On the third day after arriving in Crimea, a field hospital for the Baath Army expeditionary force was built. Although there were only two operating rooms made of tents and ten wards, the conditions in the wards were also very simple.
The hospital bed was a wooden bed received by the Allied Forces Logistics Office. Also received were some sheets and quilts. Some of the sheets and quilts were moldy due to long-distance transportation.
So, the medical team organized workers to starch all the sheets. The quilts were also exposed to the sun.
Fortunately, the weather was good these days during the landing. The Renaissance Army went very smoothly in building camps and preparing hospitals.
The first batch of medicines were brought with the army, including some medical equipment.
The first batch of patients were sent from the French military camp.
Ramon ran around the French military camp and pulled over fifty wounded people.
Vint Mattison is one of these fifty lucky stars.
A field hospital was set up in the Chinese camp, but not many people knew about it.
You know, on this front line where field hospitals are sparse, this should have been a sensation.
The only people who knew about it were officers, but they did not tell the soldiers about it.
Because these proud British and French officers did not realize that the Chinese could build hospitals, or they simply did not believe that China had medical skills.
Some people even thought that if they were subjected to witchcraft by these pagans, they might not even be able to enter heaven after death.
This is the mentality of many British and French troops. Therefore, the officers simply did not talk about these things to the soldiers below.
The reason why Ramon was able to pull over fifty wounded soldiers was because one of Ramon's military school classmates was a regimental commander in the French army.
Ramon saw hundreds of wounded in his regiment, waiting to be sent to hospitals in the rear. But how many people could survive until that time?
In the camp where these people were concentrated, most of them suffered gunshot wounds. Although they underwent simple treatment, most of them were bandaged to stop the bleeding, and some of them had their arms amputated.
But most people are still infected. Some people may have stronger resistance and can survive the infection period and recover on their own. But that all depends on luck.
When a person relies on luck to survive, he is not far from death.
These wounded people were placed in dirty tents, and one doctor could not take care of the patients of several regiments, because what these people lacked most was nursing care.
Some patients were unable to take care of themselves, and their feces and urine were all over their bodies. The camp was filled with the stench of feces and rotting wounds.
Moreover, the level of doctors in the military camps is not high. The French also have their own field hospitals, where good doctors are concentrated, but there is no way they can handle so many patients.
"Ramon, these fifty people no longer care about their own lives. Even if I persuade the others, it is of no use. They insist not to go to the Chinese military camp." The regiment leader finally said to Ramon helplessly.
So, Ramon asked the Renaissance Army soldiers who were following him carrying stretchers to carry the fifty-odd patients back to the field hospital.
Vint Mathiesen was shot in the arm, and the gauze covering the wound was stained black with pus and blood, and a foul smell wafted from his wound.
The place where these wounded people stayed was filled with this smell, so they couldn't smell it themselves.
He had been suffering from fever for two days, and the wound on his arm hurt and swollen. He even wanted to find an ax to cut off his arm.
There were too many wounded, and Vint Mattison was just an ordinary infantryman from a poor background, and no one would take care of him.
Until a major officer arrived at the military camp with a group of Chinese soldiers.
The major officer told Wente's regimental commander that the Chinese had built a field hospital that could receive the wounded.
Chinese? Wente has been lying in bed, no one told him the news that the Chinese have arrived in Crimea.
Wente didn't know where China was. He was just an ordinary soldier with an ordinary background, and the knowledge he usually had access to was very limited.
When the regiment leader asked someone if he would like to go to a Chinese field hospital for treatment, Wente vaguely agreed.
His brain had been burned to the point of unconsciousness. Even if someone wanted to pull him away and bury him alive, he could only hum a few times.
Wente was lying on a stretcher. This kind of stretcher was made of two pieces of wood and one piece of canvas. It was very comfortable to lie on.
"Hell, why was I dragged down when I came down from the battlefield? Like a dead dog."
When Wen Te thought of this, he felt a little sad. It was his fellow villagers who dragged him to the battlefield in the first place. Maybe many unlucky guys were injured and no one came to save them.
The Chinese camp was only one kilometer away. Two people were carrying one wounded person, and they were traveling at the same speed as ordinary people walking normally.
After these people arrived at the camp, they were all carried into the ward.
The wards made of these tents have a foundation of earth, but a large amount of lime is mixed into the upper layer of earth to ensure that the rooms are dry.
You can even smell the lime in the air.
The male nurses wearing white smocks are responsible for the daily care of patients and the cleaning of the ward.
Doctors should make regular ward rounds, not only to check the patient's condition, but also to check the nurses' hygiene work and how well they are doing their nursing work.
