"Your eye disease is already terminally ill, and there is no cure."

Cao Xi sighed, asked the man who called himself Liu Xiucai to re-blindfold him with a cloth towel, and said softly, with a trace of guilt and unbearability on Qingli's face.

"Maybe this girl will think of another way?" Liu Xiucai showed a painful expression on his face, and said eagerly: "In the past few months, the entire Nanjing City has heard that your Qi Guolang is skilled in traditional Chinese medicine, and there are countless living people. Whether it is an incurable disease, or an old disease, it can be cured. My eye disease ......"

"Living Bodhisattva, you must save my father-in-law." Liu Xiucai's wife fell to the ground with a "plop", kowtowed a few times, raised her head, tears and snot flowed, and begged: "We have sixty parents and three immature children, the youngest of whom is only two months old. If something happens to my father-in-law, we ......, how can we continue to survive? ”

"This lady, please get up!" Cao Xi hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to pull the woman up, but the other party insisted on being very firm and continued to kneel on the ground, mourning non-stop.

Liu Xiucai sat down on the chair dejectedly, his hands were separated by a cloth towel, and he kept kneading his eyes, and two lines of pus and blood kept flowing out of the corners of his eyes, making people look at it and couldn't help but look sideways.

It's also pitiful, this Liu Xiucai is only thirty years old, he reads poetry and books hard, wants to work hard, and hopes that in the next year's examination, he can be promoted and step into the threshold of the gentry class, so as to glorify the lintel.

But who knows, a few months ago, he suddenly suffered from an eye disease. At first, the eyes were only slightly swollen, but after half a month, the pain became worse and the eyes gradually became invisible.

At this time, Daqin's medicine on this kind of eye disease was not yet developed, and many Lang Zhong said that they could not be treated.

Liu Xiucai has two parents to wait for, and there are three children at home, if the eye disease cannot be cured, it is tantamount to cutting off the pillars of the family.

In order to cure the eye disease, Liu Xiucai and his relatives and friends searched for Langzhong, and the silver taels at home were also spent.

Later, someone told him a home remedy, saying that it was to rinse with children's feces and plant ashes every day, and after ten days, the eye disease would be eliminated.

As a result, Liu Xiucai used this home remedy for only three days, and his eyes were even more painful, and pus and blood continued to flow.

Just when he was helpless and in pain, someone told him that he said that many Lang Zhong with superb medical skills came from Qi to open a free clinic in the largest Xingli Hall in the west of the city, treating countless people, and the consultation fee was also very low, so he could go and give it a try.

So, Liu Xiucai held on to the last hope, accompanied by his wife, and came to Xingli Hall.

Unexpectedly, because of the excessive eye infection, he was already powerless.

Originally, the military staff corps and legation of Qi in Nanjing had accompanying military doctors and corresponding full-time doctors, in addition to ensuring the medical health of these Qi military and political personnel, they also diagnosed and treated Qi merchants, expatriates and their families in Great Qin, as well as some high-ranking officials and nobles of Great Qin, but they had not yet been treating ordinary people in Qin.

When King Dan and the imperial grandson led a delegation to visit the imperial family of Great Qin, Deng Lao, a senior professor of the Royal Medical College who came with the delegation, made a suggestion to open a free clinic in Nanjing.

This move can not only gain enough folk prestige for our Daqi, but also allow my Qi doctors to learn and accumulate more medical experience, and at the same time, it can also use it to collect various folk prescriptions and medical methods in Daqin, and promote medical exchanges between the two countries.

After King Dan heard this suggestion, he immediately agreed, and through the Great Qin royal family, he opened the free clinic in the largest medical hall in Nanjing, Xingli Hall.

Originally, according to the meaning of the Qi State, it was best to send a few skilled doctors into the palace to see the Empress Dowager of Great Qin, if she could be cured, not to mention that she could gain the favor of Great Qin, deepen the friendship between them, and continue to influence the Great Qin court through this old empress dowager from Qi State.

