After organizing the medicinal materials and knives, Yingbao put on the mask that her mother had made specially for her, washed her hands, and began cutting the wound for the patient.
The second brother also wore a mask and washed his hands to help.
The patient took a bath with the help of his wife, and washed his hair with soap and blow-dried it.
Then he lay on the small bamboo bed and wrapped his hair with a cloth to prevent it from falling and getting in the way.
Yingbao poured some liquor on his back with an expressionless face, signaled his wife and his brother to hold his hands and feet, and then used a knife to heal the wound.
The patient shivered in pain and bit the towel tightly with his teeth.
It was also the first time that Yingbao saw the inside of a carbuncle. It was just like a honeycomb, with maggots burrowing around in it, which made her feel sick.
Holding back the nausea, I used tweezers to pinch out the maggots one by one and put them into a plate.
There was water in the plate, and some poison had been added to the water, enough to kill the insects.
When the patient's brother saw the young doctor taking out dozens of maggots, he couldn't help but vomit.
Zhang Min said disdainfully, "I haven't vomited yet, why are you vomiting since you're his brother?"
The man said nothing and just kept retching.
The patient had fainted from the pain at this point and was poked awake again.
After Yingbao had removed all the maggots, she used a knife and scissors to clean the rotten flesh.
This honeycomb-like bad flesh must also be cut off and cleaned, otherwise it will become infected.
Cutting back carbuncle is the most painful. Ying Bao was afraid that the patient would not be able to bear the pain and die, so he gave him a small bottle of Wu Ding Zhi and said to his wife expressionlessly: "This is five taels of silver, remember it."
The woman didn't care about the money. As long as the little doctor could cure her husband, she would accept it even if it cost a hundred taels.
Zhang Min watched the junior sister digging out the sore in an orderly manner, and goose bumps appeared on his back.
An hour later, Yingbao finally cut open the wound on the man's back and cut out the rotten flesh inside.
The wound from the carbuncle on my back was so scary that I could even see the bones on my back.
Yingbao carefully applied Wudingzhi to the wound, then applied a layer of medicine and bandaged it with clean cotton cloth.
After taking care of the patient, Yingbao breathed a sigh of relief and asked the woman to take good care of the patient before she packed up and left.
But she couldn't rest yet, she had to boil the knives, scissors and other items to disinfect them.
These matters could not be interfered with by others, so Chunniang just helped her daughter boil a large pot of water for washing, and then found a set of clothes for her to change into. The clothes and masks that had been taken off also had to be boiled in water.
After this busy period, Yingbao put away the knives that had taken half an hour to cook, ate something quick and went to sleep.
I slept well and woke up the next day, then rushed to see the patient.
Fortunately, the patient's fever has subsided and he is able to eat something.
Yingbao then felt relieved. She went back to wash up and changed the patient's medicine again. She also took out the herbal medicine she had prepared and asked the woman to boil it for the patient to drink.
Three days passed and the patient's back healed well. The fist-sized wound slowly healed and new flesh had grown out, which meant that the carbuncle inside was gone.
The woman and her brother-in-law were so happy that they wanted to kowtow to Yingbao again.
Yingbao helped the two of them up and said, "The total is fifty-five taels of silver. Once you pay the silver, you can go back and take care of it."
"Yes, I'll go back and get the money."
The three men came to seek medical treatment with a donkey cart, and the patient's brother immediately harnessed the cart and went back to his hometown to get money. Fortunately, his family was well-off, otherwise, it would be impossible for others to afford the treatment.
Zhou Wuchang saw his young apprentice actually cure a patient with back carbuncle, and seemed to be thinking about something.
"Yingbao, how can you cure back carbuncle?" Zhou Wuchang was very curious.
It was outrageous that his disciple, who was obviously an excellent doctor with great potential to become a miracle healer, insisted on learning forbidden spells from him.
He had no choice but to learn the forbidden spell, but this child did the opposite, which seemed to be different from the ordinary people's thinking.
Yingbao: "Because I can make a magic medicine. All you need to do is cut open his wound and then use my magic medicine, and it will heal naturally."
Zhou Wuchang's forehead twitched, and he asked, "A good friend of mine also has a back abscess. Can you cure it, too?"
"I won't know until I see it." Yingbao said.
"He is in the capital."
"Beijing?" Yingbao immediately shook her head: "I'm not going to Beijing."
She doesn't want to go back to a place she's been to once.
Although the capital city is prosperous, it’s quite boring because my parents and younger brothers are not there.
Zhou Wuchang stroked his beard and said, "Then I'll write a letter and ask him to come over."
Yingbao nodded: "Okay, when he comes, I will do my best to treat him."
But before the master's friend arrived, two more people came to seek medical treatment, all of them suffering from carbuncles.
One of them had a wound on his thigh and could no longer walk.
Yingbao and the second senior brother went to the wild to dig up a lot of dandelions, and crushed them with their roots for later use.
I also picked honeysuckle, mugwort, and Atractylodes lancea, but Bupleurum, Forsythia, Coptis chinensis, and Phellodendron chinense were not available here, so they could only be bought from the pharmacy.
After all the herbs were prepared, Yingbao used the pupil spring to boil ointments and potions. She let the two men take a bath and wash their hair, and then she performed the surgery on them.
Five days later, the two returned home happily.
From then on, Yingbao had to see a patient with back carbuncle or body sore every few days, which made her very confused.
In fact, I can cure many diseases myself, so why do I only come to see a doctor when I have sores
From this, Yingbao also discovered a pattern: most patients with carbuncles on their backs do not pay much attention to cleanliness and hygiene.
In the middle of summer, they only take a bath once every few days, and they never rub their backs.
So Yingbao wrote a method to prevent back abscesses on a large piece of paper, which was to ask everyone to take a bath and wash their hair frequently, and rub their backs frequently. In winter, it is best to take a bath once every seven or eight days, and wash your head with soap nuts.
There was a bald man in the next village. Because he was so untidy, he got sores on his head and almost all his hair fell out. He looked very ugly.
Now that the village is prosperous, the villagers should also know how to keep themselves and their families healthy.
When Jiang Sanlang saw the notice written by his daughter, he couldn't help but laugh: "It's okay to take a bath frequently in the summer, but I'm afraid it's impossible in the winter. The weather is cold, and many families don't take a bath for the whole winter."
"No wonder so many people suffer from carbuncle." Yingbao muttered, wrote and drew on the paper, and then handed it to his father: "Dad, let's build a bathhouse in the village. In winter, we will boil a pool of hot water every seven days, and anyone who comes to bathe will be paid."
With the bathhouse, it is convenient to take a bath at home in winter, and you can also earn money for firewood.
Jiang Sanlang took the paper and it looked like a big pot with several people squatting in it and firewood burning under the pot.
Although my daughter's painting is not beautiful, it is simple and clear, and even a three-year-old child can understand it.
Chunniang also stretched her head over to look and exclaimed, "How big a pot would it take for a person to squat in it and take a bath?"
Yingbao blinked, "It doesn't have to be too big, just like the big iron pot we use to cook pig food at home, but you need to build a small pool on the iron pot, and then connect the small pool to the big pool. When the iron pot is heated here, the hot water in it will flow into the big pool. The bottom of the big pool will be like the kang we use at home, with the flue passing underneath, so the water in the pool won't get cold."
Chunniang was confused, but Jiang Sanlang understood.
"Okay, I'll find time to have someone build a bathhouse, one for men and one for women." It's fine to burn one, but it's also possible to burn two pools at the same time.