Chapter 109 Modern life-saving techniques vs. ancient medical skills! Does he know magic? !
"How can I help you?" Xu Mu stepped forward and spoke.
Hippocrates did not look up at Xu Mu.
It's not about respect or not, it's mainly because he is really busy.
"There are more patients today. If you want to take any mercenary missions from me, I'm sorry." Hippocrates responded while reaching out to help up a patient with a yellow complexion standing against the wall.
"Stick out your tongue."
The patient did as he was told.
Hippocrates looked at the tongue coating and then at the patient's eyes.
I pressed the patient's slightly swollen legs.
"Apart from these, what other symptoms has he had in the past few days?" he asked the patient's wife.
"He has to go to the bathroom many times a day." The wife clasped her hands tightly together and said with a worried look on her face, "My husband must have complained before going to bed a few days ago. The gods must have heard him. Are they punishing him now?"
"It has nothing to do with the gods." Hippocrates shook his head. "Where do you live?"
"We are slaves in the Pshuthom region of the Lower River Region of Athens..." The wife's expression became more and more painful, and she kept muttering, "This must be a punishment from the gods. This must be a punishment... My husband always complains about why the gods don't show more leniency to him, and why they make him suffer so much."
"Pshutun in the downstream? No wonder..." Hippocrates extracted the key words, ignored his wife's muttering, and said: "Your husband has been drinking unclean water for a long time, and now his body is full of...all..."
He paused, clenching his fist slightly, trying to find an exact description of that thing.
But for a moment I didn’t know how to describe it.
Through the medical experience accumulated over the years.
Hippocrates could sense that there was a substance that caused disease in the human body.
But he had no idea what that thing was.
Even if he secretly dissected the body against religion, he would not be able to find more useful information in the rotten flesh.
"Bacteria." Xu Mu answered, folding his arms and leaning against the wall.
Hippocrates glanced at Xu Mu slightly.
Xu Mu held the broken spear in his hand and played with it, and said, "If there are too many tiny harmful substances in the human body, they will cause human diseases."
Although he is not a master of medical skills, as a modern person, Xu Mu still has a general understanding of the most basic medical knowledge.
"If you drink unclean water for a long time, bacteria will erode your stomach and intestines, and eventually damage your internal organs. Swelling in your lower limbs means your kidneys are already rotten."
"What should I do with my husband?" The wife walked quickly to Xu Mu and said anxiously, "Please, I can't live without my husband..."
Xu Mu saw despair in her eyes.
For a woman in ancient Greece, losing her husband meant losing everything.
They have almost no source of income.
"I am the doctor." Hippocrates emphasized with dissatisfaction at this time.
He was not worried that Xu Mu would steal his limelight.
Hippocrates did not attach importance to these things, and the most important thing was to cure the patients.
It doesn't matter who accomplishes the redemption.
The main reason was that Xu Mu was dressed in mercenary attire, which made Hippocrates preconceived that this guy was talking nonsense.
Mercenaries usually travel around and have seen a lot of things, but most of them are just hearsay and speculation, and they don't really study the correctness of those things.
In medicine, lives are at stake, so extreme rigor is required.
"Wife, listen to me. After taking your husband back, drink some clean water, maybe it can help relieve the symptoms." Hippocrates had just finished speaking when Xu Mu refuted him again.
“Are you sure they can afford to drink the clean water upstream?”
Water purification has only seen significant improvement in the past hundred years of modern times as technology has advanced and waterways have been opened up.
If we move the hands of time forward, let alone the ancient Greek period.
Even the common people in medieval Europe could not afford clean water, otherwise there would not have been one major plague after another caused by water problems, sweeping across Europe for hundreds of years.
What’s more, this family is the lowest level of slaves and has almost no human rights.
Don’t even think about drinking pure fresh water from natural sources upstream.
Hippocrates frowned, somewhat losing patience with the young mercenary. "Of course I know, but my job is just to treat the disease, I can't help them more. If he wants to survive, he must find a way to get clean water. Do you have any better way to relieve it than to let them drink clean water from upstream?"
"Of course." Xu Mu smiled confidently.
And the solution is very simple.
In the land where he was born, everyone knows it, even ordinary people who don't know any medical knowledge.
"To drink boiled water, dig a pit downstream, lead water into the pit and let the dense sand filter the water once, then use a finer cloth to filter it several times, and finally boil it over high heat."
"Are you sure?" Hippocrates asked doubtfully.
He had never heard of the method proposed by Xu Mu.
I have never heard of boiling water for drinking.
Isn't this just a waste of time like taking off your pants to fart?
"You can try." Xu Mu didn't want to waste any more words.
It is still more than two thousand years before the birth of germ theory.
If they don't understand what bacteria are, then they naturally won't understand why raw water needs to be boiled to achieve the effect of sterilization.
