One hundred and sixty-nine field hospitals
"There's some truth to what you're saying." Li Erbixia nodded.
For Suning's idea, Li Erbixia is a kind of old soldier very much agrees, in the past years, when the march and battle, those scenes appeared in front of Li Erbixia's eyes, those soldiers who did not die on the battlefield but died because they could not be cured are definitely not a few, Li Erbixia has the heart to change, but he is unable to return to the sky, mainly because there are too few doctors, either in the palace, or scattered all over the place, not to mention the army, even the people are sick and not enough, not to mention that a considerable part of them are recruited into the army?
That's not only the people who oppose it, it is estimated that some states and counties will also strongly oppose it, you have requisitioned all the excellent doctors away, not to mention the people, do these officials still want to treat the disease? This will obviously be criticized a lot, Li Erbixia can't do this, but Suning's idea opens another door for Li Erbixia.
Wounded soldiers and wounded soldiers, is an injury is not a disease, the doctor is mostly to treat the disease, good at treating the wounded but not much, Chinese medicine is good at internal medicine, greatly influenced by Taoist thought, open and close the mouth evil qi invasion, yin and yang harmony, and in surgery is surpassed by Western medicine, has never formed a system, and the most powerful surgeon is estimated to be Hua Tuo, but unfortunately, Hua Tuo's half of his life's hard work "Green Capsule Sutra" was destroyed, I don't know how many valuable experience in treating diseases and saving people was burned, but it is a pity.
Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine is stronger than internal medicine and shorter than surgery, and as for the kind of surgery, it will be regarded as a fatal move, can you not die if you bleed?! At this time, there was no blood transfusion, and the ancients attached great importance to blood, unlike Europe. If you get a disease, you will let the blood go, in ancient China, you want to let people bleed and cure the disease? Most people do it by grabbing the dipping pig cage!
And Suning's approach is obviously very effective, because the march and war basically do not need internal medicine, unless it is deep into the wilderness there will be the danger of not adapting to the water and soil, will use internal medicine, generally speaking, it is mainly a sword injury, so it has a lot to do with surgery, train a group of soldiers to become medical soldiers, do some simple auxiliary work, emergency treatment. Then the wounded soldiers were sent to the rear for treatment. Very doable.
And in order to achieve this goal, Suning felt that the field hospital must be born. For the construction of field hospitals. Datang is not short of money. There is no shortage of manpower, there is no shortage of materials, as long as some materials are allocated. Gather military doctors in the army, train a group of medical soldiers, purchase and gather enough medicinal materials, then a field hospital will be born, when the army will fight in the front, the field hospital will follow in the rear, as soon as the battle is fought, it will immediately open to treat the wounded, and then send the wounded back to the rear base camp to recuperate, and wait until the wounded can return to the team after the wounded have recovered.
This is not an ordinary logistical requirement, but, fortunately, this is the Tang Dynasty, this is the prosperous China, there is no shortage of these materials, there is no shortage of these manpower, Li Erbixia gave an order, and it can be done immediately.
But where do these people go? Forget it, let's implement it first, as for the candidates...... That's right! Sun Simiao!
"Bixia, in fact, the minister has another idea, let's list a separate establishment of medical services in the establishment of the army, called a field hospital." Suning said with great interest.
Li Erbixia frowned and asked, "What is a field hospital?" “
Suning replied: "If the army is engaged in defensive operations in the city, it is naturally not a field battle, and the minister's idea is that when the army is on an expedition against some rebels, it will inevitably have to fight in the field, and when it is far away from the homeland, if the wounded soldiers cannot get a thorough will and timely cultivation, it is easy to fall ill and even die, and a simple medical soldier cannot deal with more serious injuries."
Therefore, we can build a mobile hospital, with all the supplies readily available, and we can immediately start saving people when we get to the ground, and there must be not only medical soldiers in it, but also famous doctors to treat those soldiers who are too seriously injured, and then organize people to send these wounded soldiers who are seriously injured and need to recuperate back to the homeland to recuperate, without worrying about dying because they are too far away from the homeland and cannot be effectively treated. ”
Li Erbixia nodded while listening, and then thought deeply for a while: "It makes sense, field hospital, timely treatment, Suning, tell me quickly, what should we do?" I think this border should not be peaceful again, do this thing as soon as possible, verify the results as soon as possible, and if it is really useful, it must be implemented all the time, which is too important for Datang. ”
Suning nodded and said: "The first step is to find a doctor with high moral and excellent medical skills to be the leader, this doctor's reputation must be enough, he can be appointed by the imperial court as the director of the field hospital, and he can be used to lead everything in the entire field hospital, as for the medical soldiers, Bixia can be selected from the army, and then a group of doctors who are good at treating sword injuries can be recruited from the people to teach these medical soldiers, so that they can learn how to carry out the simplest treatment for the wounded soldiers in the shortest possible time."
Then there is the allocation of materials, there must be enough medicinal materials, enough bandages, and then there must be enough stretchers and beds for wounded soldiers, beds for doctors to treat them, and there must be enough guards to protect the field hospital, and there must be enough wine, and there is ......" Suning didn't finish his words, and was interrupted by Li Erbixia: "Wine? What do you want to drink? Alcohol is forbidden in the military, you don't know it, right? ”
Suning was stunned for a moment, thinking that there was no concept of disinfection in the Tang Dynasty, and he didn't know what wound infection was, he only knew that inflammation killed people, but he didn't know how to avoid inflammation, and Suning didn't have any good way to deal with inflammation now, antibiotics? That thing is a chemical, and it can only be avoided as much as possible from the source, that is, alcohol disinfection, so Suning said: "Bixia, the wine that the minister said is not for drinking, but for cleaning wounds!" ”
Li Erbixia frowned and asked, "Ridiculous! How can alcohol be used to clean wounds? That's made of grain! If you wash your wounds with wine, isn't it a ruinous thing? What's more, alcohol has never been allowed in the army, unless it is a celebration banquet! ”
Suning explained: "Bixia, do you know why there is inflammation? ”
Li Erbixia was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "I don't know, if you can know, you can naturally be cured, but the inflammation can't be cured, at least there is no doctor who can cure it, what's the matter?" You can? Li Erbixia was a little surprised. He knew all too well the lethality of inflammation.
