Chapter 12: Help?
It should be said that the Persians not only fulfilled their promises, but also did it very well. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info brought the Greeks to a fertile land. It is densely farmlanded, surrounded by more than a dozen rich villages, and has also vacated two Zhuangzi as garrison camps for the Greeks, and has prepared a large number of delicacies.
After several days of fatigue and hunger, the soldiers were well fed and fed.
The next day, Davers awoke with a feeling of fatigue swept away, and his spirits were particularly high, and he remembered what the Persians had done, and he was a little puzzled: if this was a ploy of the enemy, was it necessary to make such a great effort? Could it be that this is really a country that bullies the weak and fears the hard, just like the Northern Song Dynasty in Chinese history.
He tried his best to recall the exposition of the imperial system of the ancient Persians when he was invited by a university professor to teach a course on the decline of great powers in his previous life: The Persians rose at the time of the decline of the overlords of the two river valleys, Medes and Assyria, and because Cyrus adopted a very tolerant policy towards the culture and religion of various races, all the tribes surrendered one after another wherever the soldiers went, and the territory became bigger and bigger like a snowball.
How can such a vast land be managed? First of all, Persepolis, the birthplace of Persia, was the capital and was seated by the king himself; The Mesopotamian valley was the richest region and was directly under its jurisdiction; Other places were governed by the Governor. Most of the ethnic groups under its jurisdiction are self-governing and pay taxes regularly...... Wait, Mesopotamia was the direct domain of the Persian kings!
Davos had a flash of inspiration, in his memory: when the mercenaries passed through Silesia, Cyrus the Younger allowed the Greeks to plunder, but once they crossed the Tapisacus River and entered the valley of the two rivers, they were much stricter, and they even had to pay according to the price for buying things, can it be said that ...... Could it be ......
"Davers, come with me to see Acistrius!" A large hand pulled Davers up, interrupting his musings.
"Who?" Davers asked Shilos a little confused.
"Assistes was Antonios' nephew. Yesterday when he was crossing the wooden bridge, the bridge suddenly broke, and he fell into the river, and he was punctured in the thigh by broken wood. Unexpectedly, this morning, he was hot, unconscious, and said some strange things, and the doctor couldn't do anything about it. Antonios wants you to check it out! Shilos said anxiously.
"Strange words?! It seems that he has reached hell and met Radamantos, and there is probably no hope. Oliver saw Shiros glaring at him, and hurriedly changed his words: "Of course, Davers, you Hades's 'divine favorer', he can't come back to life if he wants to!" ā
Davers grimaced: "I'd love to help, but I'm not going to heal." ā
Shilos comforted him and said, "Antonios understands. It's just that for a person who is about to lose a loved one, there is a little hope that he will also give it a try. ā
Facing the expectant eyes of Shiros, Davers was silent, and the nervous mood just now was slowly calming down: Even if I can't save Asystes, can I erase my help to everyone in the past two days! Besides pretending to be a god, I can't win their trust anymore with my ability! Without this nickname, perhaps some of Menon's jealousy towards him could be relieved.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go with you." ā
"I'll go too." Geoglis, who was in the room, also stood up.
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When I came to the room with the doors and windows closed, the figures in the room were longing.
"Davers is here!" A word quickly made way for people to make way for a passage.
Davos came to the bed and saw a young man in his twenties lying on the bed with his eyes closed, his lips dry and red. There was a wedge-shaped wound about six centimeters long on the left thigh near the knee, swollen around the wound as large as a fist. He was talking nonsense, his hands and feet were twitching, but he was held down tightly.
Davers first put his hand close to the patient's forehead, and it was hot. He pressed the swollen area lightly with his hand, and green pus flowed from the wound. He felt his fingers sticky and had a faint fragrance.
At this time, the man who was pressing the patient raised his head, looked at him and said, "I applied sesame oil boiled from grape leaves to the wound, hoping to calm him, but it doesn't seem to work well." ā
"His name is Herps, and he's the doctor in our camp." Shilos saw Davers' confusion and whispered.
