Plague Doctor

Chapter 16: Subcutaneous black fluid

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In the spacious anatomy laboratory, the lights are bright.

Three rows of six temperature-controlled refrigerated dissection tables are placed in the middle, and they are all made of stainless steel. A shadowless lamp and a video camera hang from the ceiling above each dissection table. On the wall behind the laboratory, there is a banner with white characters on a blue background: "Dashe is fearless, love is speechless, and I pay tribute to Teacher Dati"

On one of the dissecting tables, there was a general teacher, whose head was covered with a wet cloth soaked in formalin.

The body was intact, but the left upper limb was deformed and distorted.

Professor Gu led six students to stand beside the dissecting table, paying tribute to the general teacher.

All of them were wearing white coats, masks and gloves.

Earlier, Gu Jun and the others had just brought Teacher Dati over with a cart. Before the body was placed on the dissection table, Xu Hai reported the abnormal situation in the storage room to Professor Gu. Professor Gu frowned, not understanding what was going on, but what made him even more puzzled was the left upper limb of the corpse.

It was an aberration that even he could not name.

After the silence, Professor Gu still looked serious, and said to the students: "You should have thought about it. This competition is not easy. I hope you can go all out to do this training well and improve yourself. Don't disappoint deceased."

Everyone nodded one after another, all with solemn faces. The same goes for Gu Jun, he never behaves frivolously in the human anatomy room.

"Frankly speaking." Professor Gu looked at the corpse on the dissecting table, "I don't have a clue what is the condition of this general teacher's left upper limb. Whether it is a congenital deformity or some kind of acquired deformity, let's have a look at it first." You all have to pay attention to the possible clinical connection, and anyone who has any ideas just speak up."

Even Professor Gu didn't understand, Xu Hai looked at Zhang Haoran, Zhang Haoran looked at He Yuhan, the atmosphere in the laboratory became more and more unnatural.

These medical dogs are professionally trained, and they have seen many scenes of rotten skin and rotten flesh. Usually, when performing human autopsies, they only need to cover the face of the corpse with a cloth, and there will be no sense of fear. Only when you look directly at the face of the dead body, or the face of the anatomy, will you feel nervous.

Human fear mechanism is like this, a hand, a large intestine are just dead things, but a face has a soul.

But now, the invisible pressure caused by that deformed left hand is greater than ever before.

He Yuhan couldn't help taking a deep breath, but he just smelled a stronger smell, and his heart trembled.

Professor Gu glanced around, seeing the students like this, his heart sank a bit. Think about it, the training resource for this competition is already this level of human body, when it comes to the real arena, what will be dissected? Whether these young people can stabilize is a question.

Ruoxiang and Zixuan are relatively calm... Gu Jun

At this time, Professor Gu noticed that Gu Jun's expression didn't seem to have changed, and he really didn't know whether he was calm or frightened.

"Let's first dissect the dorsal area of the wrist and the back of the hand of the left upper limb." Professor Gu deliberately trained them, giving them whatever they were afraid of.

Being a doctor has to face too many unexpected situations, and it is not always possible to be ready before going into battle.

"Ah!" Xu Hai and He Yuhan suddenly exclaimed, even Wang Ruoxiang was stunned, and Cai Zixuan finally became nervous: "Teacher, there is no need to warm up?"

In the usual anatomy class, there will be some preview before the hands-on operation. The teacher will talk about the relevant anatomical knowledge, and use the teaching screen to play the relevant atlas and operation video, so that the students can understand the key points, difficulties and order of the anatomical content, and do it in their hearts. There are many.

Although there is no atlas of this deformed left hand for them to look at, it would be good to dissect other parts first and warm up the hand.

"Then you guys should do a set of radio gymnastics first." Professor Gu replied abruptly.

This is naturally a cold joke, but everyone dared not speak too much, for fear that they would really do radio gymnastics in the dissecting room.

However, when Professor Jing Gu was so cold, their pressure eased a lot, so they should stretch their waists, twist their necks, and move their muscles and bones first. Because the regular duration of each anatomy class is about three hours, they have to stand by the dissecting table all the time, dissecting and observing, and sometimes they really need to do radio gymnastics.

The back of the wrist and the back of the hand are small, so one or two people can operate it, who will come first

Professor Gu knows, and everyone knows, how their anatomical strengths are ranked in this laboratory.

Wang Ruoxiang is sensitive and skilled, but her weakness lies in the inherent disadvantage of girls, strength. Some dissection operations require a lot of effort to complete, and it takes hours to stand there and consumes a lot of energy. These are the reasons that restrict the development of female medical dogs on the surgical operating table.

Therefore, in general, she and Zhang Haoran are tied for first place. Zhang Haoran's major is basic medicine, and he has more exposure to anatomy than clinical studies.

After that are Xu Hai, Cai Zixuan, and He Yuhan. As for Gu Jun, he was just an ordinary member before, and they felt that he might be slightly stronger than He Yuhan from pharmacy, or he might be the weakest one.

