Chapter 129

Guo Zhongyou stayed at Xu's house for half a month. Except for the first few days where he had academic exchanges with Xu Yi, he spent the rest of the days at Xu's house for consultation.

There is no consultation fee, and free consultation is provided to patients who come to see the doctor.

Winter is coming soon, and the weather is getting colder and colder. Among ordinary people, those who are too poor to have cotton-padded clothes and jackets, when they go out to work or work in the fields, they try to stuff their clothes with soft straw velvet.

Even so, many poor people still fell ill.

Lihua Village, when Li Dalu rushed home from the salt mine, he learned from his wife that his father had been suffering from a high fever for three days. It was very difficult for him to work as a salt worker in the salt mine. He had to go down to the salt well every day, working from sunrise to sunset, and often couldn't go home.

Li Dalu only has one day off every month. If the people in the same village had not said that his father was dying, the manager of the salt mine would not have let him back this time.

"Sanniang, my father..." Li Dalu looked at his biological father who was lying on the wooden bed with his bones torn apart and couldn't even drink water. His eyes were hot and tears fell down.

Sanniang wiped her tears and whispered: "Dalu, my father-in-law went to the fields a few days ago. He was accidentally knocked down by Wang Dahu's housekeeper and fell into the ditch. You also know that it is so cold today. After my father-in-law came home, "The fever started that night."

"What about Wang Dahu's housekeeper?" Li Dalu shouted angrily, his eyes red, "Didn't they take dad to see the doctor?"

Sanniang cried, "Then the housekeeper just threw him away." For a drop of money, I said I was going to call the doctor, and he..." Sanniang couldn't continue, she rolled up her sleeves and showed Li Dalu the whip marks on her arms.

They had no land in Lihua Village. It belonged to tenant Wang Dahu. Life was difficult for the tenants, so Li Dalu went to work as a salt worker.

The family couldn't find much money to pay for her father-in-law's medical treatment, so Sanniang invited Li Banxian'er from the village. Li Banxian could make elixirs and draw talismans, and the fee was not expensive, so Sanniang invited Li Banxian to see a doctor.

My father-in-law took Li Banxian's elixir and talisman water, but he still didn't feel better.

Seeing that her father-in-law was dying, Sanniang couldn't make any decision and asked the villagers to send news to Li Dalu.

Li Dalu fell down on the bedside. As a man in the family, he saw his wife being beaten, but he couldn't get justice for her. Even his father was about to die of illness, so Li Dalu didn't dare to go to the big man Wang.

Wang Dahu is the overlord in Lihua Village. Two-thirds of the hundreds of acres of land in Lihua Village are under Wang Dahu's name.

Many of the people in their village were cultivating the fields of tenant Wang households. If any family was bullied, they would not dare to go forward to seek justice for fear of losing their status as tenants.

In Yanting County today, there are many wealthy heads of households and many poor people who are so poor that they can't even eat bean porridge.

What's more, it's almost winter. If they lose their food fields at this time, they won't be able to survive the farming season next spring, but they won't be able to survive the lean period.

"Dad..." Li Dalu choked, and Taotao burst into tears.

Sanniang cried together.

Sanniang also had a hard life. When her family suffered a disaster, her parents fled to Lihua Village with their two sons and three daughters. When they arrived at Lihua Village, only one of the three daughters was alive, and that was Sanniang.

Sanniang has no name. She is the youngest, so she is called Sanniang.

There were several Sanniangs in the village. After marrying Li Dalu, the people in the village called her "from the Dalu family" to distinguish which Sanniang was which.

After they cried, they came out of the house and discussed how to deal with their father's funeral.

"Wrap up the straw mat and quilt. If dad leaves in the winter, it will be cold without a quilt."

"But... there are only two quilts at home. If they are buried, there will be no quilts for the dog when he comes back."

Two There was silence for a while, and Li Dalu squatted on the ground, covering his face with his hands. The backs of his palms were scarred and chapped from digging in salt mines.

Sanniang shed tears in distress and went to scoop out warm water to warm his hands.

"No, don't waste it." Li Dalu shouted.

They didn't stay outside the house for too long. It was really cold outside, and Li Dalu's father seemed to have woken up, coughing loudly inside.

Sanniang hurriedly dipped the handkerchief in water and put it on her father-in-law's chapped lips, thinking that she could let him drink some water.