However, with such a noble status as the empress dowager, how could the Great Qin Imperial Court easily let a group of outsiders come to heal her?

If this is a cure for three long and two short, how should my Great Qin deal with it?

You can't cut down all the doctors you sent!

Not surprisingly, the Great Qin royal family rejected the kindness of the Qi people and insisted on conservative treatment and care by the imperial physician of the court.

In the city of Nanjing, there are many medical centers and pharmacies, many of which have been franchised for generations, which are well-known and trusted by the world. Some of these pharmacies will have patients come to the pharmacy with prescriptions to buy medicinal materials directly after they have been diagnosed and treated by Langzhong, and some pharmacies will hire several famous doctors to sit in the hall for patients to diagnose and treat, and then prescribe, and patients will buy drugs according to the prescription. Some of these prescriptions are unprocessed herbs, and a small amount are pills, plasters, or decoctions made in advance.

Most of these medicines are made in advance by the pharmacy according to some ancestral prescriptions, on the one hand, to ensure that the prescriptions will not be plagiarized by peers, and on the other hand, such medicines also meet the special needs of some people.

After more than a dozen Qi doctors entered Xingli Hall, they also sought to obtain the ancestral prescription of this pharmacy, bring it back to Hanzhou, study it carefully, and use it for their own use, even at the expense of it.

But where would the shopkeeper of Xingli Tang sell his prescriptions to the people of Qi State, with these ancestral prescriptions, whether it is in the troubled times of murder or in the prosperous times of Haiqing Heyan, it is a guarantee to maintain the family inheritance and the sustainability of life.

Afraid of the order of the imperial court, we have vacated a place in Xingli Hall for you to see a doctor and treat Langzhong in Qi State, which has already affected the business of our pharmacy.

Why, you still want to fight my family's ancestral prescription idea?

Don't even think about it!

Although the two sides were in the same medical hall to treat patients, the shopkeeper of Xingli Tang and Langzhong were like thieves, and Langzhong from Qi Guo was indifferent to each other throughout the whole process.

In other words, those patients who were originally going to go to my pharmacy for diagnosis and treatment were cut off by you one by one in the name of free clinics.

You've got a way to get us to eat, so good!

However, as more and more patients were treated by the doctors of Qi State, there were not a few who were cured, which made the shopkeepers and sittings of Xingli Hall feel frightened and admired.

These Qi Guolai Langzhong were not only proficient in traditional Chinese medicine, but also especially good at surgery and gynecology, and those severe surgical trauma and women's dystocia, which were regarded as serious illnesses in Qin Guolang, were easily cured by Qi Guolangzhong.

In the past few months, more than 20 women who have been unable to give birth have been brought in, and all but one medical accident in which both mother and child died, all other women with difficult labor have given birth safely.

originally thought that Lang Zhong of Qi also had some unique home remedies, and several Lang Zhong who were sitting in the hall had tentatively gone over to investigate.

Unexpectedly, after watching the diagnosis and treatment process of Qi Guo, they all retreated back one by one with pale faces.

Qi Guolangzhong actually cut open the belly of the woman with dystocia and forcibly took out the fetus in the womb!

It is important to know that for women with dystocia, according to the traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods, experienced Langzhong generally uses the fetal pushing method, or invites experienced midwives to slowly correct the fetal position to assist the mother in childbirth.

Of course, it is not that there is no surgery, but it is only a way to force the mother to cut open the cervix with a knife after the above two methods are ineffective, so as to enlarge the caliber of the cervix and make it easy for the fetus to be delivered smoothly. But this method is very dangerous, it is easy to cause one corpse and two lives, and Lang Zhong will not choose to use it unless necessary.

Like Qi Guolangzhong, a knife to pull the mother's belly apart and directly take out the fetus, that is unheard of, even the most experienced sitting Langzhong has never seen this kind of bloody delivery scene.

But the miraculous thing is that Qi Guolang used this most "rough and barbaric" method to successfully help more than 20 women with difficult births give birth to babies, and the mother and child are safe, and after five or six days of recuperation, they can walk on the ground!

