Chapter Seventy-Two: Suture Extraction
Yuanhang followed Sun Ke into the barracks, and saw many soldiers lying on the beds, and several Langzhong were very busy, running back and forth to heal the soldiers' wounds.
"How's your leg?" The voyage saw a soldier with his leg bandaged, and blood oozed out.
"My lord, my subordinate was slashed." The soldier replied with bitterness.
"Oh, the wound should be not small, and there is a lot of blood." Yuanhang said with palpitations.
"Well, Lang Zhong has given me herbs and stopped the bleeding." The soldier said, looking at his legs.
"How long can I walk on the ground?" Yuanhang asked.
"Lang Zhong said that it should be fine in three months." The soldier replied.
Yuanhang did not speak after hearing this. It takes one month for a small wound and three months for a larger wound. It looks like I'm going to need to start suturing right away.
Yuanhang looked at Sun Ke and said, "General, there is something that the general needs to help me." ”
Sun Ke didn't think about it and said, "My lord, just say it." ”
Yuanhang thought for a moment and said, "I need some sheep intestines, which are thin threads made from the lining of sheep intestines. ”
Sun Ke was confused, turned around and said to the Qin Dynasty behind him: "Do you understand, go and get the sheep intestines for the adults." ”
Qin Chao was stunned for a moment, and said to Yuanhang: "My lord, I'll lead the sheep for you, okay?" ”
Yuanhang smiled and said, "It's okay, send it to my house in the afternoon, and bring a butcher over." ”
Yuanhang and Sun Ke came out of the barracks, and went to the vicinity of the east gate to check the progress of repairing the city tower and the people's houses. The people were repairing their houses, and Sun Ke had ordered the soldiers to assist, and although the houses were damaged, the people were still happy to defend the city from the flames of war, shouting and carrying the wood. After turning around and comforting the people, it was noon when I returned to the house. After asking, Liqiu had already returned home, so he walked towards Qinghe's courtyard.
"Green lotus, green lotus." Yuanhang pushed the door in, and Qinghe heard the voice and walked out of the inner room.
"Xianggong is back." Qinghe greeted him with a smile.
Yuanhang replied and said to Qinghe: "Can the steel needle I asked you to make yesterday be made?" ”
"It should be ready, I'll send Qiushui to ask." Qinghe summoned Qiushui and asked her to go back quickly.
Yuanhang pulled Qinghe to the table and sat down, looked at Qinghe very seriously, and said: "I want to invent a medical technique, which is to suture the wound with needles and threads, so that the wound will only take a few days to heal." ”
"Sew up the wound?" Qinghe was very surprised and asked, "Is this okay?" ”
"Yes, the needle is there, but I need thread. The lining of the sheep intestine should be removed and made into threads. Yuanhang explained to Qinghe.
Qinghe felt nauseous, hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, frowned and said, "Why do you want to tell me?" ”
"I need you to help me make a thread." Yuanhang said.
"Don't, Xianggong. I don't dare. Qinghe felt a tense and hurriedly shook his head. After thinking about it, he said: "Sister Liqiu is very bold, she can help you." ”
Yuanhang's eyes lit up, yes, she could kill fish in autumn, why did she forget her at this time. got up and leaned over and kissed Qinghe's face, and said, "You're right, I'll go find Liqiu." ”
Qinghe stretched out his hand and made a long voyage, and smiled as he ran out.
Liqiu was in a good mood after returning from Limo. Although this righteous brother is a little rude, he is upright and not much different from his own temper.
When the voyage came, Liqiu was telling Chunyue about her and Limo.
"That, Liqiu. There's something I need your help with. Yuanhang saw that Liqiu ignored him, so he accosted and laughed and walked to the table and sat down, and Chunyue hurriedly stood up and stood behind Liqiu.
"What's the matter?" Liqiu said lightly.
Yuanhang will tell her about taking the membrane from the intestine to make threads. Li Qiu frowned and looked at Yuanhang and smiled slightly, and said, "Do you think I will do it?" ”
"No, it won't." Yuanhang said categorically. "Because you're afraid of getting dirty."
"I'm so dirty that I'm not afraid......" Before Liqiu finished speaking, Yuanhang continued: "Do you think you're clumsy and can't finish it?" ”
"Am I clumsy? Funny. Li Qiu pursed his lips with a disdainful expression. said: "It's just that Miss Ben is not in a good mood now, when I am in a good mood, you come to beg me again, maybe I will answer you." ”
Yuanhang is happy in the bottom of her heart, the little girl has an opinion on me, there is a door. He immediately made a painful gesture and covered his left arm, and said to himself: "Oh, it starts to hurt again, if there is a thread, why bother to suffer like this." ”
Liqiu was stunned for a moment and looked at the voyage. Yuanhang said: "The wound on my arm is too big, and it will only heal if it is sutured. If you don't help me, I'm afraid this arm will be ......" After saying that, he sighed and shook his head, got up and walked out the door.
"Wait." Liqiu got up to stop the voyage, and said eagerly: "Why don't you tell me about such a big thing, I'll help you." ”
Yuanhang stretched out his hand, patted Liqiu's little face, and said, "I know that you can't bear me." ”
Liqiu glanced at him angrily, and muttered, "Come to me when you use it, you have no conscience." ”
Yuanhang smiled, broke the embarrassing situation, and said: "Let's go, let's go to dinner first, and then we will make the line in the afternoon." Hurriedly took Liqiu's hand and walked out.
