It's not that difficult to open a hospital in another world, right? Chapter 469: Promote cowpox? Let’s ask the legendary mages first (like the black and white silent film leader plus update 9)
Chapter 469: Promote cowpox? Let’s ask the legendary mages first (like the black and white silent film leader plus update 9)
Using sailors as cowpox subjects was a method that Grete decided upon after repeated thought.
When Grete used low-price treatments to attract poor people before, Grete's efforts to find subjects ended in failure in nine cases out of ten. The reason is probably because adults in this world do not undergo quarantine observation for that long:
Men have to work in workshops, on docks, in shops;
Women have to work in laundries and dyeing houses, and even if they don't have enough time, they have to take care of the whole family, doing laundry, cooking, and taking care of the housework;
Even children of five or six years old, regardless of gender, have to make money to support their families. If they take one day off, they will have nothing to eat; if they take ten days off, no, let alone ten days, as long as three days, the job will be lost.
In this difficult world and the life of the poor, there is almost no room for error. The only ones who have time to undergo isolation observation are those children who are three or four years old or even younger.
However, Gretel felt a splitting headache when he thought about cramming twenty or thirty children into the ward and raising them for more than ten days at a time. He would never take this step unless it was absolutely necessary.
Of course, unless it was absolutely necessary, Gretel Social Terror Nordmark did not want to go to the city hall under the guise of a teacher and get a group of death row prisoners to serve as subjects...
How wonderful it is to use seafarers! They are young and strong! When a ship arrives at the port, it unloads, supplies, loads, and sometimes repairs the ship, there will always be a period of free time!
As long as Gretel provides them with food and accommodation during their return to Hong Kong, he can trick these sailors into coming over and isolate them for ten and a half months!
It's great to have a familiar maritime merchant come to your door. From point to point, from one merchant to dozens of merchants, if you want to recruit thousands of sailors, you only need a few dozen ships.
The only problem is that the cowpox vaccine consumes a lot of money. Sailors may change jobs while working, or stay in other ports, or fall into the water and die.
It is estimated that less than 50% of the previous batch of subjects will come back for the variolation test. In this case, there are still maritime merchants and shipowners organizing the situation, and we hope that the sailors will come here on their own, and Gray will get 10%.
Thank God very much.
But, the cost of the vaccinia vaccine, that’s also called the cost?
Gretel, who has a mage tower in his name and now has a hospital, Nordmark, is rich and has crossed his arms...
Gretel wanted to prevent seamen from smallpox, so the gout merchants naturally did everything they could. Not only did he take stock of the manpower under his name, he quickly escorted fifty or sixty sailors over, and he also worked hard to promote Gretel.
Soon, the legend of Gretel spread among the business circles:
"Have you heard? Sanges's father's disease was not cured by the God of War Temple, but it was cured by the Nordmark mage!"
"Have you heard? Master Nordmark took out a chili pepper from old Carlyle's lungs!"
"Have you heard? Master Nordmark took out old Carlyle's lungs and replaced them with new ones!"
Publicity turned into bragging, and bragging turned into talk in the circle. When the story of Gretel's lung healing was passed from the merchant to the alchemy workshop, and then from the transmutation system to the necromantic system, the version had become:
"I heard that you replaced an old man with cow lungs?"
Grete looked at Archmage Edgar who was running over in a hurry, his hair all messed up, and was speechless for a while.
Replace beef lungs?
Do you think I look like someone who would transplant cow lungs?
I'm not a master of gene editing, and I can't make an anti-rejection medicine... Besides, even if I change, pig lungs will be given priority. Why should I replace cow lungs?
Pig’s organs are about the same size as humans!
He spent a lot of time and finally clarified the truth... By the way, how did cowpox and lung treatment come to be replaced by cow lungs? The speed of the rumor progress is too fast!
Archmage Edgar sighed:
"I thought you had something to do... Sigh... By the way, what is cowpox?"
Grete breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and was about to explain to him what cowpox was. But as soon as he started talking, Master Edgar came back to his senses and waved his hand:
"Don't tell me, don't tell me. I'll just go back and look at your paper. By the way, this paper will be published soon, right?"
In fact, according to Grete's plan, he wants to complete the preservation of the vaccine before submitting it. At the very least, it must be able to be stored for ten days and a half, and can be delivered from Nevis to the royal capital in the south.
Otherwise, how can we promote vaccination?
Leading the cow away?
However, Archmage Edgar pressed hard and didn't speak. However, he said he didn't want to hear it, but his body was very honest and ran to the hospital every day. After the fifth trip, Grete finally couldn't help it anymore:
"Carlos, please complete the results of the previous experiments and write a paper. Well...just write until the subjects you selected before were successfully vaccinated with cowpox, and then there was no response to the variola vaccination!"
