Chapter 37: The First Field Hospital in History
After dealing with the affairs in the factory, Gao Chong's thinking returned to the matter of becoming an army.
The ratio of wounded to death on the battlefield is about three to one, there are no statistics in ancient times, but it is certain that there are more injuries than deaths, and many of the deaths are mostly due to lack of timely treatment or due to complications caused by excessive bleeding or infection of the work, if this problem can be solved, the proportion of disability can be greatly reduced, and the wounded are all veterans with training and battlefield experience, not comparable to ordinary junior brothers. So Gao Pet attaches great importance to this matter.
Gao Pet came to the research institute.
The institute is when the third uncle returned to Gao's house, Gao Pet let the third uncle Gao Shixiang set up, he put all aspects of the people with a certain experience and culture together, divided into military industry, smelting, chemistry, agronomy, machinery, medicine, comprehensive several professional departments, there are more than 40 people, Gao Pet is the dean, but this dean does not care, mainly by the third uncle of Gao Pet, Gao Pet is only regularly here to attend classes and consult answers.
Wu Tong and several medical academicians were called together to discuss with them the construction of a field hospital and related personnel, medicines, and equipment.
Wu Tong is the Lang Zhong who first treated Gao Chong, who has been in the Gao family for more than ten years, is in his forties, and has been sitting in the Gao family's Baoshan Hall. After the establishment of the research institute, the original few people and assistants, plus some of You Fanglangzhong and Wu Tong's brothers and sisters, there are nearly ten people, some are proficient in pharmacology, and some are good at prescription diagnosis and treatment, which can be regarded as a certain scale. There are also some apprentice assistants, but they are not on the roster of the Institute. A person who can manage the ability to enter the research institute. Therefore, there are three types of people in the research institute, one is a registered academician, the second is a further study assistant, and the third is a helper. Wu Tong is the head of the medical department.
"Director Wu, the first thing is that I am now preparing to build a field hospital, and I want to draw some backbone doctors from our medical department, and then I will join the army to fight with the Jin country, and a few of you will want some people to join our Flying Tiger Army at that time, focusing on the department and the injury department, you can discuss it, and don't be reluctant to go if you don't want to go." Before Shang Pet finished speaking, everyone wanted to go to the Flying Tiger Army with Gao Pet.
"Don't be in a hurry to discuss this with your family, but in the army, you will die in battle. You will report to the base tomorrow and prepare for the construction of the hospital. ”
"The second is to talk to you about this field hospital."
"We are traditional Chinese medicine, see a doctor and take medicine, but this prescription drug often has to be tormented temporarily, there are few medicines, you know, as a troops, marching and fighting this decoction is very inconvenient, so you have to think from the idea of making a finished medicine, these thousands of years, we still have a lot of prescriptions, these fixed prescriptions can be made into medicines. It is best to make it into pills so that it is easy to carry. Among them, there are two points to pay attention to, one is concentration, and the other is to prevent deterioration. ”
"The most important thing to deal with in the military is trauma medication, surgical instruments and related materials. Including hemostasis, surgery and wound cleaning, anti-inflammatory, suturing, bandaging, etc. ”
"Many of the wounded are dying of excessive blood loss, this hemostasis you have to study and summarize well, hemostasis has two kinds of drug hemostasis and mechanical hemostasis, as I know, there are many hemostatic drugs in our traditional Chinese medicine, most of you know that the commonly used hemostatic drugs are white and, blood remaining, crane grass, notoginseng, arborvitae leaves, mugwort leaves, elm, locust flowers, large and small thistles, white grass roots, purple pearl grass, madder, etc., among which notoginseng, madder, puhuang, etc. have both hemostatic and blood stasis functions, some of them are used externally, and some are taken internally. Some of you are very knowledgeable about medicines, and you need to work hard to make prescriptions and medicines to stop bleeding. This could save a lot of lives. ”
"Mechanical hemostasis can be done through a series of methods such as compression hemostasis, wound suturing and bandaging, and different methods are required due to different bleeding points and bleeding patterns." Gao Pet gave many examples.
"However, at present, our doctors' surgical ability and instruments are very poor, and we lack understanding of the structure of the human body and the function of various parts. You are going to do anatomical and functional studies. ”
Gao Pet talked a lot with them, and the most important thing was to get the idea of modern medicine and open a door for them. One by one, they all became medical masters.
Gao Pet needs absorbent cotton, gauze, boron tape, medical tape and surgical instruments, sheep intestines, and in terms of drugs, he wants a series of things such as alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, gentian violet potion, numbing intoxicant ether and chloroform (chloroform).
But now the Great Song Dynasty cotton is only planted in a small amount in Guangdong, and cotton cloth is only a new thing and has not been widely used. Gao Zhong wrote a letter to Feiyang Company and Guan Peiyuan about the introduction and planting of kapok and the production of cotton cloth, absorbent cotton, gauze, boron tape, and medical adhesive tape, asking them to immediately lose the relevant matters and go to Guangdong to purchase all kapok.
In addition, let them set up another gelatin factory, increase the breeding, selection, and breeding of cattle, sheep and pigs, prepare to open a tannery meat processing plant, and study military food that can be preserved for a long time through pickling and other methods.
Gelatin is made by hydrolysis of collagen from animal skin, bones, and tendons. Collagen (referred to as collagen) is the most important protein component in the skin and bone of animals, such as collagen present in dermal connective tissue collagen fibers, accounting for about 98% of dry dermis. It is widely used in textiles, printing, printing and dyeing, plastics, electronics, abrasive cloth sandpaper, matches, ink, rubber fillers, handicraft paste, wood furniture, leather varnishing, dyeing and weaving sizing, metallurgical plating solution, banknote coating, cosmetic hairspray, etc., and some countries list this as a military reserve.
The Jews invented gelatin very early, and in the Chinese "Materia Medica", it refers to the glue made from yellow cowhide boiling, that is, yellow gelatin, which is a kind of gelatin.
There are four production methods of gelatin: alkali method, acid method, saline-alkali method and enzymatic method, etc., and the alkali method is more used.
Main process: lime water pre-soaking, then cut into small pieces. Removes fat and dirt. The impregnation of lime water into the "hair skin" is one of the key processes in gelatin production. After washing and neutralization, the gel is boiled at multiple different temperatures (temperature control is the key), concentrated, filtered, and impurities such as grease are removed. Evaporation concentrates, gel dries.
This letter was copied by the research institute and sent to Ningguo.
Gao Pet came back from the research institute and heard someone talking in the courtyard. It is the voice of Guan Lin and Xiaocui.
This little girl is not in the base, thousands of people are just a woman, no worse than those men in all aspects, about to become a man's wife, the difference between reality and image is too big, Gao Pet didn't let her be at the base, she didn't agree, especially after Guan Yu came back, I don't know what Guan Yu said, I ran away when I saw Gao Pet, I came back for a few days, and I haven't met yet. I haven't seen you in a long time. What's wrong, what's wrong? Gao pet walked into the courtyard apprehensively.
"Isn't this Sister Guan Lin, that gust of wind blew you here?"
"I'm going to join the Flying Tiger Brigade!"