Chapter 2442

In ancient times, people regarded the process of snake shedding as a process of recovery and renewal, symbolizing the dual attributes of medicine, namely life and death, disease and health. People will extract medicinal parts from the snake's corpse, and they also know that snake venom is fatal when it enters the blood, so the snake also represents the contradictory properties that are difficult to define between medicine and poison.

Since the Renaissance era, autopsy has been a challenge to the legal and ethical red line. In 1752, the British legislation stipulated that all murderers should be autopsied. This is considered an unpleasant shame in death punishment. In fact, as early as the Middle Ages, people felt that dissection was an insult, but there were no rules at that time. The popular "Anatomy Theater" in Padua was considered more entertaining than educational, although cadavers were still dissected there, and those who wanted to study medicine tended to go to England.

The gallows at Tyburn Execution Ground can execute 8 people at a time. Since Henry VIII, the barber-surgeon association will distribute 4, and later increased to 6, but it is still not enough. rampant. Often, ghouls would pace around cemeteries and funeral processions, aiming for targets, dragging out the dead and backfilling them with soil on the second night of burial.

After a whale dies, it will be decomposed by other organisms in the ocean, ensuring that nothing is wasted. Henry and Joannis have come into contact with these corpse stealers when they were studying. As long as the corpse is not green or corrupt, the price is 2 guineas and 1 kroner. The baby is measured from feet to head, and the first foot is 6 shillings. 9p per inch, with the more grotesque or unusual corpses selling for more. The plethora of corpses led to abuse by the living, with skulls being used to make soap dishes and even baby bones to make dolls for children.

There are few young people who are not curious about these things. Many London surgeons have formed a club. The first is to share information to prevent ghouls from asking for money, and the other is to exchange those "supernatural" stories, such as how many people died. A few days later, when I was placed on the dissection bed, I suddenly sat up, kicked my legs, opened my eyes, and so on. Of course, doctors will not think that this is the work of the undead, but study what caused these phenomena.

Joannis was still under control at first, but later he made new discoveries. Adult humans usually have two arteries in the arm, the radial artery and the ulnar artery, both of which are branched from the brachial artery, but babies have only one artery, which will disappear in most people after eight weeks of birth. The arteries and ulnar arteries are replaced, but there are also people who don't disappear, so that three arteries will form in his arm.

Joannis researched this phenomenon, and somehow began to study blood, and then he came into contact with some "strange people".

Henry was sent home before Joannes finished his studies, but Belgium doesn't have the same medical environment as England, where religious influence is strong. Fortunately, Joannis is back to normal too, and most of the time he seems to be a very good uncle, and Mrs. Langenhofen even feels relieved to let him stay with her nieces.

"I'm sorry..." Georgiana said sympathetically.

"You don't need to pay too much attention." Langenhofen said calmly, "My family has a genetic disease, my father has it, and there is also my youngest daughter. Joannis and I chose to solve this problem. I studied medicine, but in order to inherit the family business, I stopped practicing medicine, it seems that this is doomed."

Just then, a policeman walked in.

"She won't go," said the policeman.

"What do you mean by refusing to leave?" Langenhofen asked.

"She was holding the woman the entire time and we screamed as soon as we got close to her."

Langenhofen froze.

"Don't worry, she can stay here." Georgiana said calmly, "You can ask her questions tomorrow when she calms down."

"How about calling the Englishman?" said the policeman to Langenhofen.

Langenhofen cursed in Dutch.

Georgiana took a sip from the tea on the table, pretending she didn't understand what they were saying.

"I'll leave two people here, and they'll be guarding the door." Langenhofen said, "I can't ask any questions tonight. We'll come back tomorrow."

"Okay." Georgiana stood up. "If she improves tomorrow, I will let you know."

Georgiana then personally sent Langenhofen and the other policemen away.

"Send someone to keep an eye on that woman," Georgiana said to Madame Rushfoucauld.

"Yes, ma'am," she agreed.

Then Georgiana went to her room.

As she climbed the stairs, she thought of Bentham, who classified the principles of science as utilitarian and of religion as ascetic. If the principle of utility is always to the advantage of man, asceticism has never been, and never will be, by any creature.

Everyone is dominated by desire and utilitarianism. Scientists should study human utilitarian nature and find its laws, instead of rejecting and denying it like religious theologians do.

When something brings more happiness to people than pain, he tends to do it, and vice versa, he tends to avoid it. By observing a person's happiness and pain, we can accurately predict his behavior. Able to precisely regulate his behavior through rewards and punishments.

For this reason, Bentham distinguished fourteen kinds of pleasures, including "sensual pleasures", "wealth pleasures" and "skills pleasures". Twelve kinds of sufferings are distinguished, including "suffering suffering", "sensual suffering" and "thorny suffering", and on this basis, seven standards of suffering and happiness are made.

Tasting the forbidden fruit is joyful, but the consequences are long-lasting and painful, so why do it?

That day by the canal, she should have chosen to resist to the death, but unfortunately she was not smart enough and far-sighted, she did not expect that the person who looked like a brother at the last moment would turn into another look.

At that point she lost her magic powers and was just like a normal Muggle woman. But she also knew in her heart that she wanted to try another because she had only dated one person.

Vermeer didn't take away Griet's virginity, although that was easy for him, as you can see from Griet's eyes in the painting. But if Vermeer did that, it would be very difficult for Greeter to get married, and even if she married, her husband would have this matter in his heart for the rest of his life, as it was in that era.

In other words, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is stepping on that "red line", once crossed, there will be no turning back. This kind of temptation and invitation does not come from Mona Lisa's smile, but a deeper level, which seems to touch the soul, if the eyes are really the windows to the soul.

There is a shining pearl at the junction of light and dark in the painting. It is like some kind of warning, because it belongs to his wife. However, Vermeer’s wife has given birth many times. The 16-year-old girl with fresh fruit is different.

In her memory, there is always a girl wearing a pearl hairpin and wearing a black cloak to attend the prom. She doesn’t need to leave before the magic disappears at 12 o’clock like Cinderella, and there is no parental control. She must go back before that time. .

So why is she rushing back?

So Georgiana stopped climbing up the stairs, then she turned and went down the stairs, startling Mrs. Rushfoucauld who was following her.

"Madam, where are you going?" she asked anxiously.

"Go for a drive!" said Georgiana without looking back, and ran to the stables.

Madame Rachefoucauld did not dare to ask the guards to stop her, which made Georgiana even more proud.

But the joy of doing so is short-lived, she may encounter danger in the forest, not to mention the last time she escaped surveillance, Bonaparte actually suspected that his assassination had something to do with her.

So, she changed her mind midway and just went on a night tour in the castle, like those Hogwarts students who didn't obey the school rules. Unfortunately, this castle is a little smaller, not as full of various secrets as Hogwarts... …

"There's a garden outside, how about going there?"

She listened to Mrs. Rushfoucauld behind her.

She stopped, looked out the window, and found that there was indeed a garden not far away, but this garden was not a French-style geometric garden. Perhaps it was designed as a maze to increase "interest".

The tall hedges had been built to look like a wall, only they wouldn't move, they were built by Muggles after all.