When Felipe Gere stepped onto the booth, his eyes involuntarily looked to one place... Then he drifted his eyes away again with reddish ears.
He coughed dryly: "I-I'll explain my alchemy research results..."
Hearing this, a person from the alchemy school with Felix Gere frowned and asked the person beside him, "Is Felix nervous?"
"Why does he look wrong and stutter when he speaks?"
The man next to him also looked inexplicable, shook his head and said, "He was fine before he came to the auction... Could it be that he was nervous after going up?!"
The man thought about it and found it funny.
—Because from the character of Felipe Gere, this should never happen.
Xia Zoe listened intently on the seat.
He listened to Felipe Gere to explain his alchemy theory - he believed that everything in the world is composed of four elements, namely air, water, fire and earth.
The human body has four basic characteristics, namely dryness, dampness, coldness and heat.
Among them, each element is composed of two of these four characteristics, such as fire is dry and hot, qi is wet and hot, etc.
Everything is composed of these four elements, which means that matter can be transformed into each other.
- For example, ordinary metals can be turned into gold coins.
It can't now, just because people have not found and controlled the path and method for the conversion between substances for the time being.
The four elements are in turn related to the four characteristics of the human body.
- The disease of people's body is nothing more than the imbalance of characteristics. Which one end of the characteristic decreases and which end of the characteristic increases will cause different degrees of lesions.
Metals are the things that bring out the elements and properties the most.
Therefore, studying the transformation and changes between metals can eventually not only turn a stone into gold, but also hopefully develop a philosopher's stone that treats all diseases - that is, using "transformation" to achieve the balance of the body's characteristics.
Felipe Gere was talking on the booth.
Xia Zuoyi asked suddenly, "So, what are the results of your research? Have you developed a metal that can treat people's diseases?"
An alchemist of the same school as Felix Gere suddenly whispered: "Oh, Feliffe will definitely be angry..."
He is very aware of this man's stinky temper.
In particular, Felipe once expressed his suspicion and rejection of the lord of Desinia.
Felipe is at odds with the lord - thought the alchemist.
Who knew that when he raised his head to take a look at Fei Lifu's face, he heard Fei Lifu stammer on the booth: "This, this is not yet... That is the final research result."
"It's a little bit difficult to get there at the moment."
"But my related alchemy research has already yielded preliminary results."
Xia Zoe: "What is it?"
Felipe's face became serious, and he said solemnly: "It's mercury that measures the temperature."
Xia Zuoyi raised her eyebrows, slightly surprised.
For a while, except for the alchemy school, which is also a metal researcher, the rest of the people began to discuss and talk with each other in a low voice.
Even Chebman Norton speaks to his apprentice, Begin.
It's not hard for Xia Zoe to understand what they are discussing.
After all, this matter has something to do with him.
Mercury, commonly known as mercury, is a naturally occurring element.
However, the distribution of mercury is very small, and it is considered a rare metal, and it mostly exists in the air, water or soil. It is close to other metals and requires some refining to obtain complete mercury.
The most important thing is - in the real history of alchemy in the Middle Ages, mercury, sulfur, and salt are called together as the three sacred elements of alchemy, which shows the importance of mercury.
Then in the history of the Middle Ages in Europe, mercury also played a major role in important medical treatment methods.
- For example, a large amount of mercury is added to medicines without considering the rationality, resulting in frequent diseases.
Or use calomel as a strong and effective laxative, and you can get rid of a large number of black stools by oral administration in a short time...
This is actually a reaction to mercury poisoning.
There are countless situations like this.
In the Middle Ages, it was believed that mercury could cure mental illness.
The doctor will make the patient take mercury medicine, and directly eat the medicine containing mercury to combat the frequent occurrence of mental illness, but in the end, only one breath exists to toss the patient.
-Patients no longer open their mouths to speak, because their teeth are falling out, their faces have sores in their mouths, they no longer move freely, because they are powerless…
This kind of performance is considered by doctors to be a recovery from mental illness...
In particular, alchemists believed that mercury was the spirit of alchemy, the main element that made up all metallicity.
This has also led to the fact that mercury has been widely and widely used as a pharmaceutical ingredient, and the source of the disease has not been discovered for a long time, or the cause of the more serious disease is mercury poisoning.
Even if mercury poisoning occurs at the time, it is considered to be the result of drug side effects.
The toxicity of heavy metals is usually ignored.
