Chapter 1618 Caning
Two carriages clattered out of the Imperial City and turned into Chongyuanfang. Manbao, disliking the heat, had already rolled up the curtains. He blinked as the carriages turned into a familiar street.
But before the car reached her house, it turned a corner and went straight through Chongyuanfang to Guangdefang behind it.
Finally the car stopped in front of a side door.
Wang's bastard jumped out of the car and trotted over to invite Manbao. He pointed and said sweatily, "Master Zhou, please come in. My eldest brother is inside."
Manbao couldn't help but glance at him and asked, "I don't know what to call you, sir."
"My name is Wang Da, and Wang Rong is my brother."
Wang Rong is Wang Ji's nephew who was beaten.
Manbao followed the people into the side door, and there was a courtyard as soon as he entered. A servant had been waiting there since early morning, and as soon as he saw people, he immediately led them into the courtyard.
Manbao thought he was going to the backyard, but after entering a door, he found that it was an independent courtyard with two entrances. It was a separate house with its own entrance, and the patient was in the second entrance of the courtyard.
A very young woman was standing in the corridor crying, with a wet nurse holding a child beside her. Seeing Zhou Man carrying the medicine box, she immediately came forward and asked, "Is this the Imperial Physician Zhou from the palace?"
Manbao nodded.
She immediately wiped away her tears and invited her into the house, "Mother is waiting."
Immediately, a maid lifted the curtain, and when Manbao entered the room, he smelled a strong smell of medicine. A middle-aged woman was sitting in front of the bed crying, and there were two doctors in the room.
Manbao couldn't help but sigh when he saw the two doctors, because they looked very familiar. One was Doctor Ding and the other was Zheng Gu.
Manbao stared at Zheng Gu, "You didn't enter the palace today?"
Zheng Gu: "Master, I was here last night."
The young woman called the middle-aged woman "Mother", and Manbao knew that she was Mrs. Wang.
Mrs. Wang quickly stood up and said to Manbao, "Doctor Zhou, please take a look at my son. He has had a fever since last night."
Manbao nodded repeatedly, put down the medicine box, and without taking his own pulse pillow, he took the hand of the person lying on the bed and placed it on Doctor Ding's pulse pillow to take the pulse. As he took the pulse, he said, "Taking the pulse while lying down is not very accurate."
Doctor Ding glanced at Zhou Man and simply lifted the cloth covering the patient to show her the wounds on his buttocks and waist. "He can't lie down."
Manbao was shocked when he saw the wound. "Why is it so serious? This looks like caning."
Wang Rong's lower back to the thighs were all beaten. Maybe it was because of poor care or the hot weather, the wounds were already festering. These were not just one or two small wounds, but a large area.
Manbao had only seen caning once, when Xiang Chao was beaten when he filed a complaint to the emperor last year. At that time, Xiang Chao was unable to move and was seriously injured.
But the weather was already cool at that time. Although he was in prison, there were plenty of medicines. In addition, Xiang Chao had strong muscles and bones, so he only had a low-grade fever twice and got through it safely.
Manbao looked at the pus on his body again and couldn't help but reach out and touch his forehead.
Doctor Ding lowered his voice and said, "He's had a fever since last night. He was previously treated by a doctor at Baohe Clinic."
Because of Zhou Man and Imperial Physician Zheng, Jishidiang was more or less considered to be close to the prince, so the Wang family initially avoided Jishidiang when they asked for a doctor.
It was because the situation was not right last night that the Wang family asked Doctor Ding to come over. Zheng Gu came here to learn and originally thought it was a minor illness, but they ended up spending the whole night here.
Manbao felt the pulse, looked at the other person's face and mouth, and then went to Baohe Medical Clinic and got the prescription written by Doctor Ding.
Manbao picked up his pen and wrote a new prescription for the Wang family, saying, "Go get the medicine. This is for internal use. We will treat his external injuries."
Doctor Ding glanced at Manbao's prescription, his face expressionless, but he couldn't help but be surprised in his heart. After just a few months of not seeing each other, Zhou Man's prescription was already better than his.
Doctor Ding looked at Zhou Man with shock in his heart. Such a person, such a person, deserves to succeed.
Manbao was still looking at the wounds on Wang Rong's lower back, buttocks and thighs. Without turning around, he asked, "Doctor Ding, should we clean his wounds?"
Zheng Gu noticed that Doctor Ding was distracted, so he reached out and poked him. Doctor Ding instantly came back to his senses and nodded quickly, saying, "Ah, yes, we need to clean out the pus and rotten flesh, and then apply Sanqi powder to cover it."
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "I'm afraid using only Sanqi powder isn't good enough. Let's get a few more herbs."
After that, he wrote another prescription and asked the Wang family to go to Jishitang to get it. When the three of them were busy, a servant came in and said, "Madam, Manager Shi from Baohe Medical Clinic is here."
Mrs. Wang didn't want to see anyone. After her son was beaten, she went to Baohe Medical Clinic for treatment. However, his condition got worse and worse. It was a good thing that she didn't go to their house to fight.
Manbao had already seen the prescription from Baohe Clinic. Although she didn't know what the other party's original condition was, she had also treated patients with caning and knew that the original prescription was fine.
So he said, "Madam, why don't you ask someone to come in and ask, maybe they have found a good solution."
Shopkeeper Shi didn't find a good prescription, but he found some new prescriptions for treating external injuries, so he came with the medicine.
Doctor Ning came with him. When they entered the room and saw Manbao, they were surprised. Wasn't she an imperial physician in the palace? Why did she come out?
Manbao raised his hand to greet them. He smelled a familiar medicinal scent and shrugged his nose. "Did you bring the ginseng?"
Shopkeeper Shi paused for a moment and nodded, "Yes, it's ground into powder. I also have kudzu root powder here."
Manbao exclaimed happily, "I just wanted them."
Shopkeeper Shi immediately took up the stick and said with a smile, "Let me help you. Do you want to make some medicine for your injuries?"
Doctor Ding glanced at him and stood beside Zhou Man, saying, "We were just about to treat Prince Wang's injuries."
The wound has been exposed for a long time. Shopkeeper Shi also saw it and couldn't help but sigh, "It needs to be treated."
Manbao invited them to join him, saying, "The wound is so large. I don't know how long it will take for Doctor Ding and I to clean it alone. Would you like Manager Shi and Doctor Ning to come with us?"
Manager Shi brought the medicine to the house just to restore his reputation, so he was naturally willing to do so. He then looked at Mrs. Wang, the hostess.
Mrs. Wang had been heartbroken since she lifted the cloth. Her son had been beaten like this. When she heard Manbao's question, she raised her tearful eyes and asked, "How do we clean this?"
Manbao said, "We have to clean out all the pus and cut off the damaged flesh, and then apply medicine, so that he can heal faster. He's in trouble both internally and externally. As for the internal part, we can only try to lower the temperature. When the medicine is ready, drink a dose first and see if it works. If it doesn't work, we can change the prescription. But the external injury must also be treated as soon as possible. You can see this injury. If it's not treated well, he will..."
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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