangfang for pleasure, felt disgusted and scared when they heard Li Sanniang's sonorous voice when she read the memorials at the court meeting.

Therefore, this women's medical clinic was finally built.

Among the few people who were not master and disciple in name but master and disciple in reality with Li Sanniang, Yu Xuelian, with the help of Li Sanniang and her maid Shi Liu, went to work under Princess Qingyang in a drug rehabilitation center outside Chang'an after she recovered from her illness.

Now that Yu Xuelian is a seventh-rank official, the Yu family can no longer control her marriage. Instead, the Yu family has to please Yu Xuelian, hoping that she can gain some benefits from following Princess Qingyang in the officialdom.

Li Sanniang also asked Yu Xuelian if she was interested in getting married.
Yu Xuelian’s answer to Li Sanniang was: “Master, why do we need to get married?

Apart from power, is there anything good for women in this world?

It depends on the princess. She had to obey her father's order and get married, but at least she could choose her own partner and find someone who was easy to control. She could also use the power in her hands to mediate and continue to stay in the court after marriage!

But how many women in the world can be like the princess?

Not to mention an irreplaceable female doctor like Master.

I was just lucky enough to meet a master, and with his help I was able to pass the medical examination, join the Imperial Medical Bureau, enter the officialdom, and become a minor official under the princess.

If I get married, Master, how can I keep everything I have now?"

Li Sanniang understood Yu Xuelian's choice. Yu Xuelian had gone on a hunger strike to protest the marriage arranged by her family. Now that she had the freedom and power she had finally won, how could she let go? How could she let go?
Another person who actually had a master-disciple relationship with Li Sanniang was Sun Chunlan. Ten years ago, she was arranged by Li Sanniang to go to Luoyang, the eastern capital, with her family to open a branch of the obstetrics and gynecology clinic, and she has been staying in Luoyang ever since.

Today, the branch of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Luoyang is the largest branch in the Tang Dynasty, except for the main branch in Chang'an City.

The branch halls in Jiangnan and the Western Regions are not as big as Luoyang.

Because Sun Chunlan was born a barren woman, she could not have intercourse with men or give birth to children, so she gave up the idea of ​​getting married early on.

However, a few years ago, Sun Chunlan adopted a little girl in Luoyang and personally taught the little girl to read and write, teaching the little girl everything she learned from Li Sanniang.

This time, the letter that Li Sanniang received from Sun Chunlan said that she had already arranged a marriage for the little girl. The letter also said that when she returned to Chang'an in the future, she would definitely bring the little girl, whom she named Sun Hui'e, to show Li Sanniang.

There are now five large obstetrics and gynecology hospitals in various parts of the Tang Dynasty. The one in Yongpingfang in Chang'an City is the main hall, the one where Sun Chunlan is is the Luoyang branch. The remaining three are: one in the border town of the western regions, one in the eastern part of Jiangnan, and the last one in Guangfu (now Guangzhou area).

The head of the branch of the obstetrics and gynecology clinic in the Western Regions is Jin Zhenbao, the daughter of a merchant family who studied in the midwifery school with Li Sanniang together with Sun Chunlan.

The head of the Jiangnan branch was Yao Qingqing. She brought her family, including her mother-in-law, with her to Jiangnan East Road.

The person in charge of the branch office in Guangfu was from Zhongli Wenlian's family. She was Zhongli Wenlian's cousin, a girl named Zhongli Ting.

Li Sanniang was reading Zhongli Wenlian's letter at the moment. Ever since the first medical exchange conference was held in Chang'an and was a complete success, the idea of ​​"common people making medicine and rich people making tonic" brought Li Sanniang and Zhongli Wenlian together, and they had frequent interactions afterwards.

Zhongli Wenlian is worthy of being the person who can manage most of the Zhongli family's business affairs. She was able to follow her own caravan to Guangzhou at the age of over 40!

Li Sanniang looked at the scenery of Guangzhou described in the letter, saying that she had seen white-skinned foreigners, how rude they were, and that she had eaten many fruits she had never seen before. She wrote five or six pages of all kinds of things.

When Li Sanniang saw this, she wanted to go to Guangzhou to take a look.

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