Chapter 138 Medical Development

After the war, Richard came to the field hospital.

Since the war began, the level of trauma treatment in the hospital led by Adrian has developed rapidly.

First of all, anatomical knowledge. In the more than one month of the counterinsurgency war, the field hospital had no shortage of corpses.

One or two corpses could be dissected every day, and both doctors and nurses had rich dissection experience.

In his previous life, Richard heard from his high school classmates who studied medicine that he only had a few dissection practices in seven years of studying medicine.

Now, in terms of understanding anatomy, surgeons in the Harland Territory are much better than college students in his previous life.

Although some of these doctors are still illiterate, they have a deeper understanding of body organs after dissecting more corpses.

After the battle, Richard used the bloody identification spell, and the hospital started a blood transfusion experiment, successfully curing two wounded soldiers who had lost too much blood.

In addition, after the glass kiln was put into production, some medical instruments were also added.

Before the war began, the territory's glassmakers had blown out hollow glass tubes as thin as chopsticks.

The prerequisites for making hollow glass tubes, mercury thermometers, and mercury sphygmomanometers are mature.

After receiving the call-up order, Richard described the two medical instruments in detail, and then asked the craftsmen in the territory to find a way to make some.

After learning to blow glass products, it is not difficult to make thermometers and sphygmomanometers.

The principle of the thermometer is to measure the expansion or contraction of the mercury column under temperature changes to measure body temperature.

The sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure by wrapping a cuff around the arm, then injecting gas into the cuff with an air pressure pump, gradually increasing the air pressure, making the cuff compress the arm, and finally using the mercury column to measure the pressure of blood flow.

Before making these two instruments, Richard did air pressure tests and found that the atmospheric pressure of the Dawn Continent is slightly greater than that of the Earth, about 1.2 times that of the Earth.

Through the conversion of air pressure, it is easy to mark the scale and make primitive thermometers and sphygmomanometers.

During this period, the doctors in the field hospital have had a clearer understanding of body temperature and blood pressure.

Simply talking about surgical knowledge is slightly better than the barefoot doctors in the countryside in the previous life.

After all, he is well-informed, having dissected more than a hundred corpses and treated hundreds of wounded patients.

Anesthesia, asepsis, and blood transfusion, the Harland Territory has completed the three basic conditions of surgery.

With these three basics, plus the development of anatomy, the surgical level of the hospital has been greatly improved.

Although magic healing is effective immediately, it has great limitations in treating injuries and diseases.

Especially for the wounded with internal bleeding, although magic healing can stop bleeding, the blood stasis in the internal organs cannot be discharged, and it is very troublesome to rely on the human body to absorb it.

After the surgery, it can be combined with healing.

Magic plus science, the treatment effect is extraordinary.

Some organic lesions, even magic healing is helpless, but surgery can remove the diseased organs.

Richard found through observation that Adrian did not need his help, and he led the doctors to perform three major operations.

One gun stab wound, bleeding in the liver in the abdomen, one knife wound, the stomach was cut open, the intestines ruptured, and another lung was injured by an arrow.

According to Richard's estimation, the county hospital in his previous life could not perform these three operations. To treat such serious trauma, one must go to the city's top three hospitals, and the chance of survival is not high, estimated to be less than half.

However, the field hospital led by Adrian, relying on the help of magic healing, successfully completed three operations in the absence of medicines, and all three wounded soldiers survived.

The effect of magic healing combined with surgery can be seen from this.

Under the treatment of the field hospital, the survival rate of seriously injured soldiers has increased a lot.

As long as these seriously injured soldiers recover from their injuries, they are all excellent soldiers. The improvement of the hospital's surgical level is also a positive cycle for the development of the territory.

In addition to surgery, the hospital has also accumulated a lot of experience in bone injury treatment.

There is no lack of climbing and rolling on the battlefield, and there are soldiers who fall and get injured in every battle.

By treating these patients, doctors basically know a little bit of bone setting techniques, and if combined with magic healing, the effect is very outstanding.

Because of the help of healing, the level of doctors in surgery has directly improved to the twentieth century.

The development of internal medicine is very slow.

It can only be treated by accumulating experience and using herbs to treat some simple diseases.

Limited by the level of industry and scientific cognition, modern internal medicine still sees no hope.

Traditional internal medicine, because this world has great restrictions on the dissemination of knowledge, the doctors in the Harland territory have not accumulated much experience, and it is impossible to develop empirical science similar to traditional Chinese medicine in a short period of time.

However, the hospital led by Adrian should have the most advanced system in the world.

Every patient who enters the hospital has his own case.

Through the summary of the case, a lot of medical experience can be obtained.

After staying in the field hospital for a few days, cooperating with the doctors to treat many wounded soldiers, Richard was quite gratified in this process.

The greatest romance of a man is to change a world.

Although Richard did not have the power to change the Dawn Plane, he still left footprints in this world and made this world a little better.

After returning from the field hospital, Richard decided to increase investment in medicine and accelerate the development of medicine.

After returning to the territory, he planned to let Sophia use the crystal ball to test all doctors and nurses to see if anyone has magical talent?

In addition, the backbone officers and grassroots bureaucrats who have entered the territory for three years are all within the scope of talent testing.

Richard was going to spread the meditation method on a larger scale, just like the breathing method.

Not long after the war ended, the merits of the last battle were also distributed.

Richard killed the sixth-level cavalry commander and was awarded a great merit. Killing the boiling blood convert and the rebel professional was awarded nine medium merits in total. He and Baron Deyang jointly eliminated the rebel cavalry. The two shared a great merit, and Richard received five medium merits.

Counting the one medium merit and two small merits he had just gained when he entered Canyon County.

Four great merits, three medium merits, and eight small merits were gained by eliminating Brena County.

Throughout the rebellion war, Richard was awarded six great merits and nine medium merits, and it was not far from the next time he was awarded a territory.

In addition to the merits of the war, the biggest gain of the Harland territory in this battle was the 18,000 population.

With this 18,000 population, the territory will usher in faster development and a more solid foundation.

Counting these 18,000 people, the population in the territory exceeded 43,000.

A population of 43,000 was already the highest among the dozen or so hereditary barons in Black River County. If we look at the entire Geda Province, a barony with a population of 40,000 was very rare.

Even the wealthy Baron Franklin, who was given a group of refugees, had a population of just 38,000.