Chapter 614: External Poison, the Human Body's Most Weird Organ
This family is really pitiful. It’s scary to think that their young son has suffered from this disease.
Suddenly, he could hide a sharp knife and harm his own parents.
You never know, you may not even know when your own son will kill you.
"What are the results of this examination? Is he still mentally normal?" Li Quan asked curiously.
"Oh, don't mention it. This time, there is a new discovery. I asked Professor Tan to do a comprehensive examination of my son at the Sichuan Mental Health Sanatorium. Including a neurological examination and blood tests to check whether the central nervous system is infected. Even the liver and kidneys were fully examined. Later, it was found that my son's central nervous system was not infected.
Liver and kidney functions are normal, with no lesions or infections.
Only when my son has an attack does his brain waves show obvious abnormalities.
Finally, Professor Tan diagnosed that my son was likely suffering from intermittent neuropathy. He prescribed medicine for my son on the spot and kept him in the hospital for observation and treatment. I spent a lot of money, had injections and medicine, but my son's condition did not improve.
Seeing that there was no hope in Sichuan Province, I took my son to Beijing for medical treatment.
Again no effect.
In Beijing, I heard that Huier Hospital won first place in this year's national medical competition and was very outstanding in many medical fields. So I immediately came to Huier Hospital for treatment. "
Mr. Qin recounted the general situation in one breath.
He was really worried about his son's treatment.
It must have cost a lot of money.
"Let me check your son's pulse first to see how he is doing."
Since famous doctors and professors couldn't cure the boy's illness, no matter how confident Li Quan was in his medical skills, he didn't dare to make too many promises.
Let's see the situation first.
"Devil, devil, don't come near me..." The boy stared at Li Quan with horror eyes, roaring and struggling.
Fortunately, the boy was tied to the bed, otherwise no doctor would dare to treat him.
"Mr. Qin, was your son screened for rabies during the blood test?" Li Quan was most worried that the boy had rabies.
This disease is said to have a 100% mortality rate.
Currently, there are only three cases of patients surviving rabies infection in the world.
Although they survived, their prognosis was very poor.
I can no longer be a normal person.
Moreover, because there was no authoritative and impartial testing agency, it was not confirmed whether the three survivors were actually infected with rabies.
With the current level of human medical technology, there is still no specific medicine for rabies.
The best way is to get vaccinated.
However, even vaccination is not 100% effective.
"We have checked and ruled out the possibility of rabies. Two major tertiary hospitals have already done this and the doctors have clearly stated that it is not rabies."
Mr. Qin replied seriously.
"As long as it's not this disease, at least we can think of a way." Li Quan nodded slightly and began to take the boy's pulse.
Because the boy was very emotional, in order to calm him down, Li Quan had to ask someone to find a blindfold to cover the boy's eyes.
The pulse is strong and rapid, and feels tense and tense when pressed.
When Li Quan checked the pulse, his heart skipped a beat.
There is such a rule in pulse diagnosis.
If the pulse is strong and rapid, and tense when pressed, it is likely to cause urticaria. If the pulse is floating and rapid, but flat when pressed, it is an external poison, which should be cleared; if the pulse is strong and rapid, and tense when pressed, it is an internal poison, which should be raised to expel it.
The boy's pulse at the moment belongs to the former.
In other words, the boy's illness should be caused by external poison.
Many people think that external poison is definitely poisoning, or they narrowly believe that external poison is the poison on the surface of the skin.
Such as abscesses, swellings, etc.
In fact, this is incorrect.
External toxins include many aspects, which can be toxin poisoning, evil heat on the surface, or damp heat on the surface, such as eczema, etc., all of which are external toxins.
In addition, traditional Chinese medicine believes that external poisons are evil poisons that do not harm the internal organs, and are all considered external poisons.
"This boy clearly has a mental illness, so why does his pulse show signs of external poisoning?" Li Quan was puzzled.
Although he had treated many patients and encountered many difficult and complicated diseases, this was the first time Li Quan had seen such strange symptoms.
Let's first check whether there are any abscesses or something on the boy's body.
"Take off his clothes, I want to check his body surface." Li Quan is now treated like a chief physician when diagnosing patients.
He no longer needs to do things like skin preparation and intubation.
