Fang Yun smiled faintly, picked up his brush, and began to write.
Dividing medicine into disciplines using more advanced methods, refining and standardizing all medical terminology for diseases, drugs, and so forth, and correcting certain mistaken medical notions on the Saint Origin Continent-these were the specific improvements he would make through this History of Medicine.
Thus, a series of new terms appeared one after another: general surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, urology, orthopedic surgery, pediatric surgery, malignant tumors, benign tumors, medical records, clinical practice, and many, many more...
Fang Yun's learning was both broad and specialized. Moreover, he already had a draft in mind, and with the aid of his Great Scholar literary qi and sacred qi, his thoughts were incomparably swift. His brush moved as though guided by a god, and he wrote far faster than he had when composing the New Annotations to the Analects.
However, Fang Yun still followed his established practice of making his work accessible to the public. He first wrote in simplified characters and vernacular prose, striving to ensure that every literate person could understand it. As a result, this book contained more words than the entire New Annotations to the Four Books.
The difficulty in compiling this book lay not in using those new terms, but in explaining their origins and why they had been given those names. Otherwise, they would arouse suspicion and create obstacles for Medical School scholars reading the work.
Fortunately, Fang Yun was thoroughly versed in history and medicine and had read widely from the books of both worlds. He could find origins for most of the terms on the Saint Origin Continent. If he truly could not, he would search the histories of the Dragon Race and the Ancient Demons. If even those two races' histories offered nothing, he would