Warm tents for wounded soldiers are proof of the progress of Ming medicine.
In order to solve the problem of military medical officers, Zhu Yunwen ordered the Tai Hospital and the Imperial College of Medicine to join forces and set up military hospitals in the capital's large and small teaching grounds. The hospital's envoy was Chen Chang, a doctor from the Tai Hospital and a medical school doctor.
Chen Chang was a Shanghainese in Songjiang Prefecture. Although he was only in his early forties, he was well-known for his superb medical skills. He was also good at learning from the strengths of others and had a flexible mind. He highly admired the new medicine proposed by Zhu Yunwen and participated in Sheng Yin's research. The anatomy team has a lot of insights into the human body.
Sheng Yin studies how human life works, while Chen Chang studies how the human body recovers and heals, such as bone dislocation, what kind of dislocation method is it, and are there other methods to put it back together, such as broken bones? How should the bones be removed through surgery? For example, if the bleeding doesn't stop, what should be done? How should the wound be sutured...
Military doctors naturally focus on battlefield injuries, and on the battlefield, most injuries are caused by weapons. The medicine Chen Chang specializes in is to serve the healing of battlefield injuries.
After several years of construction, the Capital Military Hospital already has 500 people. Except for more than 100 people from the Imperial College, most of them were selected by Chen Chang from the army.
Five hundred people were divided equally among the Beijing army, with one medical officer for every eight hundred soldiers. Compared with the early days of Jianwen, when 10,000 soldiers were allocated to one hospital, this ratio was much improved.
But even if Chen Chang brought 300 military doctors to the Western Regions with Zhu Di, there would be an average of 500 sergeants for one military doctor. Logically speaking, this data is already excellent, but with the war going on, three hundred military doctors are simply not enough!
In the battle with Harry, the Ming Dynasty won a complete victory, killing more than 26,000 enemies and capturing more than 13,900 prisoners, but the price paid was not easy. Not to mention the generals and soldiers who died in the battle, let’s talk about the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. , more than 2,300 people were killed on the battlefield, nearly 4,000 were seriously injured, and more than 3,000 were slightly injured.
After the first battle, the combat strength was reduced by more than 6,000.
Chen Chang would not listen to what Song Sheng said about how he was intercepted by Harry's guards when he intercepted him, and paid a heavy price. He would not listen to Yang Rong's self-blame for investing the gun soldiers too early, and the sergeants' cooperation was not in place, let alone Xu Huizu yelled that the cavalry was not trained but killed.
As a military doctor, you don't need to listen to so many theories. They only know that the sergeant is injured and needs treatment after being brought over. But the brutality of the battlefield exceeded Chen Chang and others' expectations.
Usually in the capital, some sergeant injuries are dealt with sporadically every day. But when the war came, the wounded didn't come one after another, but hundreds or thousands were sent over at one go!
How can three hundred medical officers take care of thousands of people at once?
Who to treat first and who to treat later are all questions!
Everyone needs urgent treatment. This sergeant is bleeding. If the bleeding doesn't stop, it will be over. That sergeant's stomach has been opened and his intestines are exposed. He will die if he doesn't stuff it back and sew it up. And this one, the calf bone was hit by a horse's hoof. It was crushed, and he was in pain to the extreme...
Some sergeants who had just been carried over died before they could be treated. Some sergeants bit their tongues and committed suicide in order to treat their brothers first. As a result, their tongues were broken and they did not die. Some generals are holding wounded soldiers and threatening medical officers to save them.
It only took a few hours to go from a few wounded to full of wounded in an instant, and these three hundred people were simply too busy!
Fortunately, the military hospital had considered this issue before and set up four areas: the severity identification area, the serious injury area, the minor injury area, and the warm tent wounded room.
No matter who brings the injured sergeant, he will first enter the seriousness identification area. Twenty military doctors will make a judgment. Then the seriously injured sergeant will be assigned to the seriously injured area, and the lightly injured sergeant will be assigned to the minor injury area for triage first.
Those in the lightly injured area can wait, and thirty military doctors will be arranged. The seriously injured area was in urgent need and 240 military doctors were arranged.
Each military doctor is responsible for thirty beds. After the wounded are full, one will be cured and one will be admitted. In order to prevent the sergeant from losing too much blood and causing the wound to be too serious while waiting, ten military doctors were arranged to take care of the door, and a group of sergeants were arranged to follow the instructions. They should bandage the wound temporarily and fix it temporarily. It was really painful.
If they are alive, give them anesthetic soup first.
The Ming Dynasty Hospital and Guozijian Medical College investigated many ancient books, but could not find the "Ma Fei Powder" formula used by Hua Tuo for a laparotomy and heart examination. Fortunately, Dou Cai, a man from the Song Dynasty, left some records, which pointed out the direction for Ming Dynasty's research on hemp.
Dou Cai said: "In the northern Han Dynasty, there is a herb called Abbululu. If you drink it with a little ground wine, it will anesthetize the whole body and make you feel like death. Even if you add a knife or ax, you will not know it...Bulu is Datura."
Datura and wine, this is the recipe for anesthesia.
Mandalas are native to the land of Buddhism. It is said that they were introduced to China with Buddhists. It is unclear whether it was the Tang or Song Dynasty, but one thing is certain that in the early Ming Dynasty, there were mandalas south of the Yangtze River. Later, Li Shizhen took a few bites and personally experienced the anesthetic effect of datura flowers.
Even if there is no datura, there are other anesthetics, such as yam, hemp, aconite, aconite, acanthus, etc., Sun Simiao's "Emergency Prescriptions for Thousands of Gold" of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Tao's "Waitai Mi" Yao" and Wei Yilin's "Effective Prescriptions of World Medical Practitioners" of the Yuan Dynasty both describe some medicinal herbs.
