Chapter 500 When Magic Is Ineffective, It’s Time to Perform Surgery
After completing the treatment, Archmage Novak kept dragging Gretla back to write a thesis together. Seeing that he had saved his disciple, the Lord of Thunder had no choice but to agree. He raised his hand and acquiesced to Gretel to go with him.
You should be polite to healers. After all, whether you, your family, or your disciples, you never know when you will need them.
Gretel: ...sorrow.jpg. I am also a doctor. Why don’t you, teacher, give me preferential treatment...
Grete wrote, describing the contents related to the violent expansion of liquid nitrogen and intestinal perforation, as well as the conjecture that nitrogen dissolves in the blood and precipitates, causing air embolism;
Archmage Novak added content related to healing techniques, cut, copied, and printed pictures from the information given by Talling, and also worked on publications for publishing the paper;
Then, the two co-signed as the first author, classmate Mike Worcester, and gloriously became the second author...
"You are too kind to him." It was already evening after I finished writing the paper. Archmage Novak held a small banquet in honor of Gretel. During the dinner, he was half amused and half complained:
"What did that kid do? He just drank a glass of liquid nitrogen. We rescued him and we want to give him a second author?"
"Oh, after all, this is a particularly rare case. If he hadn't sought death, we wouldn't have been able to publish this paper..."
Gretel smiled. Hey, it's not easy to find a warrior who is willing to commit suicide to this extent. They are all magicians under the Lord of Thunder. It's okay to give him a second game to restore some blood.
Of course, the main reason is because he is not his disciple. If he is his disciple and dares to pour liquid nitrogen into his mouth, he will be kicked out!
A very comfortable dinner. Archmage Novak is not a native of the Kingdom of Kent, but he escaped from the core area of the Glorious Holy See after becoming a magician. After spending decades in Nevis, the taste still retains the habits of my youth:
The pan-fried cod is delicious and tender, with a slightly burnt outer layer and a crystal-white inner layer. Each bite brings endless aftertaste;
The squid ink seafood risotto has a rich and dense flavor in the mouth, and the shrimp meat is plump. Gretel was moved to tears after eating rice for the first time in a long time!
Clam chowder is light and delicious and couldn’t be more delicious;
White asparagus was served on a pure black plate, with two mushrooms dotted next to it, like flowers blooming in spring. Pan-fried in butter, with a layer of sesame seeds sprinkled on top, it tastes particularly tender and has a light butter aroma...
Wow, it turns out that the Mediterranean diet is close to Chinese food and is more palatable. Grete was so moved: In comparison, the local dishes in the Kingdom of Kent are nothing but shit. They can only fill their stomachs...
After dinner, Archmage Novak and Gretel leaned in front of the fireplace, one holding a glass of wine and the other holding a cup of tea, chatting incessantly. Experiences from various places, magical experiences, and strange patients encountered since practicing medicine...
In fact, under the Igor Mystery Lock, the Babel Tower and the surrounding auxiliary towers have almost a constant temperature, and the fireplace is just a sense of ritual. However, the warm firelight is still very relaxing:
"Little Gretel, you should publish more papers. You have always been immersed in treating people's illnesses and injuries, and never published papers. Who knew you were good at healing? Hiccup..."
As they chatted, Archmage Novak began to speak faster. His eyes were shining, his voice was rising and falling, and he looked like he was almost drunk:
"Just like today, you can get it by yourself even if I don't come, right? But Archmage Baierbo insists on inviting me to come -"
Gretel kept smiling, not nodding, not speaking. Archmage Novak waved his hand:
"You don't have to be modest. If I were to treat it, at least three or four [treating serious injuries] would be thrown away. But if you take action, cut open the belly, let out the air, and then put the secret eye in to see, you will only need one at most. [Treat serious injuries], just deal with a few moderate and minor injuries..."
That's not what they say. With such a serious injury, there will be a lot of respiratory disorders, arrhythmia, and all kinds of complications. With a high-level healer here, I feel much more at ease. Grete smiled and wanted to say something modest, but was directly interrupted by Archmage Novak:
"Look, so. You are just a level 5 mage. What is level 5 in Nevis City? You can easily find a group of high-level mages and archbishops above level 10 or even level 15. If you have any incurable diseases, who would think of you?"
This is true. Grete nodded silently:
For example, if the residents of the imperial capital have a troublesome disease, they all go straight to the top tertiary hospitals, and go to the professors and directors who lead the team. For really difficult to treat diseases, there is the ultimate solution - go to Union Medical College.
The attending doctor of a certain second-grade hospital, who comes to see you?
"So, write a paper, write a paper." Archmage Novak stretched out his arm under the influence of wine, and patted Grete on the shoulder with his thick big hand:
"It's best to find some diseases that others can't cure. You can cure them. Treat one and publish a paper. Over time, strange situations will come to you..."
"So, Your Excellency, Archmage, are there any diseases that cannot be cured by therapy?"
