Chapter 401: An Anatomy Lesson
In the courtyard next door was an underground ice chamber, and the corpses were placed in the upper room of the ice chamber.
Out of the tea room, you can go directly to the next yard from the corridor.
There were already two 'pharmacists' waiting in the courtyard." ”
Li Shimin raised his hand slightly, and the eunuch next to him immediately said when he saw this, "The two of you are exempt from courtesy, lead the way." The two lit lanterns and led the way. Ran Yan is strange, what kind of lantern is lit in broad daylight! But it occurred to me that it might be an ancient custom, and it didn't get in the way anyway.
Walking on the corridor, the further he went, Ran Yan found that the buildings on both sides were getting denser and denser, and the line of sight was getting narrower and narrower.
If you think about it carefully, it seems that each of the surrounding buildings can 'shine' sunlight for at least three to four hours, and this place is exactly at the 'intersection' of the 'yin' shadows on both sides, and there is no day of sunlight throughout the year, and the underground here is also an ice house.
The 'door' is locked, one of the 'pharmacists' will take out the key to open the 'door', and the two 'pharmacists' carrying lanterns will go in first.
When the eunuch saw that Li Shimin was about to take a step, he immediately said, "Holy Lord, let the slave and maid go in first." Li Shimin didn't pause, and walked straight in, he had killed countless people in his life, how could he never see a corpse.
Immediately afterwards, Ran Yan, Liu Qingsong and the imperial doctors rushed in.
As soon as they entered the house, there was a chilly feeling, and the smell in the room was not only stinky, but also a smell of corruption, but fortunately they were wearing masks and had ginger slices in their mouths, so they felt bearable.
"Pull the windows out of the way." Ran Yan said.
"This ......," the 'pharmacist' who guarded the house hesitated.
Li Shimin said coldly, "Didn't you hear? "Yes!" The two 'pharmacists' sensed that the emperor was in a bad mood, so they didn't care about any rules and regulations, and immediately began to pull the 'wool' felt covering the window.
Everything is supported by the emperor, what are they afraid of.
Liu Qingsong also removed the white cloth that had been changed on the corpse.
The room suddenly lit up, and everyone looked at the table where the corpses were placed, and they couldn't help but gasp. The cold air conditioner took two steps back.
The placed corpse had green spots on it, its face was swollen and pale with blue and black, and its hair was unnaturally loose. Fingernails are not the length that the average man should have.
"Ah, I tied his hair well!" The 'pharmacist' said in horror.
"Whatever you shout, it's normal." Ran Yan said in a flat voice.
Although Ran Yan used a knife on the corpse, she was helping them, and she had enough respect for the deceased in her heart.
"When a person dies, due to the shrinkage of the skin 'flesh', the hair and nails will appear to grow out." Ran Yan said, checked the appearance of the corpse on one side again, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he raised his head and said, "Holy Lord, the concubine began to dissect the corpse, during which Liu Yicheng will assist in explaining, please ask the Holy Lord and the imperial doctors to witness." "Hmm. Let's go. Li Shimin sat on the nearby Hu 'bed' with a golden knife, ready to start watching the autopsy, and did not even frown at the horror of the corpse.
Ran Yan used scissors to cut off the clothes on the corpse, 'exposing' a naked and 'naked' body. Everyone looked at such a neat technique, and felt that it was not once or twice that she had done this.
The imperial doctors have come up with reasons in their hearts, and when treating the seriously injured, they must also cut their clothes, and they can't let the person who was hit by the arrow raise his hand to take off his clothes!
The corpse was already progressing to moderate decay, with a network of decaying vessels at the base of the large 'legs'1
The decaying gas and putrefactive blood in the subcutaneous veins form a kind of reticular streak of filthy green 'color'. Looking at it, it's really hard to imagine a living man.
At this time, the mood of the imperial doctors was very complicated, all kinds of surprises and terrifying visual impacts, coupled with the eagerness to watch the anatomy, made them not know whether to retreat or dodge, and they all froze in place for a while.
There were one or two bold doctors who took a few steps forward, kneeling next to the corpse like Ran Yan, and the other imperial doctors were not willing to lag behind when they saw this, and hurriedly came over.
Zhou Yu and Zhang Songhe, the two doctors, quickly focused on watching.
Zhou Yu asked, "What's the matter with these green 'colored' strips on the 'legs'?" ”
This is considered the knowledge of forensic science, so it is up to Ran Yan to answer, and she also learned Liu Qingsong's method, using a simple and close to traditional Chinese medicine rhetoric: "After a person dies, there will be putrid gas and putrid blood in the body." The first place where corpse qi appears is the head, followed by the 'chest' and abdomen, and the 'chest' cavity and abdominal cavity cannot accommodate such a large amount of corpse qi, which will form a great pressure, squeezing the rotten blood through the blood veins to the limbs, and gradually flowing to the surface of the body. The streaks we see now are the corrupt blood oozing out of the veins. ”
"I see!" Zhang Songhe has been obsessed with medicine all his life, and although he has never heard of it, he can figure it out at once when he combines his known medical knowledge. And I also benefited a lot from this, and began to endure nausea and began to carefully observe the distribution of those green 'color' lines.