Wente's stretcher was placed next to the bed, and four soldiers held him from four directions and moved him to the bed.
The sheets on the hospital bed were newly washed and still smelled of alkali.
These things are actually rationed by the coalition forces, and the material supplies of the coalition forces have been much better recently.
Wente smelled the lime smell in the room, and also smelled the alkali smell on the sheets. He felt as if his nose had become cleaner.
At this time, a man wearing a white coat and a white hat walked in. His face was also covered by a piece of cotton, leaving only his two eyes exposed.
His eyes were black, and Wente knew that he was Chinese.
But the man next to him was a white man. Although his face was covered with cloth, he was wearing a French military uniform, and his figure seemed to be that of the regimental leader's major friend.
"What's your name?" Ramon asked Vint who was lying there.
"My name is Went."
"When were you injured, and was the bullet removed?"
"I was injured five days ago. The bullet passed through my arm and did not stay in the flesh."
Ramon told the doctor about Vent's condition.
Wente looked at the Chinese doctor. His hands were made of gloves made of unknown material, and he untied the gauze on his arm.
After the gauze was untied, a foul smell came from the wound. Some rotten flesh and blood were stuck to the gauze.
"The wound has been severely infected," the doctor said.
"Can I still save my arm?" Ramon asked. Ramon knew that if a French soldier from a lower-class background was missing an arm, his future life would be very difficult.
"Let's try surgery to remove the rotten flesh first."
The doctor turned back and said something to the assistant who was following him. The latter quickly wrote a piece of paper with a pen and posted it at the head of the bed.
Then a nurse came over to disinfect his wound and bandage it again.
Dr. Liu walked out of the last ward, frowning.
"Doctor Liu, how are these wounded?" Ramon asked eagerly.
"Alas! Most of these people have been infected for too long. If they don't undergo amputation, they will get scurvy." Dr. Liu said with a sigh.
The Renaissance Army has gone through many battles, but the casualties in each battle were not very large. This depends on the generation difference in weapons.
In the battle between the Allied Forces and Tsarist Russia, although the Allied Forces' weapons were more advanced, the generation difference was not large, and the Tsarist Russian fortresses were very strong and could not be destroyed by artillery alone.
Tsarist Russia moved all the artillery on the fleet to the fortress, so that the Sevastopol Fortress suddenly had more than a thousand artillery pieces, and the firepower of the artillery was not weaker than that of the coalition forces.
Therefore, coalition casualties are inevitable.
"Then please ask Dr. Liu to perform the surgery as soon as possible." Ramon said in a pleading tone.
"I'll go back and get ready."
Captain Liu divided the surgeons into two groups, and the two operating rooms performed operations at the same time. Each operating room was assigned a certain number of nurses. All the remaining nurses went to the ward to prepare for post-operative care.
After the Chinese doctor left, a nurse brought a bowl of dark soup. The translator told him in French that this was medicine to reduce fever.
Wen Te felt a little resistant because he smelled a strange smell in the soup.
However, he still forced himself to drink all the soup.
This place felt very much like a hospital to him. And he felt that for a small person like himself, there seemed no need for these people to go to such trouble to harm him.
Fortunately, after drinking this dark soup, there was nothing unusual except for being a little nauseated.
Less than an hour later, he felt his back began to sweat and his mind became clearer.
Just now, a companion was carried away on a stretcher by caregivers.
Half an hour later, the companion came back and his calf had been sawed off. Just now, Vent had heard the French officer translator say that his leg was to be sawed off because his wound had been infected for too long.
"Oh, God, you must save my arm. If I lose my arm, I won't even be able to farm." Wente prayed silently in his heart.
Another half hour later, another companion performed the surgery.
This kind of surgical operation is not very difficult to perform and is very fast. If you do it skillfully, it is a physical job. The key is the care after the operation.
Dr. Liu and several of his companions were skilled surgeons, their medical skills honed by treating hundreds of wounded prisoners.
At this time, several caregivers came to Went's side.
It was finally his turn.
Wente was moved to a stretcher, and two caregivers moved him to a brightly lit tent.
Several doctors in white clothes stood there, with oil lamps hanging around them, shining from different angles. This made Wente's eyes a little blurry, and the doctors appeared as double images in his eyes.
"I'm going to give you an anesthesia later," said an interpreter also wearing a white coat.
Wen nodded.
Next, the doctor took an air bag and sucked him in, and then Wente lost consciousness.
What kind of magic is this? Wente finally thought in his mind.
When he woke up, he found that he was back on the hospital bed, with a glass bottle hanging on the wooden frame beside the bed.
The transparent liquid in the bottle flowed down a tube and into his body.
