In ancient times, people were treated for knife wounds in the war. I personally subdivided the "two stages" of treatment. In the first stage, there was no solution to the cruelty of the war, let alone suture the wound. This stage is from Xia Dynasty to Xuanhan. In this historical period, as long as the knife wound in the war is not solved, all the soldiers, except a few minor injuries, are not treated and eventually die of infection. At that time, there were only a few simple ways to deal with this kind of knife wound.
The first treatment is simple cleaning and dressing; Because medical skills can't reach suture, if there is no infection in the later stage, you can survive; If the wound is large, it will definitely be infected in the later stage, and the high fever caused by infection will have necrosis symptoms. This kind of death is almost judged, and the survival probability is extremely low.
The second treatment is simple cleaning, dressing and soldering iron; This method is used on the general. Ordinary soldiers have no time to iron their wounds. Why? First, there are many soldiers, not as important as generals; Second, Luo Tie is beyond the reach of ordinary men. This way is simple and rude, but it is too harmful. Most people are not determined enough, and often die before they can achieve the effect with a soldering iron.
Iron: anti-corrosion, anti-infection, disinfection and hemostasis, but the effect is very small. For ancient times, even small things should be done, because this is the only thing that can be done. The second stage of effective treatment of knife wounds and suture injuries after the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the early days of the Three Kingdoms in the last years of the East. At this stage, the knife wounds suffered in the war began to be effectively treated, and the stage of "injury or death" was no longer. At that time, medical care was quite effective in the war, because Hua Tuo's earliest invention of leprosy powder and the world's first surgical medical technology played a vital role in the war and epidemic disease at that time.
It can be said that this stage of treatment began to really reduce death through fighting; According to Zhi Zhi's records, the medical skill at that time had changed from Hua Tuo to the point of turning guns into wine.
At that time, the medical skill of war treatment could achieve the medical skill of treating knife wounds and stopping bleeding with pepper, which did not harm the body in essence. As for the suture of the wound, it was also initiated by Hua Tuo, which was used to treat the wound after operation.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum has hemostatic, analgesic, granulation promoting and antiseptic effects. There are related records in Erya, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica and Bielu of Famous Doctors. This is also my opinion that how to deal with the knife wound in the war is divided into two stages. By summarizing the two stages, I analyze how to deal with the knife wound at that time and the later suture wound. If history did not say that many medical techniques could not be passed down, it might be better in treating knife wounds, but unfortunately, all of them, including Hua Tuo's Qingnangjing, have been lost.