Song Yi

Chapter 344 Knowledge Is Wealth
Du Wenhao: "How is the child's appetite?"

Lin'er rushed to say: "I don't like to eat, and the cook at home doesn't taste good at all!"

Du Wenhao said: "What did the previous doctor say?"

Ye Zhao: "It is said that the body is weak and cold inside and the outside is hot." After speaking, he took out some prescriptions from the side drawer and handed them to Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao looked at it, and Lin'er said: "My mother said that it was my aunt who beat me, so no medicine can cure my illness."

Du Wenhao laughed, and said, "Have Lin'er's condition improved after taking these medicines?"

Ye Zhao said: "Not only is it not good, but it is even more uncomfortable."

Du Wenhao: "Where is it uncomfortable?"

"Not only did the symptoms not subside, but he became dizzy with high fever. In severe cases, he would have frequent convulsions. At night, he would definitely have a large amount of pus and blood in his stool, which smelled foul."

After Lin'er heard this, she giggled: "Father always tells other doctors like this, but it's actually not so stinky. Mother never said it was stinky, and she even gave me a bath."

Du Wenhao took a closer look at the prescription and found that there seemed to be only two different handwritings, so he said, "I wonder how many doctors Master Ye has asked Master Lin'er to look at?"

Ye Zhao thought for a while and said, "There should be no fewer than five."

Du Wenhao didn't ask further: "Oh, yes, I see." He squatted down and asked Lin'er: "Little guy, tell uncle, is there still pus and blood in your poop now?"

Lin'er was already familiar with Du Wenhao when he was playing with the spinning top just now, and he raised his head and said, "Mother gave me medicine this morning, and my stomach still doesn't hurt."

"Let uncle see your belly, okay? See how many bowls of rice you can eat?"

"Okay, can you really see it?" Lin'er stood up, pulled up his shirt, and asked shyly.

"Of course, you lie down."

Du Wenhao carried Lin'er to the small bed and lay down, pressed his abdomen everywhere, and asked, "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt, how many bowls of rice can I eat?"

"You don't like to eat now, you can't eat half a bowl at most, right?"

Lin'er drooped her little head and nodded: "Mmm..., I don't eat much, and both mother and aunt are in tears."

"Because you have a little problem with your belly, and your poop is not good. When your uncle cures you, you will be able to eat a big bowl of rice. Then your mother and aunt will laugh."

"Well, thank you uncle!"

Du Wenhao fondled Lin'er's hair, stood up and walked out of the door to the yard.Ye Zhao came out, and Du Wenhao said, "Your son has been here for a long time, hasn't he?"

"Yes. How is his illness? It's all right?"

"Of course it's important. Adults can't help it, let alone a child. Haven't you seen him with a yellow and thin face? Now stop the pus and blood in his stomach before talking about anything else. I will prescribe a prescription for you. First decoct it for him, and then come back for a follow-up visit in three days. "

Ye Zhao hurriedly led Du Wenhao to the study. Du Wenhao wrote the prescription, but did not pass it to Ye Zhao. He asked in a deep voice, "Who is the one who usually feeds your son's decoction?"

"It's the child's mother, what's the matter, is there a problem?"

Du Wenhao pondered for a moment, and said: "The child is a pure yang body, and the medicine should not be touched by a woman. Therefore, the medicine I prescribed, including taking medicine, decocting medicine and feeding the medicine, must be done by you yourself, and no one else is allowed. Especially don't let women touch it, otherwise the medicine will have no effect, and I won't treat your son's illness."

Ye Zhao hastily agreed, took the prescription carefully, put it in his arms, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "May I ask the imperial doctor, did you find that the dog has other more serious diseases besides diarrhea?"

Du Wenhao shook his head and said: "Tuan training made adults worry too much. Your son's previous medicine was not prescribed properly, which hurt the stomach to some extent. Fortunately, the child is in good health and is not as congenitally deficient as you think. According to my prescription and method Give him medicine and he will be cured. Remember to take him out for a walk more often, don’t always stay in the room, even a good person will get sick. A child’s nature should be lively, just like a bird in a cage should be They can fly freely, but because of artificial confinement, the birds lose the opportunity to fly. The same is true for children. Let him go out for a walk instead of sleeping and eating all day long because he is worried about his health. alright."