Wente didn't understand what this was doing, but he didn't feel any discomfort.
He subconsciously raised his arm. Fortunately, his arm was still there, but the wound had become much larger. The doctor seemed to have dug out a large piece of flesh.
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On February 5, the British hardline Lord Palmerston formed a government and came to power. He immediately ordered the coalition forces to launch an attack.
On February 20, the coalition launched an offensive on the Chenaya River, but it was terminated due to a snowstorm.
Although this offensive ended only halfway, it was the first battle that the Renaissance Army participated in.
In this battle, the most outstanding thing about the Renaissance Army was not the combat, but showing the coalition forces what battlefield rescue was.
Soldiers of the Renaissance Army worked in groups of three, shuttled across the battlefield, and used stretchers to transport soldiers injured in the artillery fire to the rear in a timely manner.
In this way, there are almost no soldiers struggling on the ground on the battlefield, which greatly boosts the morale of the frontline troops, and they seem to have no worries.
During this process, the Renaissance Army also suffered casualties. Although they did not directly participate in the battle, they showed their own courage.
Being able to brave artillery fire on the battlefield is a very brave thing.
The soldiers of the Renaissance Army in bright green military uniforms are like saviors on the battlefield. Gradually, many coalition soldiers have learned a word - "jiu hu bing". As long as you shout these three pronunciations, someone will carry a stretcher from
Rushing over from behind.
There were more and more sick people in the camp, reaching at most five or six hundred people.
As some patients recovered and were discharged, the reputation of China's field hospitals spread through their mouths. Many wounded people hoped that they could go to China's field hospitals for treatment.
There are also some people who silently regret their original prejudices in their hearts.
The field hospital occupied an increasingly larger area, and the coalition forces had to allocate another batch of supplies to the hospital.
The supplies this time were given very happily.
At the British Army station in Balaclava, there was also a field hospital that was respected by the soldiers. This field hospital had a very outstanding female head nurse.
This is also a strange woman.
Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy. After studying nursing in Germany, she worked in a hospital in London. In 1853, she became the head nurse of the Charity Hospital in London.
She saw many reports from the Crimean battlefield in London, and the huge number of casualties shocked her.
She fought hard for the British military to open hospitals on the battlefield to provide medical care to soldiers.
She analyzed a mountain of military files and pointed out that in the Crimean War, the reasons for the death of British soldiers were contracted diseases outside the battlefield, and serious injuries that led to death without proper care after being injured on the battlefield. They actually died on the battlefield.
There are not many people there. She even used circular diagrams to illustrate these information.
Finally, the British government yielded to pressure and agreed to her request.
On October 21, 1854, Nightingale and 38 nurses went to work in the Crimean Field Hospital. She became the head nurse of the hospital and was known as the "Angel of Crimea" or the "Angel with the Lamp".
In field hospitals, these nurses provided necessary daily necessities and food for the wounded, and within a few months of careful care, the mortality rate of the wounded dropped to 2.2%.
Every night, she patrolled with a lantern in hand, and the sick and wounded patients affectionately called her the "Lamp Goddess."
Recently, Nightingale heard about China's field hospitals. She was a very knowledgeable woman and knew that China was a big country in the East.
China's battlefield hospitals provided rescue services directly on the battlefield, which opened up new ideas for battlefield rescue for Nightingale.
If rescue is carried out after the battle, many of the wounded will have already lost excessive blood.
She always felt that she already had a deep understanding of battlefield rescue. She never thought that someone had gone further than her. So she really wanted to visit a Chinese battlefield hospital.
On February 27, after the aftermath of the Chernaya River Offensive finally passed, a group of white women wearing white aprons came to the camp of the Renaissance Army.
It immediately caused a sensation in the camp. Fortunately, Liu Qingnan notified the superiors of each department in advance to ask the boys below to be more honest.
He personally took this group of female nurses to visit the field hospital of the Renaissance Army.
Nightingale was very surprised that there were no female nurses here, but these male nurses seemed to be very professional. Most of the more than 100 medical teams that came this time were male nurses, and they had rich nursing experience.
Nightingale also discovered that their patients were able to receive infusions, a technology that was not yet widely available.
What surprised Nightingale even more was that this hospital already had a standardized nursing system. She immediately asked Liu Qingnan for a copy and planned to take it back to study it carefully.
After the news spread that Nightingale visited and studied in China's field hospitals, the reputation of China's field hospitals became even more famous.
After leaving the camp of the Renaissance Army, Nightingale made up her mind that after the war was over, she must go to China to see it.
ps: I sorted through the manuscript again in the morning. The next chapter is back on track.