Rise of Rurik - Chapter 785

[Chapter 786]

The ten Slav maids of Rurik have all grown into beautiful young girls. During the tax season after the autumn harvest, they appear as the “tax collectors” of the princes, and they are priests during festivals. Yes, we must also participate in labor.

One of their identities is a priest, and it is reasonable to be a doctor.

Ordinary bruises, people endure it and it’s over.

It is said that rubbing flammable spirits on the wound can prevent fever, and the wounded can buy alcohol to heal themselves.

Only with extremely severe trauma do they ask the priest for help.

That’s why Rurik’s maids have to send people to accompany the army every time there is a war. When a battle breaks out, they will hold crossbows and join the shooting flag team. After the battle, they will become surgeons.

It was rare that a reckless man with an arrow in his abdomen was sent to the house next to the small temple in Novgorod. Rurik easily assembled two maids and gave them orders: “Anna, Bella. You two give this The Pechenegs healed, I reckon the man’s intestines were punctured, stitched it up.”

After the operation, the two girls are no strangers to it.

They and other sisters are not only the wives and concubines of the prince, but also the closest students.

They have already clarified the location and general functions of the internal organs of the human body.

But they are not “Nordic little flat magpies”. Even if they perform surgical operations, the methods can still be described as violent and rough.

The premises were closed and the open windows shut.

The house was burned warm and bright by dense oil lamps. The two girls held sharp knives and specially used steel needles imported from the East from the Principality’s ancestral home. The wounded, already drunk and unconscious, began the savage operation.

At least they did the necessary cleaning.

There are no rubber gloves for surgery, so I wash my hands with soapy water, and then wash my hands with spirits and let it dry naturally.

The tools used were also boiled in boiling water.

The two women also put on white robes, although they found it strange that since it was the prince’s order, the simple mouth covering masks had to be firmly covered.

After the wounded was drunk, the clothes near the wound had been cut, and the arrow that caused the injury had been pulled out long ago.

The wound was a hole, which was obviously chiseled out by the armor-piercing arrow.

Thanks to the fact that the arrow hit the stomach, if it had been on the chest, the person would have died long ago.

The two women further cut open the flesh along the self-hemostatic wound, dug out the bright red intestines, found the damaged small intestine full of congestion, and cut off the pierced part in a daze. Sewn it with twine.

The original small hole in the wound was cut off with a sharp knife to remove some extra blood-rich tissue, and then a “centipede” was created on the wounded’s belly with a steel needle and twine.

The Principality of Ross does not have any medicine similar to golden sore medicine at all, and even performing such a laparotomy surgery is a challenge with no guarantee of success rate.

The two women hoped that the wounded would get better. Finally, they wiped the “centipede” on the belly with strong wine, then paste a layer of honey, and finally wrapped the wounded waist with white cloth.

This is all they can do for the time being, and they can only rely on God for the rest…

They performed a strange surgical operation, and if they had not been educated about the structure of the human body, they would be helpless.

Exhausted, the two women pushed open the wooden door and faced a group of Pechenegs waiting anxiously outside the door.

Kagan paced up nervously. “How is he? Dead? Alive?”

The two women backed away one after another in fright, and of course the bright red blood on their white clothes also caused Kagan to panic.

Rurik maintained his utmost concentration and signaled Kagan not to embarrass his woman: “Anna and Bella have done their best. Brother Kagan, it seems that the rest can only look forward to the grace of God.”

“Your god?”

“Exactly. Our Odin!” Rurik’s complexion was iron, and he walked with firm steps.

“Kagan, go in and see your family.”

In the bright room, pairs of eyes stared curiously and pitifully at the wounded who was still asleep. His stomach was wrapped in a layer of sackcloth, and the air was filled with a faint smell of stench, fragrance and alcohol. The complex smell was surprising.

On the other hand, Rurik also communicated with the two wives and concubines, and they were both pleasantly surprised and worried about the operation of cutting intestines, nesting and suturing them.

The two women longed for the prince’s praise. They were both his own women. Rurik subconsciously stretched out his hand and pinched their cheeks, verbally declaring that they had done a good job.

They hooked their heads slightly and looked at each other with smiles on their faces.

“Go down and rest, and remember to write down your thoughts on today’s work.” Rurik continued to order.

“Of course.” The two girls said in unison.

If there was a problem with the operation, the injured would have died of bleeding, so it was clear that the situation was fine now.

Performing surgery is like a meat factory processing workshop in the world, and surgeons are like butchers. The patients being treated are crying in extreme pain. Even so, there is no guarantee of a high cure rate.

It was a Scotsman named Robert Liston who invented the practice of surgery in the early nineteenth century and invented tools such as the lancet and the hemostat.

This is the forerunner of the modern surgical industry, but in that era without painkillers, patients during surgery still had to endure pain and face a huge risk of postoperative infection.

As for the latter, it is not something that Dr. Liston can solve.