It is also embarrassing to say that the reason why the doctors of Qi have this magical means of "caesarean section" to produce babies is purely because in order to ensure the safety of women and children and improve the fertility level, Qi has used countless bloody surgical experiments of the aborigines of Hanzhou and Nanyang natives for decades to gradually master this method (the earliest caesarean section, recorded in 1762, the British obstetrician Joseph Lindsiste proposed and put it into practice, but because the technology and equipment at that time had not yet reached the level he expected, and not widely used).

Whether the people of Qi are performing surgeries or prescribing medicines, they do not seem to be obscured from the outside world, and they also patiently answer the questions and doubts of Xingli Tangzhong.

In addition to the miraculous surgical techniques, a large part of the medical conditions mastered by them also follow the theories of traditional Chinese medicine, and on this basis, they have refined and expanded.

The Lang Zhong of Qi also showed their counterparts a lot of their advanced medical tools, such as microscopes, stethoscopes, thermometers, artificial blood suckers (used to suck up the patient's blood during surgery), cervical dilators, scalpels, circumcision knives, and hangers (used to remove hemorrhoids and cut off their uterine tumors and ovarian tumors), ...... all kinds of things, which opened the eyes of Daqin's Langzhong.

What's even more unexpected is that there are several female doctors in Qi State, including many beautiful women in their early twenties, who are indifferent and not at all stunned at the pickled and bloody treatment scene, comparable to the former Ming women's middle school Xinglin Miaoshou Tan Yunxian.

When Li Yanliang came to Xingli Hall with a food box to see his wife, he found that Cao Xi had just amputated two toes of a patient with chilblains.

"How did you get here?" Cao Xi looked at Li Yanliang, who was dressed in a royal guard uniform, with two food boxes in his hands, walked up to her with a smile, then put down the charcoal pen, and stretched his waist relaxedly.

"I wonder if you can't afford to eat again." Li Yanliang looked at his wife's bright eyes, as well as the inner joy that could not be concealed on his face, and opened the food box in his hand one by one, "At noon, His Royal Highness had a meal in a well-known restaurant in the city, and I thought the food was very delicious, so I brought you a little over." ”

"It's rare that you remember me." Cao Xi smiled with his eyebrows, and immediately put aside the medical books, paper and pen on the table, made a vacant space, and placed the food box on it.

"Still busy today?" Li Yanliang found an empty bowl and poured a bowl of delicious crucian carp soup for his wife.

"yes, there are too many patients." Cao Xi sighed, "Some people still came from the nearby prefectures and counties, just to save a little money for diagnosis and treatment. As you can see, there is already a long queue outside the medical hall. Even at night, there are patients who sleep outside the hospital so that they can be treated as soon as possible the next day. It's such a cold day, and I don't know how they survived? ”

"With only a dozen of you, I'm afraid I won't be able to see many patients every day."

"yes." After Cao Xi drank most of the bowl of crucian carp soup, then took a bowl of rice and ate the dishes in the food box, and replied vaguely: "There are too many patients, and they can't be cured at all." Deng Lao instructed those patients who were too critically ill to give up directly and turn to the treatment of those patients who could not be too seriously ill and recover relatively quickly. But the doctor's parents still felt guilty when they watched those critically ill patients leave sadly and desperately. ”

"You don't have to blame yourself like that." Li Yanliang was relieved: "Even within our Qi Kingdom, there are many patients who are not qualified to receive timely treatment, let alone a country with a huge population like Qin. ”

"Well, are you comforting me, or are you accusing us doctors of failing to treat the world's patients?" Cao Xi glanced at her husband.

