Chapter 505: Physically disabled but mentally strong
Chapter 505: Physically disabled but mentally strong
Bian Que drank the medicine of Changsang Jun, and after thirty days he saw a man from the same square as Yuan. From then on, he was able to diagnose diseases and understand the problems of the five internal organs, so he gave the name of pulse diagnosis.
——"Records of the Grand Historian. Biography of Bian Que"
On July 1881, 7, in Forest Hills, Newport, Rhode Island, two huge airships landed on a lawn. The huge air waves from landing blew the green grass into an oval shape.
Airships are not used frequently in the Federation, and airplanes are still being imitated and have not yet been put into service, so there are no dedicated airports and airships can land wherever they come across.
Five years later, Rong Hui brought the middle school baseball teams from five provinces including Liangjiang, Guangdong and Guangxi to the Federation again.
The last time he came was when Johnson was in office. Now that the two countries’ diplomatic relations have become close again, the envoy representing friendship has finally come again.
The baseball players have been replaced. Most of the original players of Hailing Middle School baseball team have gone to college. They came here specially to reunite with their old friends.
The scene of a group of college students who had not seen each other for five years hugging each other and calling each other's names was very touching, and the reporters' flash lights went on one after another.
The new generation of baseball players shook hands and got to know each other, and friendships were passed on.
Getting off another airship were tennis players and accompanying broadcasting company staff.
When the two beauties, Ping'er and Dongmei, walked down the gangway side by side, they received an even warmer welcome from the reporters.
The tennis players who came to welcome the team had all met in Jiangyan a few months ago. The enthusiasm of the Daxia people and the prize money of tens of thousands of taels made tennis a fast-growing sport in the Federation.
The arrival of the Wei Qing and Huo Qubing airships was warmly welcomed, but no one knew about the Bian Que airship that arrived in Washington.
In fact, the Bian Que was a military airship, but before it arrived, the machine guns on the airship were removed to avoid misunderstandings.
But the appearance of the bomb bay is still there, and it is easy to be hit by mistake.
Fortunately, there was no air traffic control in those days, the Federation had never suffered an air attack, and there was no concept of air defense. The airship landed on the lawn in front of a famous palace.
The red-haired guards ran over to intervene, and the first person to get off the airship was actually his fellow Irishman.
The two Irish Fenian members exchanged a few words in the Irish dialect and immediately shook hands warmly, as if they were meeting old friends in a foreign land.
After a moment, the Irish guards lined up to salute the airship, and an old man with the epaulettes of a Daxia major general walked down the gangway.
The old man was already over seventy years old, but his beard was clean-shaven and he looked energetic. He was Wu Anye, the president of the newly established Hailing Huaijun Medical University.
Doctor Wu is the second best doctor in China after Fei Boxiong. Doctor Fei was once an imperial physician and is good at warming and nourishing the body and treating difficult and complicated diseases.
Doctor Wu is an expert in surgery, and his level of skill in performing surgery on soldiers is unparalleled in the world.
He moved to Yujiaduo, Taizhou in the third year of Emperor Xianfeng's reign and was considered a fellow villager of Shao Quanzhong.
Not long after the Huai Army was established, Doctor Wu took the initiative to join this team that protected the people and became a military doctor, saving countless lives on the battlefield.
He followed Shao Quanzhong in the Western Expedition and saved Tian Xing's life at Jijin Fort. He is currently the highest-ranking civilian military officer in the Huai Army.
Originally, the Huai Army had two civilian major generals. The other one was Ping'er. When she was in Huangling, she was dismissed by Shao Quanzhong and her rank has not been restored yet...
He was sent by Shao Quanzhong to provide emergency treatment for Garfield, as Shao Quanzhong did not trust federal doctors.
It is said that Bian Que could see through walls and had the special ability to see through people's internal organs. Doctor Wu does not have this ability, but he has the blessing of modern science and can achieve the same effect.
The red-haired guards quickly obtained a diesel lifting equipment, and the huge and crude first-generation X-ray machine was lifted out of the cargo hold of the airship.
The X-ray machine was invented by Tesla and Qinlun not long ago, and has not yet been produced for commercial use, but it has already begun to be used in the military. This is the fate of all high-end equipment.
