Farmer’s Blessed Girl

Man Bao carefully swept the fallen pox scab into the bottle, held his breath and closed the bottle before saying to the little girl on the bed, "You're recovering well, you don't even need to take the medicine, you can leave tomorrow."

The little girl was stunned, and it took a moment to react, and she said in surprise: "Really? I, can I go?"

Man Bao nodded.

She turned her head to the mother who was beside her, and cried, "Mother, I'm fine, I'm fine..."

"Yes, yes, hello, you are finally alright." The woman pulled the little girl out of bed and knelt down for Man Bao.

Man Bao hurriedly stretched out his hand to support her, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing, please get up."

"Thank you Imperial Doctor Zhou for your life-saving grace, big girl, and kowtow to Imperial Doctor Zhou. When you brought it here, the doctors couldn't say it. It was Imperial Doctor Zhou who rescued you."

The little girl knelt down again, but Man Bao stopped her, and she also kowtowed.

In one day, Man Bao sent eight patients out, all of whom were cured and survived.

There are good ones, and there are bad ones.

Man Bao withdrew his hand and shook his head at the relatives of the patient beside him, and then there was cries in the shed.

During this time, Lai Manbao has become accustomed to such a goodbye.

The first time she saw her, she was still uncomfortable and needed to stand in the air vent for a few quarters of an hour to calm down, but after a month, people died and were carried out every day. Numb.

At this time, Man Bao no longer stood in the wind and pretended that the wind was too strong. She just stood quietly, watching her relatives cry for a while, and then nodded to Zhou Liru, who was waiting beside her.

Zhou Liru went out and called someone, and soon someone would come to carry the deceased out. The corpse needed to be cremated, so he could only leave with the ashes.

This is also one of the reasons why some smallpox patients are reluctant to come to the hospital even if they die.

Man Bao saw that they were gone, and turned to see the next patient.

When she finally dragged her two legs to the place where the medicine was boiled, she squatted on the ground after having dinner with Zhou Liru.

A doctor came over and asked, "Doctor Zhou, I see several patients from your side in the morning, and I saw you sending people off at the air outlet. How many beds are vacant?"

Man Bao sighed and said, "Nine, eight survived, and one died."

When a doctor saw that she was not very interested, he smiled and said, "Doctor Zhou, your side is much better than us. You can heal eight people in one day, and it is very rare that only one person dies."

"Yes, yes, I went out five today, two died, and only three were alive."

Man Baodao: "But I've been here for a long time. These patients are all treated after I came..."

The patient she was treating when she came in was either dead or had already been cured and was helping everywhere at this time.

And now all the people living in the medical shed are living in through her hands, and she has been watching. She has tried her best to be thorough, but people still die every day.

There is some discomfort, but what Manbao feels most deeply is the viciousness of the smallpox virus.

The mortality rate is too high, she can pat her chest and say that her treatment plan is the most comprehensive of all the doctors, and even Imperial Physician Lu can't compare.

The treatment methods she used, decoction, acupuncture, and concoction for scrubbing, were three-pronged. She naturally knew that doctors could not guarantee a 100% cure, but with such a comprehensive treatment method, the mortality rate was also so high. Want to see how high the death rate is in other people or elsewhere.

What Mr. Mo said is really good. This is a very ferocious double-high virus with high infectivity and high mortality.

Therefore, it is still necessary to prevent it early, rather than bother to treat it after the epidemic occurs.

While eating, Man Bao was thinking about prevention. She asked the doctor beside her, "Have you heard of the method of vaccination?"

"what?"

Man Bao said: "People who have had smallpox will not get smallpox again. If all the people in the world have acne once, won't the flower be gone that day?"

"... Imperial Physician Zhou, do you mean to let everyone in the world get smallpox? How many people can survive?"

Man Baodao: "The toxicity of smallpox is also strong or weak, haven't you noticed that the acne on children is lighter than that of adults, a child may be cured in five days, but adults need seven days, or even longer. time."

She said: "None of the adults in my medical shed were cured within seven days, but there are many children. I have observed the situation of acne, and the acne of children is indeed less toxic than that of adults."

"So what if we can control the toxicity of smallpox?" She thought about the vaccination method she had seen, and said, "If we can choose smallpox with less toxicity to infect a person or a cow, cure him (it), and then Use his (its) pox scab to infect people or cattle with smallpox. After two or three times, the toxicity must be diluted a lot. At this time, take the pox scab and infect people with smallpox, and the smallpox toxicity emitted at this time It should be the youngest, and it can be cured with a little treatment. He won't have a high fever, and he won't have acne all over his body, but he did have acne, and if he encounters smallpox in the future, he will naturally not be infected again."

It sounds like a fantasy, but... everyone miraculously thinks it makes sense.

So someone asked, "Where did Imperial Doctor Zhou hear about this method?"

Thinking so thoroughly, it is obviously not what you want now.

Man Bao's words turned around on the tip of his tongue and said, "I heard it from a patient. He said that there seems to be this method in the Western Regions, but I don't know if it's true or not."

"This time, smallpox seems to have come from the Western Regions."

"No, it doesn't mean that there were cattle and sheep on the grasslands who were sick, but they sold the sick cows and sheep to people in Xiazhou City, and that's how they got infected."

"Really, how did I hear that the people on the grasslands got sick first and went to Xiazhou City to infect us people in the Central Plains?"

After listening to them, Man Bao became more and more biased, and hurriedly said, "Master Yang will investigate this cause later. Do you think this method of vaccination is reliable?"

"You don't know if it's reliable until you try it, right?"

"Then you have to use people to test it," said a doctor. "The Imperial Physician of Zhou is a court official, and there are still death row prisoners available, but even death row prisoners can't be used to test smallpox at will, right?"

"Yes, this method is harmful."

"So I still have to look for it, find the source of this method, and then study it after knowing the exact method. At that time, the death row will be used, and the future merits can also offset the sins."

Man Bao nodded again and again, "I think so too, so I have to go to the Western Regions."

The doctors didn't speak for a long time, and after a while, they said, "Where is it so simple, the road is so long..."

Who would want to go to the Western Regions?

Man Bao is willing!

Seeing that everyone had been discussing in a low voice, she nodded with satisfaction, but she still couldn't help but think of the method of vaccination.

It is said in the book that cowpox is safer than human pox, which should be the reason for its lower toxicity, but the specific method of spreading pox has not been mentioned, so the doctors are not wrong. You still have to find someone to try it out.

It seems that I really want to offend the prisoners on the death row, it is really a sin.

See you tomorrow