Drugs are no longer a problem for Ming medicine. Although this is the Western Region, the sergeant also found a lot of datura, but there is a lack of manpower to prepare it, and the high-level alcohol brought with the army is extremely limited. It can only be allocated to a small number of severely injured people for anesthesia, and it cannot be widely used. .
Chen Chang and his men fought hard for two days and two nights before all the wounded soldiers were taken care of. Those who were slightly injured were sent directly back to the camp to rest. Those who were seriously injured and couldn't walk were arranged to the warm-tent wounded soldiers' room, which was equipped with stoves and heaters. Clean and dry.
This kind of treatment was originally only enjoyed by senior generals such as Zhu Di, Xu Huizu, Song Sheng, etc., as well as seriously injured sergeants. However, the number of wounded soldiers exceeded expectations, so Zhu Di had to temporarily build three more warm tents for wounded soldiers. In order to prevent the injured soldiers from freezing, he sent over the stoves from his own tent.
Zhu Di looked at the tired Chen Chang, who had not rested yet: "General, I have a warm tent, but I dare not lie to the sergeant. Since you have made a mistake, you must accept the punishment. You are allowed to rest today. Find a place to sleep." .”
Chen Chang did not accept Zhu Di's kindness: "General, you need to check the sergeant's wound today, and I need to be there. This is extremely important for studying wound healing. Both the Medical College and Tai Hospital are waiting for my paperwork."
How big the wound is, how effective the suturing is, whether the wound is infected after disinfection, the speed of healing, and whether there are other diseases, all need to be recorded as materials for subsequent medical research.
Zhu Di looked at Chen Chang and others and shook his head: "You are getting more and more powerful. I heard that the medical school is still studying a life-for-life technique, but is it true?"
The surrounding sergeants widened their eyes. This kind of magical magic has actually been studied?
Life for life?
The people of the Ming Dynasty are all his brothers and sisters, so it is naturally difficult to replace them. But if you capture a few prisoners, will you not have to die in the future?
Chen Chang rolled his eyes at Zhu Di: "The general is joking, there is no such thing as exchanging life for life in this world. But the emperor has mentioned that there are several types of blood flowing in the human body. If the blood types are the same, one person can be extracted and given to another. If there are too many people, we can save them. However, neither the medical school nor the hospital has a clue. We don’t know how to determine whether the blood types are the same, and we don’t know how to draw blood or transfuse blood. tool……"
Zhu Di's eyes were bright, and he stood up and said, "You must study it. If the emperor says it is, then it must be there!"
Chen Chang did not refute Zhu Di. Although Zhu Yunwen often did not understand some of his words, medical research was getting more and more, and Zhu Yunwen's words were being verified one by one. Facts have proved that he is right.
Although the secret of blood and the tools for blood transfusion have not yet been found, the medical school is already conducting research in secret. Once the results are obtained, it will be a major event that changes the history of medicine!
Zhu Di believed that Zhu Yunwen was in control of some unknown things. He could always see into things that had not happened but were about to happen. He could see far into the future. His ideas, insights, policies, inventions, etc. all proved his excellence and wisdom. Extraordinary wisdom.
He said that blood transfusion can save lives, so it can definitely be done.
Zhu Di was convinced.
After comforting and visiting the seriously injured,
Zhu Di also took people to visit the lightly wounded soldiers to boost their morale.
After leaving the wounded barracks, Zhu Di said to Xu Huizu, Song Sheng, Yang Rong and others: "We have used many methods to deal with Harry's 40,000 cavalry. We will reduce our number by more than 6,000 sergeants. If Timur comes with another 150,000 troops, , How many more losses will we have in battle? The soldiers have been trained, and they have seen the tragic battlefield. It is time to use all our strength to deal with Timur!"
Xu Huizu showed a ferocious face: "No matter how many people Timur brings, we will make it impossible for him to come back! But in dealing with Harry, we are somewhat tricky to take advantage of his carelessness. I'm afraid Timur will not let him take action easily. , and we won’t divide our troops too much. If he keeps consuming us, it will be very difficult for us.”
Song Sheng nodded solemnly.
Timur has a large number of troops, and it is not easy to defeat him. Once he falls into a long-term war, it will not be good for Ming Dynasty. And winter is coming, and severe cold is also a problem.
I heard that during the coldest time here, a snowfall would be enough to freeze the cattle, sheep, horses and people to death. If they fight on a severely cold day, the number of soldiers suffering from frostbite is probably not small.
Zhu Di looked to the west and said seriously: "Timur will not fight with us for a long time. He will definitely try his best to fight us as soon as possible."
"Why?"
Song Sheng was puzzled.
Although Timur lost the vanguard army, the main force did not suffer much loss. The number was still huge and the combat power was still very strong. There was no need for him to take risks and look for the Ming army for a decisive battle too early. He could fight slowly, one by one. A little bit of the strength of the Ming sergeant was eroded.
Xu Huizu thought for a while and agreed: "Yes, Timur will not fight us for a long time."
Zhu Di smiled and looked at Xu Huizu. He was indeed an excellent general. After being tempered on the battlefield this time, he should be able to stand alone.
Facing Song Sheng's questioning, Xu Huizu said with a smile: "Because Timur failed once, and it was a tragic failure, he was anxious to prove that he was strong and invincible. Whether he wanted to or not, he would invest the most elite troops. Strength, win the battle at the beginning of the war and restore the military power. 0"
Song Sheng thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case.
Sun Tzu was captured, and 40,000 elite troops were lost. Not even one escaped, which would be embarrassing even if they did. Timur is so wise and powerful, he has not suffered such a defeat in many years. He is used to winning, and will use another victory to tell everyone that he is truly invincible.
"This is our chance."
Song Sheng understood and laughed.
