Nineteenth Century Medical Guide

Chapter 46 45. Sword Injury
In order to strive for fairness, it takes a lot of time to formulate the rules before the duel.But once the start is announced, 90% of duels will end in an instant. If you don’t watch carefully enough, you will fast-forward to the end just like accidentally pressing the double-speed button.

For those who have gathered around the restaurant to watch from the beginning, this sense of temporal disconnection is particularly acute.

After the two rapiers [1] came into contact for a short time, they each chose a neutral position to attack the opponent's torso.

Compared with Alphonse's tall stature, Li Ben was a bit shorter.The disadvantage of insufficient arm length prevents him from attacking the opponent's heavily defended upper body vitals, so he can only look for opportunities around Alphonse's waist while dodging.

Neither of them had high sword skills, and the space on the side of the street was limited, so their flaws were quickly revealed.

Alphonse's hands were heavy, and he took the lead in attacking Li Ben's chest with a sword, forcing him to take several steps back and fall to the ground.

Judging from the balance on the scene, Li Ben has always been at a disadvantage, and it is reasonable to raise his hand to admit defeat after losing.

But in fact, when he was hit, he also responded with a sword very covertly. From Alphonse's perspective, they should be considered a tie, but he won the duel because of the opponent's surrender.

"Congratulations, brave Mr. Alphonse, Mr. Li Ben was stabbed firmly in the chest." Carvey stepped forward to hold him back, "You have won the duel!"

Alphonse didn't have the feeling of winning, and he still held the rapier tightly in his hand: "Strong? I didn't stab his heart at all. How strong is this?!"

He couldn't bear the end of a duel like this, and wanted to continue to attack, but just as he lifted his feet, his body went limp, and he lost his center of gravity and leaned on Kawei.Carvey and Berget stopped him and announced the end of the duel:
"Mr. Li Ben has been injured and surrendered. According to the previous agreement, the duel is over."

"No! Coward! Coward! Just throw swords at each other and admit defeat?" Alphonse broke free from the embrace of the two, and shouted, "Again! I must tie you into a sieve for draining vegetables today bag!"

"Enough, Mr. Chef!"

The patrolman on the side stood up: "This is an established rule. Unless he agrees to continue the duel, everyone present and I will assume that your duel is over and you have won."

"No! I don't agree! I don't accept it!"

Seeing that he still persisted, Kawei slapped him directly, regardless of whether it was elegant or not: "Don't make trouble, you are also injured."

Suddenly, a piercing pain swept over Alphonse's back, and his strength was cut by half.

Carvey stretched his neck and looked around: "Is there a coachman, coachman, hurry up and send the wounded to the hospital~"

"Which hospital?"

"Municipal General Hospital!"

In fact, in terms of distance, Roshshuart Restaurant is closer to Graze Hospital, and you only need to cross two streets to get there.Horse-drawn carriages are charged at a fixed or hourly rate, no matter how you look at it, it is more profitable to send Graz, and the drivers also recommend going there.

But if they paid double the fare at the beginning, they would choose to keep their mouths shut, and would be willing to take a long detour for about 20 minutes, using the city scenery along the road to relieve the pain of the wounded.

Of course, slight bumps in the cabin are always inevitable.

Facing the same question from Alphonse, Carvey's answer was very natural: "You are injured and need to be treated as soon as possible, and the Municipal General Hospital has the most powerful doctor Ignaz in Austria, as well as his best assistant. "

"Actually, there's no need to go to the hospital. It's just a little bit of skin trauma. Just lie down for two days and you'll be fine."

"Are you sure?" Carvey used the intimidation tactics that have long been perfected, and this tactic has been tried and tested. "The location of the injury is so ambiguous. This kind of sword injury may break the blood vessel. If you are unlucky, it may affect some daily routines." Physiological function."

Alphonse was lying flat on the seat, pressing his buttocks with a handkerchief in one hand and supporting his head with the other, and there were question marks all over his head: ? ? ?

"To put it simply, you need surgery."

"You haven't checked yet."