Ye Zhao was a little embarrassed, and agreed repeatedly with a bow.

Du Wenhao asked again: "Has your son been taking tonic?"

"Yes, the doctor said earlier that the child's body is too weak and needs to be replenished."

"Nonsense! To make up for the stomach disease before it is cured, is it to make up for the body or the disease?" Du Wenhao flicked his sleeve and robe, frowned and said, "Remember, while taking my medicine, you are not allowed to give Lin'er any more medicine. Taking any kind of medicine, not even health supplements! Otherwise, I will ignore it!"

Ye Zhao hurriedly bowed and agreed.

Du Wenhao looked around, pulled Ye Zhao aside, and said in a low voice, "May I ask Mr. Tuan Lian, how many wives and concubines are there?"

Ye Zhao was stunned for a moment, and quickly replied with a smile: "There are three in total. Mr. Zhuojing just met. The lower official took two concubines, and the second concubine gave birth to the eldest son, but she recently returned to her mother's house, because his father Passed away, went back to mourn. The third concubine's name is Ruoxian, and Lord Cai has already met her. Lin'er was born to Ruoxian."

Although this Lin'er was born of a concubine, he can only recognize his original match as his mother, and his own mother can only be called Auntie.This is the rule.Du Wenhao smiled and blinked his eyes: "It can be seen that you two love Lin'er very much."

As soon as Lin'er was mentioned, Ye Zhao smiled happily, stroked his beard and said in a low voice: "I got a child in old age, because I spoiled her a little bit, and the third concubine Ruoxian had a miscarriage three times, so she finally got Lin'er. It’s also very loving.”

Du Wenhao asked: "Did your Madam not add a son for you?"

Ye Zhao sighed, and said: "It's a long story, alas! Since your lord is asking, I will not hide it from you. In fact, the third concubine Ruoxian is a dowry maid brought by Zhuo Jing Ziyu from her natal family. I was pregnant with a child in four years. At that time, Xiaguan was not at home and went out to run errands. When I came back, I learned that Zhuo Jing fell and the child had a miscarriage. Zhuo Jing insisted that it was the third concubine who pushed her downstairs and fell down. I didn’t have a child. My father was very angry about this, and he was going to sell Ruoxian at that time, but at that time, the lower official had already let the third concubine into the bedroom, so he firmly refused.”

Du Wenhao understood, and he also found that Ye Zhao's original wife, the old lady, could not understand the three concubines at the banquet.

Ye Zhao continued: "Later, Zhuo Jing never got pregnant again. My father ordered the officials to marry a concubine and gave birth to the eldest son. The family was much better. Later, my father repeatedly questioned and investigated, and found out that Zhuo Jing had not been careful. Falling down from upstairs has nothing to do with Ruoxian, and Ruoxian is well-educated and very likable, the official asked repeatedly, so my father reluctantly agreed to accept Ruoxian as a concubine. Lin'er was born the next year."

Du Wenhao nodded, smiled and cupped his fists and said: "Okay, I've had my fill of wine and food, and my curiosity is satisfied. Thank you, Mr. Tuan Lian, for your kind hospitality. I will take my leave now!"

"It's an honor to be an official, please wait a moment, sir." Ye Zhao beckoned to the butler who had been waiting, took a brocade box from him, bowed and handed it to Du Wenhao with a smile on his face: " Sir Imperial Physician, this is a small gesture of gratitude from the lower officials, thank you and the respected wife for saving your brother’s life just now, and for taking the trouble to treat the dog. The whole family of the lower officials are very grateful, let’s express our gratitude, please accept it.”

Du Wenhao took it, opened it, and saw that there were silver ingots and jewels shining brightly inside, which were of great value. He smiled and said, "Hehe, the regimental envoy is too polite. I bid farewell!"

"Your Majesty sends you off to the Royal Physician."

Ye Zhao's family was escorted to the gate, Du Wenhao got into the carriage, poked his head and waved goodbye to Ye Zhao's family, put down the curtain, and the car slowly drove out of the alley of Ye's house and headed for the inn.

On the carriage, Ke Yao finally had the time to ask the question that he had been refraining from asking: "Brother, you said that the child's body is a pure Yang body, and women cannot touch the child's medicine, otherwise it will have no effect, is this true? "

Before Du Wenhao could reply, Xue Feier sneered first and said: "Of course it is true, so women generally only study women's subjects, and cannot learn Xiaofangmai."

