Chapter 151 Treating Diseases and Saving People
Perficott asked for a special floor to accommodate the sick and wounded he brought, mainly to effectively disinfect this floor to avoid bacterial infection.
Although in this era, physicians and surgeons with clear division of labor have gradually begun to appear, assistants and nursing staff stationed in hospitals have also begun to professionally manage medicines and medical equipment, check patients' conditions, and provide relative information. Talking about more advanced treatments and so on...
But in Purficott's view, there is no concept of disinfection, and hospitals of this era still feel primitive to her.
If she had to describe it, hospitals in this era felt to her like almshouses equipped with doctors, which had a certain role, but not much.
However, Purficott also realized that this was a kind of arrogance. After all, she came from a world where technology was at least two hundred years ahead. The development of the medical system has been very complete and comprehensive. A complete medical care system has been established. Hospitals The treatment of patients has also become efficient and precise. There is really no comparison in this era.
Some medical methods that Purficott considers to be very primitive, even terrible and completely ineffective are now regarded as effective mainstream treatment methods and become popular. This is really disappointing. She couldn't stand it anymore.
Especially in the empire, many medical students do not have to attend a single class. They can buy a medical degree from Langton’s most prestigious research institution for only 20 gold pounds. Many graduating students have “never had to bandage” Not a single wound, never a shot, never a childbirth or a professional visit”.
Purficant really couldn't complain about these so-called doctors, which was the key reason why she refused any doctor to treat herself after time travel, and chose more to treat herself.
Of course, as a perfect life form, in the more than three years since she traveled through time, Purficott has not actually been sick.
The only time she saw a doctor was when she was not in good spirits when she first traveled through time. Foster was worried about her health and specially invited a doctor to come to her home to treat her.
Then she saw the three secret skills of doctors in this era - bloodletting, enema and inducing vomiting.
If you feel depressed, it must be due to an imbalance of body fluids. Just bleed!
Loss of appetite means eating something bad and inducing vomiting. Just vomit out the dirty things in your stomach!
As for enema...that is not something a lady should understand.
Bloodletting cannot be said to be completely useless, but it is obviously not a cure-all. In many cases, bloodletting will only make people weaker and weaker, and even bleed themselves to death.
Although inducing vomiting is a treatment method that is still used even at the technological level of the original world before Perficott traveled, it is mainly aimed at diseases such as food poisoning, and it is also not a medical treatment. All diseases can be treated by inducing vomiting.
So many patients in this era did not die of real diseases, but were treated to death by these poor treatments.
But even so, medical treatment is still an expensive matter. Only nobles can afford such expenses, while most common people can only rely on pharmacists who walk around the streets to treat diseases.
On the streets of Langton, you often encounter pharmacists soliciting business.
They first greeted the surrounding citizens, and then shouted advertisements for their magic medicine in a jingle, sometimes playing and singing along with it.
If not many people believe it, he will also recruit citizens who are watching the excitement and let them experience it for themselves - of course, these are the "shills" he has found in advance. These medicines are often surprisingly cheap and can cure all diseases, such as "XX pills" for sobering up, "XX balm" or "XX powder" for treating all diseases, "Polo" for coughs, of course. There are also painkillers that work immediately after taking them.
However, in fact, only a handful of these potions, which are completely prepared at will, can actually work, and these are often the so-called untold secrets in the hands of pharmacists. , and they themselves only know what kind of effect these drugs can have, but they don’t know why it works.
So although Purficott sent all the sick and wounded in the camp to the hospital, she was not at all confident about leaving these people to the hospital doctors for treatment.
Because maybe when she comes next time, everyone will be killed by the doctor.
As soon as she arrived, she asked Lieutenant Mikhail to lead people to clean the wards on this floor according to her previous request, and cooperated with her maid to clean all the wards. Patients are placed and then temperatures are maintained in all patient rooms.
Although Xinshak City is much warmer than the north, the temperature is still a bit low, and it seems that it has just snowed recently, and there is still about an inch of snow on the ground, so heating It is indispensable.
After placing the sick and wounded, Purficott came to the hospital's pharmacy, asked the hospital to provide medicinal materials according to his own prescription, and then prepared medicines that could treat these sick and wounded.
Although Purficott is not a professional doctor but just an alchemist, she still had some medical knowledge before traveling through time. It was not for her to use alchemy to refine antibiotics. Not very difficult.
Previously at the Eagle Beak Cliff base, she had prepared medicine to treat frostbite based on some of the ancestral knowledge of the Brandlis family. After all, marching and fighting would always encounter this kind of problem, and she needed to know how to deal with it.
As for colds and typhoid fever, although there are no effective treatments, some of the ancestral notes of the Brandless family also have relevant coping methods.
This knowledge cannot be said to be very correct, but at least it has been tested by generations of the Brandless family in the army. Combined with some of Purficott's own knowledge, the medicine was prepared After all, it is more effective than the gadgets used by pharmacists in this era.
Among other things, she saw something as outrageous as aconite added to the medicine used to treat colds in this hospital.
Moreover, most of the sick and injured patients she sent to the hospital suffered from various diseases caused by low temperature. With sufficient warmth measures, they only need some auxiliary treatment to cure the disease. They recover.
This is also the reason why Purficott did not send the sick and wounded to New Shaker City at first.
However, it is a pity that some of the wounded and sick patients who were sent this time were in too serious condition. Even though Purficott finally allowed the doctors from this hospital to participate in the treatment, there were still some injuries in the end. Several sick and wounded patients infected with typhoid fever died because their condition was so serious.
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