After the eting ended, Carlo imdiately went to the Madrid Royal Hospital near the Imperial Palace, where Pri Minister Prim, who was seriously injured, was being rescued.
As a hospital directly controlled and funded by the Royal Family, the Madrid Royal Hospital was the most luxurious and advanced hospital in Spain, employing renowned dical experts and pharmacologists from Europe.
Carlo paid a great deal of attention to the health of himself and his family. Every year, the funding allocated to the Madrid Royal Hospital amounted to millions of Pesseta, not only for researching various advanced dicines but also with the significant aim of exploring the developnt of dical instrunts.
Although the Madrid Royal Hospital was not the largest hospital in Spain at present, it was undoubtedly the most powerful in terms of dical capabilities.
Apart from accommodating mbers of the Royal Family, the hospital typically received governnt officials and nobility, and it was not open to commoners.
It’s not that Carlo was unwilling for commoners to also enjoy advanced dical services, it’s just that for most commoners, a year’s inco wasn’t enough to spend a day at the Royal Hospital.
In a luxurious ward of the Madrid Royal Hospital, Pri Minister Prim lay pale on the hospital bed. Fortunately, the fragnts from the shell explosion had only passed through his abdon and had not caused a fatal injury.
Moreover, with the desperate protection of his guards, Pri Minister Prim’s life was saved during the assassination, ensuring he wouldn’t die from overly severe injuries.
But unfortunately, the dical technology of this era was not so advanced. Although the tily rescue prevented Pri Minister Prim from dying from excessive blood loss, infection of the wound could threaten his life at any mont, potentially being even more severe than the wound itself.
Though Europe symbolized civilization and advancent in this era, before the 20th century, European dical technology could only be described as terrible and outdated.
So, how did European doctors treat suppuration and swelling caused by wound infection?
The most famous, of course, was the hereditary practice of bloodletting. The history of bloodletting can be traced back to the theory of humors proposed by the famous Greek physician Galen in the second century AD.
Galen claid that there were four humors in the human body: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. When the balance of humors was lost, the body would also fall ill due to the imbalance.
Of the four humors, blood was the most prone to imbalance because it was produced by the liver and generated continuously.
The theory of humors caused bloodletting therapy to prevail in Europe for over 2000 years, resulting in many European commoners and high-ranking officials dying from such therapy.
Among the notable figures were the English King Charles II, Queen Anne, and the first President of the United States, George Washington.
Although in the mid-19th century, just over 20 years ago, advances in technology led more people to question bloodletting therapy, ultimately causing it to gradually be abandoned by European doctors.
However, in the relatively backward Spain, bloodletting therapy still prevailed in so regions, and it was not in the minority.
Even in other parts of the world powers, bloodletting had not completely disappeared.
Just bla the long period of bloodletting’s prevalence. In the era where all of Europe believed in bloodletting, it was claid that bloodletting could cure all diseases.
From colds to various plagues and diseases, European doctors generally adopted the bloodletting thod, ultimately achieving quite touching results.
In its 2000 years of prevalence, the number of Europeans who died from bloodletting therapy was in the millions if not tens of millions, with nurous notable figures among them.
Apart from bloodletting therapy, there were only two other thods for treating wound infections with current European dical ans.
One was to cauterize the infected area with a hot iron, but doing so would lead to a more severe infection in the cauterized area. The other was directly amputating—yes, amputation.
For wound infections, these were the only three treatnts available in Europe. If praying to God could be counted, that would be the fourth thod.
For treating Pri Minister Prim, the first three thods could not be used, as doing so would only hasten his death.
Upon returning to Spain, the first thing Carlo did was to ensure that the Madrid Royal Hospital changed the sheets and bedding in Pri Minister Prim’s room daily and disinfected his wounds.
How were the wounds disinfected? Of course, with high-proof liquor.
No matter how effective this thod was, it was the best solution Carlo could think of at the mont. The dical technology of this era was indeed so poor that in the face of severe injuries, one couldn’t rely on dical science but rather on the intangible God and a faint desire to survive in the heart.
Whether Pri Minister Prim could survive this ordeal depended on his luck and whether the God Carlo had never seen would favor him.
The assassination of Pri Minister Prim also reminded Carlo once again that until various antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs were invented and until dical science advanced enough to ensure safety from injuries, the most important thing to do was to protect oneself and avoid accidental injuries.
Before dical science developed, in so aspects, the world was relatively fair. Whether it was a high-ranking official or soone as noble as Carlo, a top aristocrat, in the face of serious injuries, all they could do was pray to God, praying that the one treating them wasn’t an incompetent doctor.
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