Episode 40. If you don’t want to get your legs cut off, teach me how to do it. (1)
“Hey, it doesn’t matter if you go, but I apologize to our congressman Bong and go.”
At that time, Congressman Bong’s servant Ho stood in front of the man.
Although Ho was a servant, he was a servant like Congressman Bong’s right-hand man, and he was quite equipped with martial arts.
Naturally, the man hesitated at the momentum of the favor.
“What are you?”
“I am a servant of the Bongauibang.”
“what! Bonga’s room! The Bonggauibang, one of the three major uibangs in Chohyeon?”
“I guess you’ve heard of our congressman’s reputation.”
“Is that really the Bongdeok member of Bonga Uibang?”
“Yes.”
The man Dan turned his head and looked at Congressman Bong.
‘Come to think of it, this isn’t the kind of outfit you’d wear in a place like this. What’s more, if you’re accompanied by a servant like this…’
“Are you really Congressman Bong of the Bong Family Room?”
“Yes. It seems to me that you have tetanus.”
Stumble.
At Bong’s assertion, Dan stumbled for a moment, losing his balance.
When Ojang quickly helped him by the side, Dan sat down on the bench with a rapidly darkened expression.
“How could this happen to me…”
“There is no need to despair so much. Although tetanus is a fatal disease, of course, it is still in its infancy and can be sufficiently cured.”
Dan raised his head in disbelief at the fireman’s words.
“Can you fix it? Tetanus?”
“yes. It will take some time to fully heal, but it can be fixed.”
The painter had not yet experimented with killing staphylococci with penicillin he had made, so he took this opportunity to test it slowly.
In fact, if the experiment is successful, the disease doesn’t take too long, but we have to look at the penicillin’s perfection
…
Although the painter felt sorry for the clinical trial as a doctor, he convinced himself that it was reasonable in that he did not receive money.
“Can you really fix it?”
“yes.”
With the fireman’s firm answer, the darkness that had been cast over Dan’s face was slowly clearing.
Congressman Bong, who was next to him, listened to the fireman’s assurances and pretended to be okay on the outside, but on the inside he was tilting his head.
‘Cure tetanus? Did you say that if you cut off your ankle right away, you can cure it because the tetanus won’t spread? Well, if it’s a fireman’s medicine, even if he cuts off his ankle, the bleeding will be minimized, so he’ll be able to save it.’
Congressman Bong misunderstood because he did not know the existence of penicillin.
In the medical practice of this era, amputation of the part closer to the heart was the only way to increase the chances of surviving if one contracted tetanus.
Congressman Bong later discussed how the fireman would amputate the ankle, and thought that if he could assist, he should do it.
“If you make me well, I will just give half of the herbs I will call to you. Oh, please forgive me for what I said earlier. I made a big mistake because I was so dark.”
Watching Dan bow his head, the painter put on a non-trivial expression.
“It’s true that I’m young and hard to trust, so I don’t pay much attention to those words.”
“I’m really, really sorry.”
“Because it’s okay. By the way, are you really going to give me half the next time I gather herbs?”
“yes.”
“You may regret it later.”
“If you cure tetanus, I will do it unconditionally. Trust me.”
“Well, we’ll see if that’s really the case later. Disinfection isn’t over yet, so take off your shoes.”
“yes.”
“Look.”
“yes. Senator.”
“Go to the warehouse and bring me the one I made yesterday.”
“That…that you made yesterday?”
I couldn’t even bring the word mold out of my mouth. Whether or not he knew Bo’s heart, the fireman responded calmly.
“huh. Bring water to drink as well.”
“All right.”
After a while, Obo brought what the painter had said (penicillin).
The painter boiled the pig’s intestines, sterilized them with distilled spirits, made thin cloths, sewed them together, and filled them with penicillin to make them into small capsules.
Of course, the shape itself is very different from modern capsules, and it looks like a small candy that children eat.
The fireman handed the man penicillin along with water.
