Chapter 464: A major national event, preventing and controlling the plague
An egret screamed "Yo yo" and hovered in the sky. It stretched its long neck and observed the silent two-legged beasts in the valley. Two people were standing in the middle, looking at the setting sun in the west.
Dozens of people surrounded it, like mountains holding the sun.
Alyssa opened her eyes wide and watched the egret turn several times. She leaned on her lover's shoulder and asked in a worried voice.
"Xulot...the plague you mentioned is so powerful. How should we deal with it?"
Shulot stretched out his arms, hugged the delicate girl tightly, and stroked her gently for a while. Then, he gathered his thoughts and preached again.
"Each epidemic is different, affecting various parts of the human body and causing different symptoms. For example, headache, fever, sensitivity to cold, cough, bleeding, acne... Therefore, we need to identify specific symptoms to adopt targeted measures.
method."
"For ordinary epidemic qi, as long as the body is strong, the food is sufficient, and the yang energy is abundant, it is enough to resist! The human body's immune system will work to resist external invasion. This is that evil cannot prevail over good. Although you are exposed to the epidemic qi and are infected,
, but there will be no serious symptoms. For example, in common epidemics, malnourished old people and women are always seriously ill and will be the first to get sick. However, strong and well-fed young adults often have mild illnesses.
Or end up getting sick."
Hearing this, Alyssa nodded to express her understanding. In villages all over the world, young adults are always given priority in their diet, and they have the most vitality. Then, she noticed her lover's words.
"Xulot, you said there are 'ordinary' epidemics, does that mean there are also 'dangerous' epidemics?"
"Yes! Some diseases are extremely poisonous and spread extremely quickly, so they are extremely dangerous. I know of nine types alone. If any one of them spreads, it can cause tens of thousands of deaths.
of casualties!”
Xiulote paused and collected his thoughts. Then, he ordered Na Xiu.
"Na Xiu, record my following words carefully, they are very crucial!"
"Obey you!"
Naxiu bowed gracefully and picked up the pen and paper again.
"In the east of the world, far away from the sea, there are nine extremely poisonous diseases. According to the degree of danger to the alliance, the first is typhoid, the second is smallpox, the third is plague, the fourth is measles, and the fifth
It’s cholera, the sixth is diphtheria, the seventh is mumps, the eighth is malaria, and the ninth is yellow fever!”
"Well... Your Highness, how should you write these nine kinds of diseases?"
Naxiu remembered half of it and raised her head in embarrassment. These diseases have not yet appeared in America, so naturally there is no corresponding description.
"Give me a pen and paper, and I'll write it myself!"
Shulot stretched out his hand and took the pen and paper. He tried to remember, first wrote about enteric fever, and then drew a little man. The little man was holding his stomach and having diarrhea, and the feces flowed into the river.
"Enteric typhoid fever attacks the intestines and causes diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and bleeding. The mode of transmission is contact with feces and contaminated water..."
Then there was another little person, covered in small dots, lying motionless on the ground. The little person exhaled in the air and flew into another nearby little person.
"Smallpox, the disease invades the whole body, and the symptoms are rashes, pus, and ulcers all over the body. The mode of transmission is respiratory droplets and contact with items used by the other party..."
Later, the new villain's limbs became blackened like the Black Death, and there were more rats and fleas around him.
"Plague, the plague invades the lungs and the symptoms are fever, chills, bleeding, and gangrene. The mode of transmission is through rats and fleas, which spread the plague everywhere..."
The fourth little man also has small dots on his body.
"Measles is a disease that attacks the chest and abdomen. The symptoms are red, flat rashes. The mode of transmission is breathing. It is similar to smallpox, but the disease is slightly milder."
When the fifth villain was drawn, Shulot paused. He didn't know much about cholera, but in the next few hundred years, cholera should have been limited to India and not introduced to the Americas. He thought for a while
Yes, he drew a little man with diarrhea and wrote roughly.
"Cholera, the disease attacks the intestines, and the symptom is watery diarrhea. The mode of transmission is also the patient's feces contaminating water sources..."
Then, the sixth little man has a big neck, and the seventh one has a big mouth.
"Diphtheria, as the name suggests, is a disease that attacks the neck, forming swelling and white patches, and is spread through breathing. Mumps, a disease that attacks the cheeks, forming swelling, and is spread through breathing... These two diseases are both killers of children!
