Volume 1 First Entering the Tang Dynasty Chapter 40 Physiological Saline
"Military advisor, are these things of yours really used to treat illnesses and save lives?" He Panren looked at the items listed on Lu Chen's list and looked at Lu Chen with a puzzled look.
He Panren can understand the idea of using pot ash to save people. After all, pot ash is also known as "vegetation ash" and "baicao frost". It has the effect of stopping bleeding, and military medical officers will also add it when making golden sore medicine.
He Panren can also understand some things like salt, because wounded soldiers also used salt water when cleaning their wounds. But what are these iron pots, pot lids, clay pots, and long-necked porcelain bottles used for? He Panren
I can't understand it anymore.
"Of course it is useful, do you still want to save Captain Wen?" Lu Chen didn't have time to explain to He Panren now, so he could only look at He Panren with a somewhat unhappy expression.
"I'll have someone prepare it right away!" Seeing Lu Chen's unkind expression, He Panren was afraid of offending Lu Chen, so he quickly smiled and turned around and asked someone to prepare the things on the list.
With a large number of people, it was easy to get things done, so they quickly prepared everything Lu Chen wanted. Outside the hospital, Lu Chen also had two stoves built.
However, the pot lid Lu Chen mentioned was not found, so he had to ask the blacksmith to build one as quickly as possible.
As he helped Lu Chen find the things on the list, word spread in the military camp that Lu Chen wanted to treat Captain Wen. Naturally, many people came after hearing the news, including Li Xiuning.
When he saw Li Xiuning coming, Lu Chen couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth slightly. In the past two days, Lu Chen discovered that this Li Xiuning was obviously different from what was written in the history books. According to the records Lu Chen saw in the history books, this
The first princess in history was supposed to be resolute, heroic and cold-blooded, able to enforce orders and prohibitions, but now in Lu Chen's opinion, it was inconsistent with the facts!
From Lu Chen's point of view, Her Royal Highness was indeed very resolute in leading the troops and obeyed orders and prohibitions. However, this curiosity and foodie attributes also appeared in front of Lu Chen. Could it be that there was some deviation caused by his own time travel? Or was it a history book?
Incomplete records?
"Mr. Lu, what are you doing?" Seeing Lu Chen instructing Liu Jing to pour water into a clay pot, and then Lu Chen added some plant ash and asked Liu Jing to stir it, Li Xiuning couldn't help but asked curiously.
"I'm making salt water!" Lu Chen heard Li Xiuning's question and hurriedly saluted in reply.
"Isn't there ready-made salt water in the hospital?" In such a large military camp, salt water must be always available. Li Xiuning looked at Lu Chen in surprise when he heard this.
"Actually, I'm purifying refined salt!" Lu Chen replied.
"Refined salt? Is it something like alcohol?" The "alcohol" thing that Lu Chen mentioned naturally reached Li Xiuning's ears, so Li Xiuning asked this question.
"Absolutely, but salt has many more uses than alcohol!" Lu Chen answered Li Xiuning's words while continuing to direct Liu Jing's work.
Liu Jing poured a large jar of yellowed salt water into another jar lined with filter paper. This filter paper was made by Lu Chen using several layers of rice paper. Although rice paper was more expensive, Lu Chen bought a lot of it from Li Xiuning.
A jar of clear salt water was quickly filtered out and poured into the pot to start boiling. Liu Jing, the laborer, began to stir the salt water in the pot.
As time went by, another large pot for making distilled water also started working under Lu Chen's command. When the distilled water was extracted on the other side, the white crystals turned into salt water had already appeared in the pot.
Looking at the pure salt as white as snow, Li Xiuning was simply stunned. She had never seen such salt before. Even the tribute salt in the palace could not compare with the salt made by Lu Chen.
"This...is this really salt?" Li Xiuning looked at the refined salt in the pot in disbelief.
"Commander, you can give it a try!" Lu Chen looked at the stunned Li Xiuning and couldn't help but smile.
"I'll give it a try!" Fang Qi volunteered and stepped over the crowd, grabbed a salt crystal next to the pot and took a bite. I believe many people know what refined salt tastes like, and Fang Qi immediately made a squeaking sound after taking a bite.
Everyone was shocked, thinking that Fang Qi had been poisoned, but Fang Qi went crazy and rushed to the water tank nearby, plunged his head into the water tank, and drank big gulps of water.
"My mother! You're killing me!" After a long while, Fang Qicai withdrew his head from the water tank and gasped, "This thing is much saltier than our coarse salt!"
Seeing Fang Qi's embarrassed appearance, everyone burst out laughing.
On the other side, the extraction of distilled water was also proceeding in an orderly manner, and soon a jar of distilled water was extracted.
Lu Chen asked Liu Jing to pound the salt crystals into fine powder in a mortar, and then used distilled water according to the proportion to make physiological saline.
"In the future, when cleaning wounds of soldiers and changing dressings, please use this saline solution!" Lu Chen handed the jar of clear saline solution to Huang Langzhong, who was looking at it with eyes wide open. Huang Langzhong looked at the clear saline solution in the jar.
, and then looked at Lu Chen who seemed to have some kind of longing in his eyes.
"Mr. Huang, you want the method of making this salt water!" Lu Chen saw Huang's desire at a glance and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will use everything used in the treatment of Team Wen this time."
How about writing it in a book and leaving it to Mr. Huang?"
"Then, I would like to thank the military advisor for all the soldiers in the army!" Before Huang Langzhong could speak, Li Xiuning saluted Lu Chen directly and said.
"Commander, I'm serious! This is my duty, but I just do my best and obey fate! Whether I can save Captain Wen and save Captain Wen's legs is only a 50-50 decision!
"Lu Chen dodged Li Xiuning's salute and said with some sigh when returning the salute.
"Military advisor, just do your best! Wen is not that squeamish! If we can't save it, we can only blame Wen's bad luck!" At this time, a weak voice came from behind Lu Chen. Although weak, he was very firm.
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Lu Chen turned around and looked around. At this time, Captain Wen was being carried out on a soft bed. Although Captain Wen was still lying on the soft bed, his face was bloodless, but his face was full of determination.
"The military advisor will do his best. If Brother Wen makes any mistakes, we will be responsible for Brother Wen's family from now on! The military advisor does not need to worry about it!" The soldiers dressed as scouts who were carrying Team Wen's troops out knelt on one knee.
"To the ground," he said loudly to Lu Chen.
"You guys underestimate me, Mr. Lu!" Looking at the few soldiers and Captain Wen on the soft bed, Lu Chen was immediately moved by these men. He also thought of his brothers in his previous life, and he suddenly felt so proud.