21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 612 - 608: The Doctor of the Victorian Era (Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

As the Royal Navy and the Knights of the Round Table both devoted themselves to disaster relief efforts, the London citizens who had been victimized by the flood were gradually rescued and transported to the island where Avalon was located.

Although most people were cold and hungry, lacking food and warmth, after all of London had crumbled apart, being able to keep their lives was already a stroke of luck amidst the misfortune.

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Even though the vast majority could only stay in tents made from spare sails temporarily set up by the Royal Navy, having a place to live under such circumstances, being able to light a small bonfire to warm bodies that had been frozen all night long, and then cooking up a bit of hot food to fill their stomachs, most people didn’t have many more demands.

Perhaps a small portion of nobles with less sense demanded better treatment, but under the persuasion of the more than one hundred naval guns aboard HMS Victory, they obediently complied with the Royal Navy’s management.

Great epidemics always follow great disasters; this is a pattern that Chinese people have summarized since ancient times. After large-scale flooding like this, coupled with the mixing of various groups of people, various diseases were bound to occur. However, despite the affluence of the 18th-century Victorian Era, the development of medicine was still in its infancy, somewhat unprepared to handle such situations.

Observing this, Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi, out of their medical ethic, volunteered to help.

Lord Nelson specifically allocated an area for a sick ward, where most patients were classified and quarantined according to the diseases they contracted. The Knights of the Round Table were responsible for promoting hygiene measures among the disaster-stricken refugees. The sanitary conditions within the temporary camp rapidly improved, and the outbreak was brought under control, allowing the Yu couple to gather the doctors among the refugees, focusing their efforts on treating the sick.

"Hiromi, we don’t have enough alcohol for disinfection, please tell Lord Nelson to collect as much strong liquor as possible," Yu Chen, who didn’t look like a demigod or an angel at that moment, wore a fairly simple white coat while suturing a patient’s wound and spoke to Hiromi Jounouchi beside him.

Hiromi Jounouchi nodded her head and gave a few instructions to an assistant who was helping. After the assistant understood, they ran out.

After suturing the patient’s wound with boiled thread and disinfecting it with strong liquor, Yu Chen finally sprinkled some anti-inflammatory medicine he concocted on the wound, and wrapped it up with a clean bandage.

As Yu Chen helped the patient down from the chair, he spoke to the doctors who were watching: "Infections are caused by dirt entering the body through wounds. So during surgery, thorough cleaning is essential. Strong liquor and high temperatures can effectively kill the dirt, but never use a hot iron to cauterize the wound. Although effective, the subsequent reactions could easily kill the patient."

Hearing Yu Chen’s explanation, the doctors around the operating table hurriedly jotted down his words.

There was no avoiding it; this was the Victorian Era, a period when doctors didn’t even know what bacteria and viruses were. Infections were believed to be possession by demons, and treatments for wounds and diseases were still limited to amputation and bloodletting.

There were even practices akin to witchcraft, such as using Mercury as medicine or washing hair with urine, and hygiene was virtually absent from their minds.

For the two surgeons from the 21st century, these appalling methods were simply unacceptable.

Yu Chen descended as an angel and forcibly implemented new sanitary regulations. Although limited by the constraints of the era and unable to realize many things, getting people to clean themselves and abandon their unhygienic habits was still directly and effectively improving the sanitary environment and significantly increasing survival rates of the sick.

The doctors of The City of London naturally regarded the healing techniques taught by the angel as miraculous. Every time Yu Chen performed surgery, a large number of doctors would watch, and the sanitary requirements he proposed were like a thunderclap for the doctors, leading them from ignorance to the true path.

The regulations set by Yu Chen were held as standards by these doctors and carried out to the letter with the cooperation of the Knights of the Round Table.

After the procedure was over and the patient had been taken away, Yu Chen announced the end of the surgery. Once all the doctors had left, he took off his surgical gown and remarked to Hiromi Jounouchi with a sigh, "I never imagined that one day I would be performing surgery on a patient under 18th-century medical conditions."

"Although I learned about the history of medicine when I was studying, facing surgeries without anesthesia, like amputations, is really..." Hiromi Jounouchi shook her head in resignation. For modern doctors, performing surgery without the means of anesthesia is almost unthinkable, except when absolutely necessary.

Luckily, as a qualified anesthesiologist, Hiromi Jounouchi was able to mix up some anesthetics obtainable in that era, but with a limited supply, they were reserved for major operations. For minor surgeries like suturing wounds, the patient had to endure the binding to a chair, a common practice of the times.

After finishing all these tasks, Hiromi Jounouchi couldn’t help asking Yu Chen, "Husband, when are we going back? We’ve been here quite long!"

After all, they were out on their honeymoon. Ending up in this world was an accident, and now that things were more or less settled, Hiromi Jounouchi naturally started thinking about their return.

After some thought, Yu Chen replied, "We’ve taught about all we can, after I speak to Lord Nelson, we will prepare to leave. Our honeymoon trip has only reached half way after all!"

"Right, according to our original plan, our next stop is Italy, isn’t it?" Disrupted by the recent events, Hiromi Jounouchi was now recalling their initial itinerary, which made her a bit anxious: "As for Italy, legends and myths seem plentiful too. We won’t encounter this kind of thing again, will we? I don’t want our honeymoon to turn into a full-on mythological adventure!"

"Well, then we’ll just pretend we don’t see anything if anything happens," Yu Chen felt a bit awkward about the string of events that had occurred to himself and Hiromi Jounouchi along the way. Anyone would find such situations bothersome.