Chapter 2026 Not Cold
When Shi Xiu heard that he was following Imperial Physician Zhou, his eyes lit up with excitement. Everyone in the Imperial Physician's Office knew that Imperial Physician Zhou's medical skills were among the best, comparable to Imperial Physicians Xiao and Liu.
Manbao took Liu Sanniang and Shi Xiu out and sat down at the table with her name on it. She opened her medicine box, took out the pulse pillow, and said to the two of them, "Let the patient come forward."
Here it begins.
Since the free clinic is to train students, Manbao focuses on training them, but he does not completely hand over the patients to them.
When the patient came forward, Manbao examined him once, and as he did so, he taught the two, "You have all learned the four basic techniques of observation, auscultation, listening, questioning, and palpation, but you may not remember everything you learned when you are treating a patient."
She said this not only to the two of them, but also to the students standing behind them observing their study. After feeling their pulses, she asked them, "Come on, you two ask questions."
Liu Sanniang had experience in sitting in the clinic, and seeing Shi Xiu nervous, she asked first. It was the patient's first time to see a doctor and have him teach on the spot, so she didn't dare to rush him and answered haltingly.
Liu Sanniang asked a question and then gave it to Shi Xiu. Shi Xiu nervously asked another question and she took over. After the two asked three or four questions, there was no more question.
Manbao nodded, added a question, and then asked the two people to feel his pulse, and then asked them to write a pulse diagnosis and prescribe medicine.
While they were writing the pulse report and prescribing the medicine, Manbao also wrote the pulse report and prescription, and explained some precautions for the patient. Then he handed the prescription to him and pointed to the Imperial Medical Bureau behind him and said, "Go in and get the medicine."
The student behind him immediately led the patient in, took his prescription and took a look at it, then followed him in with excitement and handed the prescription to the student who was helping inside to get the medicine.
The students from the Imperial Medical Bureau prepared the medicine, and the doctors sent here from various pharmacies calculated the money, and then the students could pay and leave.
The medicinal materials were said to be cheap and they turned out to be cheap. This patient was obviously not the first time to have this disease treated. When he found that this time the medicine cost eleven cents less than before, he happily bought six prescriptions and left.
While treating the patient, Manbao reminded Shi Xiu, "Be careful when treating the patient and remember the pulse record carefully. It would be best if you could recall the patient's experience in your mind just by looking at the pulse record later."
She said, "Please keep your pulse record and prescriptions. I will collect them together for review after I finish seeing the patients in the evening."
This is how she taught Zheng Gu and the others. After all, when there were many patients, it was impossible for her to review and give instructions on the spot.
Shi Xiu understood and took careful notes, and the students who came to observe also took careful notes.
Zhou Liru stood behind her aunt with a small notebook in her hand. She memorized the three items of diagnosis: observation, listening, and questioning. There were also numbers listed on the notebook, representing the number of the patient.
My aunt once said that no matter how good a person’s memory is, it can never be as detailed as writing something down on the spot.
Because the servants knew from the beginning which imperial physician the table belonged to, when they were arranging the queue, they tried their best to arrange all female patients in Zhou Man's row.
Seeing some people complaining about the long queue, they even advised, "This is the table of Imperial Physician Zhou, the only female physician in the Imperial Hospital."
Some people stopped and continued to queue without complaining about the length, while others naturally switched to other queues. Among them, the queues of Doctor Xiao and Doctor Liu were the most popular.
The two of them felt quite complicated when they saw it, feeling a little relieved but also a little tired.
Many people also came specifically for Zhou Man.
It was fine when she was working at Jishidiang, and many people could still find her. But since she joined the Imperial Medical Service, it has become difficult for ordinary people to find her for medical treatment.
Some people from other places even rushed to the capital after hearing the news, so there were a lot of female patients in front of Manbao. Usually, after seeing one male patient, he would meet three female patients before he could see another male patient.
Shi Xiu was a little excited at first, but then he felt a little embarrassed.
Manbao saw this and took the opportunity to change patients, lowering his voice and saying to him, "Women's diseases are also very important. Women make up half of the world's population. Many doctors spend their entire lives learning only the basics. Even I only have a rough understanding of it now. You should study hard."
Shi Xiu was startled and immediately responded respectfully.
It’s just that he really doesn’t want to ask about some illnesses, and even patients will feel more uncomfortable when facing him.
But this is human nature, and Manbao does not force it.
Around noon, two men came up carrying a wooden board. When Manbao saw it, he was stunned for a moment, then stood up and went down to take a look.
The man said somewhat nervously, "Doctor Zhou... Doctor Zhou, please take a look at my wife..."
Manbao squatted down and saw that her face was pale. He reached out and touched her face, only to find it ice-cold.
Even Liu Sanniang was shocked, "Is this still alive?"
The man was afraid that they would not look, so he nodded immediately and said, "Alive, alive, mother, mother, wake up."
The woman didn't move.
The man was a little nervous, sweating in the cold weather, and wanted to reach out and push her, but Manbao had already reached in, touched her hand, and took her pulse...
When the man saw her frown and close her eyes, he didn't dare to push her away and looked at her nervously.
It was only when Manbao squatted down that she smelled a faint smell of blood, and after feeling the patient's pulse she knew what was going on.
Such a serious illness...
Manbao frowned and looked at the man, "How long has she been giving birth?"
"It's been three months. I've been bleeding non-stop. I've taken a lot of medicine, even ginseng."
Although it was ginseng beard, it almost emptied the family's savings.
Manbao frowned and thought about it. This was definitely not something that could be cured with just one or two prescriptions.
"Where do you live?" She thought she could go and see him after her day off.
The man was a little embarrassed and hesitated for a moment before whispering, "I, we are not from the capital, we are from Fengzhou."
Manbao was surprised for a moment, then asked, "Where are you living then? How long do you plan to stay in the capital?"
The man said, "You gave us a prescription, and we will go back after taking the medicine."
"Medicine alone won't do for her condition," Manbao said, looking at his clothes, then at the man and the quilt on the wooden board. She sighed and said, "Even if we use the most expensive medicine, it will take at least three different prescriptions and about three months of treatment before she can get better. If you use ordinary medicine, you have to combine it with acupuncture."
The man was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Then you prescribe some medicine and give her an acupuncture. We'll send her back tomorrow."
The people behind him objected, "Brother, this won't work. The dry food we brought is enough for ten days. Staying in an inn is very expensive."
"Let's live in the City God Temple."
Manbao: "...The City God Temple in the capital is not inhabited."
She glanced at the people on the ground, fearing that they would really take people to live in the City God Temple. The weather in the first month of the year would freeze people to death.
She looked at them suspiciously, "You've been sleeping outdoors all the way from Fengzhou to here, haven't you?"
"No," the man said, "we are staying at the post house."
"Yes, we live in the woodshed. It's still quite warm with a brazier. My sister-in-law is covered with a blanket, so she's not cold at all."
Manbao: ...
Liu Sanniang: ...If you say it's not cold, then it's not cold. Don't you know that women who have just given birth and have lochia can't be exposed to the wind and get cold?
Even Shi Xiu was very angry with these men.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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