Chapter 41: Medical Skills

Previous Chapter

Horn had heard a lot of the world's gossip about doctors.

She held her wet woolen cloak and looked at it seriously, wanting to see how Wu Heng healed.

As a knowledgeable person, even if he does not have a knighthood, the status of life will be higher than that of ordinary people. They often wore expensive robes, fur hats, silver girdles, and embroidered gloves, and each of them had assistants, both men and women, whether they were medical aides or hospiters, of course, it is not known.

Even some nobles who were more skilled in medicine had to be respectful to them when they saw them - such as Wu Heng.

In this age of divine monarchy, the Church forbade the dissection of corpses. But there are still doctors, whose thirst for knowledge sometimes outweighs faith, who secretly challenge paradoxes, break dogmas, and privately organize anatomy classes and conferences......

Even though theories about human nature are often dominated by divination, they do not turn a blind eye to the cures that can be obtained from practice.

Pharmacological knowledge, tooth extraction, bone grafting...... They do, and some of them even have skin grafts from their arms to repair their faces, and they know how to anesthetize and perform craniotomy......

For diseases beyond the scope of understanding, they will use some drugs for no reason, such as children's urine to cure ringworm, sheep feces to treat gout, and red cloth to treat smallpox...... If you can't do it anymore, you can rely on prayers and holy things.

Plague is also a disease that cannot be understood, so the doctor's methods are varied.

In terms of surgery, they believe that if the so-called poison is excreted from the body, the patient will be cured, so they have bloodletting, enema, and ...... Such bizarre methods are not uncommon in this day and age.

In internal medicine, doctors like to recommend expensive and hard-to-find medicines: antlers, pearls, gold nuggets...... These can be used to make powder, and the poor can't afford it...... If there is something wrong in the body, you can often only wait for death.

Horn didn't know what kind of doctor Uheng was.

So when she saw Wu Heng put on gloves, took out a lancet from the medical box, wiped it with alcohol seriously and then put it on the candle to roast, her first thought was-

"He's not going to bleed, is he?"

Bloodletting is not an exaggeration. Doctors of this era were particularly fond of phlebotomy, enema, amputation, or exorcism......

Exorcism is when doctors believe that the devil has entered the human body, so people will get sick. It is necessary to eat garlic, as well as to sprinkle salt on the wound...... in order to expel the demons.

There was once a woman who had tuberculosis and was able to alleviate her condition while taking medicine...... One day she met a quack doctor.

When the quack doctor saw her, he called hell.

"You have the devil in your body! That's why you're sick!"

Women have no culture, and they dare not touch their heads again when they hear their hands. Immediately, she hugged the quack doctor's thigh, knelt on the ground and kissed his toes, crying and begging: "Please save me!

The quack doctor looked indifferent: "No...... That devil is hard to deal with, and I don't want to provoke it. ”

"I ...... I give you all my savings!

The quack doctor reluctantly agreed.

He first shaved the woman's hair and then gave her garlic. As a result, the condition became more serious.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem!" the woman was lying on a rudimentary hospital bed, coughing to death.

Instead of stopping, the quack doctor thinks the devil has entered the patient's head.

He opened his "Exorcism" in the dim candlelight, and found a solution that he thought was brilliant...... Without anesthesia, he made a cross in the woman's head, leaked out the skull, and began to sprinkle salt into it......

The woman's eyes were so painful that they were about to squeeze out of the frames, and she cried out, "Ah, I'm going to die...... Has the devil been banished?Has the devil been banished?!"

In the flickering candlelight, the shadow of the quack doctor was reflected on the dilapidated wall, and with the flickering of the candle flame, the shadow was pulled beyond recognition: long and short, teeth and claws...... For a while, I didn't know who the devil was.

The quack doctor stirred his hand in her skull and said, "It's almost there...... Wait, I've already driven out half of my body......"

Before the other half could be kicked out, the woman was painfully killed.

...... Sprinkle salt on the wound, can this not die?

The medical methods of the backward era make people's scalps tingle, and people are ignorant and ignorant...... This is also an important reason why Horn wants to catch Lao Wuheng.

There will definitely be battles to be fought in the future, and this is absolutely indispensable for an excellent military doctor to serve her, and this person must be loyal......

Uheng is the best doctor in the Sikaya Empire, with a church background, and can be used for the time being.