"I hope your method really works, and don't let it be hearsay that harms my patients." Hippocrates ordered his assistant to go to the nearby downstream area and filter a pot of water according to Xu Mu's method.
He built a bonfire to boil the water, and while waiting for the water to boil, he also examined two patients.
Soon, the assistant came over with a bowl of warm water to cool down the body.
Hippocrates took the bowl doubtfully and took a sip.
His face changed instantly!
Doctor was not a noble profession in Athens, and Hippocrates was not qualified to drink clean water from upstream.
He could clearly feel that the downstream water tasted significantly better after being filtered and boiled!
The water is not only softer, but also has no obvious fishy smell!
No matter in taste or flavor, boiled water tastes better than drinking it directly!
"What's the principle behind this?" Hippocrates was shocked, and his eyes changed when he looked at Xu Mu. He quickly stood up and walked in front of Xu Mu: "Sorry, forgive my arrogant attitude just now. I'm just worried that the layman's hearsay will aggravate the patient's condition."
"It's okay." Xu Mufeng said calmly.
To be honest, doctors should indeed be more serious.
If you do everything in a sloppy manner, the patients will be the ones who suffer in the end.
Besides, let alone ancient Greece.
Even in modern times, when we are so civilized, no other country in the world drinks boiled water except China.
It is normal for the doctor to become suspicious when you suddenly say "let the patient drink more hot water".
Soon, Xu Mu explained his purpose to Hippocrates.
After learning this, Hippocrates pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said, "My dear warrior, it's not that I don't want to help you. Democracy and monarchy are not important to me. As long as I can help more patients recover, that is my duty."
“But now you can also see the environment of the entire city of Athens.”
"All the patients who were cured, without exception, believed that the gods had forgiven them."
"I never speak of divinely-given illnesses, so I was warned by the priests of the Temple of Apollo in Athens a few days ago."
There is a hint of sadness and helplessness in these remarks.
I clearly just wanted to study medicine to save lives, but I found out that the patients I saved didn't believe me at all.
Xu Mu couldn't help but let out a sigh in his heart that spanned thousands of years.
Studying medicine could not save the Athenians.
"If they continue like this, then refuse treatment. Since it is the gods' job to treat them, then send them to see the gods." After Xu Mu finished speaking, Hippocrates was about to say something.
At this time, two more people walked in from outside the door. They were a mother carrying a child on her back. As soon as she entered the door, she choked and broke down crying, shouting loudly.
"Hurry up and save my child! He can't breathe for some reason..."
Hippocrates hurriedly pulled a blanket and asked the mother to lay the child flat on the ground.
He came closer to inspect it, and Xu Mu was also looking at it.
The child's eyes rolled back, his lips had turned black, and his skin was faintly purple, obvious symptoms of lack of oxygen.
Hippocrates reached out and rubbed some bread crumbs from the child's lips.
"What were your kids doing before this?" he asked.
My mother was so panicked that she lost her mind and her lips were trembling.
"I just let him eat some bread, and he ate it so fast that he suddenly fell off the chair."
"Choked?" asked Hippocrates.
"At first I thought he was choking, but no matter how I patted his back, it didn't work... My gods, please let my poor child go. He really has never done anything wrong... I am the one who is wrong. I shouldn't have stolen a piece of bread from the store where I work... I didn't expect retribution to come so quickly." The mother prayed on her chest, and then turned to look at Hippocrates: "I have prayed to the gods, now please save my child!"
As pious as she had been when she begged the gods just now, she was now as impolite when speaking to Hippocrates.
As if ordering him to do what he should do.
Just as Hippocrates was about to take some rescue measures.
A broken spear was stuck directly into the ground, not far from Hippocrates' hand.
Xu Mu crossed his arms and stood between the two of them, looking at his mother coldly and said, "Don't save her."
"Who are you? What are you doing? You murderer! You will kill my child!" The mother began to become hysterical, screaming sharply, attracting the attention of people passing by.
"Since you think your child needs the help of the gods, then take the child to the gods." Xu Mu said coldly: "Until your attitude changes, we will not save your child. I need you to understand one thing, it was the doctors who saved your child, not the gods."
"You...you are blaspheming God!" the mother yelled, and the people around her also began to accuse her.
"I can't believe that pagans would appear in such a civilized city-state as Athens!"
"You don't even believe in God anymore. Do you want to rebel?"
"The gods give us life easily, and can just as easily punish those who are disloyal. Doctors are merely sent by the gods to atone for our sins!"
"Then let's go find the gods!" Xu Mu took out a dagger with a cold look in his eyes, and skillfully spun the knife in his hand. The sharp tip of the knife flashed coldly in the sun, like a poisonous snake waiting for an opportunity to strike: "Here, I am the rule! The credit goes to the doctor for saving the people! If your gods are so reliable, then let it come out and heal this child!"
After these words were spoken, the whole audience was in an uproar. Everyone looked at Xu Mu in disbelief, as if he had said something that made the sky fall.
