The obvious symptom of big-head plague is thirst, which is also one of the important manifestations of patients during the dialectic of Chen Shigong and others.

The whole disease is only three or four days, and if it is not treated, ten people will be infected, and only four or five will survive after three or four days.

In this very short process of infection, the early symptoms are cold and fever, redness and swelling of the head and face, sore throat, and some do not have this feeling; The second stage is thirst and irritability; In the third stage, the head and face are swollen, and the throat, front of the ears, and even the submandibular neck are severely swollen and painful.

In the third stage, it is difficult to save the medicine stone again, and only Penicillium has the possibility of reducing the symptoms because it is absorbed faster than the traditional medicine attached to the topic.

Rats are not afraid of people and are almost crazy about drinking water, a symptom very similar to that of people affected by plague.

It was only at this time that Chen Shigong finally understood that he could not see rats in the city, not that there were no rats in Tongzhou City, but that rats had all gone into the underground waterways.

In addition to the penicillium prepared by Chen Shigong from Penicillium citrus in the Beiyang Military Hospital, the other main rescue methods were to curb the newly infected patients with the Ersheng Bitter Pill, and the moderate and severe cases were treated with Puji disinfection drink and ginseng septic powder, and the severe ones were given the strong medicine burdock root and Qinlian soup, which were publicized and let the people in the city brew boiling water to clear the poison and drink instead of tea.

In addition to medical treatment, the main means are still primitive and effective isolation, prohibiting people from going out, preparing food at home, and prohibiting eating meat.

In fact, on the third day of Chen Shigong's arrival in Tongzhou, the crisis was basically lifted, because the supply of materials was up.

The vegetables needed in the city are all canned kimchi pulled from Tianjin by the Qinglong Army, so that the people can make do with it; In order to prevent the corpse from being infected by poisonous gas, all the officials in the city were brought into the cemetery outside the city for burial under the order of Chen Shigong.

On the morning of the fourth day, the banner army of the observation post outside the city quickly returned, and a large number of dead rats and other small caterpillar carcasses rushed out from the upstream, which were stopped by the layers of nets they had stopped in the river.

Because the flag army of the observation post was far away from Tongzhou City, there were not enough protective measures, and some people had chills and fever after handling the corpses, Chen Shigong led the team to transfer with medicine, dug out the caterpillar corpses from the buried ground, and even loaded 330 coffins with nearby soil, dug pits and burned them.

In the following days, the news of illness inside and outside Tongzhou City came one after another, and the farthest cases appeared in Wuqing, but they were both on the military line and on the telegraph line, and the local area had taken sufficient precautions, although everyone was in danger, there was no longer a large-scale infection, and the use of drugs had been phased in regulations.

Chen Shigong sent a report to the Beijing Division, and the next day, the eunuchs in the Forbidden City galloped in horse-drawn carriages, bringing 832 new gadgets of the Wanli Emperor to the doctors who had been fighting outside Tongzhou for several days.

"Chen Shigong, the chief medical officer of Beizhili, asked me to enter Tongzhou when he was in danger, led the team to quell the plague, and had the merit of hanging the pot to help the world, and gave him a first-class Jinqi Yellow Medal and a reward of 1,000 taels of silver; He used 37 penicillium living people, and was specially given a bronze and yellow medal of the third class, a reward of 300 taels of silver, and I paid 37 taels of medical fees for the child, a total of 1,300 taels of silver, and 37 taels of silver, in order to make meritorious service. ”

"Gong Tingxian, a doctor in Jiangxi, has traveled to the Quartet for several years to save countless people, created two holy relief pills, on the occasion of the Tongzhou epidemic to make 1,700 medicines, treated 940 patients, and gave a first-class Jinqi Yellow Medal and a reward of 1,000 taels of silver; In addition, I paid 940 taels of medical fees, 1,000 taels of silver, and 940 taels of silver for meritorious service. ”

In addition to the two of them, each of the 830 medical recruits was rewarded, and those who saved more than 50 people were awarded a silver Qihuang Medal of the second class, and a reward of 500 taels of silver, as well as the emperor's payment for the people; If more than 30 people are saved, a bronze Qihuang medal of the third class will be given, a reward of 300 taels of silver, and a medical fee will be paid; If there are more than 10 living people, a bronze Qihuang medal will be given, a reward of 100 taels of silver, and a consultation fee will be paid.

In addition, there is also the Tieqi Yellow Medal, which is available to each of the recruited medical households, and is rewarded with ten taels of silver.

For the medical households who died in Tongzhou by the emperor's order, they were awarded the Iron Imperial Pillar Medal, with a reward of ten taels of silver, and a pension of twenty taels of silver in addition to the payment of the medical fee.

"Why is this medal iron?"

The leading figures in Tongzhou Datou Plague, Chen Shigong and Gong Tingxian both wondered about the medal of bereavement, the emperor did not hesitate to reward silver, and even did not hesitate to let his descendants enter the two halls and two academies to study, why did he give an iron in the quality of the medal?

"Grandpa said, he knows what he is most concerned about when people die, and he is afraid that orphans and widows will not survive, so he rewards thirty taels of silver, which is enough for a few years; Second, I am afraid that future generations will not be good, so I specially make iron, what if someone sells the gold and silver medals for money and flowers? In order to bless his descendants with a future. ”

"Also, Gong Weng, the emperor's grandfather asked us to ask you if you would like to go back to the Beiyang Medical Academy with Dr. Chen, if you don't want to, grandpa said that everyone has their own ambitions, and he doesn't force him to be the emperor; If you are willing, we still have a share of the decree that you will be appointed as a first-class physician of the Beiyang Medical Academy, and Your Majesty wants you to consider it yourself, can you accept it? ”

Pick it up or not.

Is this still an option?

Gong Tingxian arched his hands and smiled, and immediately bowed down and said, "Thank you...... Thank Your Majesty for your grace and wish to go to the Medical Academy. ”

But before he could bow down, he was stopped by the little eunuch.

"Hey, don't bow down, get up quickly, I'm willing to worship you It's not too late to see Your Majesty, you are so old, it is estimated that even if you see him, you won't let you worship, then you can take this fate, and go to Beijing with Doctor Chen."

Gong Tingxian is an old doctor, and unlike Chen Shigong, who entered the relatively new Beiyang as soon as he became famous, it was a place where no one had to look at his face if he had professional skills, and the main chief was sensible.

Think about it, Chen Mu visited Chen Shigong, Chen Shigong wanted to say that you can't wear this clothes, you take it off for me, go take a shower and change your clothes, does Chen Mu have to take a shower and change clothes?

It wouldn't work anywhere else.

If you can't figure out which old lady will take it down directly, your little doctor still wants me to take off my clothes and go to prison; After finishing the work, I went into the bacterial culture room by myself, and I got sick and died a few days later.

Therefore, Gong Tingxian saw that he was stopped by bowing, and felt that this eunuch was also very good, and he had to be sensible, so he started to take the silver, but he was stopped again.

"Our Majesty thinks about his life all day long, and he is troubled when he sees people worshipping and worshipping, and you don't have to care about us, we don't have a share of this reward, which of our hands is long, and we have our grandfather to reward us when the errand is done."

"We people, we are not human beings without Your Majesty, and we are not me next to Your Majesty, and we are what Your Majesty likes...... What are these boxes that Dr. Chen wants to bring to Beijing? ”

The little eunuch's actions are girly, and he speaks like a gentleman, and he opens his hand and says: "The brocade clothes are all for the masters, just these boxes of things are for Chen Ye to look at, let's go back to the palace!" ”