bookcurios Chapter 45 Bone Injury Plaster
Chapter 45 Bone Injury Plaster
Cheng Ruoan quickly covered her mouth, "Sis! We're on the street, aren't you afraid the people from Huilan City will beat you up!"
Cheng Ruotong chuckled, "I just blurted it out. Let's go, let's go look at legs~"
Shao Yang looked at Cheng Ruotong with affection and said, "You two go and keep watch, I'll go to the carriage shop ahead and ask about the carriages."
"OK."
Just as Cheng Ruoan had said.
When Shaoyang arrived at the carriage and horse shop and said he wanted to buy a carriage, he was told that if he needed two horses to harness the carriage, he would have to wait about five to eight days.
But there are three mules available to choose from, and they cost only half the price of horses.
Seeing that the three mules were all strong young men with good teeth and physiques, Shaoyang simply hired them all to harness to his cart.
Cheng Ruoan hadn't finished examining his leg yet, so he wasn't in a hurry to go back. Shao Yang paid the money and asked the manager of the carriage shop to find two employees to drive him back to the dilapidated temple later.
As for the Cheng family's donkey cart, Shaoyang took it upon himself to sell it to a cart and horse trading company.
Cheng Ruoan's leg treatment at the local clinic went smoothly without any further complications.
She just wanted her leg to heal quickly, so she asked the doctor here to give her some strong medicine.
The old doctor stroked his beard with a proud look on his face: "This lady has come to the right place. The reason why my Kang'an Hall has become the number one medical clinic in Huilan City is because of the medical skills passed down from generation to generation, which are specialize in treating broken bones."
Cheng Ruoan's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she also felt that she was lucky.
"Doctor, could you please take a look at my leg? When will it get better? What kind of medicine should I use? I don't mind if it's expensive, the key is to get it done quickly."
The doctor examined the bone and said confidently, "This is just a common, non-invasive fracture; it's not shattered, so it's very easy to treat. All you need to do is..."
Cheng Ruoan quickly stopped her: "I don't want to just let it heal on its own, I want it to heal quickly. Please prescribe some medicine for me, oral medication, poultices, or soaks, anything is fine."
However, this doctor appears to be a professional orthopedic surgeon.
I also know that fractures are classified as open or closed, and comminuted fractures, etc.
The doctor glared at her. "Of course I'll prescribe medicine for you. Young lady, don't interrupt me or rush me."
Soon, the senior doctor prescribed Cheng Ruoan ten days' worth of medicine, a month's worth of dressings and medicine packs, and half a month's worth of medicinal baths.
Knowing that Cheng Ruoan was a traveler from out of town, the doctor explained to Cheng Ruoan in detail how to use these things.
With a combination of treatments including food, compresses, and soaking, Cheng Ruoan was able to walk normally again in about a month.
This is much faster than the previous doctor who made Cheng Ruoan lie in bed for three months.
If this were modern times, Cheng Ruoan felt that it would be very difficult to get an appointment with this doctor.
They're the kind of people who go to the hospital before dawn to queue up, but even if they try their hardest, they still can't get an appointment with a specialist.
Cheng Ruotong was also amazed, and examined the medicine packet that the doctor had prepared over and over again.
"Wow, doctor, is your medicine really that amazing? Why do you only run a clinic in Huilan City?"
The old doctor's face darkened instantly: "My ancestors were military doctors who accompanied the army. Do you think my family's prescriptions are amazing?"
"If you two young ladies don't believe me, then don't get the medicine. Just pay the consultation fee and go to another clinic."
Cheng Ruoan's heart skipped a beat.
She really needs to cover her sister's mouth; if she's not careful, something bad will happen.
"Doctor, my elder sister didn't mean it that way. We are just country women, ignorant and don't know how to speak properly, please don't take offense," Cheng Ruoan apologized with a smile.
Cheng Ruotong was embarrassed and apologized repeatedly.
Her intention was to say that someone so talented could be admitted to the Imperial Hospital; it would be a waste for them to stay in this small town of Bachuan Prefecture.
The doctor snorted and pushed the medicine packet to Cheng Ruoan: "It's fifteen taels and six mace. Now that you've paid and taken the medicine, please leave. I have to hurry to sell medicine, so I can't continue to look after you."
