Nineteenth Century Medical Guide

Chapter 35 34. Preparations before the experiment
The storm came very quickly, leaving Kawei on the side dumbfounded.

As an assistant, he knew very well that it was extremely bad to observe the conversation between his leader and his boss, and he should leave obediently.But the two got stuck at the door, blocked the door, and even cut off the way out.

There is no hope of avoiding it, so Kavey had to stand aside, trying to reduce his sense of existence, so as not to become an outlet for the two to step on the brakes in time.

In fact, he still worried too much, because there was no brake at all.This storm is the same as the excessive discharge of the brain when an epileptic patient twitches. Once the seizure occurs, it cannot be controlled, and the storm can only stop when the discharge stops. 【1】

But in view of the status of the two, the confrontation only stopped at the spittle stars that exchanged with each other, and even the voice was restrained in an extremely low range.

Elena denounced her husband's rigidity, workaholic, and extreme self-centeredness, just as childish and ridiculous as a child who has not entered the society, and then focused on expressing her emotional dissatisfaction during this period.

And Ignaz also bit back that his wife didn't understand his work, didn't maintain his dignity, chose to make a lot of noise in the workplace, just like a bad wife and a shrew, and then emphasized that he had been at work during this time progress and pressure.

All the trivial things of the past have been turned over.

In this unrestrained debate, eloquence is no longer a powerful weapon.What can really be shown is their respective abilities, identities, and positions. However, in this respect, Ignatz and Alina are still close to each other.

One is the best surgeon in all of Austria and a frequent visitor to the headlines of the Vienna daily.

The other is the director of the personnel department of the largest hospital in Austria, the precious daughter of a noble family who invested huge sums of money in this hospital.

Only at this stage will they regain some rationality and re-examine their environment and the work they are about to do.It is obviously impossible to reconcile with good words. After cooling down, cold treatment and diversion of attention are the normal state after a couple quarrels.

Elena considered that she lit the fuse first, so she chose to speak first: "I heard that Earl Moraso's wound is recovering well?"

Ignatz walked to the desk and drank the cold coffee he had made before: "I went to see it before, and there hasn't been any ulcer yet."

Elena sighed, opened the door lightly, and asked before leaving: "So the rumor about the Earl's remarriage will come true? How many times has he been married?"

"Three times? I don't remember whether it was four times. In my impression, he did have a vigorous relationship when he was traveling in Hungary, and then he also had an affair on the march to fight Italy."

Ignatz chuckled: "I have to admit that although the Earl is not good-looking, he is very attractive in love."

"It's definitely more attractive than you."

Ignatz has completely calmed down, and in the face of his wife's backfire, he finally showed some manly generosity.

"Okay, it's my fault that I have been staying in the dissecting room all this time. But." He was about to wash the floor habitually, but when he felt that it was wrong, he interrupted quickly: "Forget it, there is nothing to do, just I'm wrong, I'll be back tonight."

Alina was still angry, but in Carvey's view, it was the level of whining: "You don't want to come back, anyway, I'm not at home at night, there is a dance."

"Prom?" Ignatz was surprised. "What prom? Why didn't I know?"

"I don't know?" Alina has long been used to his attitude. "The invitation was sent three weeks ago. You have never cared about this kind of thing, so I didn't expect you to remember it."

"Three weeks ago?" Ignatz looked suddenly enlightened, and quickly seized the opportunity to ease the atmosphere, "Oh, I remembered, the rich businessman who came from the east of Hungary. I heard that when he first came to Vienna a month ago, Bought a lot of paintings and collections, spending a lot of money."

"This is supposed to be his daughter's unveiling ball. My father accepted the invitation, and I have to go."

"Recently, the higher-ups have been in frequent contact with Budapest, and I always feel that something big is about to happen." Ignatz sees the problem from a completely different angle from Elena's. "It seems that I must go too."

"Why bother? Don't you dislike this kind of occasion?"

"Almost enough, what should I wear at night?"

"The dress is ready, you can choose the ornaments, perfume, etc., and I will take care of everything else."

"Ah."

Ignatz watched his wife leave his office, walked slowly back to the desk, looked at the half-turned anatomy notes, and slowly recalled all kinds of things these nights.He did feel a little sorry in his heart, the next caesarean section operation was too important.

"What am I doing back in the office?"

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed something, and glanced at the office, only to find that Karvey was still standing on the side: "By the way, the corpse!!! Karvey, why are you still standing there? Go and do something, Camera studios, churches, jewelry stores, tobacco shops and taverns, remember to pick the cheapest!"