It was Florence Nightingale, a pioneer in the medical care industry, who integrated a set of clean and hygienic nursing techniques. With the popularization of medical masks and the use of anesthetics containing nitrogen compounds, surgical operations have been combined with the “Human Meat Factory” Finish cutting.

Of course, the Principality of Ross under Rurik did not have to take the detours that many predecessors took. Relying on the existing conditions, he tried his best to reproduce the surgical operations he had seen and understood!

The wounded soldiers on the battlefield are all the subjects of experiments, and the treatment of bruises and bruises on weekdays can also improve the skills of doctors. A surgical team in the Principality hates that there are no surgical subjects. “It needs to be written as a case record.

“You all stay away for now. Kagan, your family needs to rest.” Rurik expressly said.

“He seems to have passed out, is it because the alcohol has not dissipated?” Kagan still looked anxious and curious.

“Exactly.”

“What’s next for him? When will he be able to stand again? When will he be able to ride again?”

“As I said, the rest depends on whether God grants grace. You all know that this man showed himself recklessly. He had already made up his mind to die, and it was his destiny to die in the end. However, I was Our blessing from Odin, I don’t want to kill him, maybe Odin will be merciful.” Kagan believed Rurik’s high-sounding words, Kagan didn’t hold back anymore, and tactfully called his brothers to retreat.

In the end, only Rurik and Kagan were left in the operating room.

“What else will my dependents experience?”

“He will be well cared for and will be given honey water for many days. His condition will only be honey water until…”

“How?” Kagan asked.

“After a while, I will have another knife in the stomach.”

“Ah?” Kagan, who had a little understanding of the situation and was emotionally stable, was stunned again: “Why is this? If my subordinate is stabbed again, wouldn’t it be another punishment?”

“No way.” Rurik shrugged: “The hemp thread that sewed his intestines must be taken out after the intestines are healed, otherwise he will still die of fever. You don’t have to worry about this. If God bestows favor, then when you When you return home in spring, this reckless and poor guy can still accompany you on horseback as your bodyguard.”

How does Kagan know about the structure of human internal organs?

He knew where a person’s heart was, because that was the vital point of any soldier, so if he wanted to kill an enemy, he would aim at the heart.

As for intestines and so on, there is only a vague concept.

After the incident, the wounded were sent to a quiet and warm hut. These Pecheneg fighters were tied to the bed by cables. Once the so-called alcohol passed, the poor wounded would fall into the pain of the wound. In order to prevent the wound from tossing and cracking, the binding was a last resort. For that.

In the middle of the night, people with sensitive ears heard the wailing.

An anecdote spread like wildfire. The so-called loyal wife and concubine of the prince performed a sharp weapon operation on a foreign horseman. All the internal organs of the wounded were turned over.

When Rurik learned of the bizarre news, he had to post a notice on the bulletin board in Novgorod City Square.

It was a printed document, and the same text was posted in other open-view corners of the city.

The content of the document is full of easy-to-understand words, such as the identity of the so-called injured, the cause of the injury, the operation performed, and the status of the injured. It seems that only in this way can this so-called urban legend be suppressed.

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But what Rurik didn’t know was that, without hesitation, this matter became a ghost story for some parents to scare their children, the so-called running out in the cold weather, beware of being caught and emptied by the witch.

The parents of the children still don’t want their cubs to freeze to death accidentally, after all, there are no wild animals in the city, only the cold night wind that is more fierce than wild animals.

The wailing of the wounded lasted for about a day, and the poor wounded could only drink honey water to continue their lives.

The good news is that the fatal fever that everyone was terrified of did not find this poor man. In Kagan’s view, it was indeed the favor of the Ross gods.

Of course, Kagan is not a simple fool who leaves everything to God. He can see that the medical skills of the Principality of Ross have reached a high level.

On the grasslands, war casualties are not only reflected in the fighting on the battlefield. Many wounded fled temporarily and died of fever afterwards.

The prince of Rus evidently possessed a means of combating fever, and if Pecheneg had mastered this technique, many brave warriors would have saved their lives.

He wanted to ask why, and he was even mentally prepared, the so-called buying this technology with money and horses.

Right now there is an opportunity!

Because the Hanukkah of the Ross people is coming, the Prince of Ross has revealed a wonderful plan, so-called to bring the newly trained cavalry troops to inspect their “king city tent” New Rose Fort, and participate in their grandest event.

How is the pageant of the Rus not the pageant of the Pechenegs?

“If I take the opportunity to congratulate you on the grand event and then join it, you will thank me…”

Kagan thought so, and decisively visited Prince Ross himself.

In the quiet secret room, Rurik personally met his brothers in the grassland. He thought that there was a secret and important matter, which made him behave like a god.

The oil lamp was lit, and the two sat on the leather cushions and looked at each other.

“Let’s talk! It must be your family’s problem? The situation is very good these few days, and the second round of surgery can be performed in a few days. Wait for another month, and he will recover as before.”

Kagan sighed lightly: “It is indeed related to this matter. Rurik brothers, there is only one thing I don’t know.”

“Speaking.”

“What means did you use to fight the fever.”