"
Shulot took a deep breath. He pondered for a while, and then drew a little man swaying, with the words "hot and cold" written next to it.
"Malaria, the disease attacks the liver and directly damages Ihotel. The symptoms are shaking, alternating cold and heat all over the body. It is spread through mosquito bites."
The last villain has red eyes and tongue, and is vomiting and bleeding.
"Yellow fever, the disease attacks the lungs. Symptoms are fever, body pain, red tongue and red eyes. It is spread through mosquito bites."
Thinking of these two serious diseases, Shulot sighed and warned seriously.
"Although malaria and yellow fever are at the bottom, they are no less harmful to the human body than the first seven, and are even more powerful! It's just that they rely on mosquitoes to spread, are restricted by terrain, and occur in hot and rainy lowland rainforests.
Invade the Mexican Plateau where the Alliance is located.”
Shulot turned around and looked deeply to the south.
As long as Pandora's box is opened, African malaria mosquitoes and Aedes mosquitoes are introduced to the Americas, and malaria parasites and yellow fever viruses will permanently take root in the tropical rainforests. All rainforest residents in the Americas will always be tested by diseases.
It is a natural disaster that no one can change! The only good thing among the misfortunes is that neither malaria nor Aedes mosquitoes like the climate of the tropical plateau, so they pose little threat to the heart of the alliance.
"In the far east, there are nine dangerous diseases!"
Alyssa murmured to herself, with worry in her eyes. She held her lover's arm tightly, her voice anxious.
"Xulot, are there any other dangerous diseases? If these extremely poisonous diseases are introduced into the alliance, what should we do..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "The essence of plague is tiny life. There are thousands of lives, and there are naturally far more than nine kinds of dangerous plague in the world! However, we
It is these nine types that we need to worry about and take precautions for now."
Shulot smiled slightly and comforted his lover.
"Alyssa, the reason why I asked you to take charge of the kingdom's medicine is because I want to make the prevention of epidemics the most important thing! The most important thing for the country is the prevention and treatment of plagues. You don't have to be too anxious. For these nine kinds of
I also have a method of dealing with the epidemic, enlightened by the gods!"
After saying that, Shulot frowned and thought carefully for a while.
According to the type of plague pathogens, these infectious diseases can be divided into two categories: bacteria and viruses. Bacteria include enteric typhoid, plague, cholera, diphtheria, and malaria; viruses include smallpox, measles, mumps, and yellow fever.
sick.
For bacterial diseases, the best response is naturally antibiotics. However, in this era, due to inefficient culture technology, lack of purification technology, and insufficient observation accuracy, it is absolutely impossible to produce high-concentration antibiotics. However,
You can try to prepare a low-concentration penicillin solution. This is not for antibacterial purposes, but for cultivating bacterial strains from generation to generation.
If you want to get real and effective penicillin, you must screen the Penicillium group for a long time. Because Penicillium often secretes antibacterial and non-toxic penicillin and antibacterial and toxic patulin at the same time. Crude penicillin can cure diseases or kill people.
I'm afraid it all depends on luck. If the non-toxic penicillin is mixed with an excessive proportion of patulin, it will be a poison that can kill people in minutes!
Trial production of usable penicillin does not require much manpower, but it takes an extremely long time. Historically, after Fleming discovered penicillin, he cultivated Penicillium for about ten years. He screened generations under the microscope before he obtained the
The suitable penicillin bacterial flora provides a population base for large-scale industrial production of penicillin.
"The first task. Naxiu, arrange for a few capable people to collect different types of Penicillium from rotten grains and fruits. Then, use sweeter fruit juice to culture Penicillium. The amount of Penicillium accumulates to a certain level.
After it reaches a certain level, add the oil and stir. Pour out the water layer below, and then use charcoal powder to absorb it. Then..."
Speaking of this, Xiulote was stuck for a while. He knew that penicillin is soluble in water and can be absorbed by charcoal powder. Next, what should be used for further extraction?... The young man was not sure, and after thinking about it, he was vague.
commanded.
"...Then, use pure boiling water, acidic hot spring water, and alkaline plant ash water to rinse the charcoal powder respectively, then evaporate the water to dryness and crystallize, use rotten meat to test the antibacterial properties, and then use small animals to test
Toxicity...take the bacteria with high antibacterial properties and low toxicity, keep them, and culture them again..."