Ran Yan put the cleaned props on the table within reach, and everyone was immediately attracted by the different sizes and models of hands.
"Dare to ask, these props are different in shape and size, can you be exquisite?" A young doctor asked.
Zhou Yu reprimanded in a low voice: "I don't understand the rules! This is Hua Tuo's magic skill, how can he ask indiscriminately! ”
That being said, he secretly praised in his heart, Feng boy, it's a good question!
Liu Qingsong doesn't hide his 'selfishness', and he can win the favor of these people even more by saying it, but surgery is not something you can do if you know it, and it will be the same in later generations, let alone the Tang Dynasty. He picked up a No. 7 scalpel handle "like this, called an elongated handle, with these blades ......"
Liu Qingsong lit a few blades in the tray and said, "For deep cutting, the deeper you need to cut, you need to use this kind of blade." And the short ones, which are used to cut the epidermis. ”
Before Liu Qingsong finished speaking, he was interrupted by Ran Yan, "Help me turn the body around." ”
"I'll start with a brief description of the condition of the corpse." Ran Yan watched Liu Qingsong and a 'pharmacist' help turn over the corpse, so he 'pumped' the air and said, "The deceased had a large number of whiplash wounds on his back, and the wounds were healed, which can be inferred to be scars produced before his death.
At present, according to the degree of recovery of the marks, it can be speculated that the deceased had suffered at least three blunt blows to the waist and buttocks within two months before his death, and because his back was completely covered by whiplash wounds, it is temporarily impossible to distinguish whether he has received blunt blows. ”
The corpse was turned face down, exposing the 'buttocks', and many maggots had grown in the 'anus' and 'door' parts, probably because the indoor temperature was relatively low, and the maggots were no longer wriggling. The imperial doctors began to turn blue again. But no one forgot what the Holy God had called them for, so they had to go to the corpse with a numb scalp to see the scars on the waist and buttocks.
confirmed that Ran Yan's statement was correct, and nodded in approval. The eunuch next to him had already put pen to paper to record the contents.
Ran Yan paused, swept out the residue from the toes of the corpse with a 'hair' pen, and continued, "The left foot of the deceased is dirty, and the residue is suspected to be a kind of black 'colored' fine soil, and the right foot is clean. The soles are clean and there are no traces of black soil. ”
Ran Yan rinsed the back of the corpse with water, then chose a long scalpel and began to dissect.
At this moment, everyone's eyes looking at Ran Yan have turned into horror and admiration, as a doctor, he can always keep his mind, this is a realm, even though Ran Yan's realm is a little scary.
Li Shimin stared at Ran Yan's 'Lu' eyes outside for a while, except for focusing on seriousness, there was no other expression, and while he was suspicious and confused, he also sincerely appreciated her performance.
Cutting open the body's 'buttocks', the severely contusion's 'glute' major muscle burst out, which was not at all surprising to Ran Yan's expectations, she continued, "The 'glute' major muscle was seriously contusioned from the surface of the body to the depth. ”
Ran Yan asked Liu Qingsong to explain what kind of good muscle 'meat' and what kind of contusion muscle 'meat', let everyone take a look at it a little, and after the imperial doctors recognized it in a daze, the scalpel in his hand began to follow the marks on his waist for in-depth dissection.
She chose a piece of the place closest to the spine, and as the scalpel went deeper and deeper, Ran Yan used a white cloth to dip away the rotten blood, and at the same time pushed away the layers of muscle 'flesh', and the spine was 'exposed'.
"The muscles and flesh of the lower back, like the 'buttocks', also received severe contusions, and the spine was hit hard by a blunt object, showing slight fracture marks." Ran Yan showed the spine that was 'exposed' to everyone, the crack was not big, but it was soaked in dirty blood, and on the white bones of Sensen, the flesh and blood on both sides were blurred, which was shocking.
Li Shimin also saw it, and his eyebrows gradually tightened. The hand placed on the big 'thigh' unconsciously clenched into a fist.
To a literati, he actually gave such a heavy hand! Why not make such a heavy hand! It's really annihilating people's 'sex'!
The more he thought about it, the green tendons on the back of his hand burst out one by one. The imperial doctors also sensed his anger, so they didn't dare to ask Ran Yan any more, and Liu Qingsong didn't say anything more.
After Ran Yan treated the wounds in these two places, he asked the corpse to turn over to lie flat and began to dissect the 'chest' cavity. Her ultimate goal was to find the thromboembolus that caused the victim's sudden death.
Ran Yan was also a little stressed, because after all, it was speculation based on her experience, and she was not 100% sure, she was not confident to that extent.
Although the 'chest' and abdomen were very rotten, at least there were no disgusting things such as maggots, and the imperial doctors recovered a little from the disgusting picture and accepted the blood, and they actually calmed down a lot.
Dissecting the 'chest', Ran Yan found the pulmonary artery, so he changed the scissors and began to cut along the pulmonary artery.
In the eyes of everyone, Ran Yan dissected the corpse unchanged, looking like a butcher, no, he felt more comfortable than a butcher.
Finally, Ran Yan stopped his movements and immediately changed the collar and took out the plug. She also breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, "It was this little thing that blocked the pulmonary artery and caused the victim to die." ”
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