Cheng Ruoan readily paid sixteen taels of silver.
The extra four hundred coins can be considered an apology to her elder sister for her mouth.
As expected, doctors who run clinics are no exception to the common practice; they are still happy when they see money.
The doctor's expression softened considerably. "Then I thank you, young lady, for understanding the hardships of an old man as a doctor."
"Not at all," Cheng Ruoan said with a smile, cupping her hands in a very proper manner, but it was not the kind of greeting that women in the common people of the Great Xia should give.
It's more like a common courtesy among traveling merchants.
Sure enough, the next thing she said was, "Doctor, you just said you were 'rushing to sell medicine.' I don't know why you, with this clinic, still need to go out to sell medicine?"
Seeing that Cheng Ruoan was eager for medicine for her leg injury and had just paid the money readily, the doctor suddenly had an idea. After a quick glance, he looked at Cheng Ruoan with a bright and sparkling gaze.
"I know you're not from around here, young lady. Would you like some more medicine to help your leg injury heal? Or perhaps you could keep it in case of any unforeseen circumstances?"
Cheng Ruotong: ?
Why do I feel like this doctor's smile is a bit sly?
Cheng Ruoan narrowed her eyes and smiled just like the doctor: "Oh? Doctor, this medicine keeps well?"
"It doesn't keep very well either. Let me introduce it to you, Madam..."
Cheng Ruotong, who was standing to the side, stared wide-eyed.
So this is what you call a lady?
What are you trying to do?!
Of course, it's about making money!
Cheng Ruoan learned from the doctor that the doctor's family's ancestral prescriptions and treatments, in addition to treating broken bones, could also treat other external injuries.
In short, his family has ancestral dressings for treating fractures, as well as ancestral wound medicine that can quickly stop bleeding and promote tissue regeneration.
If Cheng Ruoan hadn't been certain that the Great Xia Dynasty was a fictional dynasty, she would have even thought that Doctor Zhu's ancestors were the founders of Yunnan Baiyao!
No.
Dr. Zhu's prescription has one more ingredient than Yunnan Baiyao, which can double the speed of fracture healing!
However, in Huilan City, there weren't many patients with fractures or ulcers for Dr. Zhu to treat, and it was difficult for patients with fractures or serious injuries to travel from other places to Huilan City to see Dr. Zhu's family for treatment.
Doctor Zhu was only passable at treating other illnesses, so in order to increase the clinic's profits, he negotiated a deal with several security escort agencies to sell medicine directly to them.
The probability of injury is relatively high for those who escort goods.
For this reason, Dr. Zhu also specially improved the formula for bone injury dressing into a more convenient ointment for external use.
The original method of decocting, boiling, and mashing the medicine before applying it to the wound has been changed to simply scooping out the ointment, applying it directly to the wound, and then wrapping it with a cloth strip.
It is convenient, that's all.
However, after the escort agencies took the samples back, they discovered that the ointment's shelf life had shortened, so they all unreasonably broke their contracts.
"Sigh, the original plan was to sell the wound medicine and the bone injury ointment together, but they paid a deposit and took the wound medicine, but refused to pay the remaining balance and took the bone injury ointment."
Don't laugh at me, young lady, but I've smashed three hundred jars of ointment on hand. This ointment is only effective for two months. After two months, the color changes and it loses its effect.
I was so anxious watching them.
Dr. Zhu was almost in tears.
The ointment is made from concentrated medicinal herbs used in dressings. One jar is equivalent to a month's supply of dressing packets, and the cost of the herbs goes without saying.
Moreover, to make it convenient for the镖局's镖师 (bodyguards/escorts) to carry, Doctor Zhu specially commissioned a ceramics workshop to customize the medicine pot.
That would have driven up costs dramatically.
Three hundred jars of ointment would be heavy, and the porcelain jars are fragile, making transportation costs too high. Doctor Zhu approached several merchants, but none of them would take on this business that involved merchants making a profit margin.
These days, if these ointments are delayed in being sold for even a day, the price drops by a penny.
Two months later, Dr. Zhu's investment of 600 taels of silver went down the drain.
What else can he do but cry?
Cheng Ruoan laughed, "Dr. Zhu, don't cry. This is a lucky coincidence; I can actually help you."