After lunch, Qin Chao really brought a butcher and led a black sheep to the mansion. Yuanhang instructed the butcher to slaughter the sheep and took out the small intestine. Put it in water and wash it and hand it over to the autumn.
"Be sure to cut lightly and peel off the inner lining intact." Yuanhang instructed Liqiu to say.
Liqiu nodded, rolled up his sleeves and picked up the knife and started drying. Wanyue and Qinghe looked disgusted on the side, covering their small mouths with their hands.
"Xianggong, why do you use the inner membrane to make threads?" Wanyu asked curiously.
"The intestinal lining of sheep can be integrated into the human body, and there is no need to remove stitches after suturing, which is harmless to the human body. If you use other threads, it will rot in the meat. Yuanhang explained to the second daughter.
Qiushui walked over and handed a bag of things to Qinghe, who handed it to Yuanhang after reading it, and said, "Xianggong look, this needle is right?" ”
Yuanhang took a look, it was about the same, and he wasn't sure what the suture needle looked like. "Very good, that's it. Yingyue, you go buy a few more tweezers. ”
As he spoke, Liqiu had already cut the sheep intestines and was carefully peeling off the inner membrane with a thin knife. It's not difficult, and the entire inner membrane is peeled off in a few moments. Yuanhang cleaned the inner membrane in water and asked, "How can I make threads?" ”
Wanyue and Qinghe shook their heads and said they didn't know. Liqiu looked at it and said, "Cut it into thin strips, I see that it is very tough, and it should be ready after drying." ”
Yuanhang thought about it and felt that the autumn method might work. Then he let the Liqiu* knife cut it into thin strips and take it to dry. He turned around and ordered his subordinates to come to Langzhong. After waiting for a while, the inner membrane had been dried into a thread, and Yuanhang picked it up with a slight force, and sure enough, the elasticity was okay. Lang Zhong has also come, and the voyage asked Lang Zhong to open the bandage of his left arm, only to see that the wound has still not healed, if it is not for the herbs attached, it is estimated that it has already been inflamed.
"Do you have any anesthetic there?" Yuanhang asked Na Langzhong.
"What is anesthetic?" Lang Zhong asked rhetorically.
"It's a drug that makes people unconscious." Yuanhang explained.
"No, but the sweat medicine of the people in the rivers and lakes should be almost the same." Lang Zhong thought for a moment and replied.
Yuanhang looked at his wound, and it should be four to five stitches, so he said to his subordinates: "Go and get a higher degree of wine."
The servant brought a jar of spirits, and the voyage ordered the man to pour it into a bowl, thread the thread and needle, and put it in the wine to sterilize. said to Lang Zhong: "In a while, you will stitch up my wound as I instructed." Pull the skin together as much as possible, then hold the needle with tweezers and sew the wound as if you were sewing a garment. ”
Lang Zhong panicked and said, "My lord, how can this be done." ”
"It's okay, do as I say." Yuanhang raised his right arm to his mouth, put his sleeve in his mouth and bit it.
Lang Zhong had no choice but to pick up the scient needle with tweezers and sew it up for the voyage with shaking hands. After the first shot, the voyage almost fainted in pain, and cold sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead. Loosen your mouth and tremble slightly, and said, "You pierce too deeply, as long as it is under the skin, into the flesh." ”
Wanyue hurriedly took out a sweat towel to wipe the sweat from her forehead for the voyage. Qinghe nervously closed her eyes and didn't dare to look.
A total of four stitches were stitched, and after the fourth stitch was completed, Lang Zhong sat paralyzed on the ground, and Yuanhang was also soaked all over, grinning in pain. Seeing the crookedness of the wound stitching, knowing that Lang Zhong had tried his best and couldn't say anything, he attached herbs to bandage the wound, ordered someone to reward Lang Zhong and then returned to the Liqiu room with several ladies and lay down.
Yuanhang felt the numbness and pain in his left arm, and couldn't help but grin. Wanyue sat on the edge of the bed and asked distressedly, "Xianggong, it hurts." ”
"Well, but the long pain is better than the short pain, and the wound will be healed in a few days." Yuanhang Qiang made a happy face and comforted Wanyu. Then he said to Liqiu: "Put away the needle and thread well, and you will always be able to use it in the future." ”
Liqiu nodded and replied, "Well, I've already put it away." ”
"Xianggong, you can sleep for a while, it won't hurt when you sleep." Qinghe persuaded on the side.
"Yes, just sleep." Wanyu echoed.
Yuanhang nodded, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Wanyue got up and pulled down the quilt for Yuanhang, turned around and said to Liqiu: "Sister, take care of Xianggong more, I will go and tell my subordinates to cook some chicken soup to make up for Xianggong's body." ”
"Sister, don't worry, I will stay with my sister to take care of Xianggong." Qinghe was not at ease, so he took the initiative to stay.
"It's the best, I'll bring it when the soup is ready." After Wanyue finished speaking, he left with Yingyue first.