Schiller took Deer Mom's money. Strange's ward happened to be empty, so the little girl went straight in for surgery.
So-called ear canal perforation was actually when a cavity suddenly appeared in the brain, allowing a passage straight from the left ear to the right. It sounded like a certain death sentence, but in this world, it was not much of a problem. All they had to do was fill the cavity with sponge soaked in a specially prepared solution and wait for a while.
Filling the cavity was actually quite troublesome, because they could only operate through the ear canal. One careless move and they could turn the brain into mush. But for neurosurgeons, this was routine. They could operate through an incision anywhere on the head.
Strange was especially skilled at it. The entire procedure took less than an hour. When the little girl came out of the passage, her head was wrapped entirely in gauze. Schiller wrote out the instructions and handed them to the waiting mother, then verbally reminded her, "The sponge hasn't been removed yet. Don't chew or swallow anything for the next forty-eight hours. She can drink a little sugar water. Come back in two days to have the sponge removed. If the cavity is filled by more than eighty percent, she'll be cured."
Mother and daughter spoke quietly to each other. The daughter kept shaking her head, saying she knew nothing and felt nothing at all. After thanking them profusely, the pair left their money behind and departed.
Schiller gathered up the silver coins on the counter. When he looked up, he found a long line already waiting before him, all patients hoping to schedule surgery with Strange. Most of them had brain-related illnesses.
Schiller registered their conditions one by one and calculated