Chapter 95 The Frog Testifies
Speaking of this, Lu Fengniang hesitated for a moment, looked back at the crowd watching in front of the lobby not far away, and said, "This matter is a long story. Why don't you go back to the hall first and I will tell you slowly when you get home, okay?"
Lu Jinping also felt that this matter was not something that could be explained in just a few words, so he nodded: "Okay! Let's talk about it when you get home."
Lu Jinping returned to the lobby and sat down. At this moment, the clerk returned with two codes and held them in his hands to Lu Jinping.
When Lu Jinping saw that they were the two Tang Dynasty laws he needed, he had read them several times and knew where they were. He quickly found the seventh "Miscellaneous Laws" "Medical Medicine is not as good as prescriptions". He immediately said loudly: "Dr. Huang, listen, the "Yonghui Law" stipulates this: 'All doctors use medicines for people, and the titles and commentaries, acupuncture, and mistakes are not as good as this prescription. If a murderer is a prisoner for two and a half years." This is the evidence!"
Doctor Huang didn't wake up suddenly and said in a daze: "What is this evidence?"
"Evidence to prove your guilt!" Lu Jinping slapped the book in his hand on the desk, "You don't know where to get an inexplicable prescription to give people medicine, which is 'not as good as this prescription'. Oh no, you can't even say it is 'not as good as this prescription', but you don't have this prescription at all! According to the provisions of the Tang Dynasty, there must be prescriptions for treating diseases, and these prescriptions must be classic prescriptions recorded in medical books. Your prescription is actually a private prescription given by a monk from a monk from Youfang, not a prescription in medical books, so it is just a prescription. Whether intentional or negligent, it is a crime! If it is intentional, it must be dealt with as intentional homicide! If it is negligence, it will be at least two and a half years in jail!"
Doctor Huang was frightened and trembled: "But, it cannot prove that his father died of taking my medicine."
"Your sin is not the problem now. It's that your prescription has no source. You use a prescription with no source to cure people. Whether it causes casualties or not, it is a crime!"
Dr. Huang woke up like a dream and suddenly collapsed on the ground: "This..., this..."
"This crime is not unfair to you, right? You will compensate first and then accompany you. The yamen will punish you. This is your own fault. If you have lost money before and the yamen doesn't know that you have used the prescription you don't come from to treat people, then you won't care about this matter, but now it's up to the yamen. Of course, the yamen cannot ignore it."
Now, Zhang Dalang next to him was even more overjoyed and kept kowtowing and shouting Master Qingtian. Doctor Huang was stunned and trembled all over, but he didn't expect that things would end up being at this level. He thought that he would lose money at the worst, but now he would be in a lawsuit and would have to be in prison for two and a half years. He might even be considered as intentional murder and lost his head. He suddenly became dumbfounded. He shouted and begged Master Qingtian to spare his life: "Sir, I'll tell the truth. That prescription is not a secret prescription given to me by Yunyou monks, but a prescription in medical books, it is true. I made pills for him according to the prescription in medical books..."
"Nonsense! Since it is a prescription in medical books, how can you eat it dead? You are still talking nonsense!"
"It's true. This prescription is in a medical book called "The Legend of the Immortals". It was written by Ge Hong, a famous doctor in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. There must be this book in the clinic of the Master's yamen. You can tell it when you take it to the Master."
Lu Jinping really has no research on traditional Chinese medicine. However, the basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine made him know that Ge Hong was a famous doctor in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His "Emergency Prescriptions for Elbows" is very famous in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. However, he didn't know that Ge Hong had other medical works, one of which was called "The Legend of the Gods and Immortals". At this moment, he said to the captain Xiong next to him: "Send someone to the clinic to find this book."
Captain Bear quickly agreed and ordered someone to go and pick up the book.
Lu Jinping continued to ask: "Let me tell me what's going on? I warn you that you must tell the truth this time. If you hide it again, you will definitely be punished without forgiveness!"
"Yes, the villain must report it truthfully. The Dahong Pill I gave his father was not a secret prescription, I lied to him. That day, he said that his father's pain in the waist and hips has not been cured, and many medicines were useless. I happened to see this prescription in Ge Hong's medical book, and the symptoms were also suitable. The above said that this prescription Dahong Pill can treat bone and joint pain, cold internal and external damage, external swelling and internal pain, and tired limb pain. I have never used it, so I wanted to make some money, so I said I got a secret prescription and wanted to use this prescription for him to try. This is the prescription left in ancient books. I guess it's okay.
So, I told him that as long as I could eat well, I would be willing to pay more. He didn't want to watch his father hurt and roll on the bed every day. So I asked him to come back the next day because he couldn't prescribe the prescription for him, otherwise he would know that it was not a secret prescription. So I had to prepare the pills myself for him to sell it to him before I could get the money. I prepared the pills myself according to the prescriptions in the medical book. After he came the next day, I told him about three thousand words of the pills and sold three for him. I made the medicines completely according to the prescriptions mentioned in the medical book. So I believe that nothing will happen."
Lu Jinping asked: "What is the combination of Dahong Pills on that prescription? Do you remember?"