She moved her ankles to promote blood circulation in her feet, and Wu Heng's preparations had been going on for a while.

She saw Wu Heng carefully lift a little boy's quilt, and then carefully wiped the dirt on his face and hands for him, and the boy said tremblingly: "Are you the doctor who came to save us?"

Wu Heng nodded, and said in a soft voice, "I am." ”

He took out a finger-sized bottle and came out, and then grabbed the boy's hand, "It may hurt a little next, I'll take a little bit of your blood, please don't be afraid......"

Bloodletting?

Horn's eyes lit up.

However, she was disappointed, Wu Heng really did what he said, so he took a few drops.

And he also touched the little boy's head, looked at the boy with blue eyes and gentleness, and comforted him: "Okay, it's over." Don't move, I'll bandage you. ”

Treat you like the most precious of treasures.

He didn't say a word when he started moving, his lips pursed into a straight line, and his blue eyes stared at the wound without blinking. From Horn's angle, you can only see his extremely serious and focused side face.

He picked up the boy without feeling dirty, held the boy's head and fed him some medicine, patiently waited for the boy to swallow it, then put the man down again, and finally carefully folded the quilt for the person.

"Rest, don't be afraid, I'll come back tomorrow. ”

The boy's eyes were a little brighter, he looked at him timidly, and nodded, "Yes." ”

Next, without a trace of slackness or perfunctory, Wu Heng seriously checked all the 10 representative patients, cleaned up, took blood, bandaged, and fed medicine...... It's all hands-on.

Horn was tired just standing there and watching.

After reading it, Horn felt a little relieved, this Wu Heng's treatment method does not look so terrifying at present, he even knows how to transcend the era, and she should not have to experience the torture of sprinkling salt on her wounds in the future......

Soon, Wu Heng packed up the medical box, took off his gloves, and came to Horn after detoxifying himself, took the cloak and put it on, and said, "It's been a long wait, are you tired?"

Horn shook his head: "Seeing that my uncle was busy, I unconsciously substituted myself into it...... Not tired at all. ”

As soon as the lie came as soon as he opened his mouth, Horn secretly moved his somewhat numb feet to grab Wu Heng's medical box: "Thank you for your hard work, I'll help you carry it." ”

Wu Heng didn't let go, his blue eyes widened: "This ...... I'm stillβ€”"

Horn stomped his foot, and the green eyes looked at him with some complaint: "Uncle~"

Wu Heng was stunned for a moment, he thought that Horn was coquettish with him, and after coughing dryly, he quickly let go and gave the medical box to Horn.

...... In fact, Horn was just numb in his feet.

The two soon left the East Market.

On the way, Horn asked, "How's it going, do you see what's going on?"

Wu Heng said in a deep voice: "Hmm...... Everyone's symptoms are similar, and there is no difference in gender or age. Their blood is darker than normal, their body temperature is very high, and their lips are blue and dry......"

"Ha ......"

Horn yawned.

Wu Heng immediately stopped and said, "I'm sorry, did I say it too obscurely, and I made you feel bored." ”

Horn shook his head and said, "No, I'm just a little sleepy." You go on to say, if you don't dislike me, I don't understand. ”

When Wu Heng heard this, his words were even more obvious, and Horn, a person who didn't know anything about medical skills, actually understood seven or eight points.

Horn grabbed Wu Heng in surprise, lowered his head, and said a little embarrassed: "My mother found me a teacher to teach before she died, and I always thought that I couldn't understand because I was stupid...... I didn't expect it to be the teacher......"

β€œ...... If only I had met you sooner. ”

After she finished speaking, she raised her head, the face towel just slipped off, revealing a crimson face, Horn didn't seem to expect the face towel to fall off, and hurriedly lowered his head, green eyes didn't dare to look at him, and his face turned even redder.

The face towel fell into the stagnant water, it was already soaked, and it was obvious that it could no longer be worn.

Wu Heng was inexplicably a little happy when he heard this, and his tone softened more than one degree: "You're not stupid...... It's the teachers who don't know how to communicate with the students. ”

The girl let out a somewhat flustered "um", as if to hide something, and the deerskin boots stepped lightly over the puddle, and the water splashed everywhere, and I don't know whose heart it splashed.

She lowered her head and walked quickly in front of him with the medical box, leaving only his back.