Chapter 432: Typhoid Fever (I)
PS: There's a chapter very late.,Today is the tightest day in this semester.,Busy with time.,Three more can only wait for tomorrow.
The Qi prisoners were concentrated in two places, one was the camp where the company commander and the Li Yousi were held, and the other was the prisoner camp for ordinary soldiers, a hundred steps away from the Qinyi wall.
When Zhao Wuxian came to this prisoner camp for the third time in the past few days, he saw three or three yellow-skinned Qi soldiers with thin yellow muscles and brown and dirty clothes staggering out of the shack, and the Zhao soldiers who drove them were covered with thick kudzu masks: this was sewn by Zhao Wuxian for the Qinyi women overnight.
Zhao Bing was fully armed, but he was still far away from the unarmed soldiers fighting a few people, like avoiding the tiger, Zhao Wuxian and the people around him also stopped, covered their mouths and noses, and looked at them with disgust.
The reason for this is because these people all have the same symptoms.
Just the night before, when Bian Que, who treated Zhao Bing and the prisoners equally, found that many people in the prisoner camp were sick, and they were either hot or cold, and most of them were accompanied by body pain and vomiting.
The other doctors had not yet linked these situations together, only the experienced doctor Bian Que had a solemn face, because these four were all symptoms of some kind of serious disease!
After a serious diagnosis, the bad news was confirmed. "It's typhoid!"
When he heard this, Zhao Wuxian felt a chill all over his body, even when he was riding a horse and braving the heavy snow to charge towards the dense Qi army, he didn't feel this way.
For the ancient infectious diseases, Zhao Wuxian had heard about them in his previous life, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, he became empathetic, and for the body that had not received any preventive injections, these diseases could be said to be the most threatening thing to his life. Fortunately, he was born as a child of the Qing clan and never lacked food and clothing. The physical foundation is very good, and later there is a fiancée who was born as a female disciple of Bian Que, and the medicine of the four seasons has never been cut off on weekdays, even if there is a small illness, it will soon be fine.
But in the face of typhoid fever, he, and even Zhao Ying's life is not guaranteed!
Le Lingzi said to him a long time ago: "There are diseases at all times." In spring, there is a scabies, in summer there is itchy scabies, in autumn there is malaria and cold disease, and in winter there is cough and qi disease. “
The so-called "cold disease", that is, typhoid fever, a vicious disease that has been heard of throughout the Middle Ages, is a contagious fever disease, which is somewhat similar to SARS in later generations, like burning out the body with a fire. The illness was more serious, and the death was also very fast, as the so-called "death was reported within six or seven days".
Since typhoid fever is such a threat to human life, what kind of tragedy will happen once the epidemic spreads? Although the population was not dense in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the necessary conditions for cross-regional transmission were not yet available, the outbreak of typhoid fever in a certain country or city was still endless.
Poems. Daya. "Summoning Min" is an account of the time of King Zhou You, "Min Tian is mighty, and Tian Du descends to mourn; I am famine, and the people are in exile", which is remembered as the famine caused by drought and the epidemic of typhoid fever.
Another example is the ninth year of Lu Xianggong (564 BC). Spring. The fire in the Song Kingdom was followed by an epidemic, most likely typhoid fever.
The most recent plague was in the 19th year of Lu Zhaogong (523 BC). Typhoid fever was prevalent in the capital of Zheng Guo, and even several doctors died one by one, and the court was empty.
Each major epidemic is very serious, causing a large number of deaths, as the so-called "soldiers die of disease before blood".
More than 6,000 Zhao soldiers and more than 5,000 Qi people were captured. There are more than 10,000 people inside and outside Qinyi, even if only 20% of them died, there are as many as 3,000 or 4,000 people.
This is something that Zhao Ying and Zhao Wuxian absolutely cannot accept.