"No need to check, surgery is necessary, that's where you sit on the chair."

"Ok."

Alphonse's mind was not on his butt, but he was still thinking about the little German nobleman: "If I had stabbed more accurately just now, and moved out half a finger's distance, maybe I could have avoided the bone. Give him a chill."

"Don't think so much." Carvey smiled and explained, "Everyone knows that you won the duel. This is an irrefutable fact."

The words are indeed true, regardless of the injuries of the two, at least in terms of courage, it is Alphonse's complete victory.Many people will regain their senses after calming down, and Alphonse is also very clear that the result of the duel means everything: "It's a pity that his dirty blood was splashed on this white shirt."

"Wait and wash after you get back from the hospital."

"Fortunately, it's white, just go to a laundry to bleach it."

"Um"

Looking at the receding houses and trees outside the window, Carvey suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed something crucial, and asked back, "What did you just say?"

"What are you talking about? When you wash your clothes, you have to wash off the blood, it's too dirty!"

"No, why did you just say you were looking for a laundry?"

"Oh, bleach."

"bleach?"

Alphonse was not surprised, and said with a smile: "No wonder, you have never been a laundry worker, of course you don't know that white clothes can be bleached."

Carvey is just a clinician and really doesn't know the development history of bleaching powder【2】, and the original owner is too young to have this knowledge and experience.If the bleaching powder here is really the calcium hypochlorite he thought, then the disinfection work can take a big step forward.

Of course, the priority must be alcohol first, but under the premise that alcohol cannot be effectively prepared, it is okay to use bleach instead.

It's nothing more than smelly, flammable and explosive, and hurts the skin. Compared with the current super high probability of wound infection, these are completely acceptable.

"what happened to you?"

"Oh, I was thinking about those rabbit heads, I forgot to take them away just now to be my assistant."

Alphonse changed his posture, and finally made his bloody butt feel more comfortable: "I don't know why you want those rabbit heads, it's mysterious. But it was agreed before, I will find someone to give it to you tomorrow." You send it."

"How long are you going to cook rabbit dishes?"

"Still in the testing phase."

"That seems to last a while."

"What the hell are you doing?"

Carvey finally revealed some inside information: "Do medicine."

"Are you still a pharmacist?"

"No, it's just a prescription left by my father. I want to make it casually, maybe it will work."

Alphonse was not interested in medicine, so he just asked casually, and soon the topic of the two returned to the duel.

"Speaking of tomorrow, the report of the duel between you and Mr. Li Ben will definitely be on the front page of tomorrow's morning paper. I must buy a copy and read it carefully." Carvey said with a smile, "The heroic French chef fights hard." What's wrong with you, outspoken German?"

"Did you just say you'd be in the newspaper?"

"I saw several of the people watching just now at the gate of Laszlo's manor. They should be reporters from the newspaper." Carvey guessed, "This is a duel on the side of the ring road, and there are so many people watching , they have no reason to miss it."

Alphonse miscalculated the Austrians' views on duels, and didn't think of the reporter at all, so he was careless: "No, this matter must not be published in the newspaper!"

Carvey's thinking is still not in line with the upper class of this era: "What's wrong?"

"This duel is too much fun, it's just nonsense."

"Don't worry, readers have a very poor memory and will forget it in a few days."

"But I'm the chef of a top French restaurant in Vienna. Customers will think of tonight when they enter the store and see me, but what about him?" Alphonse clenched his fists again, "He just came here to relax. That's all, who knows him?."

"If you say that, they will remember it if you don't report it."

"No, it's different! Look at the reaction of the onlookers tonight when you appeared on the stage. This is the power of the headlines on the Vienna Evening News. And what I want to be on is the daily newspaper, which will only be more extreme!"

Alphonse suddenly thought of a way: "I think maybe we can change the result of the duel."

Carvey still didn't understand what he meant: "Huh? Do you want to be a loser?"

"No! I mean to change the negative impact of this duel on me."

"The duel is over, how can we change it?"

"This time it's over, but there will be another time!"