“……”

"Speaking of which, Qin's medical and health system is really bad, or rather, there is no complete and effective medical system at all." While eating, Cao Xi complained to her husband, "Although, according to the Great Qin official system, there are medical officers, doctors, and doctors in their Huimin pharmacies in various prefectures, prefectures, and counties across the country, as well as in border customs military towns and other places, all of which are dispatched by the Tai Hospital. However, in fact, due to financial difficulties and the lack of hospitals, many places have not been implemented at all, and even this system has existed in name only. You see, in their national capital, Nanjing, ordinary people want to go to the so-called Huimin Pharmacy to see a doctor and get medicine, but they can't even touch the door, let alone hope to get effective treatment. As a result, many poor people have to pay extra high prices to go to private clinics and pharmacies. Sometimes, an unexpected serious illness can bring down a family, and end up with a wife and a broken family. ”

"The only thing that is commendable is that there are many folk medical halls and pharmacies in the Qin Kingdom, and many pharmacies also have Langzhong Sitting Hall, which will make some medicines according to some secret recipes as the golden signboard of their pharmacies. However, these medical centers and pharmacies are the most stingy, and they all treasure their own brooms, and they will not take out their secret recipes to share and study with us. ”

"By the way, in the city of Nanjing, there are still some traveling doctors, who do not have a fixed pharmacy and often wander around with a banner. Hee-hee, on one side of the façade is basically a boastful propaganda slogan such as 'Hua Tuo is alive' and 'Wonderful Hand Rejuvenation', and on the other side, most of them describe the diseases and prescriptions that he is good at curing. I think that unless you are very lucky, you can meet a miracle doctor, but most of them are just ordinary Langzhong, who can cure a minor illness such as headache and brain fever. There are also some charlatans who are swaggering and fooling patients. This morning, a traveling doctor almost cheated Deng Lao of fifty yuan with a so-called century-old home remedies! ”

"Oh, when it comes to home remedies, it's really speechless. For example, a woman should eat more raw sesame seeds, so that the child she gives birth to will not have scabies; Also, if a pregnant woman has difficulty giving birth, use an old head rope, dipped in head oil, burned to ashes, add one or two ginseng slices, and decoction water, and the child can be born smoothly. The most outrageous thing is that some home remedies that have been circulated for a long time will be mixed with some strange things into medicine, such as the excrement of some animals, child urine, blood of various animals, children's placenta, all kinds of poisonous insects, snakes and ants, and so on. Alas, if these things are eaten, it is estimated that a good person will have to give birth to more serious diseases! ”

"By the way, the doctors of the Qin State are particularly fond of rainwater to treat diseases. They say that the rain is rootless water, that it comes from heaven and heals the sick. It is also said that rain in different seasons can cure different diseases. For example, the most troublesome childlessness (infertility) of women in the courtyard of the deep house can be buried under the tree after receiving the rainwater with an altar after the beginning of spring, and then the husband and wife can drink this water and then have sex together, and they can give birth to a baby. Hee-hee, are you ridiculous? ……”

Li Yanliang watched his wife eat a meal, and said what she saw with a smile, her eyes flickered, and her eyebrows jumped, making her beautiful face look extremely vivid, looking like a little daughter's house, very cute and interesting.

"Yanliang, you are a soldier of my Great Qi, you fought for the country, you carried out killing and killing, and you caused thousands of killings, and you may have to go to hell after you die." Cao Xi saw a smile on the corner of her husband's mouth, mistakenly thinking that he was quite disdainful of the medical things he said, and couldn't help but say solemnly: "But I'm different, I'm a healer, I am a healer, I am a doctor who heals diseases and saves people, and I do the good deeds of the Bodhisattva, and I create endless sins, which can just offset your ten thousand sins." In the future, it will also be blessed to our children, and our descendants will be blessed. ”

"Huh? ......" Li Yanliang was stunned, and didn't react to his wife's jumping topic for a while.

"I'll tell you something, I'm pregnant." Cao Xi smiled, and his right hand involuntarily touched his lower abdomen, "We're going to have a baby." So, I need to save more people and save more blessings for this soon-to-be-born child. ”

When Li Yanliang heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then then held his wife's hand, with a look of pity on his face.

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(End of chapter)