Just let the nurses, interns, and assistants do it.
"Let me do it, so that the child won't scratch you." Mr. Qin respected the doctor very much and rushed to take off his son's clothes.
Most pediatric doctors are female.
Those married female doctors all looked calm and composed.
Qin Shuang and two very young nurses all had shy expressions, appearing a little unnatural.
Their eyes were also looking around.
I dare not look at the patient.
All we can say is that they have no experience in the operating room.
In the operating room, no matter whether you are a man or a woman, in the eyes of the doctor, you are just a patient.
"Why does the child have so many scars on his back?" Li Quan asked.
The boy's back was covered with large scars, some new, some old, and very messy.
"My son always complains that his back itches, and he can't help scratching it with his hands. Some parts are out of reach, and he gets so itchy that he loses his temper and rolls on the ground. We feel sorry for him, so we bought him a small rake specifically for scratching."
After Mr. Qin finished speaking, he actually took out a small bamboo rake from his bag.
You can faintly see dried dark red blood on the teeth of the rake.
"It seems that the boy has been poisoned, and it is very likely a skin toxin." After some deduction, Li Quan made this diagnosis.
[You have successfully performed the techniques of visual diagnosis and pulse diagnosis, skill points +10. ]
Li Quan's two diagnostic medical skills each added 10 skill points.
He was secretly happy in his heart, it seemed that the diagnosis was correct.
"Mr. Qin, where is your hometown?" Li Quan had a rough idea in his mind after he got the diagnosis results.
There are tens of millions of toxins in the world.
In particular, there are many poisons in nature.
There are toxins that come from plants, such as the most common poisonous mushrooms, lacquer trees, etc.
There are also toxins from insects, such as centipedes, poisonous ants, wasps, spiders, etc.
There are also toxins from animals, such as snakes, toads, etc.
What kind of poison did the boy get? We must analyze it based on the geographical environment of Mr. Qin's hometown.
"My hometown is in the mountains, a very remote village in Sichuan Province. It's called Shuangniuzhai and can be found on the map. Why are you asking this?" Mr. Qin vaguely realized that Li Quan's question must be related to his son's strange illness.
"Shuangniuzhai, right? Let me use my phone to search first to see the vegetation in your hometown." Li Quan actually took out his phone and searched for the name of Mr. Qin's hometown on the spot.
Now that the Internet is well developed, all kinds of knowledge are highly shared.
Just search and it will come out.
"Do you know which plants, poisonous insects, or poisonous snakes there are in your hometown that can cause itching or pain on the skin?" Li Quan searched for a long time but did not find the information he wanted.
The locals know best what kind of poison there is in Shuangniuzhai.
"Uh...well, I have to think about it. You suspect my son's illness is caused by poisoning, right?" Mr. Qin was able to become a rich man, so he must be very smart.
He Xianzhiyin immediately guessed Li Quan's intention of asking these questions.
Professor Xie and others beside him all showed surprised expressions and humbly learned to see how Li Quan diagnosed the disease.
They have never seen anyone being treated before, so they would first ask where the person’s hometown is and what poisonous animals and plants are there.
"I initially suspected that your son might have been accidentally bitten by a poisonous insect while playing hide-and-seek with other children. As he was not treated in time, he developed skin lesions."
Li Quan explained a few words.
It was because of the high quality of Mr. Qin, unlike those unreasonable family members, that Li Quan revealed the diagnosis information in advance.
"It is indeed possible. But... Dean Li, first of all, I don't doubt your medical skills. I'm just curious. Even if my son was really bitten by a poisonous insect, skin poisoning should not be related to mental illness."
Not to mention Mr. Qin, even many professional doctors and nurses present believed that skin disease has nothing to do with mental illness.
"It's normal for the family members to have doubts. This is too advanced medical knowledge, and you may not understand it even if I tell you. Let me put it this way, do you know where the most bizarre tissue in our human body is?"
Li Quan thought for about two seconds before slowly explaining the doubts to the family members.
"Well... the most bizarre organization, I think, should be the brain!" Mr. Qin thought about it seriously and answered.
" Haha ! The brain is the most mysterious part of the human body, but it is not weird. On the contrary, it is very rigorous, just like an advanced computer, composed of billions of neurons forming a complex matrix. Our emotions, thoughts, memories, etc. all require this matrix to perform calculations and then send out weak electrical signals.
