Qian Bao had the imperial physicians select patients, then returned to his residence. He needed to sleep and study the matter thoroughly.
It did not matter that he was not sleepy in broad daylight. He had already developed a knockout drug; taking it with wine would send him to sleep.
In his dream, the Inner Canon was still the same volume, and even after searching it from cover to cover, he found no record of delivering a child by cesarean section.
Just as he began to wonder, a wind rose.
Where had wind come from in a dream?
But the strong wind blew the Inner Canon over, turning it upside down.
"This..."
Turned upside down, the Inner Canon had actually become the Outer Canon.
Qian Bao had no time to marvel. Reading in a dream was already unreasonable; viewed that way, the Inner Canon turning into the Outer Canon when flipped upside down seemed perfectly ordinary.
At last, he found the records in the Outer Canon.
Everything in the Inner Canon came from the Yellow Emperor and Qi Bo, while the Outer Canon came from the Yellow Emperor and Yu Fu.
Yu Fu treated illnesses without medicinal decoctions. After diagnosing the cause, he cut open the skin with a knife, dissected the muscles, tied off the vessels, and removed the root of the illness.
The Outer Canon recorded Yu Fu's medical experience, along with many examples.
The more Qian Bao read, the more alarmed he became.
A child had died. Yu Fu cut open the child's belly, took out the intestines, and discovered that the child had eaten too much raw meat, blocking the bowels. He squeezed out the meat to clear the intestines, put the organs back in order, and stitched up the wound. The child came back to