The Bian Que was a mobile hospital of the Huai Army equipped with an X-ray machine, which facilitated the Huai Army to provide emergency treatment. This is why this military airship was named "Bian Que".
The Bian Que had just returned from Shigatse, where it had treated the wounded railway soldiers who were building the plateau railway, and was urgently sent to the Federation by Shao Quanzhong. Wu Anye was fully prepared for this trip, not just in terms of medical treatment. The red-haired Irish instructor who contacted the other party was specially selected to quickly gain the approval of the guards.
The old man wore the military uniform and epaulettes on purpose, as it was a manifestation of his authority.
Otherwise, Garfield's attending physicians might not be able to hand over the patient to a strange Daxia person for treatment. The official status and military rank of Dr. Wu intimidated the other party...
These efforts may not have worked, but they were just a precaution. In fact, Garfield was very strong-willed. When Doctor Wu arrived, he woke up and firmly agreed to be treated by the Daxia Medical Team.
In Daxia, they even have their own batteries and hand-cranked generators. This is not to underestimate the medical conditions in the federation, as they also have electricity.
Even if the doctor had some more experience and could use Bell's simple device correctly, he might not have needed Daxia's help and the operation could have been completed.
But Shao Quanzhong did not dare to gamble and was determined to give the best treatment conditions to Garfield, his own man who was kind to Daxia.
The assistant military doctors urgently installed the X-ray machine, and Doctor Wu calmly examined the patient and placed three fingers on Garfield's wrist to basically understand whether the patient was suitable for surgery.
Once the X-ray is used, the bullet will be visible. This epoch-making black technology makes the federal doctors look at them in awe.
Anesthetics were invented in 1846 and the syringe was invented in 1853. Doctor Wu put on surgical clothes and asked his assistant to perform local anesthesia without hesitation.
Although traditional Chinese medicine also has similar anesthetic measures, truly excellent doctors will never refuse better medical methods.
In fact, there was not even the terms "traditional Chinese medicine" or "Western medicine" in that era. The term "traditional Chinese medicine" only appeared in 1936.
Doctors are doctors, and they are divided into good doctors and mediocre doctors. There is no so-called "traditional Chinese medicine" that rejects modern technology.
Observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation are methods and skills. If you don't know how to use Western medicine, just say you don't know...
In fact, advanced Western medicine is exactly the same as traditional Chinese medicine. It treats the human body as a system, rather than just treating the symptoms.
Those who only care about the intestines and not the stomach are quacks in Western medicine. After all, no matter which industry you are in, elites are a minority.
With the X-ray, the Western doctors present could also perform the operation. However, Doctor Wu, who had been tested on the battlefield and had saved thousands of lives with his scalpel, was obviously more skilled.
The two bullets were quickly removed, and the next step is to let the patient rest and get through the infection on his own, right?
How is it possible? The Western doctors present witnessed the magic of Chinese medicine, or the magic of Daxia's medical skills, and the fragrance of Chinese medicine came into their nostrils.
Penicillin was invented in 1928 and sulfonamide was invented in 1932. Even Shao Quanzhong didn't know about them, but the Huai Army soldiers did not have a fever after the operation.
The recipe for Rhubarb and Peony Decoction came from Treatise on Febrile Diseases and was fed to Garfield who was in anesthesia and unconscious after the operation.
In an era when Western medicine could only treat appendicitis by removal, the ancient Chinese relied on Rhubarb and Peony Decoction to reduce inflammation and treat inflammation that did not require surgery. The effect was almost equivalent to that of penicillin sulfonamide.
Garfield regained consciousness a few hours later, and his fever subsided on the third day.
Garfield was pulled back from the brink of death.
However, the bullet damaged part of Garfield's spine, leaving him paralyzed...
A week later, the healed but paralyzed Garfield was in a wheelchair, sitting by the fireplace of a certain palace, and the fireside chats resumed.
"My people, thank you for your concern and my friends for your treatment. I am back to work."
"Can a paralyzed person govern this country? I think he can. Building this country requires your hard work."
"Some people want to forbid you from getting rich through hard work. All I need to do is use my crippled body to block their path to bullying the common people, and I will continue to do so."
(End of this chapter)