Maybe his son was back. Li Dalu's father opened his eyes and woke up. He grabbed Li Dalu's hand with his bony palm and said in a hoarse and weak voice: "My son... my son..."

"Dad, dad, what do you want to say?" What?" Li Dalu knelt on the ground, begging his father to speak.

"Son...Dad...don't want to die..." Li Dalu's father shed tears.

After hearing what his father said clearly, Li Dalu broke down and cried bitterly.

He was so useless that he never let his father live a good life.

"Dalu, let's save our father-in-law!" Sanniang couldn't stand it anymore. She thought of her sister. At that time, her sister was suffering from a fever and was unconscious. She also held her hand like this. Calling her name, saying that she wanted to live...

At this time, a friend from the same village ran to Li Dalu's house.

"Li Dalu is back?" My friend shouted, "Your father is saved. Doctor Xu in the city knows that he has a doctor named Guo who is running a free clinic."

"Tieniu, my father can't get up from bed. "Yes." Li Dalu shook his head disheartenedly.

Their village is dozens of miles away from the county seat. If he rushes there, his father may not be able to make it.

Tieniu scolded him for being confused: "You spend two dollars and take a bullock cart!" He took out some money, stuffed it into Li Dalu's hand, and told him to go to the village entrance quickly.

There was a man named Liu at the entrance of the village who was on his way to the county town.

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When Li Dalu took Sanniang and his father to Xu's house, his father was still breathing.

Uncle Liu, who was driving the car, urged them to get in quickly and even offered to help carry the father-in-law into the house.

Seeing such a magnificent house, Li Dalu felt as if he had arrived at Wang Dahu's house. But Wang Dahu's house is more magnificent, and the courtyard is full of servants, while the courtyard of Dr. Xu's house has many shelves, and dustpans are placed on each shelf, some are empty, and some are drying medicinal materials.

When they entered, they could smell a medicinal smell that was too strong to ignore.

Passing the corridor of the courtyard, they came to the main room and saw that there were several patients in rags waiting in line in the main room.

At this time, a handsome young man wearing cotton-padded clothes walked towards them.

Li Dalu froze on the spot, a little helpless. Then he heard the young man say to Uncle Liu next to him: "Uncle Liu, you brought the patient here? What's going on? It looks like he's very ill."

Uncle Liu said: "I'm seriously ill. Can I ask Dr. Xu if I can jump in line?"

The word "jumping in line" was what Xu Yi said, and Uncle Liu remembered it.

A Xu nodded and said he would ask.

Li Dalu and Sanniang were both cautious and did not dare to move. They were still praying on the way, but when they arrived here, they became timid again.

His father has fallen into a coma and is now being held by Li Dalu.

But soon, the young man ran back and called them to go to the next room.

They came into the room. First they thought the room was very warm. Then when they looked at it, they saw a bed in the room, a charcoal stove, and a very good-looking man.

When the man saw them, he came over and said with gentle and proactive concern: "Put the old man on the bed quickly."

"This is fever. How many days have it been?" Xu Yi put his hand on his forehead and asked them with raised eyebrows.

Li Dalu looked at his wife and replied restrainedly: "It's been three days."

Xu Yi was diagnosing the pulse of the old man in front of him. The old man had suffered from cold and evil wind invasion, but the treatment was delayed. Now the evil air has entered the lungs, causing the wind to warm the lungs. Heat syndrome.

"The old man has lung-heat syndrome. We can't delay. I'll prescribe the antipyretic medicine first. Madam, you can take it with you and cook it." Xu Yi said without any nonsense, and got up to write the prescription.

He gave the old man Ephedra Decoction, which was mainly used to treat aversion to cold and fever, and to induce sweating and relieve symptoms. After Xu Yi finished writing the prescription, he gave it to A Xu.

"You go and prescribe medicine. For this ephedra soup, you need to fry the ephedra until it boils, and then add other medicinal materials." Xu Yi explained.

Then he said to Li Dalu, who was stunned on the spot: "I am going to do acupuncture for the old man now, and you can help me."

"Okay, okay." Li Dalu didn't know who this person was yet, but after what he had done just now, He had completely lost his mind and just listened to the other party.

