Runic water.

It is a treatment and preventive measure summed up by the Taoist priest of Youfang based on experience in the helpless war and parallel epidemic of the Central Plains Dynasty.

It has nothing to do with ancient traditional medicine, and there has never been a serious doctor who makes people drink runic water, but anyone who makes people drink runic water is an irresponsible wandering magician.

This is different from the concept of traditional doctors prescribing the right medicine, but whenever the Central Plains Dynasty collapsed due to military and political collapse, Fu Shui was able to become popular, mostly related to demon roads and peasant uprisings, proving that it was a last resort to become a dead horse doctor in a desperate situation.

There is actually only one real reason, the material used in the charm, cinnabar.

Cinnabar is mercury sulfide, if the European aristocracy's method of dealing with the plague is a macroscopic gamble between the people and the plague first, then drinking the water burned by the charm is a microscopic gamble between the people and the virus in their bodies.

In ancient times, when the human body did not develop resistance to medicine and most of the plagues spread were of low intensity, this method accidentally made the hungry, disaster victims, and displaced people displaced in the war use it as a life-saving straw, and finally people survived, not because of Fu Shui, but because of luck and physique.

Taking the great plague of the late Han Dynasty, which tended to be hemorrhagic fever, as an example, Zhang Jiao, the leader of Taiping Dao, practiced medicine for more than ten years, and Fu Shui was actually only an auxiliary means or just a convincing form of strange power.

Fu painted with cinnabar, the yellow paper was burned into a handful of ashes, carbon-based organisms ate carbon, and the burned mercury sulfide was still mercury sulfide, which made people drink and burn with useful cells in the body and useless virus jade.

This form lasts for 2,000 years, and in the 21st century, there are still dancing gods in the countryside, and the local people have a headache and brain fever, so he draws a talisman for people to go home and soak in water to drink, do you think it is feudal superstition?

No!

The charm of traditional feudal superstition is to be burned to ashes, because the cinnabar on the rune paper is heated to produce a blue fire, and the sulfur reacts with the air to form sulfur dioxide, and the mercury and paper ash melt water is left to drink, killing intestinal bacteria and the probability of killing is not high; But the spells of the new century can't be burned, just soak them in water, like tea, because ink is a powerful veterinary antibiotic, this thing is different from the inorganic cinnabar, and it will be gone as soon as it is burned.

The science of thieves is that ordinary people who use veterinary drugs can't withstand it, so the sequelae are big.

Today's Plymouth Harbour is in a similar situation.

England has always been plagued by plagues, and with the exception of sweat fever, which is a disease that finds nobles, most plagues are caused by commoners who die more than nobles.

Despite the fear of European doctors and the lack of money to see a doctor, the commoners were more immune, but everyone was equal before the plague, and unless you escaped, the nobles and commoners were treated equally.

Therefore, the nobles followed the old way of preparing for the plague, fleeing from the city and blocking the city gates and harbors.

Only civilians and some monks remained in the city.

The commoners were left here because they couldn't help it, and the monks stayed here because they were trying to do something to save more people, not only the best in theology, mathematics, and rhetoric, but also the best in medicine, not because they were taught only by their monasteries.

Even if it is taught, it is useless.

It's not completely useless.

In essence, the water, phlebotomy and the medical treatments that Europeans developed during the Black Death pandemic were similar, and even very similar.

There are three possibilities for drinking runic water: the patient survived, the virus died of mercury poisoning, and the patient was killed by mercury.

There are three possibilities for phlebotomy: the patient survived, the patient was saved by instinct when he was endangered, and the patient died of excessive blood loss.

In fact, Cao Dao in Plymouth is not as easy and chic as in the letter sent by Li Yuxi to Chen Mu in the long run.

He didn't plan to save people, but he was stunned by the fact that the Plymouth magistrate ordered the city to be closed before he fled...... The road closure can be understood, and the whole city is also on alert, not letting anyone out or letting anyone in, which is also a routine operation in the Ming Dynasty when there is a plague, but what about the follow-up measures?

What are the government's regular positions, local righteous warehouses, and community warehouses doing, putting grain!

No.

What do the doctors in the city do? To save people, there is really no way to cure the disease, and you have to tell the people to lie down at home and not run around, right? Not only must the city gates be sealed, but the neighborhoods must also be sealed.

No.

People prayed for help from the church, but the monks had no choice but to watch as large numbers of corpses were brought into the church's graveyard every day.

Then the people, who were shrouded in poverty, sickness and death, were surprised to find that the Ming people who lived in the port were fine.

The news first came out of a prostitute.

The Ming people could not leave the port because of the blockade, and more than 20 merchants, captains, and hundreds of sailors lived in the streets near the port for two whole streets.

It was once a barren land, and despite the opposition of His Excellency Hawkins, the bribe-taking members of parliament passed a resolution to establish a treaty port in Plymouth, and no one could refuse the popularity and huge profits brought by the smoke of the paste.

Therefore, the Makino Chamber of Commerce of the Ming Dynasty took the land close to the city, and called it the Makino Hall, and all the Ming merchants who arrived in Hong Kong had the right to take sailors to live and rest for a short time, and some merchants settled for a long time to investigate the market demand as the eyes and ears of the Chamber of Commerce.

The many sailors brought not only a huge daily diet consumption, they were all energetic people, with physical needs and money, and when the news of the plague appeared in the city, there were still brave sailors who asked people to ask for flowers and willows...... There is always a reason why people have to go out on the streets.

Although the sailors who wanted to eat chicken were finally beaten with large sticks by the merchants, and the prostitutes were not allowed to enter the Makino Kaikan, the disciplined and ruddy faces of the people in the hall still shocked the plague-stricken city.

Even more impressive are the incantations drawn in cinnabar on the walls of the blue brick courtyard of the Makino Kaikan.

At first, Cao Changqing was frightened after hearing the news of the ravages of the plague, so he painted cinnabar on the wall of his own courtyard in the Makino Guild Hall, and covered the courtyard with lime, and finally began to carve various gods and Buddhas with wood in the courtyard.

Naturally, other sailors and businessmen came to the door and asked Cao Daochang to draw charms for them, and Cao Daochang also received battlefield training in the Oriental Military Administration, and he knew a lot about the common sense of the military garrison, and did dissection experiments with Chen Shigong.

These things are available in England, realgar is a dye, Cao Changqing thinks it is not toxic enough, and specially refines it into arsenic.

Following the spread of the epidemic caused by the disorderly management of the city, the entire Makino Hall was under military control, and no one was allowed to eat anything except rice and white noodles and fruits and vegetables grown in the courtyard.

In the eyes of Cao Daochang, a professional god stick half-hung surgeon, the plague that happened in Plymouth was tangible, although he didn't know what the visible plague was and what he was afraid of, he had a belief in his heart.

"Look at who these poisons poison first—me or you."