The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chapter 218: Gynecological Master

After more than two years, the family was finally reunited, and Chen Cui felt filled with happiness.

It was cold in winter and it was not suitable to go out. In addition, they had to prepare for the next year's imperial examination, so the two sons mostly stayed at home studying.

On the second day after arriving in the capital, Qin Ruozhi called a tailor to her home to buy new clothes for her two brothers-in-law to protect them from the severe cold in the capital.

As for their daily diet, Qin Ruozhi, the eldest sister-in-law, had already made arrangements. After asking the two brothers about their tastes, she ensured that there would be something they liked in every meal.

In addition to the three meals a day that everyone ate together, he also instructed the kitchen to stew tonic food for them every day as a midnight snack to make up for the time they spent studying.

Chen Cui was very satisfied with this. She had been busy making a plum blossom scented perfume recently. She went out early and came back late every day like Changping, thanks to her daughter-in-law taking care of her at home.

However, she also lamented that it was not easy for Qin Ruzhi, the eldest sister-in-law, especially since she had just become a disciple of Doctor Qian and had to follow her around every day to learn how to diagnose patients. She also had to make time to take care of the housework and spend time with her son, so her life was very busy.

However, Qin Ruozhi was busy and happy. She learned a lot while following Dr. Qian.

Although there were female doctors in Jirentang, there were very few women who came to see the doctors at the beginning. Until one day, a woman was frightened by a frightened horse on the street and gave birth prematurely. The amniotic fluid gushed out on the spot, and she had no time to go home, so she was sent to the nearest clinic as a last resort.

After Dr. Qian received the pregnant woman, he realized that her fetus was in an abnormal position and was premature, and the amniotic fluid was leaking too early. The situation was extremely critical for both the adult and the child.

Doctor Qian used her rich theoretical knowledge and past experience. She first used a special technique to reverse the fetal position, and then gave the mother a decoction to invigorate qi and speed up labor, so that she could muster the strength to deliver the baby as soon as possible.

When the woman gave birth smoothly and both mother and child were safe, Qin Ruozhi, who had been watching and assisting throughout the process, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

From then on, Doctor Qian's reputation gradually spread. Many pregnant women came to her to check their fetuses, hoping to ask Doctor Qian to escort them during childbirth. This was unexpected.

Qian Da and his wife were both good at surgery and obstetrics, but due to the times, she could only start with obstetrics if she wanted to become famous.

After all, a woman's body is not as important as her offspring!

Dr. Qian takes the opportunity of seeing pregnant women and women who have just given birth to convey some hygiene concepts to them so that they can avoid some gynecological diseases as much as possible.

Those who could afford to hire a doctor during pregnancy and childbirth were considered to have good family conditions and were more likely to accept these ideas. Some women were even literate, so Dr. Qian gave them his compiled and printed knowledge of female physiology for circulation.

All these things were done with Qin Ruozhi's approval, including the compilation and printing of those precautions, in which Qin Ruozhi also participated.

Of course, all of this is inseparable from Chen Cui's support. She is the boss behind the shop. Qin Ruozhi has never forgotten this and will report to her mother-in-law before making any decision.

Of course Chen Cui would not object. In fact, it was a pleasant surprise to be able to invite Dr. Qian, a female doctor with advanced skills and ideas.

Although Qin Ruozhi was devoted to medicine, she only had the idea and had few opportunities to practice. But Dr. Qian had both, and some of her ideas were extremely avant-garde.

For example, when she was in Jiangnan, she treated many prostitutes in brothels, which accumulated rich gynecological experience.

In addition to treating common gynecological diseases, she also prescribed safe and harmless contraceptives to these brothel women, as well as abortion pills that were less harmful, and taught them how to take care of their bodies in daily life.

Doctor Qian's family background was not bad, otherwise she would not have had the opportunity to learn to read and study medicine. Her husband's family was also well-off and they were not financially tight. She treated these women not to make more money, but out of a doctor's heart and empathy for women.

Qin Ruozhi learned all this after she saw Doctor Qian's medical notes. Doctor Qian told her about this because he saw that Qin Ruozhi loved medicine and was not shy about these things.

"If I hadn't been forced to do so, I wouldn't have wanted to leave Jiangnan. Fortunately, before I left, I asked another doctor, Dr. Lu, to treat them!"

Doctor Qian's story was very calm. There was no contempt for those women in his tone. There was only pity and compassion for the patients.

Qin Ruozhi admired him and couldn't help but sigh that Doctor Qian was a truly compassionate doctor. If it were her, she wouldn't be able to treat those women without any hesitation!

Chen Cui was greatly impressed when she found out. Although she knew those brothel girls had no choice, either they were sold by their families or they had to take this path because they couldn't survive, she still couldn't ignore the looks from others and interact with them.

"They are all pitiful people. Every time they come to see me, they hide themselves tightly, for fear that if they are recognized, it will bring me a bad reputation and trouble!"

Doctor Qian sighed.

Since the number of women coming to see her increased, her patients are no longer limited to pregnant women and women who have just given birth, but include many women who are seeking to have children.

Most of those who want to have children come because Dr. Qian is a female doctor and is good at childbirth.

Although Dr. Qian had long known from past experience that women's infertility, in addition to their own reasons, was also closely related to their husbands, after all, in her opinion, how could having children be a woman's business alone? Without a man to sow the seeds, how could a woman give birth to a child out of thin air!

Unfortunately, not everyone agrees with her point of view, including the women who come to pray for children and their families.

Many of them believe that it is women who are pregnant and women who give birth to children. If they cannot get pregnant or cannot keep the baby, then it must be the woman's responsibility!

Doctor Qian was also helpless. Her mouth was dry from talking so much. There was no way to get the husbands of these women to come for the consultation. So she simply put it aside and focused on finding out the possible problems with the women and improving them. If they still couldn't get pregnant, then she had to get the men to cooperate and come for the consultation.

Fortunately, most women's problems are not serious. Many people just have irregular menstruation and insufficient qi and blood. Dr. Qian discovered the rules of safe period and fertile period from the medical books of the predecessors and her past medical experience. When their bodies are adjusted and return to normal, and they have sex with their husbands according to the schedule, they can usually get pregnant within three to two months.

More than a year passed like this. As more and more women who came to pray for children became pregnant, Doctor Qian's reputation as a "gynecological wizard" and "the Goddess of Childbirth" gradually spread. People who came to pray for children and to preserve their fetuses continued to come, and his reputation even spread beyond the capital.