In ancient medical history, there is indeed such a saying that children are pure yang bodies, so women should not touch children's medicines, otherwise it will not only be ineffective, but will cause other accidents.

Du Wenhao smiled and said: "Actually, this kind of argument is unreasonable. It is caused by those old scholars' patriarchal thinking, and they made it up randomly to improve the status of men."

Xue Feier wondered: "Really? Then why did you say that just now?"

"I naturally have my reasons for saying this, and you will know in the future."

Lin Qingdai said: "Wen Hao, use Ye Feng to treat sores tomorrow, should we invite all other doctors and doctors to observe and study together?"

"Yes, you have a good idea. I didn't think of this just now. When I go back, I will ask someone to inform the county magistrate. Tomorrow, I will call all the doctor doctors to observe. Many doctor doctors disdain the treatment of ulcers. They think it is inferior and dirty. , It’s something only quack doctors do. This kind of concept makes the treatment of ulcers very irregular, and it is not uncommon for patients to become disabled or die as a result, so we must pay great attention to it.”

Lin Qingdai said: "This kind of thing is not something we can convince them with a few words. This kind of thinking is deeply ingrained, and I'm afraid it won't change for a while."

"That's true, but if you don't change because of it, it will never change."

"Yes," Lin Qingdai hesitated for a moment, and said, "I just heard you talk about the treatment of ulcers, and I have an opinion, I don't know if it's right."

"Well, let's hear it."

Lin Qingdai stroked the hair in front of her forehead: "I think that doctors are unwilling to treat ulcers. Apart from being afraid of getting dirty, it's more because they lack the right methods. As you said before, they don't know how to treat ulcers." Disinfection, no anesthesia, no proper debridement methods, most of them just use tonics indiscriminately, so many sores can’t be cured, and even the more they are cured, the worse they are, which is not comparable to internal medicine. Doctors think sores and ulcers are a byproduct of last resort and disdain to leave them alone.”

Du Wenhao nodded frequently: "Well, you are very accurate. Do you have any good ideas?"

"Since the Department of Ulcers is so important, many patients died miserably due to improper treatment, and now many doctors lack the correct knowledge of treatment, and you are very good at this, I think, what kind of generosity do you have to learn from them? It is better to focus on teaching them how to treat sores correctly, including Jinchuangke. I remember you said when you treated several policemen in Dongda County to treat Jin wounds. As long as the method is appropriate, most Part of the infection can be avoided. The patient will not suffer so much, and will not die of illness due to improper methods."

Du Wenhao nodded again and again, thinking that it was indeed the case. After all, intractable diseases are rare, but sores are very common, and there are also many departments of orthopedics and trauma.In terms of treating these injuries, due to the lack of microbiological knowledge, the ancient doctors did not know how to disinfect and antibacterial, and did not know the correct surgical methods, and they had unique advantages in this area, they should focus on developing in this area, using their own patrol It will be great to popularize surgical knowledge, improve the surgical level of doctors in various places, and greatly improve the weakness of ancient Chinese medicine surgery, which is nearly a thousand years ahead of the West.

Thinking of this, Du Wenhao's blood boiled a little, and he took Lin Qingdai's hand and said, "You are really my top student! Why didn't I think of that."

Lin Qingdai smiled: "It's not too late to think about it now."

"That's right! Starting tomorrow, use the opportunity to treat Ye Feng's sores, start teaching them the correct knowledge of treating sores, and then find some orthopedic and Jinchuang patients to train correct surgical treatment knowledge! This is what we should do made."

Lin Qingdai said: "I still have some ideas, I don't know if I should talk about it or not."

"Come on, all you think of are good ideas. Hehe."

"I think it should of course be free to consult with doctors from all over the world to discuss difficult diseases and learn medical skills. However, training and imparting knowledge on ulcers, gold innovation and gynecology should still be charged, and it should not be too cheap. Only in this way, doctors and doctors will be taken seriously.”

