"Xiao Langjun, can these horses be cured?"
In the tall and spacious stable, Wang Yamen covered his mouth and nose slightly and asked Li Ang, who was carefully observing the sick horse.
Conjunctivitis, keratitis, corneal ulcer...
Li Ang took a half step back and meditated on the treatment plan. After a long time, he opened his eyes and nodded, "It can be treated."
"Can it really be cured?"
At this time, Xun Jiancheng, who had ended his state of frustration and sorrow, also walked into the stable and stared at Li Ang with a burning gaze, "How sure are you? What do you need to prepare?"
Li Ang said casually: "I'm sure, about 70% to 80%. If the sick horses outside the city also have this disease, I can cure most of them. But it will cost about 20 guan of medicinal materials."
"Twenty strings?"
Xun Jiancheng's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide.
"Too many?" Li Ang frowned and said, "If it doesn't work out, I can pay for it myself, but after it's done, I'll have to make up for the twenty guan, plus an additional 10 guan in interest."
"no no..."
Xun Jiancheng waved his hand. He thought Li Ang would offer a price of fifty or one hundred guan. Many doctors in this era would take advantage of people's illnesses and raise the price of medicines, so they would give them a life-saving medicine. There are also some unscrupulous doctors who charge exorbitant prices to patients' families.
"Ahem, Wang Sanlang, please go to the warehouse and bring twenty guans over."
Xun Jiancheng asked Wang Yamen to get the money, while he changed his previous cold attitude and enthusiastically asked Li Ang about the details of the treatment.
Li Ang still said the same thing as before about "liver-fire rising, yin deficiency and fire exuberant". When Wang Yamen came over with the money, he borrowed another horse from Xun Jiancheng and told him that he would come every day for the next four days. Ask Xun Jiancheng to centrally manage the sick horses.
After that, Li Ang took Wang Yamen to the street to buy medicinal materials.
Xun Supervisor, who was asked to take away twenty coins and a horse, paced back and forth in the hall of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Supervision. Within half an hour, he waited until Wang Yamen came back to take his orders.
Xun Jiancheng asked hurriedly: "How is it? What medicine did Li Ang take you to buy?"
Wang Yamen's face was filled with shock and disbelief, and even his palms were trembling slightly - ever since he participated in the Zhenfu Division's hunt for criminals ten years ago, he originally thought that nothing in the world would ever make him like this again. Shock.
"He...he first took me to the porcelain shop to buy porcelain, then bought white salt and saltpeter, and then went to the blacksmith shop to place an order, saying what needles he wanted to order, and then..."
"Then what? Say it!"
"He took me there to buy pig eyes!"
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"Master, do you... have any special hobbies..."
In the security hall, Chai Cuiqiao also looked at Li Ang in shock.
Li Ang held a huge porcelain vase in his arms, and there was a constant sound of water sloshing inside, exuding a strong, indescribable weird smell.
Pig eyes.
The porcelain vase was filled to the brim with pig's eyeballs, each of which had bloodshot eyes, making them look very curious.
Hmm... Actually, the term "special hobby" is used in a mild way. If Fusi from the town of Zhenzhou or those fanatic believers from Haotian Dao Sect in Zhou Kingdom in the south saw Li Ang bringing back a bottle of pig's eyes, I'm afraid they would be suspicious. He is a human evil.
"What nonsense are you talking about? You have a special hobby."
Li Ang gently placed the vase on the ground, "Go find some firewood, and then take out the pure wine from the warehouse."
"oh."
Chai Cuiqiao obediently went to heat the hot water, while Li Ang wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at a bottle of hunting objects.
These fresh pig eyes soaked in cold water were purchased by him and Wang Yamen from the largest slaughterhouse in Zhenzhou City for three cents each. Li Ang cut them out with a knife during the whole process, and there was not a single one. There is damage or cuts.
Thinking of the stunned expressions of Wang Yamen and the butchers, Li Ang couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.
"It seems that my surgical skills have not deteriorated yet."
He nodded proudly. Although surgeons are a profession tied to modern science and the modern industrial system, without drugs and advanced surgical instruments, without reliable methods of hemostasis, pain relief, and antivirus and sterilization, surgeons would only have one skill. Difficult to perform,
However, as long as your thinking is broad and flexible, there will always be more methods than difficulties.
“The cornea of mammals is located in front of the eyeball and is in direct contact with the outside world. It is easily damaged by microorganisms, trauma, and physical and chemical stimulation factors and causes inflammation.
Atropine solution or ointment with a concentration of 0.25% to 2% can be dropped and applied daily to dilate the pupil, reduce iris irritation, and promote ulcer healing.
Or inject antibiotics under the bulbar conjunctiva, use glucocorticoids, and take vitamin C, vitamin B2, and cod liver oil pills.
Since there is nothing now, we can only... adjust measures to local conditions,
Use pig eyes. "
Li Ang muttered to himself, moved all the fresh pig eyes to the courtyard, and disinfected his palms with pure wine (a high-concentration alcohol invented by the academy using a distillation process, usually mixed with water before drinking).
The alcohol concentration with the highest disinfection efficiency is actually about 75%. If it is too low, it will not be able to completely sterilize. If it is too high, the bacterial proteins will coagulate and form a thin film, which will not completely kill the bacteria.
But under these conditions, a high concentration of alcohol would be good.
After Li Ang disinfected his hands with pure wine, he then carefully washed away the blood and impurities on the surface of the pig's eyeballs with cold water.
During this period, he asked Chai Cuiqiao to find an iron pot, pour water into the pot, and put a heat-resistant porcelain bowl inside. The porcelain bowl does not contain water.
When the iron pot heats up and generates steam, the water droplets will condense on the iron lid and eventually fall into the porcelain bowl, yielding crude distilled water.
Just make it as rough as it can be used.
Li Ang took distilled water and washed all the pig eyeballs. Then he took a clean cloth that had been boiled in distilled water and wiped off the floating water on the surface of the eyeballs.
Afterwards, Li Ang re-sterilized his palms, then used a small iron knife to make a one-centimeter incision in the middle of the pupil of the pig's eyeball. He then squeezed the eyeball against the alcohol-sterilized porcelain bottle to remove the intraocular fluid, vitreous body, lens, and iris. flow into the container together.
Finally, cover the entire porcelain bottle and place it in an ice box made of saltpeter for refrigeration.
The whole process was cumbersome and complicated, at least Chai Cuiqiao couldn't understand what Li Ang was going to do.
"Master..."
Chai Cuiqiao looked at Li Ang who was washing his palms with expensive pure wine and hesitated to speak.
"What's wrong?"
Li Ang wiped off the water drops on his hands with a cloth, then raised his hand to his nose and smelled it. Fortunately, no strange smell remained.
Chai Cuiqiao hesitated for a moment, then asked: "Aren't pig eyes... disgusting? Take them out of the pig's head..."
"It's not disgusting, it's just an organ. Just like pig ears, pig rinds, and pork."
Li Ang frowned and thought for a while, "But from what you said, what comes out of a pig's head is indeed dirty.
Hmm... let's make some fried large intestine for dinner. "