Xu Yi asked him to untie the old man's clothes and soak his body in warm water with a handkerchief, so he obeyed the instructions honestly. When he saw the young doctor taking out a silver needle and pricking his father's chest, he finally responded. Come to your senses.

"Doctor, what are you doing?" Li Dalu was a little panicked.

Xu Yi ignored him and concentrated on the acupuncture.

When Uncle Liu who followed in saw this, he said calmly: "Doctor Xu is saving your father. Your father is unconscious. How can you drink medicine without stabbing him awake?"

With these words, Li Dalu raised his hand. Wiping away the sweat, I wasn't afraid anymore, just a little anxious.

After a while, the silver needle was pulled out of his chest, and his father woke up.

As soon as he woke up, his father coughed desperately.

With each sound getting louder and louder, Xu Yi calmly brought the iron basin in front of the old man. He saw the old man holding his chest and coughing up several pieces of thick brown phlegm into the basin.

After coughing up the thick phlegm stuck in his chest, the old man's spirits improved significantly.

"Dad...Dad, you are finally awake!" Li Dalu knelt down in front of his father, with snot and tears flowing out.

Seeing his son like this, his father raised his hand to pat him, but was unable to do so. He fell back on the bed in a daze.

Fortunately, A Xu came back with Sanniang making the soup.

After taking the medicine, the two of them stayed in front of the bed, waiting for the person's fever to subside.

Only then did Xu Yi know that they were here for Dr. Guo's free clinic. However, after Dr. Guo announced the free clinic, many poor patients came to Xu's house for treatment every day, making it very busy.

Uncle Liu drove them to the Xu family and learned a lot of inside information on the way. He sighed and told Xu Yi about Li Dalu, sighing: "It's hard for ordinary people like these to live. This Li Dalu went to the salt mine to dig salt. The supervisor of the salt mine loves to bully the salt workers. I heard that he doesn’t get half of the salary he gets every month.

Even if he gets the money, he will take it away through other means.

As for why it is so difficult, why are there still people working as salt workers? If they didn't even have the job of digging salt, these people would probably be even worse off.

Xu Yi looked at the couple guarding the old man in the room with a sullen face. They looked like they were almost forty years old, but Uncle Liu said that Li Dalu was only twenty-eight years old this year.

"Lang Jun, do we still charge them for medical consultation and medicine?" A Xu felt pity for them.

Xu Yi sighed. He couldn't save these poor people, but they were all in front of him. He couldn't bear not to save them.

Half an hour later, the old man's fever subsided.

Xu Yi felt his pulse, asked a few words, and then said to the two people next to him: "I will prescribe another prescription for treating lung heat syndrome. This recipe is called orange peel soup. How to boil it? I will tell you later. Xu tells you."

Upon hearing this, the couple quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed in thanks.

Xu Yi helped them up, his brows furrowed: "You don't have to be like this. It's the responsibility of doctors to save lives and heal the wounded. I just can't bear it."

Sometimes poor people just need a hand to get out of their predicaments. , thus gaining new life. The old man's illness was nothing more than a common lung-heat syndrome caused by fever.

But if no one saves him today, his death seems to be such an insignificant thing, buried hastily, turned into soil, and becomes fertilizer for the earth.

This kind of thing happens every day. When you don't see it, you don't think about it. When you see it and hear it, you can't help but think, if he has the ability, why not save it?

Why not save?

Yes, why not save it.

Li Dalu and the others didn't stay at Xu's house for long. After the old man's fever completely subsided, they left with the medicine bag.

Xu Yi didn't charge them a penny, and neither did Liu Bo.

Uncle Liu has been doing good deeds recently. When he met someone who was too poor to eat, he would give them a ride for free. He thought it was all about doing good deeds.

My wife, Ms. Liu, said that this was the reason why she stayed with Dr. Xu. Following good people, people also become kind.

After Li Dalu and the others left, there were still several patients on Guo Zhongyou's side.

He is always strong and strong, and after seeing dozens of patients, he is still full of energy and not tired.

Xu Yi didn't dare to let him continue to bother like this. After all, given his age, it was better to be on the safe side.

"Doctor Guo, let me come too." Xu Yi said to him.

Guo Zhongyou did not refuse his kindness and said, "Okay, how much money you spent on medicine will be charged to my account."

