Yachiro and his younger brother Jiro looked at their family members in stunned silence, and hurriedly walked over and asked, "What happened?"
My wife shyly whispered: "They took a look at me and Asaki's hair and said..."
As he spoke, the voice behind the woman sounded like a mosquito.
Yachiro didn't hear what his wife said clearly at all, and asked anxiously: "What did you say?"
"Says there are lice." The wife and the woman lowered their heads, their faces turned red.
"Ah?" Yachiro was a little confused. It doesn't matter how many lice a poor person has, does it matter?
"People say that lice on the body can spread the plague." A man who had just shaved his head entered the tent with his head hanging.
Is there such a thing? Yaichiro and his younger brother stared at each other, not knowing what to say.
"You two, come out and have your heads shaved!" Outside the tent, a woman in a white coat shouted into the tent.
Yachiro and his younger brother sighed helplessly, forget it, just shave it, and you don't have to comb your hair.
So Yachiro obediently sat on the stool outside the door. After a while, as his hair continued to fall, his head felt cooler and cooler.
After shaving her hair, the woman behind her took out a soaked towel from a bucket nearby and twisted it a little. She casually picked up Lamy Ichiro's head and wiped it three or two times.
The shaved woman waited for Yaichiro to stand up, then shook the white cloth to clean all the remaining hair, pointed to the stool in front of her, and said to Yaichiro's younger brother Jiro: "Sit down!"
Jiro had no choice but to sit there with a sad face.
When Yachiro entered the tent with his head slicked back, the little son in his wife's arms looked at him and started to get very happy.
After a while, after Jiro also finished shaving his head, the woman in charge of shaving his head swept all the hair that had fallen on the floor into a pile. A guard came over with a torch and lit the hair. Then the hair was emitted.
There was a constant crackling sound in the flames that smelled of burning, and it took a long time before there was no movement.
At this time, the woman outside the tent called the Mishiro family to come out again, and then took out five pieces of yellow soap and nineteen pieces of white cotton from a red bucket.
Yachiro took it and smelled it, and there was a sour smell. He thought this was for food?
"Remember, there is medicine in this. Use this to wash your hair every day. If you wash your hair for five days in a row, you will no longer have lice. The cotton cloth is for wiping your face."
Mishiro and others looked at each other in confusion, thinking that the gentlemen here are very lenient in their control, not only about lice, but also about wiping their faces.
After these women left, everyone just sat down and chatted for a while. A tall woman wearing a white coat and a mask walked in again.
Yaichiro and others saw that this woman's eyebrows were very beautiful, but they didn't know what she looked like under the mask.
Then, a short little girl appeared from behind the woman, also dressed normally; but she had a big brown bag on her shoulder.
What is this for?
The little girl suddenly said, "Master asked us to check your body to see if you are sick."
These two women are doctors? By the way, aren’t doctors supposed to be bald monks?
During the Edo period, most doctors shaved their heads like monks. This tradition is said to have originated from the Warring States Period, when doctors on the battlefield shaved their heads to show that they were non-war personnel.
Most of the doctors in the Edo period came from hereditary medical families, and they usually had to practice medicine for 10 to 20 years before they could practice medicine independently. If the family had no children or the heir was unwilling to be a doctor, and his medical skills were poor, he would select an outstanding person or person from among his disciples.
It is to adopt a person from another medical family as an adopted son and let him inherit the family. Because the mainstream of medicine in Edo is traditional Chinese medicine, in addition to learning medical skills, doctors also need to learn Chinese, the Four Books and the Five Classics.
The tall woman walked a few steps forward with her hands behind her back, looking at everyone in the tent one by one. When she saw Yaichiro's son, she frowned and walked over.
Yaichiro saw this woman pointing at his son and saying something to the girl next to him. He couldn't understand a word, so he turned to look at his brother, who also shook his head to express that he didn't understand.
After listening to what the tall woman said, the girl said to Yaichiro's wife: "The teacher said your child is sick, and she wants to check it carefully."
Since last year, Yaichiro's son has been in poor health. Not long after arriving in Matsushima Town, he saw that his son's belly was bulging day by day and he was getting thinner. Yaichiro knew that this was a disease caused by hunger.
, he tried his best to find food and eat it first with his son, but it still didn't feel better. He had recently started to cough, especially at night.
Thinking of this, Yachiro quickly took his son from his wife and carried him to the lower bunk. He saw the female doctor taking out a strange thing from the box that the little girl was carrying and putting it on her neck. There was a tube in the middle of the thing that looked like
It's soft, and I don't know what it is used for; the hanging end is a round thing, one side is shiny, and the other side is black.
Yachiro's wife and daughter both got down from the upper bunk and walked to the opposite side of the lower bunk, looking at them without daring to express their anger.
