I practiced medicine in ancient times

Chapter 156 Dysentery

Early in the morning of that day, after Xu Qingyi and Bai Yan finished their breakfast and came to the clinic, they saw a large group of people sitting, standing or lying in the clinic. Some of them were frowning with cold sweat on their faces, as if they were enduring the pain, while others were covering their stomachs with one hand and crying out in pain. The doctors who had arrived early had already started to diagnose and treat people.

There were several patients who had sought treatment from Xu Qingyi and Bai Yan. When they saw them coming, they immediately went to greet them. One of them said, "Doctor Xu, Doctor Bai, you are here. Please take a look at me. I have a terrible stomachache and diarrhea."

Xu Qingyi and Bai Yan looked at each other and walked towards the patient. The patient looked pale, with cold sweat on his forehead, and was obviously in unbearable pain. Xu Qingyi asked softly, "Uncle, when did you start to have stomach pain? Do you have other symptoms?"

The patient replied painfully, "I got like this this morning. My stomach hurts as if someone twisted it. I have diarrhea all the time. I have been to the toilet several times."

Xu Qingyi nodded slightly and began to take the patient's pulse carefully. The pulse was smooth.

After a moment, she frowned and said, "Uncle, open your mouth and let me see your tongue. Also, is your urine yellow? Is there any blood in your urine? Also, do these places hurt?"

"The urine is yellow and the stool is bloody. I feel much better after I finish the defecation."

"Dysentery. Bai Yan gave him penicillin and gave him acupuncture at Tianshu, Xiawan, Shangjuxu, Guanyuan, Hegu..." After Xu Qingyi took the man's pulse and asked questions, he quickly diagnosed what disease he had and ordered Bai Yan to provide treatment.

Upon hearing this, Bai Yan immediately took out penicillin and handed it to the patient to take. Then he took out a silver needle and, following Xu Qingyi's instructions, gently inserted the needle into the patient's acupuncture points with skillful and precise techniques.

As the silver needle penetrated, the pain on the patient's face gradually eased. He looked at Xu Qingyi and Bai Yan in surprise, his eyes full of gratitude.

However, dysentery is a contagious disease; one person can infect two, and two people can infect a group of people.

Looking at this group of people, some were sweating, some were holding their stomachs, and some were even wailing in pain. It was very likely that all of them were suffering from dysentery.

After Xu Qingyi finished seeing the old man, he went on to see several other patients and discovered that not only did they have the same symptoms as the previous man, but they all lived in the west of the outer city of Lingshan Prefecture and were from the same alley.

"Why are there so many patients early in the morning?" When Doctor Ye came into the clinic, he was surprised to see hundreds of patients in the clinic hall.

Moreover, these patients looked grim, and they were wailing and holding their stomachs. Some of them even lay down directly.

"It's bad. These people have contracted dysentery." After Xu Qingyi figured out what was going on, he walked up to Doctor Ye with a heavy expression and said.

In ancient times, dysentery was a disease that made people shudder. In ancient times, medical conditions were backward, and doctors and ordinary people had relatively limited knowledge of dysentery.

Once infected with dysentery, patients often suffer from prolonged diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever and other pains, which may even be life-threatening in severe cases.

In the ancient times when medical conditions were relatively backward, the prevalence of dysentery posed a great threat to people's lives. Once an epidemic broke out, the entire village or town might fall into panic.

People would try to avoid contact with infected people, fearing that they would also be infected with the disease, so many doctors were also afraid of infection and would not treat them. For those who were unfortunately infected with dysentery, they could use some folk remedies to treat it, and whether they could survive depended entirely on luck.

"What? It's dysentery?" Doctor Ye's face suddenly changed when he heard this.

Doctor Ye was well aware of the horror of dysentery and knew that once an epidemic broke out, there was almost no cure.

"Doctor Ye, how much penicillin does the clinic have in stock?

This dysentery is not terrible, as long as the source of dysentery is cut off, attention is paid to food hygiene, and avoid eating uncooked food and unclean water. At the same time, maintain good personal hygiene habits, such as washing hands frequently, especially after eating and going to the toilet.

Penicillin is very effective in treating dysentery." Xu Qingyi also knew that Doctor Ye was afraid of dysentery, so she comforted him.

"Can penicillin really cure dysentery? The clinic has sufficient penicillin stock, enough to deal with this dysentery outbreak.

However, this matter must also be reported to the prefect. Our clinic has received many people with dysentery, and I believe that the Miaoshou Clinic is not much different." Doctor Ye's worries were slightly relieved after hearing Xu Qingyi's words.

After the matter was reported to Prefect Shan, it immediately attracted his attention and he immediately sent troops to surround Huichun Clinic and Miaoshou Clinic to prevent the further spread of dysentery.

When Prefect Shan learned that Miaoshou Medical Clinic had developed a special medicine that was very effective in treating dysentery, and after seeing that the condition of the dysentery patients previously treated was under control, he had all the dysentery patients in Miaoshou Medical Clinic transferred to Huichun Medical Clinic for treatment.

This move undoubtedly brought greater pressure to the Rejuvenation Clinic.

Doctor Ye and Xu Qingyi quickly adjusted the treatment strategy, arranged the people with milder dysentery symptoms together, and did not give them penicillin. Instead, they used simple acupuncture and medicine to treat them, and the disciples of the clinic were responsible for their care and observation.

They concentrated their efforts on treating the more seriously ill patients. At the same time, they gave them oral penicillin treatment, as well as medicine and acupuncture, in case the penicillin stock was insufficient and the seriously ill patients died because they were too late to receive treatment.

After seeing the efforts of Huichun Clinic and the effect of the special medicine, Prefect Shan realized that the outbreak of dysentery was like a dud, and it disappeared without a trace.

Under the leadership of Doctor Ye and Xu Qingyi, the treatment work at Huichun Clinic was carried out in an orderly manner.

"We can't go on like this. We have to solve the source of dysentery first." When Bai Yan was treating patients, she frowned when she saw that people suffering from dysentery were being sent in from time to time.

"Prefect Shan is already gathering information, investigating the addresses of people suffering from dysentery, and controlling the people in the source of infection to prevent the spread."

However, at this time, the news of dysentery in the city had spread. Many people in the city learned that many people suffering from dysentery were being treated at Huichun Medical Clinic. People also knew that dysentery was serious, so they stayed at home with their doors closed and did not go out.

The once prosperous city was now in a state of panic due to dysentery, and the streets were much quieter.

Huichun Medical Clinic is a large and powerful clinic with sufficient staff and medicinal materials, which helped it to withstand this outbreak of dysentery.