When he went out this time, he brought enough money, but not many medicinal materials.

A few days ago, all the medicinal materials brought out were used in free clinics. Now, prescribing medicines to patients relies entirely on the medicinal materials at Xu Yi's home.

"This patient has a tumor on his back and needs to be cut." At this time, Guo Zhongyou looked at the patient and came back to Xu Yi with a frown.

When Xu Yi heard that surgery was needed, he raised his eyebrows and followed him to see the patient.

Guo Zhongyou said: "The knife I brought is not enough. This tumor needs a slender knife to remove it cleanly."

Hearing this, Xu Yi was very surprised: "Doctor Guo know how to treat ulcers?"

In the Song Dynasty, medicine It was already in a period of high development, and at that time the prototypes of various departments appeared, such as surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, etc. However, surgery at this time is not called surgery, but usually called ulcer surgery.

Ulcers are sometimes called external ulcers, so doctors who specialize in ulcers are also called ulcer doctors.

In these days, Guo Zhongyou didn't talk to him about external surgery. Xu Yi thought that Guo Zhongyou only knew internal medicine.

Guo Zhongyou said: "I only know a few things."

If you only know a few things... that means you know how to do it. The ancients were always more modest. Guo Zhongyou didn't say he wasn't good at it, he just knew a lot.

Xu Yi immediately said: "Dr. Guo, I have the surgical instruments you want."

The surgical instruments he prepared include scissors, tweezers, tweezers, thin knives, awls, etc. There are several kinds of thin knives alone. There are long ones and short ones, and there are also triangle shapes, toothbrush types, shovel types, etc.

There is also the Holy Sleep Powder prepared previously.

Guo Zhongyou couldn't help but be impressed when he saw that Xu Yi still had these things.

"Your utensils are indeed complete, and there are several more items than I have." Guo Zhongyou was surprised to see a thin, three-diamond-shaped knife among them, and picked it up to look at it.

This is the knife he wants. Use it to cut the tumor and remove all the pus from the skin and flesh.

The two checked the equipment, and Xu Yi went to see the patient with the tumor.

The man looked to be in his twenties, wearing a patched shorts. His name was Fang Si. He was the fourth in the family. He was a bit thin and worked as a waiter in a restaurant in the city.

A few days ago, he suddenly felt pain in his back and felt a hard lump. I didn't plan to ignore it, but within two days, the swollen and painful area grew bigger and bigger, reaching the size of a grape.

At that time, his back was so painful that he could not lie down and fall asleep, and he could not even do the waiter's errands.

The shopkeeper saw that he was usually diligent and did not make things difficult for him. He also told him about the free clinic for doctors in the Xu family and asked him to come and see the doctor.

So Fang Si came and saw so many people in the clinic and waited for two hours.

As a result, the old doctor who was treating the patient only took a few glances and said that he wanted to operate and cut off the thing called the tumor.

When he heard that he was going to have an operation, Fang Si was so scared that he was trembling with fear. One of his co-workers broke his leg before. He took someone to see the doctor. The doctor used a knife to cut the flesh and break it. The bones were laid out and sewn together with thread. The scene was extremely gruesome.

Fang Si saw another young doctor coming to show him the tumor on his back. He felt sad, took off his short brown clothes, and asked in a low voice: "Doctor, can I, can I not have an operation on the tumor on my back?"

"It has to be opened." When Xu Yi saw the tumor, he judged that it was called a pink tumor.

Some doctors will call it lipoma or gall tumor, and some doctors will just call it tumor. The earliest record of the disease name "lipoma" appeared in "Three Causes and One Pathology" written by Chen Yan in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Xu Yi turned pale with fright when he saw him, and said with a slight smile: "Don't be afraid, I will give you Shengsue Powder when the operation is performed, so you won't feel any pain."

"Then, what about after using it?" Fang Si He asked with a trembling voice.

Xu Yi: "..."

This is a good question. After using it, it will naturally hurt when you wake up.

Even in modern times, after surgery for acne, the patient will suffer from pain for several days until the wound heals, and neuralgia and other conditions may also occur.

If you have a scarring constitution, pimples will also grow, and in severe cases, they will grow into the shape of sarcoma, which is extremely difficult to remove.

Xu Yi saw that he was so scared, so these words were not suitable to say at this time. He comforted him with a few words, and then he could take him to the ulcer department.