After 0 o'clock quietly, the two carriages galloped along the avenue, and finally arrived at the entrance of the Municipal General Hospital.

The hospital under the night sky was silent, only a few sporadic wards were still lit with candlelight.There are no guards, no nurses to respond, and it is impossible to have emergency doctors on call to treat patients. 【3】

Carvey and the coachman lifted Alphonse out of the carriage, while Li Ben on the other side was helped down by Bergett.

Immediately, the street seemed to have been paved with a thick layer of nitrocellulose [4], and the smell of gunpowder was everywhere.

"Please tell me your address immediately, and I will rewrite a duel invitation letter and send it to your home within 48 hours." Alphonse had difficulty walking, but he was full of momentum, "This time we use guns, I have already Think about the location of the duel, a very suitable place to bury you."

"I reject."

"You have no right to refuse."

Li Ben was puzzled: "According to the duel rules, we have already settled the dispute."

"No, you still offended me."

"I didn't say a word after admitting defeat, how did I offend you?"

"Your surrender seems to be giving me victory, which is an offense, and I don't accept it!" Alphonse said with reason, "So we need another duel to end each other's troubles!"

"Oh, I think you are the trouble!"

"What did you say???"

"Okay, okay, you are still fighting with your butt like this." Carvey and Bergett stood up in time and separated them again, "You send Mr. Li Ben to the orthopedic ward, and I will take Alphonse Mr. S to the operating ward."

Soon they split into two groups, and Carvey pushed Alphonse directly into the examination room with a cart.

"Lie down and take off your pants."

"Take it off now?"

"Yes, now." Carvey found a piece of lye soap from the cabinet. "I happen to be here. If there is no problem after checking, I can sew it on for you now."

Although he has been in the newspapers and Alphonse is considered a half acquaintance, he still can't completely trust Carvey, especially when there are better options: "You said that Dr. Ignatz is here, what about others? "

"Oh, the teacher will go home to rest tonight, not in the hospital."

"Then why don't we check it tomorrow." Alphonse always felt awkward, and hid his injured butt sideways.

"I am his assistant. What is an assistant? An assistant is a helper. It is my job to share the worries of Mr. Ignatz." Carvey poured a basin of water from outside the house and washed his hands clean, "Check it out early I will find a way for you, and I can operate on you when the teacher comes tomorrow morning."

"But."

"There's nothing wrong with it." Carvey came to the bed and pulled his hand away, "The teacher is a baron anyway, how could he help a Frenchman to check that kind of place."

For Alphonse, who has worked in the French court all year round, this is a pretty good reason, and Carvey just took the opportunity to lift the blood-stained handkerchief.

Many harmless improvements have been made to the dueling sword. The blade and blood groove have been removed, but the sharp sword head is still very deadly.Li Ben's strike seemed random, but when he met Alphonse who happened to be attacking sideways, the tip of his sword intentionally or unintentionally pierced into a very sensitive position.

"How is it?" Alphonse asked, enduring the severe pain.

"It's not good." Carvey sighed and said, "The sword wound is a bit troublesome. If the location is too deep, I guess we have to wait for the teacher to come tomorrow morning before we can decide on the operation plan."

Hearing this, Alphonse didn't think there was anything wrong, it was nothing more than hurting an insignificant place.Coupled with the blessing of the other party's identity, even Laszlo's disease can be cured, and his own small sword wound is not easy to catch.

"Okay, listen to you."

However, things are not as easy as he thought.

Carvey pressed his back and continued, "Why are you in a hurry? I have to confirm the exact location of the sword wound first."

"The location?" Alphonse felt strange, "Isn't the location just on the butt?"

"This is where the sword head enters, and you can see it with your eyes." Carvey picked up the alkaline soap that had been soaked in water and moistened his fingers. "But there are still places that the eyes cannot see, such as the sword head." last inserted position."

Alphonse twitched, thinking that he was going to open the wound, and said quickly: "You don't want to check it now, do you want to give me some ether first?"

"Ether? No, you misunderstood, this matter doesn't need to be as troublesome as ether."

(End of this chapter)