"I can't remember. Actually, my medical skills are sparse and I usually treat people's wounds. It's okay to have colds and diarrhea, or something like that. If I get a little deeper, I won't do it."
Lu Jinping said, "But your uncle Huang Dashan said you are very good at bone cutting."
"That's just what my uncle told others deliberately to make my business easier. Actually, I'm not very good at tying my bones."
At this time, the yamen runs in and puts a book in front of Lu Jinping. Lu Jinping picks it up and looks at it. It turns out that Ge Hong wrote "The Legend of the Gods". He throws the book to Huang's doctor: "Find out the prescription and I'll take a look."
Doctor Huang took the book and quickly turned to a page, saying, "It's this recipe."
Lu Jinping took the book and looked at the prescriptions and medicines one by one. Suddenly, his eyes were fixed, and his eyes fell on the medicine "Chuanwu" above, which read: "Chuanwu, one pound, seven taels, simmered with fire."
Seeing this, he roughly understood what was going on.
Lu Jinping asked Dr. Huang: "What does this 'fire simmering' mean?"
Huang Langzhong didn't know that Lu Jinping was a forensic doctor who traveled over time. He mainly studied Western medicine. He only knew some basic things about traditional Chinese medicine and did not study any research on the preparation. He just estimated that it was a preparation method. He was not clear about what was going on. He thought that Lu Jinping wanted to test his preparation method. Although his medical skills were average, he still knew about preparation, and simmering was a common preparation method. He hurriedly laughed and said, "This method means wrapping Chuanwu with wet kraft paper, burying it in hot ashes and heating it until Chuanwu turns burnt yellow and cracks."
Lu Jinping nodded slowly. After hearing this method of preparation, he became more convinced that he had found the answer.
Lu Jinping said to Luo Sifa next to him: "This case involves the identification of the classics, I will withdraw from the court first, and wait for my inspection before I will be promoted to the court to determine the case at a later date."
Of course, Luo Sifa listened to him, and immediately slapped the woods and announced his withdrawal, and he would go to the court to make a case at a later date. The coffin was first placed in the morgue in the yamen, and ordered Dr. Huang to provide a guarantor, guaranteeing that he would not leave Tongzhou and wait for the yamen to summon him.
Lu Jinping ordered Captain Xiong to deliver several pills that Huang Lang had brought from the medicine shop just now to Zhang Dalang, and asked: "Do you identify this pill? Is it the pill that your father died after taking it?"
Zhang Dalang nodded and said, "That's right, it's just this kind of pill. I bought three and ate two, and there was one left at home."
Lu Jinping said: "Okay, then you go back and send me the rest of the moment, I want to test it."
"Detection? What to detect?"
"If you test what caused your father to die, you must first find out the matter and then decide how to deal with it. OK, don't be too verbally speaking, hurry up and send the things."
Zhang Dalang didn't dare to say much, so he quickly agreed and went out of the lobby to get the medicine.
The test Lu Jinping needs to do is to determine whether the deceased died of aconitine poisoning.
Among the prescriptions used by Huang Langzhong, there is a medicine called Chuanwu. Chuanwu is a type of aconitum. Aconitum is a commonly used analgesic medicine, mainly used to treat joint pain, rheumatism, and abdominal pain, but it is highly toxic. The toxic component is called aconitum. The most common symptom of aconitum poisoning is numbness on the lips and fingers, and a burning sensation on the stomach, which is the same as the symptoms that Zhang Dalang said just now that his father took the pills. The prescription provided by Huang Langzhong includes Chuanwu, and the dosage is very large. Therefore, Lu Jinping suspected that the deceased died of aconitum alkaloid poisoning. He wanted to do a biological experiment to check whether the pills contain alkaloids.
Soon, Zhang Dalang delivered the remaining pill.
During this period, Lu Jinping asked the captain Bear to send someone to the vegetable market to buy two frogs. Peasant women in Tongzhou often caught frogs, especially children from the countryside, to sell frogs, so it was easy to buy them. At the same time, he asked Ye Qingqing to go back and bring his forensic survey box.
After all the things arrived, Lu Jinping entered the warehouse. He asked Ye Qingqing to guard the door and closed the door and started the test.
Lu Jinping first tested the pill that Zhang Dalang brought.
He cut off a small piece of pill, dissolved it with 1% acetic acid solution, then took out a syringe, drew ten milliliters of the solution, and injected it into the frog's lymphatic sac.
After only a moment, the frog's eyes protruded and red, began to spasm, and then jumped into the air. After a few times, the limbs twitched, the hind limbs kicked back, and they soon died.
This phenomenon of frog jumping and spasm is unique to injecting aconitine, and other drugs will not appear. This can verify that there is an excessive amount of aconitine in this pill.
Lu Jinping took another pill that Huang Langzhong brought from the medicine shop and tested it with another frog. The results were basically the same, proving that Huang Langzhong's other pills also contained excessive aconitine.
Lu Jinping's judgment was confirmed. He immediately packed up his things and came to Luo Sifa's signing room. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!