Asklepios 6

It's official: Uchimizu's medical knowledge is absolutely insufficient for him to be writing a medical story. Last time, his explanation of reconstructive surgery was ambiguous, requiring read up in order to make sensible sentences, probably because he doesn't understand the procedure himself. (The medieval setting seems to act as a cover for his lack of knowledge.) And this time, it comes across painfully clear that he doesn't know much about lung physiology and anatomy. So seriously, I was getting fed up translating his work...

But then I read the next chapter. And it was great, I couldn't help but translate!! ☆ω☆ So here's ch 6 and I've started on ch 7, which I'll hopefully be done with b4 the next ch comes out♡ Forgive me for my rambling abt the inaccuracies of Uchimizu's medical statements; Think of it as a small price to pay for the trans :XD

Well then, enjoy☆

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Chapter 6 -- The Best Procedure

Text: Without any tools; In such extreme circumstances, the surgery begins!!


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[3]
Thug: Now listen up Buzz...
You won't always be able to work in a well-prepared setting

[4]
Thug: Some day you will come across an emergency
But... Even then, you mustn't panic
Stay calm and observe your surroundings...

[5]
Thug: And from what you've been provided,
you must pick the best procedure...!!

[6]
Buzz: Dad... It's as you said
I didn't think I'd ever be in a situation like this...

[7]
Buzz: Would I succeed...?
In this situation,
would I be able to save Ian-san...?!


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[1]
Buzz: If I fail, he'll die
I have to succeed!!!

[2]
Buzz: I'm an "Asklepios"...!!!

[4]
Postale: ...It's not exactly as I planned

[5]
Postale: But I get to see your skills now
my young "Asklepios"...


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[1]
Laura: Wh-
where am I...

[3]
Laura: ...Ripper!!!
What're you doing to Ian--

[4]
Buzz: I-
I'm sorry...

[5]
Buzz: I knew you'd try to stop me when you came to
so I had to tie you up..
But

[6]
Buzz: since you're a doctor, I want you to watch me, Laura-san
as I treat Ian-san...


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[1]
Laura: Treat... What do you mean?!

[2]
Buzz: His rib has punctured his lung
Starting now,
I will open his chest and stop the bleeding from his torn vessels

[3]
Laura: ...I knew it! You're just a ripper!!
Don't you dare lay a finger on my patient--

Buzz: ...I'll do it

[4]
Buzz: You may not believe me... But I will touch him
not to kill him, but to save him
And if Ian-san dies...

[5]
Buzz: Then I want you to kill me...

[7]
Laura: I will


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[2]
Laura: That...

Buzz: I- I'm borrowing your glasses
it's a makeshift "surgical scissor"...

[3]
Buzz: Scissors aren't just ordinary blades...
They're tools for cutting objects placed in between

Diagram: Flat surface Acute angle
Earpiece of glasses
Scissors

Buzz: All you need are two similar objects with a "perfectly flat surface" and an "acute angle", and if you put them together

[4]
Buzz: They'll do the job...!!

[T/L rant: But... we use scalpels, not scissors to cut people, so why make scissors out of the glasses? o_o)

[5]
Laura: He really... cut him!!!


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[1]
Laura: This smell... Alcohol?!
Whatever for...

[3]
Buzz: E- even when the surgery succeeds,
there're many cases where patients die after the operation
It happens when during the surgery, a "poison" from us and our tools enter our patients' bodies...

[4]
Buzz: Which is why... We
use "spirits" for operations and "boil our tools"
to kill the "poison"...

[T/L note: Buzz probably refers to infections as "poison" because the japanese word for disinfection 消毒 combines the words 消す = erase/remove and 毒 = poison]

[5]
Buzz: This... is what we've gained from 1000 years of practice
and something you'll probably never learn at medical school.
It's the Medill healing arts

[7]
Text: Snake Column
These are all "sterilisation" techniques!! In the past, surgeries were conducted in unhygienic settings so many people died from "surgery fever"...

In the 19th century, a guy named Lister spread methods of disinfection and greatly reduced the mortality due to such fevers!!

Joseph Lister


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[2]
Buzz: Th- the site's open...

[3]
Buzz: The blood's dark...
His "pulmonary vein" must be torn...!!

[T/L rant: Like I said, the author's medical details have always been a bit dodgy, but this is a clear mistake. The pulmonary vein, although termed a vein, contains red oxygenated blood. So if the blood is dark i.e. deoxygenated, it should be the pulmonary artery that's torn. Also, anatomically it's not likely that a fractured rib could tear the pulmonary vein or artery as they are deeper than depicted, situated beside the heart.]

[4]
Laura: Without a needle, you can't close up even a small cut
How're you going to stop this bleeding...?

[6]
Buzz: I- I'll clamp it with these frames...!!

[8]
Buzz: Th- there
and now...


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[1]
Buzz: To prevent the fractured rib from causing further damage
I'll fix it in place with this earpiece...

[2]
Buzz: I'll leave the area open and cover it with a compress
and that'll be the end... of this emergency procedure...