“It’s a little big, but you shouldn’t chew it. Swallow it with water.”
“What is this?”
“Eat once. If you eat it, you can cure the tetanus next.”
“Should I eat this next?”
“yes. Please eat.”
“All right.”
gulp.
The man put on a slightly suspicious expression, but soon swallowed the medicine with water.
‘It’s quite big, but it swallows it well. Penicillin, make sure to live to the small intestine.’
The fireman secretly hoped that the penicillin capsule would not explode in the stomach and wrapped a bandage around Dan’s disinfected foot.
* * *
Close up…..
Then I heard a pretty loud sound of horses’ hooves in the distance.
I turned my head in the direction of the sound and saw a two-headed carriage and a horse coming towards me at high speed.
The painter laughed inwardly, recognizing that it was Prince Hwang who rode a horse ahead of the wagon.
‘I was wondering when he would come, but now he’s here.’
“The one ahead of me over there looks like Prince Hwang.”
Congressman Bong, who was next to him, also recognized Prince Hwang and tilted his head.
“That’s right, Prince Hwang.”
“Right. My eyes were not wrong. But why is Prince Hwang coming here? What about the carriage behind you?”
“Probably Captain Joe is riding in the carriage.”
“Professor Joe? why?”
“Didn’t Lieutenant Jo also step on the iron in Maseok Mountain?”
“That was it. But I sterilized and treated it well.”
“It seems that the iron-steelers sprinkled on the Maseok Mountain are severely rusted, or the bandits have painted something on them.”
Upon hearing the fireman’s answer, Congressman Bong’s face darkened rapidly.
It was Congressman Bong who treated Professor Cho’s feet at Maseok Mountain. If there was a problem with the treated foot, there was no way that Lieutenant Jo would be left alone.
“Hmm, maybe it was. If so, did Lieutenant Jo also get tetanus?”
“I don’t know if it’s tetanus or not yet, but the other day I had to visit the head of the house, so I saw Lieutenant Joe, and he was limping. Senator Bong, I’m careful, but there’s a good chance he’s got tetanus.”
“Haa~ If the person in that carriage really is Lieutenant Jo and has tetanus… I might not be able to serve as a member of the council in Chohyeon anymore.”
There is a perception that if you get tetanus, you almost die, so Gajang Cho will not persecute Congressman Bong severely, but he will not go over it.
In fact, many of the doctors of this era could not heal the people of the nobility family, so they left their hometowns to escape persecution and became wanderers.
“If Lieutenant Joe dies, that may happen, but if he lives, there is no problem.”
“Even if you live, it will be a problem. If Lieutenant Jo, an officer in the military, becomes an onslaught, he will never leave me alone.”
“Why do you become sick? Given the circumstances, you probably won’t have to amputate your feet.”
“Eh? What does that mean? From tetanus… you don’t cut your foot?”
“yes. You don’t have to cut it.”
“haha! What does that mean? You don’t cut your foot with tetanus?”
“Yes, it will be fine. Uncle Dan will also treat you a little later.”
When the painter turned his head slightly toward Dan, who was sitting on the bench, Congressman Bong put on a slightly puzzled expression.
“Are you treating me?”
“yes.”
The fireman replied indifferently. I thought to myself, ‘I already did it. I have to do more in the future.’
“It will take a few more days of treatment, but you will be fine.”
“Hey! What does that mean? How can tetanus be cured without having to amputate the foot? Are you scraping out all the pus? blood? What about blood?”
“There are ways. There will be no amputation of the foot anyway.”
“Really?”
“yes.”
Congressman Bong looked at the fireman’s calm eyes and made an expression of disbelief for a long time before grabbing his hand.
“Then be sure to treat Professor Joe as well. I will never forget this grace of mine.”
“It’s not such a big deal.”
“No, it’s a big deal for me. So please treat me.”
“All right.”
“Hey there, but… I mean.”
“yes.”
