Chapter 57: The Mouse
"Mass production of the Second Holy Relief Pill? Well, this is very easy to do, two parts of rhubarb mixed with wine, steamed and dried, mixed with a part of tooth soap powder to make thin paste pills with water, each pill is as big as mung beans, take 50 to 70 pills at a time according to the severity of the disease, mix it with cold mung bean soup, and the medicine will be eliminated. ”
Gong Tingxian is also an old doctor, he studied the imperial examination when he was young, and later traveled all over the world with his father to practice medicine, visiting the Central Plains for 20 years, learning from the distant generations of doctors Qihuang, Zongcang, Bian Que, and the famous doctors Liu, Zhang, Zhu, and Li in the Jin and Yuan dynasties.
At first, he didn't care when the Beiyang Military Government recruited doctors, and he didn't get admitted to the official examination in the imperial examination, so he didn't expect to rely on medical skills to enter the Tai Hospital.
But now that they have cooperated, the old doctor has indeed found that the Beiyang military doctor has a very trendy concept, even if it is just a few words and a little preparation, but many theories still attract him like ancient medical prescriptions.
The most striking feature is that Chen Shigong and other Beiyang military doctors are very stubborn in looking for the cause.
Plague, it has always been difficult to find the cause, people according to the weather changes, the world environment summed up a set of standards that may occur plague, such as a great drought after a great epidemic, after a great plague, after a great army there is a great epidemic, but no one to investigate how the disease came about, although the early generations of sages have recognized that under the world that can be seen by the naked eye, there is a smaller microcosm, but that has nothing to do with medicine.
In history, the first person in the world to recognize the pathogen and distinguish the plague system was just one year old in this year, and he was a native of Dongshan, Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, and his name was Wu Youxing.
Before that, Gong Tingxian's Ersheng Relief Pill was similar to Wu Youxing's original drink, but it was more simple, this medicine was very interesting, and it also had a consistent clear purpose, imagining the plague as a kind of timely qi, that is, the abnormal climate carried the cause of making people sick, and the abnormal climate in which the human body had little righteous qi and was invaded by evil qi, so it caused disease.
Gong Tingxian's method has one purpose - don't care where your evil qi comes from, I'll just get it out of your body.
Chen Shigong was looking for the cause and finding the right symptoms, Gong Tingxian took fifty or sixty pills, and the evil qi in the body was sweated and discharged, the vomiting in the stomach was discharged, and the urine and urine in the abdomen were discharged.
But you ask Gong Tingxian what the cause of this disease is, Gong Tingxian doesn't know, he only knows that treating the disease and saving people at this time is much more important than looking for the cause.
Chen Shigong's treatment method is in another direction, he not only has to treat the disease, but also shoulder the mission of the governor of the prefecture and county, he wants to treat the disease and save people, but also use the power of the government to carry out isolation and quarantine, and he must also find the cause of the disease and the cause of infection, so as to prevent a larger-scale infection.
This is a direction that traditional physicians have never dabbled in.
This is too difficult for him, even after being nurtured by the Oriental Military Government, he is very convinced in his heart about the existence of germs, and has superhuman experience and insight, it is too difficult.
Because this is not only about medicine, but also about urban management and public health, only when I return to Daming can I know how dire the Asian people are living in - under the leadership of a marshal who pats his head on the east and a hammer in the west, several county officials with no local experience, with the assistance of no local mature officials, rely on the most powerful violent group in the world, and painstakingly run several large counties with a population of more than 100,000.
If such a combination was in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, the local people would have risen up long ago.
Only the people of Asia, instead of thinking that their governance is poor, think that they are very good and remarkable.
It has nothing to do with whether they are good or not, it is entirely because the Asian people have knowledge, and they have seen worse things.
On the third day of Chen Shigong's arrival in Tongzhou, the chief medical officer determined two things, the first was that penicillium had a certain effect on the plague, and one of the seven patients who were injected with penicillium died quickly after the injection, and the remaining six cases all improved, two of whom had mild symptoms, and the remaining four had all their thirst symptoms.
But the death of the patient made Chen Shigong very worried, and the symptoms he showed were not at all like the death of a severe head plague, but made him feel ...... It felt like Chen Shuai's healing medicine was killing him.
The second thing is that the rabbits he kept in the wooden cage have symptoms, whether the drinking water comes from inside or outside the city, several rabbits who drink raw water show symptoms of irritability and thirst, while the rabbits who drink cooked water have no other effects whether they are inside or outside the city, and curl up in the cage with drooping eyes.
The good news is that it is only within the city of Tongzhou, and the observation posts along the river are no different from raw or cooked rabbits.
"What is the Chief Medical Officer thinking?"
The voice from behind him in the military tent interrupted Chen Shigong's thinking, and turned around to Gong Tingxian, who was standing in front of the tent with a medicine box on his back, also wearing the helmet of a Beiyang military doctor on his head, and his white beard under the mask was hung on his ears with a hook in a bag, smiling.
"Senior Gong is in trouble?"
Chen Shigong didn't know how much impact his inadvertent theory had on an old doctor who was more than half a year old, and he admired Gong Tingxian very much, the Second Sage Relief Pill did live up to its name and treated many people in the city.
Although the pills did not know the causative cause of the plague, it was simple and effective.
Those patients who have been treated as long as they sweat, lie at home and no longer go out, they will no longer have to worry about the future, and the drugs used are easier to take than the Puji disinfectant drink that requires more than a dozen flavors, and it has become the most meritorious medicine in the defense of Tongzhou.
"I'm thinking about two things, my Penicillium, a patient died of this medicine, I don't know much about this medicine, I'm afraid it is very violent, I have to be more cautious in prescribing medicine in the future, in addition, the river water has been polluted, the water is flowing."
Chen Shigong frowned, he was used to seeing life and death, the former actually had little impact on him, and the more critical doubt was in the latter: "But there is no plague in the downstream water, what is the reason?" ”
"Although Penicillium is fierce, it has the ability to live people, the chief medical officer does not have to be wasted, this new drug needs to be observed, the old man is good at using rhubarb, in the past, there were also weak pregnant women who died because of it, and later people knew that it was a tiger wolf drug, pregnant women and weak people can not use it, although Penicillium is not a weak person can not be used, but as long as more observation, the future will definitely know who can not use it."
"As for the water source, the old man doesn't know, maybe it's because there are rats in the river in the city, and this plague can't live in the water?"
Chen Shigong turned his head and asked, "Mouse?" ”
"Well, in the early days, there were many rats in the city who banged their heads against the door, and poured into the wells in droves, and ......" Two doctors with very different ages and different medical styles suddenly looked at each other, and both saw the shock in each other's eyes, and said in unison: "It's the same as the sick rabbit in the camp!" ”