On the Western Continent, the Alchemy Association also listed mercury as one of the metals that should be studied most, and it was highly valued by alchemists in the early years.
However, when Xia Zuoyi was initially researching drugs, he suddenly found that mercury had a tendency to be put into potions by alchemists, so he wrote a letter to this end.
Then sent someone to the Alchemist Association.
In his letter, he directly stated that mercury contains highly toxic properties.
For example, mercury volatilizes into the air, enters people's body through breathing, or accidentally touches the skin, and can also enter people's body... Mercury poisoning is seriously harmful and damages health.
In addition, he also elaborated on the phenomenon found in experiments with animals, and suggested that alchemists in the association should stop using mercury to study the possibility of drug treatment.
This is life-threatening.
Xia Zoe also did some propaganda about mercury in the territory.
After the letter was sent to the Society of Alchemists, research on mercury dropped again and again - as it was confirmed that mercury was toxic.
Xia Zuoyi didn't pay too much attention after seeing the effect after sending the letter.
After all, he has a lot of things to do every day in the territory.
At that time, he naturally did not know how much this letter hit the alchemists of the alchemy school of metal research...
Because one of his letters led to great consequences - it directly led to the overthrow of various experiments on mercury at that time, and even the experiments were completely abandoned and useless.
Many people have resentment for Desinia.
What's even more irritating is that Xia Zoe Desinia is not an alchemist who belongs to the metal school of alchemy!
So, what does he have in mind? !
It is not difficult to explain why alchemy is
There will be some people in the Association who secretly slander him, dislike him, and evaluate the reasons for the polarization.
The metals mercury and mercury were abandoned for a period of time.
But who would have thought that now there is another alchemy genius - Felipe Gere standing on the booth and saying "mercury can be used to measure temperature".
Almost the moment he finished speaking, Xia Zuoyi understood what his research results were.
mercury thermometer, mercury thermometer.
Especially the latter.
Xia Zuoyi couldn't help but patted his forehead. He had forgotten about such common medical supplies...
Probably because he had never used a thermometer to measure a fever before, and if he felt unwell or sick, he would immediately take medicine.
So that the mind will subconsciously ignore the past.
And Felipe Gere's research results are not so much the discovery of the role of mercury, but rather a manifestation of his theory.
- Metals can be altered by transport of matter.
Felipe Gere had his work brought up.
- This is a thermometer as thick as two fingers, slightly flat in shape, made of glass, and marked with some small scales on the tube.
He presented his research to the crowd seated in the chair.
One can clearly see a small silver bead at the bottom of the glass tube, which is mercury.
At this time, a cup of steaming water was placed on the table by the waiter.
Felipe put the end of the mercury sphere into the hot water, and after a while, a small silver thread rose along the narrow passage in the glass tube.
He listened to people's exclamations and picked up the thermometer again - after touching the air, he waited for a while before the mercury scribed line inside began to slowly slide down, and finally recovered into the mercury sphere.
Felipe: "Mercury can clearly feel the 'cold' and 'hot' among the four characteristics. This research is a major breakthrough for the future... "
The nobles, including some alchemists and physicians, were listening carefully to him.
Felipe Gere's explanation was impassioned, and his face flushed. He couldn't help but look at the alchemist area, and found that the man was slightly turning his head and talking to the butler standing behind him.
Xia Zoe said softly: "Judit, record this Philip Gere in the booklet too..."
"I heard that the president of the Ed Chamber of Commerce is very optimistic about him. You should pay attention to your actions. Don't let the Ed Chamber of Commerce take the lead and take people away in advance."
"Yes, lord."
Xia Zoe sat with her arms folded.
He thought that Felix Gere was indeed gifted, and although he was a little off in the direction of his research, he could still come back if he was trained.
Isn't this a ready-made researcher
Xia Zoe gave Felipe Gere a smile.
"Cough... cough, hiccup!"
Felipe suddenly choked on his own saliva on the booth. He beat his chest violently, his face flushed, and then he kept burping.
"What the hell is going on with Felipe today?! What a shame..."
His fellow alchemist bowed his head and covered his mouth, looking both embarrassed for him and wanting to laugh so much that he looked oddly contorted.
Felipe doesn't usually do this either. It's really a critical moment when the crotch string comes loose - shame.
Xia Zoe looked strangely at Felipe Gere and walked off the stage with hiccups after he finished speaking, tilting his head for some unknown reason.
He stopped paying attention to this man after that, and started looking at Chebman Norton, wondering if he or the master alchemist would be next...