"...???Your Highness...Your Highness?"
Hearing this, Naxiu's red lips parted slightly, her eyes turned completely blank, as if she had been spoiled...
"cough!"
Shulot coughed lightly, thought for a while, and said again.
"When you are free, you come to me alone. I will take you to do it together... Then we will choose a few patient and careful female workers to repeat these tasks over and over again, and we will do it for ten or twenty years.
!”
"Do it for ten or twenty years?"
Alyssa opened her bright eyes wide, a little unbelievable.
"Well! This is a very slow job, and whether it succeeds or not depends on the gift of fate. It will always take ten or twenty years to get preliminary results. If Lozano can burn pure glass,
It can be sped up a lot."
After Shulot finished speaking, he smiled, with longing in his eyes. If he could obtain qualified penicillin within a few decades, it would be a gift from the goddess of fate! After a moment, he recovered his thoughts and gave the order in a deep voice again.
"The second task is to sort out the alliance's various medicines, test their ability to treat common diseases, and write them down for backup. For example, tobacco can treat colds, and black feather jade can treat body inflammation... They all
It has a certain anti-epidemic and bactericidal effect! There are more than 800 medicinal materials in the alliance’s priestly inheritance, most of which are herbal medicines, and they all need detailed research and sorting.”
"I obey you, Your Highness!"
Naxiu nodded solemnly. Sorting out all the medicines and recording them in a book was a complex and sensitive project. Fortunately, for the sake of His Highness, the priests shouldn't have much obstruction.
Central and South America are isolated from Eurasia. There are all kinds of magical plants, and herbal medicine is very prosperous. Among the hundreds of species of plants, there are always medicines that can deal with various infectious diseases. However, they need to be systematically explored and sorted out. History
It was also the aboriginal witch doctors of South America who first discovered that the bark of the cinchona tree can effectively deal with malaria.
"Hmm... Cinchona tree... We need to start exploring the offshore as soon as possible and go to the Inca!"
Shulot made a mental note. Then, with a serious look on his face, he gave his instructions seriously.
"The third task is to compile the first edition of the priest's manual for dealing with epidemics! ....Epidemics breed in patients and can quickly spread to others or flow into rivers and lakes. Therefore, whenever you encounter an epidemic, you must first treat it
The patients should be treated and isolated, and their feces should be strictly buried. As for other people, no matter how close they are, they should avoid contact with the patients, drink boiled water, and kill mosquitoes and rats that transmit diseases... In case of serious epidemics, the corpses should be burned and
Wear the patient's clothes. Send out warriors to cover the mouth and nose with fine cloth to seal off the affected area. Even, if necessary, take decisive measures!..."
After hearing the decisive measures, Na Xiu's expression became stern, and she seemed to see boundless blood and fire before her eyes. She bowed her head, saluted, and answered respectfully.
"Your Highness, your will is your mortal life!"
Shulot nodded calmly, with a calm expression. He would take time to complete the epidemic prevention manual in detail based on the common sense of later generations, and make preparations for the priests in advance. Then, his thoughts changed, and he thought of the hot springs he had enjoyed in the past two days.
It has a certain bactericidal effect.
"The fourth thing is to reserve a sufficient amount of sulfur. Mix plant ash and oil, and add sulfur powder to make sulfur soap... Use it to clean clothes or skin, it can be a powerful sterilizer."
The advantage of Central America's frequent volcanoes is that there are many sulfur mines, which can be used to obtain powerful fungicides. Burning sulfur powder in places where germs breed; pouring sulfur in lakes where mosquitoes breed... can weaken some
The spread of the epidemic.
As night fell, the sky was shrouded in darkness. The bodyguards lit bonfires and lit up the valley in the forest. Shulot fell into deep thought. For bacterial plagues, various symptomatic herbs are the key to treatment. In this era,
Chinese medicine has relatively mature responses to the treatment of enteric typhoid fever and malaria. Houttuynia cordata decoction is used for enteric typhoid fever, and Qinghao recipe is used for malaria, both of which were inherited from the medical books of previous generations.
"It would be great if we could cross the sea to the west...to obtain medical inheritance from the Ming Dynasty and obtain Houttuynia cordata, Artemisia annua and other medicinal herbs!..."
