Chapter 10 Eyes
"Xiao Langjun, can these horses be healed?"
In the tall and spacious stable, the servant Wang slightly covered his mouth and nose, and asked Li Ang who was carefully observing the sick horse.
Conjunctivitis, keratitis, corneal ulcer.
Li Ang took half a step back, meditated on the treatment plan, opened his eyes after a long time, nodded, "It can be cured."
"Can it really be cured?"
At this time, Xun Jiancheng, who had ended the state of frustration and sorrow, also walked into the stable, staring at Li Ang with burning eyes, "How sure are you? What do you need to prepare?"
Li Ang said casually: "I'm sure, maybe 70% to 80%. If the sick horses outside the city also have this kind of disease, I can cure most of them. But it will cost about 20 yuan for medicinal materials."
"Twenty sticks?"
Xun Jiancheng's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide.
"Too much?" Li Ang frowned and said, "If it doesn't work, I can pay for it myself, but after it's done, I will make up the 20 guan, plus 10 guan interest."
"no no"
Xun Jiancheng waved his hand. He thought that Li Ang would offer such a price as 50 guan or 100 guan. Many doctors in this era have the behavior of taking advantage of people's illness and raising the price of medicine. There are also unscrupulous doctors who are paid thousands of dollars by their families.
"Ahem, Wang Sanlang, please go to the storeroom and bring twenty pieces."
Xun Jiancheng asked Wang Yamen to get the money, but he changed his previous indifference and enthusiastically asked Li Ang for the details of the treatment.
Li Ang still used the old saying of "burning liver fire, yin deficiency and fire flourishing". When the Wang Yamen servant brought the money, he borrowed a horse from Xun Jiancheng and told him that he would come every day for the next four days. Let Xun Jiancheng manage the sick horses in a centralized manner.
After finishing speaking, Li Ang took Wang Yamen servants to the street to buy medicinal materials.
Xun Jiancheng, who had been sent away with 20 guan and one horse, paced back and forth in the hall of the Supervisor of Animal Husbandry, and within half an hour, he waited for the servant Wang to return to his order.
Xun Jiancheng hurriedly asked: "How is it? What medicine did Li Ang take you to buy?"
Wang Yamen’s face was shocked and inconceivable, even the palms of his hands were trembling slightly—since he participated in the action of the Zhenfu Division to hunt down the murderer ten years ago, he originally thought that nothing in the world would shock him so much .
"He first took me to a porcelain shop to buy porcelain, then went to buy white salt and saltpeter, and then went to the blacksmith's shop to place an order, saying what kind of needle tube to order, and then"
"Then what? Say it!"
"He took me 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, emitting a strong, indescribable strange smell.
Pig eyeballs.
Porcelain vases are full of pig's eyeballs, each with bloodshot eyes, looking extremely curious.
Hmm. In fact, the word "special hobby" is used in a more gentle way. If Fusi, the town of Weizhou, or the fanatics of the Haotian Daomen in Zhou Kingdom in the south see Li Ang bringing back a bottle of pig's eyes, I'm afraid he will suspect that he is a pig's eye. The world is evil.
"What are you talking about, you have a special hobby."
"oh."
Chai Cuiqiao obediently went to boil hot water, while Li Ang wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at a bottle of strange things.
These fresh pig's eyes soaked in cold water were bought by him and Wang Yamen from the largest slaughterhouse in Weizhou City, and they were collected at the price of three Wen a piece. Damaged or cut.
Thinking of the astonished expressions of the yamen servants and the butchers, Li Ang couldn't help but raise his mouth slightly.
"It seems that my surgical skills have not regressed."
He nodded triumphantly. Although surgeons are professions that are bound to modern science and the modern industrial system, without drugs, advanced surgical instruments, and reliable methods of hemostasis, pain relief, and sterilization, surgeons are all capable. hard to play,
However, as long as the thinking is broad and flexible, there are always more ways than difficulties.
“The cornea of mammals is located in front of the eyeball and is in direct contact with the outside world. It is vulnerable to damage from microorganisms, trauma, and physical and chemical stimuli and inflammation.
Atropine solution or ointment with a concentration of 0.25% to 2% can be used, dripped or applied daily, so as to dilate the pupil, reduce iris irritation, and promote ulcer healing.
Or inject antibiotics under the bulbar conjunctiva, use glucocorticoids, take vitamin C, vitamin B2 and cod liver oil pills, etc.
Since there is nothing now, we can only adapt to local conditions,
Use pig eyeballs. "
Li Ang said to himself, moved all the fresh pig's eyes to the courtyard, and disinfected his palms with pure wine (a high-concentration alcohol invented by the academy using distillation techniques, which usually needs to be 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 the bacteria, but if it is too high, it will cause the protein of the bacteria to coagulate and form a thin film, but it will not be able to completely kill the bacteria.
But under this condition, a high concentration of alcohol is not bad.
After Li Ang disinfected his hands with pure wine, he carefully washed off the blood and impurities on the surface of the pig's eyeball with cold water.
During the period, he asked Chai Cuiqiao to find an iron pot, pour clean water into the pot, and put a heat-resistant porcelain bowl in it. Porcelain bowls don't hold water.
When the iron pot is heated to generate steam, the water droplets will condense on the iron pot cover, and finally fall into the porcelain bowl to obtain crude distilled water.
Crude is crude, as long as it can be used.
Li Ang washed all the pig's eyeballs with distilled water, and then took a clean cloth re-boiled with distilled water to wipe off the floating water on the surface of the eyeballs.
Afterwards, Li Ang sterilized his palms again, and then used a small iron knife to cut a one-centimeter incision in the middle of the pupil of the pig's eyeball, and squeezed the eyeball against the alcohol-sterilized porcelain bottle to make the intraocular fluid, vitreous body, crystal, and iris Wait to flow into the container together.
Finally, the entire porcelain bottle is covered and placed in an ice box made of saltpeter for refrigeration.
The whole process is cumbersome and complicated, at least Chai Cuiqiao can't understand what Li Ang is 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 droplets on his hands with a cloth, then raised his hand to his nose and smelled it. Fortunately, there was no strange smell left.
Chai Cuiqiao hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "Isn't the pig's eye disgusting? Take it out of the pig's head."
"It's not disgusting, it's just an organ. Just like pig ears, pig skin, and pork."
Li Ang frowned and thought for a while, "But it's true from what you said, the ones that come out of the pig's head are indeed dirty.
Hmm. Let’s make fried large intestine for dinner. "
(end of this chapter)