So. Zhao Bing had to suspend all military operations and settle the matter first. Zhao Wuxian could only stubbornly go up, and in the past two days, he has been discussing countermeasures with Bian Que, inspecting the barracks and prisoner camps.
The cause of this typhoid fever is not difficult to guess.
That Gubu Ziqing was searching hard, but he still saw the dragon and saw the end of Lao Tzu Zeng Yun: After the soldiers, there will be a disaster year.
For one, fighting a war consumes a lot of grain stocks, and tens of thousands of people crossing the border destroy farmland like locusts. Second, the so-called "army of defeat, the dead cover the grass, and the corpses are tens of thousands; In the age of famine, the hungry are full of roads, the warm air is plagued, and thousands of households are wiped out! “
Fighting kills people, and when there are many dead people, they will spread epidemics. Qi people went south, leaving a lot of corpses along the way, the first battle in the snow field, the two sides threw nearly 5,000 corpses, Zhao soldiers were tired and tired, how could they have the strength to bury them all? After collecting the corpses of Zhao Bing, the enemy's collective buried some, and there were not a few who abandoned the wilderness and handed them over to jackals and crows to devour, so it is not surprising that epidemics breed.
Typhoid fever was the first to attack among the Qi captives, and once they experienced a long period of fighting, perhaps the root of the disease began to lurk in Yiyi. After a long journey to the south, after being cut off from the grain route, he lacked food and clothing, and his body became weak, and diseases naturally took advantage of the weakness. In that day's battle, there were many people who could not even stand firmly in battle and could not hold their spears, and directly knelt on the ground and begged for surrender.
Zhao Bing was in a hurry to Qinyi to spend the night, so he could not screen the 5,000 people in time, so those sick people brought typhoid fever into the barracks.
The best way to eradicate a disease is to prevent it before it happens.
But it wasn't until the day before yesterday that I realized that it was a little late.
Bian Que's disciple Ziyang came to greet Zhao Wuxian, Zibao was greedy for life and afraid of death, and after learning that it was typhoid fever, he actually ignored his identity as a doctor and hid near Zhao Ying's camp, only willing to take care of the doctors' prevention and control, and did not want to enter the prisoner camp.
Fortunately, Bian Que's other two disciples, Ziyang and Ziyue, both have a doctor's heart, and one of them is responsible for one piece, sharing the burden of medical Bian Que's work.
At this time, Ziyang said worriedly: "Now there are many patients in the prisoner camp, and even in the military camp and the county, there are many similar symptoms, if it is not controlled, a large-scale epidemic should appear soon, and the outbreak point is the prisoner camp!" “
The people of Qinyi live relatively scattered, even if they live together for a mile, at least they are separated. The barracks arranged by Zhao Wuxian for Zhao Bing were also more reasonable, not only did they have enough ventilation, but there was also a common toilet for every ten camp tents, and everyone took turns cleaning them.
The prisoners were not treated like this, they were all crowded together, and the entire prisoner camp was composed of countless large and small shacks and fences, crowded with more than 5,000 people. Dirty, messy, crowded, how can the epidemic not break out?
Looking at the sick patients who had been expelled from the camp in front of him, Zhao Wuxian was full of worry.
These Qi captives had been trekking in the ice and snow for many days, without adequate food and clothing, and their resistance to disease was extremely low, and their immunity was very poor. Bian Que's doctor is benevolent and treats prisoners equally, but it is only a pitiful point that he takes the medicinal soup made by his disciples and distributes it to their heads.
Even, the captives couldn't even eat enough food - this is Qinyi's grain, and it is okay to supply Zhao Bing, so why raise another 5,000 mouths? After all, the retainers under Zhao Ying's command were still arguing about the disposal of these Qi prisoners.
So Zhao Wuxian said to Ziyang: "For today's plan, I can only do my best, An Tianming, the measures arranged by Master Bian Que and me, except for the fact that the sick must be isolated to prevent the epidemic from continuing to spread among the population, have they all been implemented?" (To be continued......)