Chapter 53: Can You Cure Him?

Zhao Wei let down the curtain, looked at the deputy general on the bed, and asked Su Wan who was standing by, “Can you cure him?”

“I need to see the specific situation.” Su Wan hadn’t examined him yet, so she didn’t dare to make a conclusion.

“You go and see.” Zhao Wei walked to the bedside and moved the bloody basin away.

Su Wan walked over and finally saw clearly that the blood on his chest hadn’t stopped at all. She quickly took the deputy general’s pulse.

His hands were cold, his heartbeat and breathing were accelerating, typical symptoms of shock due to excessive blood loss!

“Rope!” Su Wan shouted urgently!

Zhao Wei brought a rope to Su Wan.

Su Wan used the rope as a tourniquet to stop the deputy general’s bleeding.

Military Doctor Liu was stunned, staring at Su Wan’s somewhat childish face, and thought in his heart, has the general gone mad?

Inviting such a young girl, is he in a hurry for the deputy general to die faster, to send the deputy general to heaven sooner?

“General, didn’t you say you were going to invite a divine doctor?”

Doctor Liu pinched his palm, resisting the impulse to drag Su Wan away, and tentatively said, “Is this girl a disciple of the divine doctor? The deputy general’s condition is critical, we can’t be careless, this…”

“She is the divine doctor.” Zhao Wei interrupted the army doctor’s words.

Doctor Liu stared straight ahead, too shocked to speak.

She, she is the divine doctor?

Doctor Liu looked at Zhao Wei, then at Su Wan, thinking that the general was blinded by beauty!

He earnestly said, “General, even if this girl is extraordinarily talented, she probably can’t cure the deputy general. This arrow hit a vital spot, even if the head of the Imperial Medical Institute came, there wouldn’t be much hope! You should invite this girl’s master!”

He didn’t wait for Zhao Wei to speak, and seriously advised Su Wan, “Young lady, the deputy general has been through hundreds of battles, has made countless contributions, and is a hero of the Great Zhou Dynasty. You can’t mess around, don’t show off on him!”

“You can’t cure him, that’s because your medical skills are not refined.” Su Wan looked at Zhao Wei, “Cure, or not cure?”

Zhao Wei: “You cure.”

Su Wan wrote a prescription and handed it to another Qin army doctor, “Go and prepare the medicine, boil it into a decoction, pour it into a copper basin that has been boiled with hot water, and bring it over.”

She saw a medicine box next to her, opened it, and saw that there were all kinds of copper and iron surgical knives inside, the shape was like the surgical tools she had seen in the museum from the Ming Dynasty and Han Dynasty, in addition to that, there were silver threads, mulberry bark threads and curved needles for suturing.

Su Wan took out the curved needle and mulberry bark thread, and the scalpel then handed them to the Qin army doctor, “Boil them in boiling water.”

Doctor Liu was anxious on the side, watching the Qin army doctor leave in a hurry, and was preparing to persuade.

Su Wan slapped another prescription in his hand, “Grind these few medicines into fine powder.”

Doctor Liu looked at the prescription with a stiff face, “What is this?”

“Ma Fei San^[1]“麻沸散” (Ma Fei San) is a type of anesthetic used in surgical operations, which was invented by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in ancient China. It is considered the earliest anesthetic in China..”

Doctor Liu’s eyes widened.

This, this is the legendary Ma Fei San?

Nowadays, they all use a specially made wine to anesthetize people for pain relief.

He looked at Su Wan uncertainly, she broke the arrow, and miraculously, the blood that they couldn’t stop, actually stopped!

“If you keep dawdling, he will really die!” Su Wan said coldly, “Anyway, it’s death, take a gamble, he still has a chance to live.”

Doctor Liu pinched the prescription, she knew the formula of Ma Fei San, and the blood had stopped, indicating that she had some skills! Maybe she could cure it?

He gritted his teeth, strode away, and prepared Ma Fei San.

A quarter of an hour later, the two army doctors had everything ready.

Su Wan took out the scalpel, heated it with fire then disinfected it with Huang Bai liquid^[2]In this context, “黃柏液” (Huang Bai liquid) is a traditional Chinese medicine used for its antimicrobial and antibacterial properties.. She mixed Ma Fei San with hot wine and fed it to the deputy general, then cut open the skin on his chest, took out the arrowhead, and found that it hadn’t hurt the heart, she couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Doctor Liu’s eyes widened, she cut through the skin, and the amount of bleeding was so small?

Usually when he takes out an arrow, a lot of blood flows, and the wound is prone to suppuration, causing the injured person to have a high fever that doesn’t go away, and die.

Su Wan won’t kill the person, will she?