Chapter 061: Medieval Medicine

In the tent, Gro was still lying on the ground, blood constantly oozing from the wound, and Pandora on the side was a little idle, constantly biting the tip of the silver fork in her mouth.

Richard took one look, took out a bottle of alcohol from his arms, walked over to Gro, crouched down, and began to treat Gro's wounds.

The high concentration of alcohol was sprinkled, and even in a coma, Gro's brows were furrowed, looking extremely painful.

Richard didn't care, as if he was fiddling with a dead thing, cold and meticulous in his operation. After finally treating the other party's wounds, Richard looked at Pandora and stretched out his hand with his palm facing up.

"Scared?" Pandora asked, confused.

"Give me what is in your mouth. Richard said.

"Scared!" Pandora frowned, refusing.

Richard was a little helpless: "I'm useful, I need to use it temporarily, it's a big deal, I'll give it to you when I run out." ”

After hearing this, Pandora was still a little reluctant, but finally opened her mouth, took out the tip of the silver fork, and put it in Richard's hand.

After Richard took it, he disinfected the tip of the silver fork, along with the two blood vessels taken from the horse's carcass, with alcohol, and then fixed the tip of the silver fork to the end of the thinner blood vessel, made a needle and thread, pierced the wound in Gro's abdomen, and began to stitch it up.

Yes, sutures, surgical sutures.

To be honest, there is nothing too high-tech about surgical sutures, just the right needle and the right thread.

Needles are generally made of bone or metal, animal bones, fish bones, silver, copper, and aluminum. In the long history of thread, many materials have also been adopted, including plant materials such as flax, hemp, and cotton, as well as animal materials such as tendons, sheep intestines, and arteries.

Generally speaking, plant materials cannot be absorbed by the human body, so after suturing, the stitches need to be removed until the wound heals, which is more troublesome and easy to become inflamed and infected. The animal material is relatively superior and can be absorbed by the human body, without the trouble of removing stitches in the later stage. However, in general, some animal materials such as tendons and sheep gut require a certain amount of time and special treatment before they can be used, and considering various factors, Richard finally chose arteries. That's why horses are killed.

Killing a horse and saving a person is a good deal no matter how you look at it.

Of course, Richard knew that the man named Bill Caesar might not think so, after all, the horse was his.

Thinking about it, Richard began to stitch up the wound that had temporarily stopped bleeding.

There are also many points in wound suturing, such as layer-by-layer alignment suture from deep to shallow, free side first and then fixed side, needle spacing slightly less than subcutaneous spacing, etc.

For these, Richard had a certain amount of knowledge, and there was nothing wrong with the operation, and it didn't take long for the wound to be stitched up, and the stomach that Gro had been left behind was restored to its original state.

When the nobles inside and outside the tent saw it, they didn't know what to say, because Richard's methods were far beyond their understanding.

Sew up the cut belly? It's a spell, right? Well, it must be a spell!

This is not due to the shallowness of the knowledge of many nobles, but because medieval medicine was so rough and direct that this kind of thing to suture wounds is almost non-existent.

In the Middle Ages, the most common way to heal a sick or wounded was to bleed, and part-time physicians, barbers, priests, and monks would do everything they could to cut your veins with a rusty lancet.

Dizziness? It's okay, just let some blood go.

It's okay, just let some blood go.

Injured, bleeding and unconscious? It's okay, just let some blood go.

There are still jokes in this world that can't be solved by bloodletting, and if it's impossible, it must be that there isn't enough bloodletting! If it doesn't work once, then put it twice. If that doesn't work, then put dozens or hundreds of blood-sucking leeches on the skin for a powerful bloodletting treatment. If you accidentally die, well, don't be angry, it must not be the fault of the bloodletting, it must be that you deserve to die.

In this way, many people who could have survived were bled and killed by half-hung medieval physicians, including nobles and even kings. In the history of modern earth, King Charles II of England, and later the founding president of the United States, Washington, were bled to death.

Of course, if you really feel that bloodletting is too weak, and you want to find a truly capable and knowledgeable doctor to treat you, you can do it.

If your limbs are severely traumatized or infected, you will be able to amputate them with a well-known doctor. The tool for amputation is a saw, and since there is no anesthetic, in order to minimize your pain, he will help you cut off your hands and feet as quickly as possible. In the history of modern earth, the most famous is a physician known as the "Liston Knife", and his famous work is an operation:

That day, he was amputating a patient's leg, and it took him only two minutes to easily remove the patient's leg. Perhaps it was not enjoyable, but in the process, the finger of the assistant who was pressing on the patient next to him was also cut off, and the skin of a doctor who came to visit him was also cut.

The doctors who came to visit were scared to death on the spot. The patient who lost his leg and the assistant who lost his finger also died of gangrene afterwards.

Therefore, the "Liston Flying Knife" used a single operation to create a mortality rate of 300%, which is unprecedented and unprecedented. With this kind of famous doctor, no matter what the disease, it can be guaranteed to be sawn to the end.

In addition to the "Liston Throwing Knife", other famous medieval physicians demonstrated their skills: hanging you up and forcibly washing your stomach with water, picking your butt open and treating you with a soldering iron for hemorrhoids, opening your butt again and inserting a needle into it to inject you with medicine through an enema, or, "Lifting your skull and digging a few holes to help you relieve the trauma from a blow to the head......

In a medieval world, if a person wants to live well, then he must hope not to get sick or get hurt. If you accidentally get sick or injured, then you must avoid the doctor, otherwise you will die.

In this case, Gro was disemboweled, and although he had not yet breathed, the nobles already felt that there was little hope of survival. Now Richard has stopped the bleeding and sewed it up, this ......

This is definitely a wizard's spell!

Richard didn't have time to pay attention to the shocked crowd, and after stitching up Gro's wounds, he began to prepare for a blood transfusion.

Turning his head to look out of the tent, Bill Caesar, who had been sent to look for feathers, walked in with a handful of feathers, stopped a few meters away, then gently placed the feathers on the table next to him, and then quickly exited the tent, looking like he was afraid of getting into trouble again.

Richard didn't say much, walked over and examined the feathers, and finally selected two that were more in line with his expectations, and with the saber he got from Bill Caesar, he made two hollow feather tubes with a light sharpening, and sharpened the ends to become two sharp needles.

After sterilizing the two needles, they were inserted into the arteries of the thicker horse, which had not yet been used, and a blood vessel was made—a simple, but usable blood vessel.

The next step is to find the right blood source.