Shulot thought for a long time and shook his head slightly. If you want to cross the sea to the west, you must have European navigation technology. And once the Europeans arrive, they will inevitably bring plague. At this critical node, American civilization has
There was not much time, and he was always extremely urgent... After a while, he came back to his senses and once again thought about how to deal with viral plagues.
Viral infectious diseases include smallpox, measles, mumps, and yellow fever. The one that requires the most attention is naturally smallpox. At this time, the smallpox virus had been raging throughout Europe for many years, causing countless deaths. The colonists brought
The first severe infectious disease to come was bound to be smallpox.
"How to deal with smallpox? ...The natural answer is vaccination."
Xiulote thought of a novel about the end of the Yuan Dynasty. The protagonist started his career through vaccination, and the method was not complicated.
In this era, the technology that has appeared in the south of China is variolation. The commonly used methods of variolation are divided into dry seedling method and water seedling method. The so-called dry seedling method is to grind the acne scabs that fall off from the recovering smallpox patients.
It is made into powder, and then blown into the nostrils of the vaccinated person with a silver tube. The so-called water vaccine is to grind the acne scab into powder, then add water to adjust the humidity, wrap it up with cotton balls and stuff it into the nasal cavity.
Essentially, variolation is the acquisition of attenuated smallpox virus from recovering smallpox patients, and then infecting vaccinated people who have never had it, causing them to suffer from less severe smallpox. Once a smallpox patient recovers, he will never be infected with the virus for life.
Furthermore, the resistance gained from attenuated viruses can also protect against non-attenuated viruses.
The further development of the variolation method is to use the acne scabs that have been vaccinated multiple times as vaccines. This is equivalent to targeted screening, and continuously obtains less virulent smallpox viruses. The least virulent one is the close relative of the smallpox virus, the cowpox virus.
But this requires not only Eurasian cattle, but also cattle that happen to have pox.
"The longer the seedlings are propagated, the clearer the medicinal power will be, and the more mature it will be through artificial selection and refinement. The fire poison will be eliminated, and the essence will remain alone, so it is perfect and harmless..."
Similarly, vaccination can also be used for measles. As for mumps and yellow fever, Schlott didn't know much about it and had no clear method.
"The fifth task is to choose a small offshore island far away from human habitation and establish a secret medical center. Research epidemics and trial-produce...variolus and cowpox...Forget it, the alliance does not have an outlet in the East China Sea. This
Xiang is just preparing, there is no rush for now."
After half-way through his instructions, Shulot retracted his words. Then, he smiled with relief and spoke loudly.
"Okay, that's it for today's teaching! Prepare the barbecue and we will camp by the spring."
Alyssa blinked. She hugged her lover tightly, feeling the strong heartbeat of the other person, and the man's strong self-confidence and will. Inexplicably, the soft girl felt a little hot. She looked up at the sky, where the clouds covered the moon.
Soon there will be an autumn rain that will soak the deep earth.
"Xulot...after eating the barbecue...let's eat avocado!"
The girl's breath was like orchid, blowing into her lover's ear, making him feel as if electricity was flowing all over his body.
"I brought some avocados... According to what you said, they can promote the secretion of hormones, and the deer's... The night is very long, let's try it together and explore some interesting... new rituals.
..”
"ah?..."
Shulot's body felt hot, and a fire ignited in his heart. He looked at his charming lover, gritted his teeth, and said fiercely.
"Even if I don't eat avocado... I can still eat you..."
"Um, is it true? I don't believe it...hehe."
Seeing this scene, Naxiu raised her eyebrows. She sighed helplessly, made a few gestures, and the warriors dispersed again.
Not long after, the autumn rain fell from the sky, accompanied by bursts of thunder. Listening to the continuous thunder, the cold female warrior felt hot all over and her feet felt weak. She looked down and saw that at some point, the earth had been covered by rain.
Soft and moist.
Happy days are always busy and short-lived. The rainy season has ended, the clouds have been sucked dry by the rain, and the thunder cannot last long. A few days later, a group of messengers came from afar, bringing the latest report from the kingdom in the west.
The wind rises at the end of Qingping, and the waves form between gentle waves. The autumn harvest in the world has ended, and the wind and waves of war are about to sweep across the east!