[4]
Laura: I can't believe it...
In this situation... With just my glasses

[5]
Laura: He's really treating Ian!!
And even more hard to believe

[6]
Laura: is that while we only know anatomy as memorised "knowledge",
he has a practical understanding of it as "experience"...!!

[7]
Laura: ...Can I
ask you one thing?

[8]
Laura: Why are you being hounded
by the church as a heretic...?


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[3]
Buzz: For those who're normally called "surgeons", their jobs are
treating traumas, amputations... dissections* and such
Surgeries of the chest and abdomen
are not a part of the medicine permitted by the church...

*Text: To cut open cadavers under the assistance of physicians

[4]
Buzz: We've been doing it for over 1000 years
I think that's why
they're after us...

[5]
Laura: Some years ago... I heard of one, probably the "Asklepios" just before you,
being burnt at the stake...

[6]
Laura: Even after such horrible treatment... Why
do you still continue practicing medicine...?


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[1]
Buzz: L- Laura-san, you seem to be a very calm person,
and I don't think you lose your composure easily
But just now, when Ian-san fell into the river...

[2]
Buzz: You shouted his name
and jumped in right after him, didn't you...?

[3]
Buzz: It's with the same feeling as you had then...
You became a doctor because you wanted to save someone too
right, Laura-san...?

[5]
Laura: Daddy!!
Mommy!!!


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[1]
Laura: Doctor, please!! You're a great doctor right?!
Please save Daddy and Mommy!!!

[2]
Villagers: They tried to save the older girl when she fell into the river, and both of them...
What an irony...

[3]
Doctor: Laura... I'm sorry
With the medicine I've learnt, I can't save your dad and mom...

[6]
Laura: That doctor said "with the medicine I've learnt, I can't"...
I'll... become a doctor myself

[7]
Laura: I don't wanna be a doctor that lets their patient die
because they "don't know how to treat" them
To prevent that, I must learn everything

[8]
Laura: There's no time for crying or laughing
I need to study more than everyone else
and then...!!


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[1]
Laura: Asklepios

[2]
Laura: Is there anything I can help you with...?

[5]
Buzz: Th-
the emergency procedure's finished...!!

[7]
Buzz: His vitals are good
Now we just have to carry him to the inn...

Rosary: Young master!!!


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[1]
Buzz: Ro-
Rosary?!

Pare: I just got better...
Rosary: To the rescue!!!

[2]
Rosary: Postale told us the situation!!
Don't worry, the saint knights aren't around now!!

[3]
Pare: Who's Postale?
And I don't remember a thing that happened yesterday...

Buzz: U- umm
Ro- Rosa--

Rosary: Hey!!! You're that snobbish four-eyes!!!
Although you aren't a four-eyes anymore!!

[4]
Rosary: What're you doing here?!!

Pare: Uhyoooo!!! What's this, what's this?!
Who's this stunnin' beauty?! Hey, I'm Pare!! Nice to meet you!!!

[6]
Rosary: She's an enemy!!!
SFX *baki!!*
Pare: Guah

Buzz: Ro- Rosary!!
We need to quickly take Ian-san to the inn...


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[3]
Ian: Hehehe... Dr Laura
My lump's gone already right...?

[4]
Laura: ...Yes
It's gone

[5]
Ian: I can't wait to take off this bandage
I'm so excited!!

[6]
Rosary: Well I'm glad


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[1]
Rosary: That the parotid gland tumour surgery went well!!
I'm surprised miss prissy let us operate on him!!

[2]
Buzz: Y-
yeah...

Buzz: U- umm... Laura-san
Since I'm at it, not that I mean it that way

[3]
Buzz: could you allow me to
remove Ian-san's lump surgically...?

[5]
Laura: Well yes
I'd like to ask you to do so

[6]
Laura: After all, that's probably
the best procedure for now...

[7]
Buzz; B- by the way, Pare-san
What's wrong? (You seem depressed...)
Rosary: Aaaan

Pare: Did you hear it Buzz? That lady
She rejected me...
She's a full-fledged doctor and I'm...


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[1]
Pare: I need to go for a bit of a walk...
Buzz: O- ok...

[2]
Rosary: But we certainly haven't heard a thing from Postale, even though we treated the boy as he told us to...
Could he have not seen it??

[3]
Postale: I saw it

[4]
Rosary: Wh- wh- wh- wh- wha-
what're you doing popping out from a place like that?!!

Postale: Buzz, Rosary
I'll tell you more next time... Right now, I need to quickly inform you

[5]
Postale: the small unit of saint knights after you guys are approaching fast
and one of them

[6]
Postale: is a very dangerous man
Be careful...


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[2]
Knight: I see... so
you're saying the Asklepios didn't show up...?

[3]
Laura: Yes
It appears that it was a prank of sorts
I treated the patient myself

[4]
Laura: I apologise for having called you here

[5]
Knight: Seems like there's nothing here then...


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[2]
Knight: Although we're saint knights
it's not that every one of us is a saintly gentleman

[3]
Knight: You're lying, aren't you miss?
I can tell

Side text: The darkness right behind Buzz...!!
End text: This man's dangerous!! Next chapter, they collide!!