Chapter 349 Solving the problem of fertility

"Of course." Maximus said confidently, picked up these two items, and patiently explained them.

In his previous life, Maximus discovered the gadget of forceps in the options of modern medical technology when illustrating the game Civilization. The picture below was specially marked "The emergence of forceps is a major event in the history of human reproduction." progress".

Curiosity prompted him to specifically look up the information about forceps, and he learned that forceps had been used in women's childbirth for a long time. There were records in ancient Egypt and ancient Rome. However, because the success rate was not high, it was not widely promoted. The emergence and development of modern forceps is mainly related to the Chamberlain family.

This family of French midwives in the 16th century created a curved forceps with holes that fit the shape of the baby's head through long-term practice, thus greatly improving the success rate of women's delivery. They kept this secret closely and made a fortune from it until it was popularized in the 18th century.

Maximus also specially watched the animated video introducing forceps, and learned about the fetal suction device. The two small instruments used in conjunction with each other are powerful tools for successful midwifery in modern obstetrics.

Maximus tried hard to recall the demonstration in the video of his previous life, trying to make gestures with the fetal suction device and forceps while stammering the explanation.

It was really embarrassing for a man to explain how to use instruments to assist women in childbirth. Even though there was only his wife watching, Maximus still felt very uncomfortable. However, in order to improve the tribe's fertility success rate, he still bit the bullet and put the child into labor. Its explanation is finished.

Finally, he said: "...the basic usage of forceps and fetal aspirator is like this. It seems very simple, but if you want to use it in women's delivery and successfully help them give birth to children, doctors and nurses need to continue to practice it. , and find out a set of successful experiences in using them.”

"Doctor? What kind of doctor does a woman in our tribe need to give birth to a child?" Nesia asked in surprise.

Maximus was stunned.

This is indeed the case. For the people of Knicks, giving birth is their own business. No one will take pregnant women to the hospital to give birth. Only when they encounter danger during the birth process will they go to the hospital for help. But at this time It's already too late.

Later, Horace learned his lesson and recruited more than a dozen tribal women with rich childbirth experience. After training, they became midwives in the hospital. Once a woman gave birth in a family, they were assigned to assist in midwifery... Women's childbirth is really a matter of There is no dedicated doctor in charge. On the one hand, the doctors in the Nyx tribe are all men. No one wants to do this and be gossiped about. The tribesmen are also unwilling to let a man help their wives. childbirth.

"In fact, there is no need for doctors to teach nurses how to use these two instruments -" Maximus immediately changed his mind.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Nesia: "Since the goddess Danu gave the leader such a revelation in his dream, I hope that our tribe can have doctors who can use the magical equipment given by her to help pregnant women. A smooth delivery, but our hospital doesn’t have it now. Why not let me seriously learn to use these two magical devices and become a doctor specializing in helping women give birth!”

The reason why Maximus asked the craftsmen to make these two instruments. , the reason why he did not call Horace directly, but told Nesia first, was because he felt that it would be more convenient for Nesia to inform the medical department about matters related to female childbirth, but he did not expect that Nesia would Make such a request.

Maximus saw Nesia leaning forward slightly, her mouth tightened, and her hands clenched, as if she was trying to control her emotions, but her bright eyes could not hide the tension and expectation in her heart, so he reminded him with a slight hesitation. : "Nesia... you are no longer the nurse who debrides and bandages the wounded soldiers, but the adjutant of the medical department. It is you who assists Horace in managing the medical treatment of the entire tribe and improving the health level of all people. Responsibilities——"

"I don't want to be the adjutant of the medical department anymore." Nesia interrupted him softly and asked sincerely: "Ever since I became the adjutant, I have nothing to do every day. I am far from leading the nurses when I was the head nurse. We have a great time rescuing the wounded... Chief, I really want to be a doctor who specializes in helping pregnant women give birth. I think I will be very happy to be able to see them give birth to their children smoothly!"

Facing his wife's deep, longing gaze, Maximus felt her determination and firmness, and he suddenly understood why Nesia made such a request: it was precisely because she was unable to have children, so she I want to help other women have their own children smoothly, and turn my regrets into the hopes of others.