The ulcer department is located behind the tea room in the main room. When entering from the tea room, there is a small door. When you open the small door, you will find a new world.

This ulcer department is not big, with only a bed and a table.

The table was already covered with surgical instruments, candles, oil lamps, veils and basins.

Guo Zhongyou was very satisfied with this room. When performing surgery, there should be as few things around as possible.

At this time, they don’t know that this is because of bacteria, but they have learned from various experiences that when performing ulcer surgery, there should be as few outsiders as possible, and there should not be too many dirty objects or even dusty ones. place.

The room designed by Xu Yi has only a small door, no other windows, and very few things.

After Xu Yi came in, he lit mugwort and smoked it in every corner of the room. He then took the decoction of traditional Chinese medicine and soaked the surgical instruments that needed to be used in it for disinfection.

For this traditional Chinese medicine soup, Xu Yi usually uses honeysuckle, dandelion and purpurea. After mixing, it is boiled, the medicinal residue is drained, and handkerchiefs and other utensils are soaked in it to achieve the effect of disinfection and sterilization.

If you have alcohol and iodophor, you can save yourself these troubles.

However, under the current conditions, it is not easy to make medical alcohol. Xu Yi is a little stumped by the utensils of the still.

At this time, Xu Yi lamented why he couldn't make a still.

If he could make a distiller, he could make a low-grade version of medical alcohol.

Of course, now there are traditional Chinese medicine soups that can replace disinfectants, which can be considered a good choice.

It's better than nothing.

After all these preludes were prepared, Xu Yi asked A Xu to take Fang Si down to change into clothes soaked in medicinal soup and disinfected. He privately called this clothes "operating clothes."

After that, Fang Si drank the Shengsleep Powder handed over by Xu Yi and lay down on the bed.

Guo Zhongyou said, "I'll do the surgery. Xu Yi, please pass me the veil."

"Okay." Xu Yi had no objection.

He stood next to Guo Zhongyou, picked up a slender knife from a pile of utensils and handed it to him.

Guo Zhongyou waited for Fang Si to fall asleep before starting the operation.

First, use a slender knife to cut open the surface of the lipoma. Thick white pus overflows from the inside. The pus comes out one by one and flows around the lipoma in an instant.

Xu Yi handed over the handkerchief with quick eyes and hands. When the white pus was almost absorbed by the handkerchief, Guo Zhongyou replaced the slender knife, and Xu Yi handed him the Mitsubishi knife.

The Mitsubishi knife penetrated deep into the lipoma, and Guo Zhongyou stirred his wrist vigorously. There was a "puff, puff" sound, and more yellow-white pus emerged.

Soon, Guo Zhongyou found a hard lump. He touched the location and asked Xu Yi for tweezers.

The tweezers were inserted into the meat. After a while, a hard object was picked out, which was a phlegm core trapped inside. Only when it was picked out was it clean.

Guo Zhongyou and Xu Yi breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the most important thing taken out.

They didn't waste much time. Xu Yi took over Guo Zhongyou's position, wiped away the pus that was still overflowing with a new handkerchief, and then used medicinal soup to clean the sore surface.

After cleaning, you can apply muscle-promoting ointment and wrap it with cotton cloth before the operation is over.

The two waited in the ulcer department for more than an hour, and Fang Si finally woke up faintly.

As soon as he woke up, he felt that the burning pain in his back was not there before, but instead there was a fine numbing pain. It was not that painful anymore, but the foreign body sensation was very obvious.

Fang Si wanted to reach out and scratch it, but when he saw two pairs of eyes staring at him, he decisively gave up the idea.

"Doctor, am I okay?" Fang Si looked at them and swallowed.

Doctor Guo didn't answer. He stepped forward and picked up his hand, frowning and checking his pulse.

After Xumi, he spread his brows, let go of Fang Si's wrist and said, "It's okay. You need to apply ointment to the wound behind. Change this ointment every day. Once it grows, you don't need to apply it again."

Xu Yi added next to him : "Don't sleep lying down in the past few days, and avoid getting wet. You need to use decoction to clean the ointment."

While waiting, Xu Yi had already written down his condition and precautions.

He also considered that Fang Si could not read, so he waited until he woke up and then dictated it to him again.