Chapter 589 Guess
After getting a positive answer from her mother-in-law, Li Sanniang felt vaguely uneasy.
When they arrived at the place, the carriage entered the yard directly. Li Sanniang and Qiuxiang got off the carriage and followed the mother-in-law to the backyard.
This place should be the row of houses behind Jingzhao Mansion. In modern times, it would be called "Family Courtyard".
As expected, the place was not as big as those where the wealthy families lived, but after a while, they arrived at the main room. The old lady asked Li Sanniang and Qiuxiang to wait at the door for a while, and then went in to report.
When Li Sanniang saw this posture, she had some small talk in her heart.
“I have been to the Duke’s Mansion. None of the Gao family, Qian family, and Song family are aristocratic families with people who have been officials in the court for generations. The wives of those families invited me to come to see a doctor, but I didn’t learn how to show off like the cousin-in-law of Jingzhao Prefecture.”
However, Li Sanniang thought again, “Is it because the first three sons died in infancy that the fourth son was chosen. Should you be more careful with your fetus?
It’s not impossible.”
After waiting for a while, Li Sanniang and Qiuxiang were invited in.
As soon as she entered the main hall, Li Sanniang saw a pregnant woman sitting at the top. Li Sanniang guessed that this was probably Mrs. Zhang, right?
Sure enough, as soon as this person opened her mouth, people confirmed that she was Mrs. Zhang.
“After hearing Mrs. Liu say that Dr. Li has superb medical skills and is one of the few female doctors in Chang’an City, I invited Dr. Li to come to my home.
I hope Dr. Li can treat me well. After all, this is my fourth pregnancy. I am already over twenty-five years old. If I can’t keep this baby anymore, I’m afraid I will have to let my concubine give birth.”
Li Sanniang. He frowned and listened to Mrs. Zhang's words. He didn't say anything first. He only looked up at Mrs. Zhang and looked at her face carefully.
Next, Li Sanniang asked carefully when she was conceived. It was already more than six months ago, but she had any unusual symptoms.
Mrs. Zhang answered them all one by one, and Li Sanniang sounded quite satisfactory, with no big problems.
After two or three breaths of silence, Li Sanniang looked at Mrs. Zhang carefully: "On my way here, I heard the woman's mother-in-law say that she had given birth to three sons, and all three sons died in infancy. But is it true? "
Mrs. Zhang glanced at the old woman first, and she nodded respectfully. Mrs. Zhang waved her hand, and all the girls waiting in the main hall were blessed. Withdrew.
Li Sanniang saw Mrs. Zhang looking at Qiuxiang standing behind her, "Qiuxiang is my eldest disciple. I always take her with me when I practice medicine. If I have anything private to say, there is no need to avoid her. .”
In this way, Mrs. Zhang opened her mouth and told Li Sanniang about the death of her first three sons.
"Although I entered the house when I was sixteen, because an ancestor in Lin's son-in-law's family passed away, even though we got married with filial piety, we still abided by the rules.
Until three years Finally, I was pregnant for the first time when I was almost twenty years old. I was happy that I was going to be a mother, but I didn’t expect that I would give birth to a stillborn baby when I was a month old.
The child was a baby. Mr. Lang, he is not alive after birth.
Although I am sad, I also feel that I am young and can have children again in the future.
So, when I was twenty-two and gave birth to my second son, how could I have imagined that God would treat me like this?
The second son left before he was even a month old.
I was so sad that I lost heart about having children. "
Mrs. Zhang stroked her belly and looked into the sky. While recalling the past, she explained to Li Sanniang about her third son who had died in infancy.
"I don't know if it was God's will. Or perhaps God was trying to compensate me. Less than a month after my second son passed away, I was actually diagnosed with another child!
I was really grateful to God for such a feeling of regaining something. "
As she spoke, Mrs. Zhang's tone gradually became lower. "But when I was about to give birth to the baby in ten months, my baby was actually difficult to deliver. I really gave birth to it all day and night, and I didn't give birth until dawn. Next comes the thin young man.