Suning shook his head: "The minister can't be cured, but it can be prevented!" ”
Li Erbixia was puzzled: "Prevention? How can it be prevented? Can Drinking Alcohol Prevent Inflammation? Is it okay to wash the wound with wine? ”
Suning nodded: "Exactly!" Bixia, the cause of inflammation, the minister and the master have explored in the process of traveling, mainly some dirty things around the wound, these dirty things will not enter our body, but once we are injured, cut by a knife or abrased, it is the knife and the ground that cause all this, how dirty it is. This filth runs down the blood. It gets into our body, and then it causes inflammation. ”
Li Erbixia frowned: "The inflammation is caused by these dirty things?" ”
Suning nodded, he had no way to talk to Li Erbixia about bacteria and viruses now, so he had to replace them with dirty things. This also makes it dirty anyway. Nothing to say. It's really dirty, and it can only be said that Li Erbixia can understand.
Li Erbixia then asked, "You can clean these dirty things with wine." And then avoid inflammation? ”
Suning nodded: "This is through shiyan, of course, the stronger the wine, the better, the stronger the wine, the more useful it is to eliminate these dirty things, although it hurts, that is the embodiment of wine in getting rid of these dirty things, so those injured soldiers before using drugs and bandages to stop the bleeding, it is best to use spirits to clean the wound, so that it is foolproof; Therefore, the prohibition of alcohol in the army can continue, but the field hospital must be equipped with these spirits. ”
Li Erbixia pondered for a while: "If that's the case, it's okay, then, everything else is fine, but who do you say will be the best candidate for the director of this field hospital?" ”
Suning said: "Sun Simiao! ”
"What? Bixia wants Lao Dao to be the director of the field hospital? Field hospital? Is this bixia newly established? Sun Simiao turned around and asked in surprise.
After Li Erbixia recommended Sun Simiao as an excellent candidate, Li Erbixia also agreed, at present, the most famous, the highest art, and indifferent to fame and fortune, the doctor with good character, that is, Sun Simiao is the most suitable, but Sun Simiao is a monk, whether he is willing to take up this position, Li Erbixia has no confidence, Suning, and has no confidence, but you have to try, right?
So Suning said: "Yes, this suggestion was put forward by the kid, after all, the kid was also born in the army, and he understands the suffering in the army very well, after a big war, the war dead only account for about thirty percent of the total dead, and most of the dead died of injuries, but they died without treatment, so the kid suggested that Bixia build a field hospital, concentrate the doctors in the rear of the war, treat the wounded soldiers in time, and save the lives of the seven soldiers who should not die." ”
Suning could see that Sun Simiao was a little moved, but after a long time, Sun Simiao still shook his head: "Lao Dao is a monk, a monk should not step into the court to do things, Lao Dao is like this for the world to treat the common people, but it is not bad, if you always follow the army to do things, only for the generals and soldiers to treat injuries, then what should the people do?" The monks have compassion and should treat the people of the world, there are military doctors in the army, and there are imperial doctors in the court, and their medical skills are not lower than those of the old way, so why should the old man be the dean? ”
Suning said solemnly: "Sun Daochang, first of all, you are not only doing this for the generals and soldiers, but for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, you know that you are not treating simple generals and soldiers, they also have families, especially soldiers, they are originally farmers, for the honor of the Tang Dynasty, they did not hesitate to leave their families and go to the battlefield at the cost of their lives and supporting their families, and their families were looking forward to their victorious return, but because they could not be treated, they became cold corpses, and they could never go back, some of them were old and young, It is the pillar of a family, but it collapsed because it was not treated, have you ever thought about the feelings of their family?
You also said that there are so many good doctors in the world, there is no shortage of other excellent doctors in Chang'an, how many people can you treat in Chang'an? How many people are there in a day? How many people are in January? How many people a year? But what about in the military? In a one-day battle, thousands or even tens of thousands of wounded people need to be treated! Who is more important than the two? Of course, the kid does not mean that the safety of the people is not important, but that wars are infrequent, and when there is no war, you can still treat the people in Chang'an.
What's more, the field hospital is not just you and other doctors, you need hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of medical personnel! Do you know what a medic is? Bixia chose you because I hope that you will lead the doctors to train these medics, so that they can master the most basic treatment methods for sword wounds, and then these medics will do the most arduous and simple hemostasis bandaging, while you are sitting in the field hospital to treat those soldiers who are too seriously injured!
Sun Daochang, is it your liliang big, or thousands of people? You can choose the comprehension haode from these medical soldiers, and choose the talent haode to teach and the regular medical skills, ten is not enough for a hundred, a hundred is not enough for a thousand, and a thousand is not enough for ten thousand! Among the 10,000 apprentices, there are always a few dozen or so who can learn to have the same superb medical skills as you, one Sun Simiao is not enough, so what about ten Sun Simiao?
Sun Daochang, what do you say? Do you think that you alone can heal the people of the world? No! Inadequate! Datang needs more healers! Thousands of healers are needed! You can even run a school and run a medicine! Teach your students and pass on your medical skills from generation to generation, and there will be countless Sun Simiao in Datang to treat the world! Sun Daochang! What do you think?! (To be continued......)