At that moment, Maximus's heart was severely tugged, and then he smiled and encouraged loudly: "Since you are determined to be a doctor who helps women give birth, then go ahead and do it! I hope you can The children of the tribe who are successfully born by your hands will all respectfully call you 'Mother Nesia' when they grow up!"

Maximus's words gave Nesia, who was a little worried, more confidence. A flower-like smile bloomed on her face and she responded firmly: "Well, it will definitely happen!"

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Since January, the Ministry of Works has been responsible for building roads on the south bank of the Kupa River.

Originally, building roads was the most important concern of Capito, the chief of the Ministry of Works. He had engineers such as Spukara make comprehensive plans and measurements for the roads to be built. He also asked Gaius, the adjutant in charge of construction projects, to gather most of the Roman veterans in the tribe to supervise and guide the foreign tribesmen. For this purpose, he also gathered a group of stonemasons to open a quarry in the mountains not far from the original road, expand the scale of the lime kiln, and increase the output of kiln-fired concrete...

Capito organized tens of thousands of foreign auxiliary people, divided into more than a dozen teams, led by Roman veterans and engineers who were familiar with road construction, and built them in sections from Snotia to the floating bridge east of Todlido.

He also asked carpenters to build another wooden bridge at the place where the floating bridge on the Kupa River was dismantled, and even persuaded the chief executives of the three towns of Snotia, Westeni, and Todlido to mobilize the people to do some auxiliary work...

Since then, the south bank of the Kupa River has become a large construction site, with tens of thousands of people busy every day, and it is extremely lively and noisy during the day.

Even in the rainy season of March, the huge construction team was still busy every day. In April, people had to sow their own fields, and some foreign auxiliary people were also drawn to help with farm work, but the number of construction teams did not decrease significantly, because a new batch of laborers joined...

Capito worked hard to build a road that could rival the Roman road.

In May, the wheat seedlings in the farmland were growing vigorously. At a glance, the green fields were like two huge emeralds inlaid on both sides of the Kupa River. Wild flowers and bushes began to bloom on the edges of the fields and on the paths in the fields. Their fragrance and color added more charm to the farmland.

The warm weather also made it easy and labor-saving for people to build roads, but everyone did not become lazy, but worked harder, because after more than 4 months and tens of thousands of people's hard work, this road about 25 miles long was almost completed.

On this day, on the newly built road from Snotia to Westene, several Roman veterans who served as foremen and engineers announced in public after repeated inspections: the section of road they were responsible for building was successfully completed!

Thousands of laborers danced and cheered for this, and the foremen and engineers even shed tears for this.

Yes, this is not easy! You must know that most of these thousands of laborers are Pannonian captives from the battle last year. Although they have been disciplined for two months before, the troublemakers have been sent to Ardei, and the rest are relatively obedient, but there are still frequent problems in the process of road construction, such as not listening to instructions, even being lazy, quarreling, and resisting...

For this reason, Capito led the foremen to think of many ways, threatening, starving, corporal punishment, and even beheading the prisoners who resisted and escaped. At the same time, they also gave some benefits to the prisoners who performed well, such as rewarding meat, promoting them to be the captain of the construction team, and considering listing them as The prisoners were included in the list of released prisoners (at that time, Desitiatai secretly sent envoys to negotiate a truce with Nix), and the prisoners who began to change their minds and wanted to join the Nix tribe were promised to be given one of the quotas for the next foreign auxiliary people to be transferred to the reserve tribesmen...

With their continuous efforts, after entering April, this huge prisoner construction team began to be tamed by them, willing to obey orders, and willing to work hard and work with others. Therefore, the efficiency of road construction was greatly improved, and they were able to complete their tasks within the time specified by the Capito.

For the captives, the reason they cheered excitedly was partly because they could finally finish the arduous road construction work, but more because:

At the beginning, under the coercion of the Nixes, they blindly used iron plows and other tools to loosen the soil on the original road, dig out the foundation of the road, and then laid a foundation made of small stones, mortar and clay on it, and then tamped it with pebbles, small gravel, bricks and concrete on the foundation, and then laid a layer of concrete without any debris on it, and used a smooth giant wooden roller to repeatedly roll and tamp it, and finally paved the top layer of the road with chiseled stones and gravel... The Nixes also required them to dig drainage ditches on both sides of the road and level the dirt road for pedestrians to walk on...