"Ruoxiang, Haoran, you guys will be the chief surgeon first." Professor Gu made a decision, "Others will assist you."

The three of Cai Zixuan breathed a sigh of relief, Wang Ruoxiang and Zhang Haoran stepped forward, Gu Jun was watching.

Scalpels, dissecting forceps, dissecting scissors and other instruments and tools have already been prepared and placed on the dissecting table.

The shadowless lamp above was turned on, and the camera was turned on, all pointing at the corpse on the stage.

Wang Ruoxiang took out a scalpel from the instrument tray, standard grade, made of stainless steel, and the blade looked bright and silver. The touch of the scalpel made the nerves in her fingers twitch slightly, and she recalled the book knowledge of anatomy, recalling the feeling of cutting the skin...

Next to it, Zhang Haoran picked up the dissecting tweezers, and used the tip of the tweezers to make a transverse incision on the back of the wrist of the deformed upper limb, and then made an incision on the back of the thumb. This hand has been twisted into an indescribable shape, it is just a line drawn by his feeling.

At this moment, everyone's heart rate is speeding up, even Professor Gu.

Concentrating all her energy, Wang Ruoxiang held the scalpel firmly with a bow-like gesture, and pierced the scalpel tip at right angles to the skin along the horizontal incision line on the back of the wrist...

As soon as she pierced it, she immediately felt suspicious. The skin on the back of the human hand is very thin. Usually, the resistance will suddenly decrease when the tip of the knife penetrates a little. skin.

But now, the tip of the knife has penetrated a lot, and I still don't feel that way...

Wang Ruoxiang immediately stopped, frowned, and said to the people around: "I can't feel the superficial fascia here."

Uh? Xu Hai and the others couldn't react instantly, because the basic structure of the human body is skin, superficial fascia, deep fascia...

"Just use the normal depth and continue to cut!" Professor Gu said decisively.

Wang Ruoxiang nodded, held the scalpel steady again, and carefully made an incision along the line at an angle of 45 degrees. After all this was done, a strangely black liquid gushed out, almost splashing on her and Zhang Haoran's faces .

"Be careful!" Gu Jun had been paying attention to every situation, and now he couldn't help exclaiming that he was about to pull Wang Ruoxiang away.

But nothing happened next, everyone was startled by him instead. Professor Gu reprimanded helplessly: "Don't be surprised! It's very amateurish."

"I'm sorry..." Gu Jun continued to watch silently, some dangers have come before you know it, I hope these black liquids are not.

But since this was arranged by the state, it should have been determined that it is not dangerous...

There was still effusion coming out of the incision, and everyone was waiting to hear Professor Gu's judgment, because a normal corpse would not have such a large amount of subcutaneous effusion.

"This may be a subcutaneous cyst, maybe." Professor Gu's face looked very old at the moment, and this left hand was subverting his knowledge little by little, "Go on, there is fluid under the skin, the skin will move more, you pay attention Cut it."

Wang Ruoxiang calmed down, and together with Zhang Haoran continued to open the skin on the back of the hand and the back of the finger, and then peeled it off... As for whether the depth of the incision has damaged the superficial fascia and other subcutaneous tissues, there is no way to be sure. .

The eyes of the two were sore and sore from the smell of formalin, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.

And because of doubts, strangeness, and unknowns, my heart gradually became more and more tense.

Zhang Haoran felt that the hot air he exhaled was stuffed inside the mask, and he was very uncomfortable, almost out of breath, so his hands trembled slightly...

Wang Ruoxiang didn't tremble yet, but her forehead was covered with fine sweat, and she was also on the verge of making a mistake...

Cai Zixuan and Xu Hai, who were watching from the side, dared to make fun of the two of them. Standing by and watching, their hands were shaking. If they went up to get the knife by themselves, they would definitely behave even worse.

After a long time, the two finally finished peeling off the skin on the back of the hand.

"Ruoxiang, Haoran, you can do it." Of course, Professor Gu could see that they were at the end of their strength, and encouraged him, "You are doing well." Faced with this kind of thing, the performance of the two is still satisfactory. Professor Gu said again: "Gu Jun, continue to operate, and calm down whether there is superficial fascia or not."

In fact, Professor Gu has no expectations for Gu Jun this time. A normal body is fine, but if it is a deformed body, even Ruoxiang and Haoran can only behave like this, so what can Gu Jun do. Let this kid see the gap between himself and the top students, and hope he can realize his shame and be brave.

From Gu Jun? Everyone immediately looked at Gu Jun in unison, feeling Professor Gu's malice...

Cai Zixuan really sympathized, Haojun has been out of school for a few months, when was the last autopsy? Now this is to catch the ducks on the shelves.

Wang Ruoxiang breathed out, and the mask on his face undulated, as if a war was fought just now. She handed the scalpel to Gu Jun, "Those effusions are very slippery, be careful, come on."

Gu Jun took the scalpel and nodded, "Leave it to me."

The air was suddenly quiet, and everyone collectively had question marks on their faces...

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