Modern medical technology in the Austrian Empire had developed at a breakneck pace, chiefly thanks to the establishment of germ theory and advances in anatomy.
Furthermore, because Franz had produced the Periodic Table ahead of time, the Austrian Empire had also made leapfrog advances in basic chemistry and synthetic chemistry.
Coupled with the application of numerous practical techniques such as chlorine gas, handwashing, Nitroglycerin, and Allicin, the survival rate of wounded patients treated by Austrian Imperial battlefield rescue teams was extremely high.
All of this was recorded in the accompanying officials' archives. Yet at this time, modern medicine still remained quite powerless against certain difficult and complicated illnesses.
That was when the Austrian Empire's charlatans took the stage. They had gathered vast amounts of herbal knowledge from across the world and had not confined themselves solely to Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The charlatans reorganized and summarized this body of empirical medical knowledge, then put it through extensive practical verification. Through constant exploration and improvement, they had already forged a path of their own.
Never before had any individual or group in the world applied and accumulated empirical medicine on such a massive scale. Not even medical families whose traditions had been passed down for dozens of generations could match the Austrian Imperial Church at this point.
Moreover, their status as clergy naturally made it easier for them to earn the trust of believers. Thus, in the field of internal medicine, the Austrian Empire's professional doctors were utterly unable to compete with the charlatans.
With the assistance of the Austrian Empire's professional teams, the mortality rate among the Russian sick and wounded dropped drastically, and the plague spreading through the army was brought under control.
However, the most fundamental problem remained unresolved. On the battlefield, the Russians were still being beaten by