For Ignatz, apart from his wife, the corpse has temporarily become his most important thing.For Kavey, if he can get rid of the corpse, it is considered a success. Whether he can participate in the autopsy is no longer important. What is more important now is that he has a full budget of 100 crowns in his hands.

The two corpses brought in, one male and one female, had no scars on the surface, and no major problems affecting the anatomy of the bones and internal organs. They were simply the most perfect corpses in Ignatz's mind.

The price of such a corpse is more than 100 crowns alone, so Ignaz just said "you can figure it out" when I went out to buy things this time, and it doesn't matter if I have a bill or not.

Of course, as a capable assistant, there must be bills and details.

This is a matter of credibility.

But in the name of going shopping, I took the money and ran to the pharmacy next to the police station to get the alcohol I ordered before, and bought a bottle of wine there to confuse the price, and finally went to Alphonse's and returned with a few rabbit heads. That's another story.

This is called creating favorable conditions for the development of surgery, which is a great righteousness.

After eating, Kavi spent the afternoon helping Ignatz buy all the things he needed, and at the same time brought back home the things he needed.Contains a bottle of double-distilled brandy, a grinder, test tube flasks and a bag of freshly chopped rabbit heads.

Distillation of the wine did not turn out well.

Although he couldn't measure the concentration, he still had an impression of the smell of medical alcohol and the touch of the skin when it volatilized. This bottle of high-concentration brandy obviously did not meet the requirements.However, the 65% alcohol also had some effect, so Kavi didn't throw it away, and just paid the final payment of 3.5 kroner and brought the wine back.

What was left included a full 10 kronor of laboratory equipment, all related to oxytocin, and Nora was due to give birth soon, so things had to be ready as soon as possible.

The oxytocin used in modern times is extracted from the posterior pituitary gland [2]. It is not difficult to reproduce this drug, because the preparation is very simple.But the trouble is that there is no instrument and equipment, so it is difficult to control the concentration of the prepared solution.

If it’s just pure oxytocin, that’s all. A slightly excessive use of oxytocin after surgery will not cause too much harm to the parturient [3].

Kekawi can't be purified, what can be done is the most primitive pituitary posterior lobe extract.It contains not only oxytocin, but also a large amount of vasopressin. The key point is that he still can't calculate the respective concentrations.Even between different solutions prepared by the same hands, the concentration varies.

Vasopressin can effectively contract the uterus and reduce the risk of postpartum hemorrhage, which is also a life-saving medicine.But vasopressin is different from oxytocin. It is not a good thing to inject too much vasopressin into the body of a girl who is less than 1 meters tall.

Carvey sat at the desk, after a long consideration, he decided to do a set of systematic experiments first.

Modern experiments use small white mice, which was certainly unrealistic in the 19th century. There were no sterile white mice here, and there were a lot of dirty house mice.Considering the bunch of microorganisms on the house mouse, Carvey still prefers the voles in the rural woodlands. Although they also carry bacteria and viruses, they are at least better than the house mice.

Voles are not difficult for him to deal with. There is an entire green belt around the hospital, so you should be able to catch some if you pay attention.If the quantity is not enough, or the cleanliness is not enough, he can also go to his former colleagues, ask them for a favor and pay a small fee, and he can easily get the voles.

It doesn't matter if they are male or female, anyway, they just want to beat them hard into the bodies of these voles and find a safe dose.

Who let it be in the 19th century, it doesn't matter what you want, you can only be rough.

"So why didn't this kid get some game to try?"

Carvey looked at his thin body, smiled wryly, and continued to further improve the experimental plan in the notebook.

In addition to the oxytocin experiment, he also needs to prepare the puerperal fever infection investigation experiment, which requires large-scale sampling for microscopic examination.Now that there is high-concentration brandy, the alcohol antibacterial experiment can happen to be completed together, and the first and second wards can be divided into many observation groups.

But like oxytocin, he also needs adequate preparations before doing these experiments.

"Where can I get the microscope? There is one in Ignatz's dissecting room, but I don't have the key." Carvey frowned, "If I let him know that I put maternal lochia on his microscope, he will definitely be banned." Kill him."

Just when he was having a headache, 303 suddenly knocked on his door: "Is Mr. Carvey there?"

Kavi was interrupted, put down the quill in his hand, couldn't help but rolled his eyes and looked at the ceiling: "I'm here, what's wrong?"

"It's eight o'clock in the evening, shouldn't we do the information handover first?"

(End of this chapter)