“It’s shameless, but can you teach me how to do that…?”
“Hmm- I’m sorry about that, but I can’t teach you.”
“Why but. I’ll pay any price.”
“It is not a slander that can be paid for with money. So don’t be greedy.”
“I will become a disciple of Confucius. In fact, while learning vascular repair from Confucius, I felt that I was lacking a lot. So please accept me as your disciple.”
“Even if you become my disciple, I cannot teach you the slander of curing tetanus. So, learn only blood vessel suturing and focus on the doctor’s doctor’s office. In fact, I’ve been here all along, so aren’t most of the medical offices open? Then I will starve to death.”
When the painter stubbornly refused, Congressman Bong was ready to kneel.
Hey hey.
At that time, Prince Hwang arrived in front of the medical room, got off the horse, and hurriedly entered the medical room.
When the painter welcomed Gunhu Hwang, Congressman Bong followed after him, unable to beg any more.
* * *
After a while, when Lieutenant Jo and Count Huang entered the medical room, people all stood up and bowed their heads.
The painter took Gyowi into the master bedroom, and Hwang Gun-hu stood guard in front of the master bedroom like a guard.
While Prince Hwang was doing this, people were only snooping outside and did not dare to enter the main room.
The painter didn’t like Prince Hwang’s threatening attitude for some reason, so he deliberately opened the door to the main room and let Prince Hwang out of the room.
“You want me to leave?”
Hwang Gun-hu put on a slightly bewildered expression.
“yes. Because of Hwang’s high-handed attitude, everyone here is uneasy. So go to the carriage.”
“Go to the carriage.”
“All right. Instructor.”
Hwang’s consort hesitated at the fireman’s words, but when Lieutenant Jo spoke, he immediately answered and went outside.
Rep. Bong asked if he was embarrassed to see Lieutenant Jo or if he had something to ask Hwang.
“It’s been a while.”
The hwabu looked at Gunhu Hwang and Congressman Bong, who had gone outside, and soon lowered his head slightly toward Lieutenant Jo.
“How have you been?”
“Yes, as you can see, I am doing well.”
“I’m sorry for making you lose your way that day. sorry.”
“It could be because my brother is in critical condition. Belated condolences. In my family, my eldest brother went to the condolences as a representative, so I did not go.”
“Know. By the way, I heard from Prince Hwang that they are treating people here, so it’s very shabby. Is this really a medical room?”
Even among the shabby houses in the slums, Lieutenant Jo looked around the shabby clothes of the fireman.
This place without a common signboard looked more like one of the many houses in the slums than a doctor’s room.
In fact, it was one of several houses.
“I’m a medical student who hasn’t even taken the medical exam yet, so there’s nothing special about it.”
“It doesn’t seem like too much. Anyway, it seems that there are patients in the doctor’s room.”
Lieutenant Cho pointed to Dan, who was sitting on a bench with a bandage on his foot.
“Because it is a poor village where the four other members do not pay attention, patients are treated by people like me, an unqualified member who has not even passed the medical school.”
The painter mentioned that he was unqualified for a long time, as if he wanted to let people know that he was carrying the incident he had suffered the other day in his heart.
Lieutenant Jo was slightly offended by the fireman’s attitude, but since he was the one who regretted it, he changed the subject without voting.
“Looking at the bandage on your foot, you must have injured your foot?”
“You’re a herbalist. It looks like you stepped on iron bars scattered by bandits while you were gathering herbs at Maseok Mountain.”
Startle.
Instructor Jo’s eyes widened slightly at the word ‘striking’.
“If you stepped on a stinger… is it festering?”
“Your festered salve.”
“Since it was a plaster and couldn’t be cured with the plaster, you must have come to get treatment, right?”
“Yes. The extent of the festering was not wide, but unfortunately I got tetanus.”
“tetanus!”
“…..”
Ha-.
For a moment, a look of sympathy appeared on Inspector Jo’s face.
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