At this moment, the child lying on the ground seemed to have only his last breath left. He stretched out his hand desperately to ask his mother for help, but his body had begun to twitch and the whites of his eyes were showing more and more.
Although the mother did not respect the profession of doctor, she loved her children very much.
Seeing the child in such a miserable state, she made a painful decision in her heart. In the end, the scales still tipped towards the child, and she said with tears streaming down her face.
"I... am willing to admit... that the doctor's actions of treating patients... have nothing to do with God!"
Although this sounds very funny.
But in this era, such words are simply treasonous! It is not a pity to be burned to death by religious personnel.
Sure enough, the people around also made sounds of fear.
"Crazy! Everyone is crazy!!"
"If I don't even believe in God, who else can I believe in?"
"I want to see, without the help of divine power, how can this disrespectful doctor cure this dying patient..." The complaints of the crowd suddenly stopped!
Everyone stared in amazement as Xu Mu picked up the dying child and placed him against his abdomen.
Place your hands in a circle around your child's armpits and then interlace your fists.
Push hard into the child's stomach! Then hold him and rock him back and forth.
Repeat this movement three times.
“Hmm!!”
Suddenly, the dying child, who was already on the verge of death, vomited out the food residue in his mouth!
Then, all that could be heard was the child's heavy breathing, like a fish thirsty for water.
After about half a minute, the child's rapid breathing slowly stopped, and his dark face gradually returned to normal. Although he was still a little weak, he was able to walk and threw himself into his mother's arms.
This scene stunned all the people present!
A person who was clearly about to die suddenly became full of life the next moment?
“This…this, this…” Everyone looked at Xu Mu as if they had seen a ghost.
The people who were eager to criticize just now suddenly changed their tone!
"My gods, I can't believe my eyes! What is this? Witchcraft?"
"Could it be... that God really does not exist, and we have been deceiving ourselves all along? Otherwise, why didn't God intervene when the child was on the verge of death just now, and instead this brave mercenary took action to save the child!"
"Perhaps we should really think about it. If the gods are always protecting us, then where are they? Why have I never seen them?"
Even the mother, who was so arrogant just now, pulled her child and knelt down to Xu Mu: "Thank you! Doctor! Thank you for saving my child!"
There was even a hint of surprise in Hippocrates' eyes when he looked at Xu Mu!
"What kind of advanced medical skill is this?" he couldn't help but ask.
In fact, what Xu Mu used was not any medical skill, but a very common self-help trick, which is very popular in modern times.
Heimlich maneuver.
This is the emergency rescue posture that Xu Mu learned when he was still in school. The principle is to expel foreign objects blocked in the esophagus through the airflow squeeze of the stomach. It has a very good effect on acute respiratory tract obstruction, so the school has organized several training sessions.
For some foreign objects stuck in the throat, you may be able to dislodge them by coughing vigorously or patting your back.
But now the child was obviously choking deep in his esophagus and was unable to cough out the food.
In the absence of modern hospitals, the only emergency treatment available is the Heimlich maneuver.
Of course, this simple and easy operation for Xu Mu is as magical as magic in the eyes of others!
"I will teach you this medical skill later, but before that you need to agree to a request of mine and go to Pericles' mansion and talk to him. He may give you help and advice on promoting your medical skills, but in exchange, you will need to stand on his side from now on and promote the advantages of democracy to each of your patients." Xu Mu took the opportunity to get to the point.
Hippocrates agreed without hesitation.
Compared with democracy and monarchy, Hippocrates had been itching to learn Xu Mu's mysterious medical skills. Perhaps he would be able to save more patients in the future instead of watching them die in front of him helplessly with the wailing of their families lingering in his ears.
To be honest, that feeling is really unpleasant.
…
Both additional tasks were easily completed by Xu Mu.
All you have to do next is to complete the assassination of Kleon, and you can get all the rewards of this super hidden mission!
Without stopping, Xu Mu said goodbye to Hippocrates and strode towards Cleon's mansion.
When approaching the magnificently renovated exterior wall of the mansion, Xu Mu suddenly had an idea and summoned Ika to hover in the air.
The personnel distribution in the mansion and the ranks of the soldiers are also in full view.
Good job.
You don’t know until you see it, and you’ll be shocked when you see it!
The ranks of the soldiers are all the same???
The leader symbol of Kleon is three bright red question marks, which means high danger!
It seems that this old guy is really capable of competing with Pericles.
It's probably not realistic to force your way in.
If you use Flying Thunder God to assassinate, if you can't kill the soldier instantly with one strike, it will definitely attract the attention of others.
"It seems that with the rapid advancement of the mission, increasing the level too quickly is not a good thing."
"The main reason is that the equipment strength can no longer keep up ."
"It would be great if someone could take advantage of this." Xu Mu was thinking to himself.
Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught sight of a few players following him stealthily.
Suddenly, a plan came to my mind!
