"Let me see."
Li Ang walked forward with the medicine box in hand. The wounded lying on the mat suffered from trauma, fractures, dislocations, abrasions, contusions, and cuts.
The wound marks of the incision are very strange. The wound is long, the wound cavity is boat-shaped, the wound walls are rough, and there are inter-tissue bridges between the wound walls.
It's neither like a regular cut made by a dagger blade, nor like a puncture.
It's more like some kind of strange...blunt instrument trauma.
Could it be that a martial arts master cut someone with chopsticks?
"It can be cured, but whether you will die or not depends on whether the wound is infected or not."
Li Ang took out a simple mask and gloves from the medicine box, put them on himself, and then took out a bundle of...silver wire.
All the villagers present stared with their eyes wide open. A family member of a patient couldn't help but asked: "Doctor, this is..."
"Sutures."
Li Ang replied calmly, using pure wine to disinfect the silver wire.
A knowledgeable person in the village asked in a low voice: "Isn't the bark used for suturing..."
"You're talking about Mulberry White Peel, right?"
Li Ang said casually: "Pull off the thicker ribs on the inside of the mulberry bark, and make the remaining outer skin into thin threads. When you want to use it, put it on the steam of boiling water and fumigate it to make it as soft as new, and use it for sewing."
It’s a hopeless solution, but it can still easily lead to wound infection, which is inflammation.
Using silver wire has high tensile strength, little reaction to tissue, easy sterilization, and is less likely to cause inflammation. The disadvantage is that it is expensive."
Li Ang held a silver hook tied with silver thread and skillfully disinfected, debrided, sutured, and bandaged the injured person's wounds.
"Fortunately, they are all skin injuries and can be treated with silver wire. If the deep abdominal tissue is injured, catgut can only be used."
Since there was no anesthesia, Li Ang treated the trauma as quickly as possible to reduce the pain of the injured.
There are three types of surgical sutures he can obtain now: silk thread, catgut and metal thread.
Silk threads are not absorbed by tissues,
Catgut can be absorbed by tissues, but it reacts strongly to tissue irritation and can easily cause infection.
Metal wire has high tensile strength, little reaction to tissue, and is easy to sterilize. The disadvantage is that it is expensive.
‘If you encounter a patient with a more serious injury in the future and the injury is in the abdomen, you must use absorbable catgut, preferably treated with iodine to achieve sterility.
However, the prerequisite for iodine treatment is iodine. To obtain iodine, you have to find sulfuric acid and seaweed ash, and let the sulfuric acid react with the potassium iodide and sodium iodide contained in the seaweed ash to generate hydrogen iodide.
Hydrogen iodide then reacts with sulfuric acid to produce free iodine.
To obtain sulfuric acid, you have to find saltpeter and sulfur and use the nitrification method...'
Li Ang's suturing movements were skillful and fast, and his thoughts were wandering in the sky. Modern industry affects the whole body at a moment's notice. Even a small sterile intestine suture requires complicated processes.
A group of villagers and soldiers from the Zhenfu Division looked at Li Ang's rapid suturing movements in amazement.
The originally hideous and ugly wounds gradually closed up under the stitches, leaving only long and narrow scars.
"Tell me in detail how these people were injured."
Cheng Juxiu turned his head and looked at Zhou Pingchun.
"yes."
Zhou Pingchun subconsciously stood up straight and began to narrate tremblingly.
Two days ago, on the night of May 17, some villagers heard the barking of dogs and the screams of goats coming from their livestock sheds while they were sleeping.
He thought there was a wild wolf coming down from the mountain, so he immediately went out with a torch and a pole.
His wife rang the gong to wake up the neighbors.
Hunting wolves is the obligation of all villagers. After all, no one can say whether the wild wolves that sneak into the village will take away their livestock or children.
The crowd came with shovels and hoes and used torches to illuminate the barn. Only then did they find that the door of the barn was open, and a guard dog and three goats were dead inside. Two lambs were also missing, and they were suspected to have been kidnapped.
The dead dogs and goats all had severe bites, scratches, slaps, and partial missing limbs. They looked very much like those of ferocious beasts such as wolves, leopards, and tigers.
Considering that two goats were kidnapped, it was most likely a pack of three or more wolves.
The village built on the mountain has rich experience in defending against wild wolves. The next day, villagers and hunters were immediately organized to go up the mountain to search for traces of wolves.
During the search, Orion Wang Liubao's hound was attacked and dragged away. Wang Liubao chased him but failed to catch up.
"Are you Wang Liubao?"
Cheng Juxiu glanced at the dull and honest hunter who was carrying a bow, "Have you seen the thing that attacked the hounds?"
"Only saw a little bit."
Wang Liubao nodded in fear and said with an accent: "That thing was lying on the ground with long black hair on its body. It looked like a wolf. It jumped out of the grass and killed my dog in one go. Then it dragged it into the grass.
I didn't even have time to shoot an arrow."
Cheng Juxiu frowned slightly, "Is the body covered with long black hair?"
"Yes, this morning we organized people to go up the mountain to search again, and many people saw it."
Zhou Pingchun said: "That thing was like a big wolf without a tail. It rushed down from the mountain and broke through all the fishing nets we had arranged.
The hunters in the village shot arrows at it, but they couldn't even penetrate its hair. Instead, it rushed into the crowd and injured many people.
It wasn't until the whole village, old and young, used torches to drive it away that it was driven away.
You see, this is the broken fishing net."
"On all fours, the body is covered with long black hair, without a tail, extremely powerful, invulnerable, and afraid of fire..."
Cheng Juxiu summarized several characteristics and frowned in thought.
"Xingxun, could it be Shahaier?"
Niu Wenshu asked: "Demons, level five, one, three, one.
It looks like a wolf and has great strength. When the wild beasts in the mountains see it, they will smile and throw themselves into their arms to be eaten. Sixty years ago, someone witnessed it in Huishan, Liangxi."
"It's possible."
Cheng Juxiu nodded and said: "But there are too many low-level demons with similar characteristics.
Just based on its black hair, invulnerability and other characteristics, it could also be a [raccoon dog], [rhino dog], or [human wolf].
The specific type needs to be further tested.
Judge Cattle, let the sniffing dogs go."
"yes."
Niu Wenshu turned around and asked his subordinate to bring in a thin black and white dog.
The dog has a slender body, slender limbs, drooping ears, blunt and rounded ear tips, and particularly alert and alert eyes.
Even though he had just accompanied the horseback riding team on a fifteen-mile mountain road run, he did not show much fatigue.
"This kind of thin dog is a breed specially bred within the Zhenfu Division. It has been rigorously selected and trained since childhood. Each one is produced in Chang'an.
It can sniff out a variety of odors including blood stains, sweat stains, alcohol odor, and sachets, and perform long-distance tracking and locking.
Over the past three hundred years, I have helped the Zhenfu Division and local government offices crack down on thousands of cases, and eliminated a large number of human traffickers who were harvesting and cutting crops."
Cheng Juxiu explained casually,
The soldier from the Zhenfu Division who was responsible for leading the thin dog to sniff out the broken fishing nets had a proud expression on his face.
Although in a sense, this thin dog has a higher military rank than him.
This chapter has been completed!