Leon Carlos took the order and left, and then the poor young necromancer fell into dire straits...
It's a pity that when he was in the academy, he didn't receive any training in writing papers. His family was poor, his qualifications were not good, and he was not treated differently by the teachers at the academy. Then, ordinary magicians...
Why do you want to write a paper?
What do you want to do research for?
Graduate quickly, become a formal mage quickly, and then find a job to support yourself! Mage apprentice, first-level mage, what great achievements have you made, and you actually need to write a paper to publish it?
As a result, the first draft of the paper written by Carlos was not even formatted correctly. Even in the author name column, he did not mention his own name, only wrote "Gret Nordmark"...
Grete rubbed his forehead helplessly. He added Carlos' name and changed himself to the corresponding author.
Alas, for this research, I only came up with the plan, guidance and material conditions. Carlos did all the work, so of course he can take advantage of it...
After reading it over and over again, the paper had been revised in various ways. Gretel rummaged around and threw a lot of "Ordinary Magician's Monthly" for his reference:
"Arcane" and "Magic" are not suitable. These two top publications are basically the exclusive domain of legendary mages and archmages. Their formats are relatively free and not suitable for newcomers to learn...
After stumbling and revising back and forth, a week later, the new paper that Archmage Edgar had been waiting for was finally delivered to the Lord of Thunder’s desk.
"What is this? "A study on the causes and effects of vaccination with cowpox to prevent smallpox"?"
The Lord of Thunder flipped through the paper from beginning to end, and then from end to end, making sure that there was not a word related to the plasticity department. He also rubbed his forehead and sighed:
"Is this what you've been busy with during this time?"
"Well……"
Gretel gave the teacher a very guilty look. During this period, his main focus was indeed on vaccines.
To be honest, the teacher is still very good to him. If he is not a teacher, it will not be so easy to get approval from the Medical Research Institute. From this point of view, it seems that the Lord of Thunder should not be disappointed:
"...How about I change the title and send this paper to the Plastic Energy Department? For example... "A study on the use of high-energy rays to produce smallpox preventive substances and their mechanisms"?"
"...Hurry up and publish a serious paper on the plasticity department! Don't do this!"
If you hadn't imposed a stipulation that any paper I send out must be read to you first, I wouldn't have sent it over...
Grete complained silently and sent the paper out. As usual, the paper arrived in Taling's hands first, and Taling was responsible for identifying and sorting it.
"Keywords, plague, smallpox, cowpox, immunity? Convert to the necromancy school, plague branch"
When Archmage Edgar rushed into his friend's study, he saw his friend holding a stack of papers, his eyes straight, and his face full of doubts about life.
"Corresponding author, Gret Nordmark? First author, Leon Carlos?" He showed the cover of the paper to Archmage Edgar:
"I know this Nordmark mage. He is a figure that even the Immortal Lord approves of. But he is only at level five. Isn't it too early to be the corresponding author now? Who is Leon Carlos? I have never heard of him.
ah!"
"That's also a necromancer, level one..."
Archmage Edgar replied feebly. He was only a first-level mage, but he could preside over such a big project as fighting smallpox. Damn it! He couldn't recruit people as disciples...
"Submission unit, Thunder Point, Oak Grove Medical Research Institute." The old friend continued to read with confusion on his face:
"Why is the Thunder Horn's paper sent to us? Also, the paper produced by the Medical Research Institute should be sent to the Conjuration Department!"
"Look at the key words." Master Edgar turned the paper to the title page and pointed upward:
Plague, smallpox, cowpox...
Except that the cowpox is stained with the word "cow" and it seems that it should be sent to the transformation system, it does match the necromancy system better.
The two necromancers stood shoulder to shoulder and read together. As they read, Archmage Edgar's skeletal face gradually became filled with black energy, as if he had evolved from a necromancer to a lich.
:
"Old friend, this paper is really remarkable."
His thin fingers gently touched the paper, his movements gentle, as if touching a perfect corpse:
"If a deadly plague like smallpox can really do this without relying on magic or magic, so that every ordinary person will not be harmed by it, the significance of this paper is no less than...
"
His throat gradually became dry and he could not speak a word. Beside him, an old friend who was on duty to review the paper also stared at the paper for a while, and suddenly asked:
“Do we want to support it?”
"What?"
"This cow..." The necromancer was still a little unfamiliar with this new word, and paused for a moment, "Cowpox, if the review committee plans to promote it comprehensively, do we support it?"
"Are you crazy! Of course! Such a good thing!" Archmage Edgar was startled. His old friend stared at him blankly, and for a while, his bright red eyes rotated:
"...Supporting a mage from Thunder Horn?"
"Uh... I'd better ask the Immortal Lord..."
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Finally, I have laid out all the necessary conditions. What follows should be a big plot, but I am so tired that I can’t even muster the energy to think about it...