The first month of the seventh year of the Divine Turtle (323) was the peak of the epidemic.
In the newly built Pure Land Temple in the east of Pingyang City, Fotucheng is presiding over the ceremony.
Wen Qiao sighed and sat aside, feeling depressed.
Having followed Liu Kun in Jinyang for many years, he has long been used to seeing life and death, but being taken away by an epidemic still makes him feel heavy.
Lying in the coffin closest to him was Wang Pei.
Zuo Cheng, the former imperial censor of the Liang Kingdom, retired from office a year ago due to old age and stayed in Pingyang to open a school to recruit disciples and educate the disciples of Hu and Han. He suddenly contracted an epidemic two years ago. Before his death, please leave his coffin in the underground palace of Jingtu Temple to wait for the next year's epidemic.
After his death, he was buried in Qingzhou.
The King of Liang agreed to his request and gave him a burial vessel, a certain amount of money, and the officials along the way would provide him with conveniences when he was buried.
Sikong Liu Han was also there.
He and Wang Pei had not known each other for a long time, but they had similar interests and formed a deep friendship in just a few years, so he came to see his old friend off for the last time.
"Liu Gong, Your Majesty said that there are many types of plague, and there is not just one disease. What is the cause of this epidemic?" Wen Qiao felt anxious while listening to the chanting of sutras by the masters, so he asked.
"Everyone was talking about the epidemic at that time, but I really didn't know what the disease was, and I didn't know either." Liu Han shook his head and said: "In the first year of Xianning (275), there was a great epidemic in winter. One hundred thousand people died in Luoyang. It was terrible. It was so severe that it was probably not a disease.
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Wen Qiao was stunned.
"Epidemic means labor, and there are ghosts who work as slaves. People - all are detained by ghosts to serve as slaves, this is one theory." Liu Han said the horrifying things in a calm tone: "So when the epidemic arises, witches
They are expensive. Nowadays in Pingyang City, the talismans of 'Zombie Note' and 'Ghost Note' are worth thousands of gold."
Wen Qiao couldn't help frowning and said: "Witches are mostly people who deceive the world and steal their reputation. Some people abandon medicine and study the past, but they still die. However, when they are dying, they don't hate abandoning medicine, but they hate being late to practice witchcraft. How can it be?
Isn’t it ridiculous?”
Liu Han sighed softly and said no more.
When he was young, like Wen Qiao, he was familiar with medical books such as "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", but after experiencing several major diseases, he was at a loss.
In the first year of Xianning, the imperial court also convened doctors to discuss countermeasures, and then dispatched officials to inspect the epidemic, distribute medicine, and bury the dead. However, Luoyang alone still suffered 100,000 deaths...
The medicines given out are useless. Some of those who survived the epidemic were not so much cured by medicine as they were strong and able to survive.
Going further back, several campaigns during the Three Kingdoms period ended without illness due to widespread epidemics among the soldiers.
Do you really think that everyone is a fool? Don’t know how to treat the disease? In fact, all kinds of methods have been tried.
Prescriptions recorded in medical books were the first to be used. When the epidemic was still uncontrollable and large numbers of people died, people became desperate and began to seek help from witchcraft and astrology.
In addition, when the monarch begins to accept advice and make sacrifices to the gods, it will always be done regardless of whether it is useful or not.
The most effective way is actually isolation.
Years ago, King Liang issued an order: "If there is an epidemic in an official's home, and three or more people infected with the epidemic are not allowed to go to the government office; if one or more people are infected with the epidemic, they are not allowed to enter the palace; and if there is an epidemic in the common people's homes, they will be sent to a separate place for treatment."
, family members are not allowed to visit.”
He also ordered: "Clean the bedding, wash frequently, sweep the courtyard, and exterminate rats, ticks and fleas as soon as possible if you see them."
Liu Han naturally knew these orders, and he just mechanically asked his family to follow them, but he was really not sure whether they were of any use.
The older he gets and the more he sees, the more he believes in metaphysics.
People are really too fragile. A person who was alive before can become ill and unable to survive in the blink of an eye.
As a staunch believer in Confucianism, he used to look down upon dissolute scholars, but now he understands a little: the way the world is, it's better to take pleasure in the present.
"Yu Yuangui once mentioned to me the great epidemic in Xianning." Wen Qiao said suddenly: "Yu's family was infected with the epidemic, and both of Yu Gun's two brothers died.
He was taken care of by others, saying that his nature was not afraid of disease, so he supported him himself, staying up day and night. During this time, he held the coffin and cried bitterly, keeping vigil for the other two brothers who died of the epidemic. After the epidemic subsided, the family returned and the two brothers recovered.
, Gon is also fine. So, maybe as long as you fulfill your filial piety and do righteous deeds, you can avoid getting sick?"
Liu Han was at a loss when he heard this.
Is filial piety really useful in the face of epidemics?
Medicine and stone are useless, filial piety is probably useless, nothing is useful, maybe only praying to God and worshiping Buddha will be useful - praying to God and worshiping Buddha was the most despised thing by Liu Han when he was young, but after you have experienced countless despair, you will be shaken and doubtful
everything.
"When..." A bell rang outside the underground palace.
Wen Qiao and Liu Han suddenly woke up.
Before I knew it, the ritual ceremony was over and Master Fo Tucheng, the great virtuous man of Yecheng, had left.
In the dim underground palace, only coffins were left.
Among them were officials, military generals, and local wealthy people who donated money to build this temple, all of whom stopped here.
The huge underground palace is full, what will be different outside?
This is a disaster, no matter how high or low it is.