This EEG signal is the answer to our thinking.”
Li Quan smiled. The strangest part of the human body is definitely not the brain.
"Dean, what is the most bizarre organ in the human body? Is it the human nerves?" Qin Shuang couldn't help but ask.
"No! The nerves are a rigorous system, not weird at all. The truly weird tissue in humans is our skin." Li Quan gave an answer that shocked everyone.
"Ah... How could skin be the most bizarre tissue in the human body?" Mr. Qin and others looked incredulous.
"This must start with the composition of the skin. The skin has its own thinking, do you believe it?" Li Quan said with a smile.
"I don't believe it! All our thinking comes from the brain. The skin is just the outermost organ of the body. How can it think? Our hands want to pick up things. This is an instruction from the brain."
Qin Shuang shook his head repeatedly.
Unlike older doctors like Professor Xie, the young Qin Shuang does not worry about bringing bad consequences to himself by questioning Li Quan's words.
For example, being hated by the dean, etc.
She had no such idea at all.
"Don't disbelieve me. If the organs of our human body could leave freely, the one most likely to rebel and leave is the skin. Why do I say that? This is because the dermis of the skin has multiple small bodies.
For example, even if a tiny hair passes over our skin, we can feel it immediately because there is a Meissner corpuscle in the skin, which can detect touches of one hundred thousandth of a gram and vibrations below 1 Hz.
This Meissner corpuscle is a tactile receptor, long mulberry-shaped, about 90 to 120 microns long, located in the papillary layer of the dermis, with the long axis perpendicular to the skin surface. The corpuscle is covered with a layer of connective tissue membrane, which extends into the corpuscle to form multiple connective tissue septa, dividing the corpuscle into several small units.
Its sensitivity is more than 10,000 times more sensitive than the most advanced sensing instruments in the world."
Li Quan gave these scientists some knowledge about the skin.
If you are not a dermatologist, you may not pay attention to this skin knowledge at all.
"What you are talking about is just the sense of touch of the skin. It has nothing to do with its own thinking." Qin Shuang retorted.
Professor Xie winked at Qin Shuang, telling her not to contradict Li Quan again.
Otherwise, she would be banished to the cold palace by Li Quan in the future.
After all, Qin Shuang is Professor Xie's disciple and is being trained as the future successor to pediatrics.
Qin Shuang acted as if he didn't see it.
"Don't worry, I'll give you another example. When we cut a peach with a fruit knife, we can immediately know when we cut the hard peach pit. This ability is not given by the brain, but by the Pacinian corpuscles in the dermis.
It can detect vibrations as small as one ten-thousandth of a millimeter.
When you poke a cake with a toothpick, you can clearly feel when it passes through the cream layer and hits the cake. This is a thousand times more sensitive than the most advanced force sensor in human history.
Also, when our hands touch hot water, we feel it is hot.
When our hands touch ice, we feel cold.
These abilities have nothing to do with the brain. The pain nerves in the brain can only tell us pain, but cannot distinguish between cold and hot. But our skin can clearly distinguish the temperature and material of an object. "
Mr. Qin was fascinated by Li Quan's words.
He never imagined that human skin could be so powerful.
Perhaps no one has ever thought that these abilities belong to the skin, but rather to the brain.
In fact, the human brain is not as omnipotent as we think.
The skin has many capabilities that the brain does not have.
"Dean Li, can you tell me why my son's skin poisoning would cause mental illness?" Mr. Qin was determined to get to the bottom of the matter.
"I just introduced our human skin, which has all kinds of unimaginable sensing abilities. Do you know which organ gives us our sixth sense? It belongs to the skin.
I wonder if you have heard of synesthesia?
When a patient with synesthesia sees someone else exercising or doing something, he or she can clearly know what the other person is thinking at the moment.
Your son's skin is poisoned, and he has severe itching and pain, which will cause the skin's induction to go wrong. Eventually, he will have all kinds of hallucinations. He keeps shouting that there are demons trying to kill him, and even feels hot and cold at times, all because of his skin.
Now we just need to find out what poison your son has been poisoned with and find the right antidote to cure him."
Li Quan said confidently.