Gretel asked seriously. So far, there are not many diseases that he has encountered that cannot be cured by medical treatment and can be cured by modern medicine. Except for the ruptured arm tendon, only patent ductus arteriosus cannot be cured by therapy——
In other words, low-level healing spells cannot cure it, so spells such as limited wish spells or wish spells are needed.
There may be others, but he doesn't see many patients and can't accumulate data.
Children from poor families simply don’t seek medical advice, they just give up, and they don’t even know it’s a disease until they die;
Children from rich and aristocratic families, as Archmage Novak said, why should they come to you as a fifth-level mage?
"Well……"
Archmage Novak raised his hand and smoothed his beard. His light blond beard dimmed for a moment, his eyes dropped, and he looked a few years older. That gloomy expression could not be more familiar to Gretel:
"There are quite a lot. For example, the Necromancer's [Corruption Cyst], the rot cyst put into the human body, cannot be cured by the healing technique. It can cure moderate injuries, treat serious injuries, remove poison, remove diseases... which None of them work.”
I have heard of this Gretel. The rot sacs placed by the necromancer can only be removed surgically, and no treatment will work. Perhaps it is due to the conflict in energy properties. Either it will get bigger with treatment, or the rot sac will explode for you to see on the spot.
When it comes to surgery, no school of thought is better than the Necromancer. Perhaps, this is also a warning from the Necromancy School, or a way to divide the sphere of influence:
Don't touch my prey!
"If it's surgery, I'm still a little confident." Grete nodded lightly. Moreover, based on his relationship with Black Crow Swamp, if he does one or two cases of rot sac infection, he shouldn't be hit by the Necromancer?
Hmm, I’ll give it a try next time...
"Any more?"
"There are quite a few more." Archmage Novak began to snap his fingers:
"When I was traveling in the New World, I once saw two children who were born together. The locals said that they were cursed by some devil and threw them into the wilderness to be eaten by wild beasts. I took them with me I want to use healing techniques to separate..."
Conjoined twins. Gretel thought for a while: The healing technique can only follow the natural growth process of people. Obviously, no two conjoined twins will grow apart.
This can only be cut with surgery, but surgery is also very troublesome... "What happened next?"
"Later, I asked my teacher for advice. The teacher was also very interested and used the limited prayer technique... They were separated, but they still died..."
This... the organs inside are not divided properly, right? Gretel lowered his head silently and made no comment. Archmage Novak sighed:
"There is also a child... Anyway, he belongs to a certain noble family. He has had cleft lip since he was a child. Their family is a bit powerful. I don't know how many healers have been invited to see it. I have also seen it. However, the treatment method is not good and it is not worth using. Limited Prayer Technique..."
Hare lip repair surgery... is a kind that doesn't look big, but is very delicate and has many difficulties. Gretel scratched his head. If he did this surgery...well, he would be sure to sew his lips shut. God knows whether it would look good or not...
"Later, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't cure it. The heir of a family cannot be too ugly." Archmage Novak took another sip of wine and frowned tightly:
"Later, I heard that he was sent to the countryside, and the family changed to an heir...sigh..."
In other words, this child is most likely dead. It is really a pity. Although it is not easy to do a good hare lip repair surgery, from the perspective of modern medicine, it is only a matter of repair effect, not whether it can be repaired.
It is so tragic to lose a life because of a harelip.
Archmage Novak sighed while drinking, and continued to talk about three or five cases in which healing techniques were ineffective. There are some that Gret knows how to cure, and there are some that Gret can’t do anything about:
For example, there was one person who was obviously suffering from diabetes, and there was a clear smell of rotten apples in his breath. If the first treatment is used, the patient will fall into coma. If the second treatment is used, the patient will die——
It is said that the treatment method accelerates the circulation of the human body and promotes healing. If it is thrown away too much, metabolism will be accelerated, blood ketones will accumulate in large quantities, and ketoacidosis will cause death in minutes!
But what can I do? I don’t have insulin in my hand...
Gretel could only sigh with the Archmage, and gave some simple suggestions: for example, diabetics should control their diet and avoid refined flour and sugar.
Even so, for patients whose breath smells like rotten apples, this measure is probably of little use. In the past life, when doctors encountered patients with such characteristics, they would immediately detain them and treat them!
The two of them drank tea instead of wine, and drank one glass after another. The more they talked, the more depressed they became. Seeing that the night was getting dark, Archmage Novak was about to say, "Just sleep in the guest room for the night." One of his disciples suddenly ran in in a panic:
"Teacher, teacher, Viscount Callender's family invites you for consultation! It is said that...their newborn baby was born...without that..."
"Which one?"
"That's it...that one!"
Gretel covered his face. Okay, needless to say, what you are missing when you come in in such a hurry is probably the person who cursed "your son was born without XX"...
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In fact, treatment has no solution for many congenital defects, such as "genes predetermined to grow this way" diseases...
I am thinking about what other diseases cannot be cured by therapy...