“Of course it’s God’s grace.” Rurik said so, but the corners of his mouth slightly turned up to reveal the untruth of his words.

“You’re amusing me. I know, you must have a technique. I… want to learn.”

“You want to learn? Why?”

Kagan simply patted his thigh, and then patted his heart in a heart-to-heart expression: “I’m telling the truth, we Pechenegs are surrounded by powerful khanates, our soldiers are very elite, and we encounter frequent wars. Many fighters are wounded and die afterwards. Many of my fighters would live if you taught me how to fight the fever.”

The words were a bit unexpected. Rurik thought about it carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt.

Thinking about it again, his attitude towards Kagan has changed a bit.

Then think about the importance this person attaches to the injured slave family members. Does this person really love his soldiers?

Not only that, it is clear that he loves his own power more, or the stability of power is based on the support of a large-scale army.

“You want to learn? It’s not easy to learn. If you only know the basic methods, I can tell you right now. But you need to pay a lot of money to buy medicines to fight fever.”

“What is the potion?”

“It’s the flaming liquor you drank!”

The two sides have huge geographical levels, and are now in a substantial alliance relationship. Ross is greedy for Pecheneg’s good horse, so it is important to deepen their friendship with each other.

The so-called fever is scurvy, rotten wounds ooze pus, dirt enters the blood, and the circulatory system supplies the dirt to the whole body, causing systemic necrosis.

It wasn’t until the invention of the microscope that people realized that it was caused by bacteria, and the rotting and dissolved somatic cells produced venom that endangered the body.

By prescribing the right medicine in this way, scurvy can be easily cured.

The principle is to debride the wound, cut off the carrion, wash with medicine, suture the wound, and even add a little magical white medicine to speed up self-healing, and even more magical biological protein glue will bond it together.

Just the use of high-grade vodka made the Russians almost overcome the scurvy of the wounded soldiers. This made the soldiers of the Principality fearless in battle, because they could treat ordinary injuries, and only fatal injuries were helpless.

This was most vividly demonstrated in the two battles against Karelia. All minor injuries were treated, and no one died of fever.

There are some invisible bugs floating in the air, and the soil, especially the feces, has the most such bugs.

The skin can isolate this vicious bug, but when a wound appears, the bug is like a pack of wolves gnawing on meat, and finally kills a person. The only solution is to wipe it with strong wine…

After hearing this theory, Kagan basically believed it. He wanted to buy spirits, but when he heard about its price, he was immediately persuaded.

Flammable spirits are honestly not good for your throat, but the fun of drinking lies in the trance after drunkenness. A person will feel that his soul is out of his body, or he will enter a blurred state that he only felt in childhood, and even feel To chat with the gods.

“Isn’t ordinary wine not acceptable? Kumiss too?”

“No. Unless you can create flammable wine, not only will you not be able to heal the wounded, but it will also cause the wounded to die early.”

“I…” Kagan gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: “I’ll buy it!”

Since the other party wanted to buy it, Rurik was willing to sell it.

Because spirits are sold together with glass bottles, distilled spirits are much cheaper due to high grain production, and the price of spirits is mainly reflected in the glass bottles.

Rurik sold three bottles of spirits at a friendly price of two pound silver coins, and Kagan ordered fifteen bottles directly this time!

“How do I get it? I want it now!”

Rurik shrugged: “Not for now, but if you are willing to go to New Roseburg with me, you can get it on the spot. After all, I have established a winery in my royal city.”

“That’s what I meant! You’re going to ride to New Roseburg for your Hanukkah. It’s a party! I’m entitled to it.”

“Oh? I welcome you. You are travelers from outside. You can see our festivals, the frozen sea in the north, and the sun on the ice.”

“Very good.” Kagan laughed naively: “To be honest, your Hanukkah is also our Karakin Festival.”

“What is that? It’s also a grand sacrifice?”

“Sacrifice to the sun and a warm new life. I will gather to eat barbecue and drink kumiss, dance, and play the kumbus (same origin with the guitar). Priests will sacrifice to gods, and men and women will marry.”

“Sounds good. Wait a minute, do you still have some instruments?” Rurik was alert and curious at the same time.

“Corbus, for plucking. Ney, for blowing.” Kagan said while making movements with both hands, but it was a pity that he didn’t bring it on this trip.

Although Rurik had regrets, the purchase of Pecheneg musical instruments was also included in the plan.

“We are about to leave.” Rurik sighed hopefully, “Since you are interested, please prepare well. This will be a long journey, and we will advance on glaciers and icy lakes. You don’t have to worry about the fodder for the horses, I’ll be ready.”

“Huh? Brother, you will spend a lot.”

“What’s the difficulty, it is my honor for you to participate in our festival. Besides…”

“how?”

“I see that only a few of the horses have iron shoes. It’s not good. No problem. When I get to New Roseburg, I will put steel shoes on all the horses. You just need to bring someone to enjoy this treasure.”

“I can?” Kagan was overjoyed.

“Of course, we are brothers and our two countries are allies.”

[End of this Chapter]