Hair can also be used to sew wounds!

When I thought about it, the hair was so thin and relatively strong that it could be used to suture wounds.

The most important thing when suturing a wound is sutures, not catgut.

Suturing is very important because it can reduce infection. Reducing the exposed area of ​​the wound can reduce infection, but catgut can reduce infection.

It's surprising that Tian Bu, a doctor from the Han Dynasty, actually knew how to use hair to suture wounds.

However, after Li Mengxi observed for a while, he noticed that Tian Bu's nails were also black.

Especially when Tian Bu was using acupuncture to slowly guide his hair through the wound to suture, his nails kept touching the wound of the wounded soldier.

"Tian Bu."

Li Mengxi shouted with a serious expression.

Suturing wounds is a very careful and small task. Bu was so engrossed that he didn't notice Li Mengxi coming. Li Mengxi made such a noise, Tian Bu was startled.

Bu turned around and looked.

"Bu, have you washed your hands?" Li Mengxi frowned.

"Washed...washed." Bu was stunned.

Li Mengxi opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain.

You have to explain why you have to wash your hands and then use alcohol to disinfect them, and what the principle of this disinfection is.

"Bu, take care of the seriously injured first and come over later."

Li Mengxi said.

Bu nodded and continued to suture the wound.

After Bu finished sewing up the wound of the wounded soldier with his hair, he stopped and went to find Li Mengxi.

There are no seriously wounded left. After the seriously wounded came down from the siege and were carried over, within half an hour, those who could not be saved were almost dead.

The rest can all be saved.

When he came, Li Mengxi looked at him seriously.

After scratching his head and thinking for a while, Li Mengxi organized his thoughts and said seriously.

"Bu. I also know medical skills. I will teach you the medical skills I have learned. Please listen carefully."

Upon hearing this, Bu looked solemn, took half a step back, and bowed his hands to Li Mengxi.

"You are a military doctor and you understand medical science better than others. Even so, I will tell you why strong alcohol can heal wounds and what the reason is.

In fact, not only spirits, but also salt water can be used.

Why are wine, water and salt water useful?

Just because these two things can kill people alive.

Gold creates death, why does it lead to death?

First, the organs are injured by swords, guns, arrows and crossbows, and the organs are damaged and there is no way to recover.

In both cases, although the vital parts were not injured, the blood loss was excessive, the oil was exhausted and the lamp was dry.

The third one, although the injury was not serious and the blood loss was not much, he died of the epidemic.

However, what is an epidemic?

Some people say that epidemic diseases are living things, so we might as well call them epidemic insects.

You can see that if meat is stored in winter, it will not rot for more than a month, but in summer, it will go bad in one day. Why?

It could be vegetation or something like that.

The vegetation grows wildly in spring and summer, and wilts in winter. The same goes for living creatures, and pests and diseases remain.

All diseases in the world are caused by pests. These pests are as small as a hair and as fine as dust, and are invisible to the human eye.

Why does meat not rot in winter?

Because, pests are all over the sky and earth, and they are contained in the atmosphere. The pests flow with the air and fall on the meat, destroying the meat. In winter, the weather is cold and the ground is cold, and the pests cannot survive, so meat is eaten.

Can be saved for more than a month.

That is to say, there are pests and diseases all over heaven and earth. If a person has nothing to do, his skin will be like armor, blocking out evil and filth.

The wounds caused by metal wounds expose the skin and flesh, and the pests are as small as wheat awns, as light as floating dust, and move with the air. The pests fall on the wounds and multiply.

When it comes to meat, the meat rots; when it comes to the human body, the body decays.

Therefore, why use alcohol or salt water to clean the wound?

Have military doctors ever seen cured meat? By curing meat with salt, the meat can be preserved for several months.

Why? Salt kills water and is not good for pests.

The same goes for wine.

Wine can kill living things, so it can kill pests.

I call it the method of sterilization and debridement with strong liquor and salt water.”

Li Mengxi did not mention cells, viruses, bacteria or anything like that.

Using terms that people in the Han Dynasty could better understand, he created a concept of pests and explained the causes and principles of infection to military doctors.

I don’t know whether the military doctor understood it or not. Anyway, what Li Mengxi said was all mouth-watering.

The military doctor Bu seemed to understand but was dumbfounded.

What he roughly heard from Li Mengxi was that wine and salt can prevent meat from rotting, so they can prevent epidemic insects.

It can kill insects. Therefore, it can cure metal wounds.

The military doctor thought for a while and then saluted Li Mengxi, "I have never heard what the military advisor said. Even so, epidemic diseases are caused by pests. Even if washing with wine is effective, the pests move with the air. If you wash them off today, they will fall again tomorrow.

, what’s the use?”

"So, let me ask you, I saw you wrapping linen around the wounds of wounded soldiers, why?" Li Mengxi asked with a smile.

"To prevent bleeding." Bu answered without thinking.

"No!" Li Mengxi laughed, "Although I haven't read Shen Nong's Materia Medica, I know that linen is not a medicinal material! Linen has no hemostatic effect."

"It is indeed useful to wrap the wound with linen cloth. Its function is to isolate the outside world and prevent pests from entering the wound."

"This...if the pests flow with the air, and the linen is porous and cannot block the air, how can it be completely blocked?" Bu retorted hesitantly.

Doesn't this guy understand what probability is?

Linen certainly can't keep away all bacteria, but it can block a lot of dust and other things.

Assuming that there are 100 germs in one square meter of airgel, then a large dust particle can carry tens of thousands of germs.

Therefore, linen is very useful because it can physically protect the source of infection.

The military doctor was stubborn, and Li Mengxi didn't want to argue anymore. He leaned down, grabbed a handful of dirt, and sprinkled it on the guy.

Then he asked, "Bu, I will take ashes and scatter them on you. If you are not wearing clothes, it will all be scattered on you. But if you are wearing clothes, even though some of the ashes will fall into your clothes, most of the ashes will be kept out.

Do you understand?" Li Mengxi explained with vivid examples.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The military doctor nodded in understanding and did not care at all about Li Mengxi taking ashes to scatter on him.

(That’s it.) Tian Bu suddenly realized something.

Wrapping up wounded soldiers with linen was a method inherited from my master to deal with wounds.

Tian Bu knew the method, but did not know the truth.

Now, after listening to what the military advisor said about pests, Bu has some clarity.

Isn't it true? If the plague bugs are as small as ashes, they float in the air.

If you don't bandage the wound, the pests will be like spreading dirt on your body. If you don't bandage the wound, all the dirt will be spread on your body.

Once the wound is bandaged and covered with cloth, the dust on the wound will be reduced a lot.

Li Mengxi told Tian Bu the most fundamental core truth about the cause of disease.

That is microorganisms, germs, viruses, bacteria and viruses, and other microorganisms that are smaller than dust. These microorganisms are found in the air, water, skin, and objects.

After military doctor Bu obtained the most valuable piece of knowledge in his medical career, Li Mengxi stared at Bu's hand for a long time.

"Bu, as I said, if pests are everywhere in the atmosphere of heaven and earth, and on the surface of objects. If so, and people's hands are busy working, then you say, are the hands dirty? Are there pests on the hands? Are there any pests on the hands?

have?"

Bu came to his senses and looked down at his hands.

"……have!"

"That's it!" Li Mengxi nodded and asked again, "There are bacteria on your hands... No, if there are pests on your hands and you use your hands to sew the wounds of the wounded soldiers, what should you do? Should you wash them?"

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To be continued...