Practicing Medicine in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 84

Fang's speech was exhausted, only the voices of women calling "Niang Niang" could be heard inside, but there was no response.

Chen Jiwen couldn't help being anxious: "How is the Crown Princess doing now?"

The mother-in-law's anxious voice came from inside: "If you go back to the doctor Chen, the empress will faint again."

Can't wait.

Wu Yi clasped his hands and said: "The situation is urgent and there is no need for delay. I also ask Dr. Zheng and Dr. Chen to make a quick decision."

Zheng Jun groaned for a while, his face was like a piece of ice frozen by the bitter winter wind, with a heavy color that did not melt.

"Wu Yi, how sure are you of your so-called 'caesarean section'?"

Wu Yi couldn't help but smiled wryly: "The students haven't seen the empress dowager's body, so I really can't say how confident I am."

Men are not allowed to enter the delivery room of ordinary women, let alone the bedroom of the princess. Wu Yi's words meant that he wanted to break the palace rules and go in to see what happened.

Even Shen Hanshan, who never liked to stir up trouble, said heavily: "This matter violates the palace rules, and the lower officials think it is absolutely impossible. I can only ask the princess to stretch out her hand and cut the pulse first before talking about it."

The meaning of these words is to remind myself, an uneasy student, to stop causing trouble.

Wu Yi also knew very well in his heart that this was the place of the Eastern Palace, if he saved it, he would offend the Empress Dowager, if he didn't save it, he would offend the Crown Prince.

This kind of thankless thing is indeed not in line with Shen Hanshan's style of doing things.

But there are two innocent and fresh lives inside, so how can he allow him to let him go?

He folded his legs and knelt heavily on the ground: "If you can't have a physical examination on the spot, how can you know the patient's condition? Look, hear, ask, and do everything at the very least, so how can you ignore the basics?"

Diagnosis and treatment can only be made by visiting patients in person. This is the simplest but most easily overlooked truth, which was taught to him by Zhang Qiren.

At that time, it was to save Li Xian, who was still King Pei, but now it is to save Li Xian's wife and children.

Li Xian is the one Zhang Qiren really puts his hope on. Although Wu Yi knows that this hope is as vague as the morning mist that is about to disperse, he also wants to use this to repay Zhang Qiren's kindness of knowledge and guidance.

Without Zhang Qiren, he was still confined under a corner of the sky in Yuanzhou City, how could he stand here?

Zheng Jun looked down at the young man with a straight back in front of him, and suddenly seemed to see the shadow of the young man named Yi Que back then. They all had the same unyielding back, the same fearless attitude, and even the clarity in his eyes The firm eyes are exactly the same.

Wu Yi had just returned from the front line of Silla. He should know what would happen to a person like Yi Que.

Maybe it's just like the words in the test questions he answered, what he used to treat people was not superb technology, nor rich experience, but a word of "morality".

With the past in his mind, Zheng Yun couldn't help but smiled with vicissitudes: "You're right, the doctors have been in high positions for many years, and I'm afraid they have forgotten even the most basic things."

Immediately he raised his finger and pointed at Wu Yi: "Wu Yi, you come in with the old man."

Wu Yi's heart trembled slightly. If he offended the Empress or the Crown Prince, it would definitely not be something he, a mere apprentice, could afford. Zheng Yun's words were equivalent to taking the responsibility on himself.

Shen Hanshan glanced at him deeply, then shook his head almost imperceptibly.

Wu Yidan returned him a "relief" look, and when he passed by Hu Zhilin, he said "borrow it", and took away his small box full of surgical instruments, and followed Zheng Yun's footsteps, and plunged into it. inside the curtain.

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When the women inside the curtain saw two big men, one old and one young, entering the delivery room without any shyness, they subconsciously screamed.

"Doctor, if you have any orders, just call us outside."

Wu Yi didn't have time to explain, so he hurriedly pushed aside the helpless midwives around the princess, and slowly dumped the princess on the bed.

"Dr. Zheng, this..."

"This matter is allowed by the old man, you don't need to say more."

With Zheng Jun's consent, Wu Yi let go of his hands and feet, and ignored the panicked eyes of the wives, first lifted the thin layer of brocade quilt on Fang's body, and looked under her, and sure enough, he saw the amniotic fluid was wet The umbilical cord has been exposed by more than an inch.

He quickly touched Fang's lower abdomen, and during the contractions that gradually lost strength, he could still faintly feel the fetal movement.

Well, it's still too late.

He didn't realize that a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Although the fetus is still moving for the time being and there is no distress in the uterus, the princess has already fainted from the pain, and she is determined to have no strength to give birth again.

