Master Surgeon

Surgery was the science that studied the onset and development of surgical diseases, their clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. It was a medical specialty that relied primarily on surgical removal and repair to treat illness.

The above came from the encyclopedia of a certain Mother Du.

To get to know young ladies, one first had to find topics that concerned and interested them. That made it easier for the rest of the story to unfold.

Clearly, Ling Yi had once been a thoughtful man.

Unfortunately, one young lady studying nursing had resolved to better herself and pursue a professional master's degree in traditional Chinese medicine, and she had happened to meet another young lady specializing in general surgery. If not for that, Ling Yi could have gained an even greater mastery of both traditional Chinese medicine and general surgery back then.

Of course, what he lost in the east, he gained among the mulberries. Had things been otherwise, he would never have met a young lady studying art and another who was a cook, both from another city...

But that was getting off topic.

More than two thousand years before the new century of his previous life, old Hua Yuanhua had already been able to cut open a person's chest and abdomen to operate.

Back then, there had been no shadowless lamps, air purification systems to ensure a sterile environment, or any of a whole series of other such conditions.

Likewise, in Jin Yong's martial arts novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, the "Murderous Physician" Ping Yizhi had performed chest surgery in a crude little house when treating one of the Six Immortals of Peach Valley, whose chest had been pierced by a sharp sword that was still quivering. Even more miraculous than old Hua Yuanhua, after applying several medicinal