The literary talents were like the Seven Sons of Jian'an, and in the 22nd year of Jian'an (217), five of them were "annihilated" and distributed in various places.
Wen Qiao and Liu Han both sighed and left the underground palace to return home.
On this occasion, reunite with your family, because maybe one of them will leave at the next moment without any warning.
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In the katydid hall, Shao Xun was writing and drawing on a piece of paper.
He always felt that the term "plague" was too general. From a medical point of view, epidemics always have specific names, right?
He didn't know much about medicine, so he racked his brains and only wrote down the names of smallpox, cholera, plague, malaria, typhoid, schistosomiasis, tuberculosis and other epidemic diseases on paper - he didn't write down influenza because it was hard to know when this thing would appear.
It is too clear, but the pandemic was really late, and the first war was the "highlight period" of the flu.
After writing about these diseases, he crossed out smallpox because the symptoms didn't fit.
Schistosomiasis was crossed out, the region is wrong and the symptoms are not consistent.
Malaria was crossed out because there was no sign of trouble.
Neither does tuberculosis.
Finally, cholera was crossed out because there was no large-scale diarrhea.
That left only plague and typhoid, and maybe others, but he just couldn't remember them.
As for typhoid fever, it seems that there are also diarrhea symptoms, he is not sure, and he asked people to drink as much hot water as possible - this is not easy at this time, because firewood costs money, and boiling water takes time and effort. You give the order
It's one thing, but the actual implementation is another. The time traveler alone can't do anything about it.
Shao Xun finally circled the plague, his face solemn.
Damn it, uncle, this can’t be true, right? But he doesn’t know the specific symptoms of the plague – this disease was very popular in the late Ming Dynasty, and was also called a “plague” at the time. However, with the development of medicine at that time, there were already some
With progress, the plague has also been subdivided. The plague is called "pimple plague" because the patients' skin bulges and they "vomit blood and die".
Shao Xun studied for a long time, but had no clue. In the end, he could only grasp the most fundamental thing, the three elements of infectious disease prevention and control: control the source of infection, cut off the transmission route, and protect susceptible people.
In fact, he had issued a series of orders before, all based on these three elements.
But I really don’t know what the disease is, so I can only bury the body (cannot be cremated), eliminate rats, ticks, fleas, etc.
As for isolating those infected and reducing contact, these are all for the purpose of preventing and controlling the epidemic.
In addition, the government has also purchased a lot of medicine for distribution, but I don’t know if it is of any use. The quantity is also seriously insufficient, because these days most people are sick and cannot be cured, and the "production capacity" of herbal medicine is only enough for the consumption of wealthy people.
Everything that can be done has been done, and the rest can only be left to fate.
At least, the bureaucratic machine under his rule is still vigorous, and he is confident that fewer people will die than in the original history.
Well, Shao Xun thinks the most important thing is to control the source of infection, cut off the transmission route, and protect susceptible people. But for the vast majority of the elites in society at this time, the most important thing is——
"Please apply for benevolent policies", author Yu Chen, content: "...floods and droughts harm people, diseases come one after another, enlightenment and enlightenment have not been felt in living beings, sincerity has not spread to heaven and earth...We should use force to stop the war, and feed and silk...
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In addition to Yu Chen, Taibao Pan Tao asked Xue to be unjustly imprisoned.
Wang Yan, the commander of the Zuo Army, believed that the country's "personnel affairs were inappropriate" and that it should "examine its faults" and "accept remonstrances with an open mind."
The minister ordered Pei Miao to quote "Yíng, the god of mountains and rivers, who is responsible for floods, droughts, and epidemics" in "Zuo Zhuan" and believed that "sacrifice to gods" should be "sacrificed" and a large-scale Nuo ceremony should be held to drive away ghosts and evil spirits.
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The last one almost made Shao Xun swear, and he rejected it directly.
Then, he suddenly thought, could he refute Pei Miao and everyone in the world?
Why did Pei Miao say this? Because many people in the world think so, and they think it is right.
This is the trend of the times, the social background, and the three views of all people. Do you want to change these alone?
Manpower is sometimes scarce, so maybe we can make some correct decisions within our capabilities, save as many people as possible, and make small changes, which is already good.
"Come here." Shao Xun shouted.
In the palace, Shi Wuli and the attendant Yangman came in from the cubicle and saluted: "Your Majesty, please give me your instructions."
"I sent an order to the Prime Minister to separate Taichang and Shaofu's medical officers and set up the Imperial Medical Office." Shao Xun said: "The first priority of the Imperial Medical Office is to compile the book "Female Diseases"."
"What is Fengtu Disease?" Yang Man asked.
"The states in the world are divided into states, and the diseases that occur frequently in each state are called local endemic diseases." Shao Xun said: "After the epidemic subsided, the Imperial Medical Office was ordered to visit various places and record them in detail.
Seasons with high incidence of endemic diseases, symptoms and prevention and treatment methods. Each disease must be listed with a name. I don't want to see unclear general terms like "miasma" and "plague". Please give me more details. There are many lists and
If it is confirmed that it is correct, I will not hesitate to reward you with gold, silk, official titles."
When Yangman heard this, he was stunned.
This kind of book needs to be compiled by all the efforts of the world, and only the king has the ability to promote it.
But once it is compiled, it will be a huge work and have a profound impact on the world.
After the compilation is completed, one copy will be distributed to each county. From then on, local officials can refer to this book to determine what the epidemic disease is and achieve symptomatic prevention and treatment - even if it cannot be cured, it can be prevented to a certain extent - so that it will not be like the epidemic.
Running around like headless flies.
It is unknown how many lives this move can save.
Yang Man bowed deeply and said: "I obey your orders."
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