There is only one choice right now.

"Report to the doctor." He succinctly reported the situation of the crown princess, "Xiao Shizi's fetus is still moving, but the crown princess has been unable to follow up. The only way now is to take the child by caesarean section."

He made a vertical gesture towards Fang's stomach, indicating that he should use the knife in this way.

In modern caesarean section, a transverse incision is generally made, the purpose of which is to improve the beauty of the mother after recovery.

However, in an emergency, the doctor will still choose to make a vertical incision to follow the direction of the muscle texture, so that the abdominal wall can be opened more quickly.

Naturally, there is no need to explain these principles to Zheng Yun, an imperial physician who is proficient in both internal and external subjects.

Seeing that Zheng Yun's expression remained the same, Wu Yicai was a little relieved, opened the surgical instrument box brought along from Hu Zhilin, took out a delicate lancet, scalded it on a candle, and then calmed down and went to the room. The first knife was drawn on Shi's stomach.

The first cut was to cut a three-inch length directly from the one and a half inches below the navel.

After this long stabbing, Fang Shi, who was still in a coma, woke up from the pain, his dark eyes seemed to be surrounded by clouds, and he could only see a gleaming white figure in front of him.

"It's not good, the princess has already woken up from the pain!"

When the women saw her wake up in pain, they panicked. The young imperial doctor said he came in to save people, but why did he use a knife?

"Ma'am, you don't have the strength to give birth right now, so we have to have a cesarean section." Wu Yi also had a bean-sized bead of sweat on his forehead. Under his seemingly calm face, he was actually more nervous than Fang himself.

In this era without anesthesia, the pain of a direct caesarean section may not be less than the pain of a natural delivery, and he didn't know if this frail princess could survive these few cuts.

Fang only felt a buzzing in his ears, and only heard the words "cut the abdomen" into his heart, his hands were powerlessly entangled with the already wet mattress, his pale jaw slightly moved, and he only uttered one word.

"it is good……"

As long as she can save the baby in her womb, there is no pain that she can't bear.

Those midwives were also old people who were carefully selected a few months ago. Naturally, they had seen big wind and waves. Although they were surprised for a moment, they quickly calmed down and asked Zheng Yun: "Do you need it?" Aconitum makes the empress less painful?"

Zheng Jun shook his head resolutely: "Aconitum is very harmful to the fetus, and the empress must not want to use it on herself."

"Having a baby, how can there be... How can there be no pain? This is the life of a mother... If you don't toss this, how do you know, know the pain of being a mother..."

In pain, Fang smiled pale and weakly, looked at the anxious women, and squeezed out a few words to comfort them and encourage himself at the same time.

Wu Yi saw that although she was in a trance, but her will was still firm, she felt that she had accelerated the speed of the knife.

After incision of the abdominal wall, it is a familiar operation, incision of the peritoneum at the inflection point, almost no need to peel off the bladder, and the swollen uterus has already floated up.

Wu Yi said in a low voice, "Young lady, hold back." According to the experience in his previous life, he made an incision of about three and a half inches in the lower part of the uterus.

After a few incisions, Fang felt as if her heart was broken. Fortunately, she was strong in her bones. Although the pain was so painful that she almost gnawed her teeth, she didn't open her mouth to cry out, for fear of delaying the imperial physician's actions.

After Wu Yi cut the lower part of the uterus, he carefully opened the fetal membranes. Seeing that everything was going well, he put down the dyed lancet, wiped his hands, reached into the uterine cavity, adjusted the fetal position, and slowly lifted the baby from the pulled out of the uterus.

Although the midwives had never seen a child born from above, they had delivered thousands of children born from below. of the umbilical cord.

"Wow……"

Before Wu Yi could habitually pat the soles of the baby's feet, the baby had already announced his arrival with a loud cry.

"Congratulations to the princess, you are a little princess!" The midwife hurriedly wrapped the child in a clean swaddle and showed it to Mrs. Fang.

But Wu Yi didn't dare to be negligent in the slightest. After slowly taking out the placenta and membranes, he reversed the steps of the operation just now and sewed up all the wounds one by one.

Wu Yi's technique was extremely clean and neat. It took a quarter of an hour from the laparotomy to the laparotomy.

It's just that for Fang Shi, this moment is like a year.

Every time Wu Yi gave her an injection, she felt the pain until all the bones in her body were about to be broken. She could only look up at her newborn baby and her small, tender red body, with tenderness in her heart.

After the last stitch, she loosened her jaw and smiled slowly at Wu Yi: "Thank you..."

Before she finished speaking, she tilted her head and fell into a deep coma.