The female doctor untied the child's clothes and first hung one end of the thing hanging on the chest on both ears. Only then did Yachiro realize that one end of the thing was made of metal.
The female doctor picked up the hanging metal block and placed the black side on her son's chest and stomach. After a while, she put it down. Then she pressed her fingers on Yachiro's son's stomach a few times, and then
The child's clothes were covered and he said something to the girl.
After a while, the girl said to the Yachiro family: "The teacher said that your child lacks nutrition, so he has water in his stomach."
Nutrition? Water accumulation? What are these?
The girl didn't understand at first glance, so she asked the female doctor a few more questions, and then said: "Just let him eat more good things."
When everyone heard that it was like this, they shook their heads and sighed. Who doesn't understand this truth? But for more than a year, farmers couldn't eat taro, radish, wild vegetables, these daily foods, let alone any good things.
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But what the girl said next frightened the Yachiro family.
"The teacher also said that the child also has a lung disease and needs to be treated as soon as possible."
(In the Qing Dynasty's "The Complete Book of Measles", pneumonia is also called lung wind and phlegm asthma.)
The Mishiro family quickly bowed and begged the female doctor to save their child. The female doctor raised her head and said a few words to everyone, then turned and left the tent.
The Yachiro family looked at the girl and heard the girl say: "The teacher said that she has to check on other people and will come over to give the child medicine at night."
So everyone sent the girl outside the tent, bowing and thanking her endlessly.
Two hours later, outside the RV at the campsite next door.
Liu Siting took off her mask, took off her white cloth coat, raised her hand and knocked on the door.
It was Liu Sheng who opened the door: "Hey, Director Liu, please come in, please come in."
"Is Zhao Xin here?" Liu Siting asked.
"Here, I just came back from the boat. I still have something to talk about." Liu Sheng said as he stepped aside to let the other party in, and then went out.
Liu Siting first went to the bathroom and washed her hands carefully. After coming out, she walked in front of Zhao Xin and asked, "Are you free? Let's talk about two yuan?"
"Yes, there must be. It's all for ten yuan." Zhao Xin laughed while pouring tea for Liu Siting.
"Hey, you haven't slept all night. Why are your eyes bloodshot? Your face doesn't look right." Liu Siting asked.
"It's just that I didn't sleep well last night. I was just dreaming. I woke up very tired in the morning. It's okay, just take a nap and you'll be fine." Zhao Xin explained with a smile.
"Hong Tao and I basically scanned the first batch of 500 people. The main problems are the following..." As Liu Siting was talking, she saw A Miao, who came in later, picking up a piece of cloth and starting to wipe the floor.
Liu Siting pointed to the seat next to her and said sternly: "A Miao, put it down for me. Sit next to me and listen."
A Miao timidly looked at Zhao Xin with the cleaning cloth, neither putting it away nor holding it.
Zhao Xin shook his head helplessly, reached out and grabbed the cleaning cloth and threw it aside.
"Listen to your teacher."
After hearing this, A Miao sat down obediently. With her big eyes, she looked at Liu Siting for a while and then at Zhao Xin for a while.
Perhaps influenced by Liu Siting's stern tone, King Duofu originally wanted to hug A Miao, but he turned around and jumped onto Zhao Xin's lap.
Liu Siting glared at King Duofu and took a sip of tea before continuing to Zhao Xin: "The problems with these five hundred people are not big. They are mainly lice and other parasites and malnutrition. A dozen children have pneumonia and need to be treated as soon as possible.
.But subsequent nutritional supplements must keep up. Also, I looked at the faces of these people. Most of the children had pityriasis white on their faces. Considering the food and drinking water of this era, I think the possibility of roundworms is very high.
It’s big, so the problem of deworming needs to be dealt with as soon as possible.”
Zhao Xin petted the cat and thought for a while before asking: "Are there enough medicines?"
"This batch is fine, but if there are a few dozen more people in the next batch of 500, it will be really annoying."
Zhao Xin murmured: "It seems I have to go to Nagasaki as soon as possible."
Liu Siting was stunned: "What does this have to do with Nagasaki?"
Zhao Xin did not explain, but changed the subject and said: "Since there are not enough medicines, I will take Doctor Hong back tomorrow. As for malnutrition, don't we have more than two hundred horses? There seem to be dozens of mares in there. One
I will go to Liu Zheng and ask him to get some mare's milk for those people every day. In addition, I have to arrange for people to go fishing in the river. Although it is not the salmon migration season, I see there are still a lot of fish in the river.
Yes. Deal with it for a few days first and wait until I come back."
Liu Siting nodded and could only do this for now.
The two chatted for a while, and then Liu Siting left. She had to prepare medicines and go to the isolation area in the evening to distribute the medicines to the pneumonia patients.
When Liu Siting left, Zhao Xin asked A Miao to follow him to help. So he was the only one left in the RV at this time.