Such a sturdy man is actually a doctor?! Davers looked at him and blurted out, "Why don't you use phlebotomy?" ā
"Is it necessary to use phlebotomy? I had thought that it would take a long time for Arcistes to recover in case of bloodletting, and we were on our way home! "I used even the few 'meeks' left, but it seems that the spice therapy didn't work at all," Herps explained. He looked a little depressed.
No wonder, there was a strange smell in the air, and I thought it was the body odor of these people. Didn't the West love to use bloodletting therapy to cure diseases before the Renaissance? Davers thought about some interesting anecdotes about Western antiquity that he had seen in his previous life.
"Oh, what's your name? It was Antonios who brought in the doctor from which barracks? Herps asked.
Davers hesitated, considering how to answer. Antonios, who was waiting anxiously on the sidelines, interjected: "He's Davers!" Hades's 'Divine Favorer'! After speaking, he didn't look at the sudden change in Herps's expression, and asked Davers eagerly: "Arcises...... He still has ...... Hopefully? ā
"I try my best, but it doesn't always work." Davers replied cautiously.
"Just do your best! Just do your best! There was a hint of relief on Antonios' tired face: "Do you need to prepare the altar and the idol of Hades now?" ā
"What are you doing with these?"
"Prayer!"
Davers glanced around, except for Phelps, who was watching coldly, everyone else looked at him with anticipation and excitement: it turned out that he was waiting to see the "God descend"!
Davers laughed in his heart and said solemnly, "I don't pray." I don't know how to pray. But I would have some other treatments that I could try. If all you want is for God to deliver Athistes, then I'll have to leave! ā
"Oh!" Some let out a low groan of disappointment.
Antonios, however, seemed to understand something, and immediately said firmly: "Just do as you say!" ā
The reason why Davers said this: first, it is to find a way out for his own failure to recover; Second, they don't want these people to associate him with God in everything.
"Let everyone go out and wait! ā¦ā¦ Open all the doors and windows! ā¦ā¦ Bring an urn of water to a boil and find a few clean pieces of linen to put in the boiling water! At the same time, find a sharp, rusty knife and put it in boiling water as well! ā¦ā¦ Bring a few more jars of cold water to the house! ......," Davers commanded aloud and slowly, clearly.
Antonios, Shilos, and Giogris did not have any doubts, but began to carry out his orders in earnest, rushing around.
Phelps originally thought that Davers was a witch doctor and did not treat him well. Seeing that his arrangement was quite similar at this moment, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Davers, how are you going to treat it?" ā
"The wound did not bleed profusely, obviously did not hurt the blood vessels, but the wound was red and swollen with pus, and there was a high fever, obviously the wound infection caused the high fever, so debridement and fever can be done first." Davers explained in detail. For modern people, this is just ordinary common sense. However, in this age of ignorance, people often think that gods and ghosts are at work, which is why witch doctors are so popular, and Phelps thought that Davers was a witch doctor before.
After listening to Davers's words, Herps's eyes lit up: "This is somewhat similar to the method proposed by Hippocrates to deal with fractures, 'debridement, traction, and reduction'. ā
"Hippocrates of Kos?" Davers was familiar with the name, after all, Hippocrates was later called "the father of Western medicine." ā
"Yes. Do you know him? ā
"Not familiar, but heard of it."
"I wanted to visit him when I was passing through the Aegean Sea, but he wasn't there. Although many doctors in Greece did not agree with him, he did cure many people. ā
Seeing Herps' regretful and envious look, Davers's heart moved: "You will be my assistant in a while, is it okay?" ā
"Thank you very much!" Phelps said gratefully. In this era, most doctors are passed down from father to son, and ordinary people who want to study medicine have to sign an agreement, pay a lot of tuition, and serve as assistants for many years for free.