This point of view immediately got a positive response from Xue Feier: "That's right, Sister Qingdai is right, and Sister Yuqin and I have also said that we have worked so hard to train those steady women and female doctors for nothing, it's too shameful." It’s a good deal. We are not greedy for money, and we are not short of this money, but collecting money means that what we teach is useful, and it didn’t fall from the sky. Brother, when you learned these things, you should have given Master a lot money?"

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "Of course, there is no reason for the master to teach you things for nothing. The master also has to eat. You can't teach the disciples to starve to death the master."

"It's still true!" Xue Fei'er became more confident when she heard that Du Wenhao agreed with her point of view, "I think what Sister Qing Dai said is very reasonable. After collecting money, those people will pay attention to it. Otherwise, they might still be there in their hearts." Whispering, don’t teach for nothing, how can there be such a cheap thing, maybe the things taught are useless at all, then maybe they won’t study hard, and wouldn’t it hurt them instead.”

Du Wenhao looked at Pang Yuqin: "What's your point of view?"

Pang Yuqin smiled and said: "Except for part of the rewards from the emperor and the empress dowager, most of our current family property comes from the prescriptions and equipment from your husband last time. Although the money is quite a lot, the family expenses are also large. Relying on your monthly salary as an imperial doctor is probably far from enough, and if things go on like this, I’m afraid you’ll just sit back and eat. Besides, there’s been a practice of teaching skills and getting paid since ancient times, and no one can say otherwise.”

"You mean to teach and collect money?"

"Ah."

Du Wenhao asked Lian'er again: "What do you think?"

Lian'er smiled slightly: "I also think what Madam and the others are saying makes sense. But in the end, master, you have to make the decision."

Du Wenhao asked Ke Yao again: "What do you think?"

Ke Yao raised his face and said, "It's not a question, of course you have to collect money. It's only natural for a master to teach his disciples and to collect rewards."

Du Wenhao thought for a while and said, "I really didn't pay attention to this before, mainly because I really didn't pay much attention to money..."

Ke Yao smiled and said, "That's because you have a lot of money! When you have less money, you will naturally know."

"Yeah, it's right to plan ahead. You can't sit and eat like Yuqin said. You should also charge fees. This is called knowledge is wealth. Okay, let's do as everyone said. From now on, all trainings will be charged. The fee standard ..., Sister Qingdai has made up her mind. I'm not good at it."

Lin Qingdai nodded and said: "Okay. There is one more thing, which is also related to the collection of money, and I have to ask you to decide."

"Hehe, Sister Qingdai is economically minded, and she is our good housekeeper. Tell me, do you have any other good ideas?"

"A good idea can't be talked about, don't just get scolded for a bad idea."

"No, your attention is very good."

Lin Qingdai smiled and said: "Orthopedics, Jinchuang and Ulcers, if needle-knife techniques are used, they must use disinfectants and anesthetics. Of course, these are included in the tuition when they are taught, but after they learn it, we After leaving, they have to perform surgery, and they need to use antiseptics and anesthesia, so..."

Du Wenhao came to his senses immediately: "You mean to sell them disinfectants and anesthetics?"

"Yes, am I being too philistine?"

"Haha, how can selling medicine be called a philistine? We just need to have this kind of economic awareness, the awareness that knowledge is wealth, and exchanging knowledge for wealth is fair and honest. Our family needs such a person who knows how to manage money."

With Du Wenhao's affirmation, Lin Qingdai's confidence also increased. After thinking about it, she said: "These disinfectants and anesthetics are the most commonly used prescriptions in surgery, and they have to be bought when they are used up. The demand is huge, and this kind of business has always been We can continue to do so, so we find one or two trustworthy pharmacies in each state capital to sell our medicines exclusively, so that we can make a brand name, so that the business can last for a long time, and we can also prevent those unscrupulous merchants from counterfeiting our medicines to harm the people. "

"That's a good idea! This is called an agent distributor! These pharmacies have to sign a contract with us to give them local franchise rights and purchase directly from our Wuweitang. Let's give them a plaque of exclusive distribution rights. Who dares to pretend to be authorized distributors?" Sue the Yamen to hold him accountable. Moreover, it is also convenient for the common people to recognize the authentic products, so they will not be deceived."

Pang Yuqin interjected, "Yes, not only disinfectants and anesthetics, but also Jinchuang medicine that Xianggong sold to the army before. I think there will be good sales."

(End of this chapter)