Too bad, I didn’t have the energy to raise this child, so I found a capable mother-in-law to help take care of the child. Who would have thought that the winter was very cold that year, and the mother-in-law did not take care of her properly. The child died just like that after a cold. "
After Mrs. Zhang finished speaking, she didn't say anything more. Instead, she lowered her head and sobbed. Li Sanniang nodded. She actually half believed Mrs. Zhang's words.
After all, people are like this. Things that are good for them can be divided into ten points, while things that are not good for them can be divided into ten points.
Mrs. Zhang said that all three of her sons died due to various kinds of bad luck.
But a woman, or a wife of an official family who did not give birth until she was twenty years old, had three sons die early in a row. This is really bad luck, right?
After asking these questions, Li Sanniang kept it in mind and didn't ask any more questions. She only said that she wanted to check Mrs. Zhang's pulse.
After checking the pulse, Li Sanniang didn’t find anything wrong, so she said: “Because I am a woman, I have some advantages over other doctors when treating women. , that is, I can palpate the woman.
If Madam allows you, you can lie down and let me touch your belly. "
Mrs. Zhang had already inquired about Li Sanniang's skills from Liu Ruyi. After hearing Li Sanniang's question, she nodded in agreement.
Li Sanniang followed Mrs. Zhang. Moving from the main hall to the side hall, Mrs. Zhang's personal mother-in-law also asked a girl to guard the door of the side hall. She stepped forward to help Mrs. Zhang lie down and lifted up Mrs. Zhang's skirt.
Li Sanniang cleaned her hands, rubbed them together, informed Mrs. Zhang, and began to palpate.
During the process of palpation, Li Sanniang naturally opened her X-ray eyes. .
This sight made Li Sanniang, who was not afraid of danger, change her expression!
Why?
Because Li Sanniang actually saw through perspective that the fetus in Mrs. Zhang’s belly was a deformed baby!
This child, he has no arms!
Li Sanniang was shocked by the child without arms and took a closer look, and found that the child's head was abnormally large, about 1.5 times the size of a normal child.
Moreover, the eyes on that face are not as widely spaced as those of a normal child.
Li Sanniang had some guesses in her mind at this time, but she still turned over and over to observe the child from different angles.
When Li Sanniang stopped, Mrs. Zhang got up after being served by her mother-in-law. As soon as she sat down, she saw the ugly face of Li Sanniang who was sitting opposite her on the round table.
Mrs. Zhang's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly felt something was wrong. When she stood up, she almost stumbled and fell, but her mother-in-law was quick to catch her.
"Mrs. Zhang, tell me the truth, have you ever found any other doctors to see me?"
Close relatives (or kinship) refer to a common blood relationship within three generations or within three generations.
If they marry each other, it is called consanguineous marriage.
Both of them have too many similar genetic factors, and future generations cannot mutate from them, and harmful genes will be passed on to future generations.
Therefore, based on my country's current population situation and medical level, in order to minimize the genetic defects caused by consanguineous marriage, it is stipulated that direct blood relatives and collateral blood relatives within three generations are prohibited from marrying.
Chapter 1 and Article 6 of the Marriage Law passed by the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress on September 10, 1980 clearly stipulate that direct blood relatives and collateral blood relatives within three generations are prohibited from marriage. marry.
In addition, the incidence of polygenic genetic diseases such as hypertension, schizophrenia, congenital heart disease, anencephaly, and epilepsy is significantly higher in children born from consanguineous marriages than in non-consanguineous marriages.
The impact of inbreeding on offspring is mainly manifested in increasing the incidence of recessive genetic diseases, and also increases the risk of congenital malformations, premature birth and miscarriage, and infant mortality.
According to surveys, the rate of incestuous marriage is about 0.7% in cities and 1.2% in rural areas. In some mountainous villages and islands, due to underdeveloped transportation, incestuous marriages are higher, so there are more hereditary diseases.
——The above comes from the Internet
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