The man who received Grete and his entourage lowered his head slightly, staring at the glass in Grete's hand, his expression extremely ugly. The water was blue, and he didn't know this...
Nonsense, if you really didn't know, you wouldn't have sent someone to fetch water from 20 miles away.
But the problem is that the well water is blue, so what? Whether there is something wrong with the well water or not, don’t those poor people still have to drink it?
Besides, who can prove that the reason why they got this strange disease must be because of the water problem?
He cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it. Not only did he not dare to say it, but his waist bent even more downwards, with a smile on his face:
"Well... we are all rough people. We are here to manage some properties under the orders of the city lord. The water in this well is occasionally a little blue, or a little blue, and that's it. As for why it turns blue, we
I don’t understand either…”
Gretel couldn't help but reach out to avoid hitting the smiling man. He nodded and bowed like this. Elder Erwin already sighed:
"Gretel, let's take a look at these villagers first."
The villagers arrived quickly. There were not many of them, only 17 or 18 people. They were all old people and children. At this time, most of the young men and women were working in fields, mines, and workshops, so it was impossible to come here.
To see a doctor.
These old men seemed to know Elder Erwin, and they all rushed towards him. Elder Erwin spoke several times in succession, and then two old men pulled their children and tremblingly came over to Grete. As they approached, first
He bent down and bowed respectfully:
"Mr. Pastor..."
"Sit down, sit down."
Gretel quickly jumped up and helped the other person. Carefully, he held the forearm of the old woman in the front and settled into the seat. Then he spread out the paper and pen and began to ask:
"What's your name? How old are you?"
The old woman in front of her had snow-white hair and a skinny figure. She looked like she was seventy or eighty years old. When Grete helped her, he didn't dare to use too much force with his hands, for fear of crushing her ulna and radius bones.
Even so, he still saw the old woman shrinking, not knowing whether it was fear or pain. She sat carefully on the stool, her body naturally bent forward, and her back bulged high. She took two breaths before replying in a low voice:
"My name is Annie, I am... 48 years old this year..."
Behind Gretel, Miss Silver Dragon gasped, obviously shocked.
Gretel showed no surprise. Poverty, hardship, and the blows of life can leave such marks on people. He continued to ask patiently:
"Where does it hurt?"
"pain……"
"Where does it hurt? How long has it been hurting?"
"My whole body hurts...headache, stomachache, pain everywhere...dizziness, nausea...it's been a year or two..."
Grete frowned slightly. He quickly turned his brain and analyzed everything. When he first arrived in your country, he had no clue about everything. He could only do it one by one according to the rules of medical diagnosis:
The first step was inspection. The old woman's face was pale, her lips were bloodless, and her movements were weak. She looked like she was anemic, but he was not sure whether the anemia was due to malnutrition or other reasons.
The body is bent and looks like a hunchback, but again, he can't say whether it is due to old age, spinal deformation, vitamin D deficiency, ankylosing spondylitis, or some other reason;
When speaking, a rotten tooth appeared, which was obviously black...
If it is a strange disease that affects the entire village, then what are the influencing factors? Groundwater? Mines? Water pollution?
If it were her previous life, Gretel would immediately arrange for her to take a blood test. However, there is no laboratory, no reagents, nothing. The only way to use it is
He turned around and touched the glass of well water. The water in the glass was slightly rippling and a little blue, which looked ominous. Gretel thought for a moment, concentrated slightly, and took a picture of the identification technique:
“Lead in the water?”
He observed the old woman carefully. Lead poisoning can damage the nervous system and digestive tract, as well as the blood system. So dizziness, nausea, and anemia may indeed be the causes of lead poisoning. Of course,
Also take a closer look:
"Old lady, please open your mouth and show me that you don't need to open it so wide. You can bite your teeth together and show me your gums..."
For a villager of this age, the dental condition is really bad, and the oral hygiene situation is also very confusing. Grete looked at her for a long time, and even threw a cleaning tool into her mouth, and then reluctantly confirmed that the old lady did have a blue stripe on her gums.
gray line...
Gum lead line.
The body surface signs of lead poisoning, of course, are similar to those of mercury poisoning.
"Teacher, are these villagers suffering from lead poisoning?"
"Did you also notice?" Elder Erwin turned around in front of a nearby table and nodded to him. His hand emitted a light like running water, which fell from the top of the villager's head to the soles of his feet.
As the light flowed through, the villager burped and exhaled a smelly gas, and his face became a little more relaxed.
"Is it really lead poisoning?"
Cerela kept frowning and watching from the side, supporting the old man and coaxing the children. When she saw Gretel starting to cast spells, she immediately put her head over:
"So, just use the detoxification technique?"
"Well……"
Grete responded vaguely. It seemed like lead poisoning, but not entirely...
Without waiting for him to explain, Cerela had already ran out happily, the white light of the healing spell in her hand flashed, and she called everyone by name:
"Detoxify! Detoxify! Keep detoxifying!"
Miss Silver Dragon looked cute and cute, and in terms of spell casting level, she was much better than Elder Erwin. The antidote spell fell quickly, and in the blink of an eye, everyone in the villagers present had their share, and every one of them was full.
There were sounds of gratitude one after another. Everyone, including the elderly and children, felt a little more relaxed. Serila raised a happy smile:
"Hehe... That's good, isn't it?"
"...It's not that easy." Gretel and Elder Erwin looked at each other and shook their heads slowly. At least, lead pollution will not make the groundwater turn blue, and lead poisoning will not make the villagers suffer from body pain.
What the city lord said before was that they had a strange disease and it hurt everywhere...
He smiled at the old woman again. He stretched his arms slightly and gently stopped her from getting up:
"Old lady, please sit down and let me take another look... um..."
[Endless Ink Pen] sneaked around behind the old woman. Grete turned on the X-ray magic and glanced at it, and immediately felt something was wrong.
The bones look... not quite right. After careful inspection, the bone density of the ribs, especially the ends, is obviously lower. Looking at the long bones of the limbs, the density is generally loose, the bone cortex is thinned, the medullary cavity is widened, and the bone trabeculae are sparse.
There are strips of dense shadows at the ends of long bones, which are lead lines caused by lead poisoning. However, reduced bone density is not something that can be caused by lead poisoning.
"...Teacher, besides lead mine, what other mines are there?"
The version the city lord told him was that there was a silver mine here, but the output was already very small. There were also some other ores that were outsourced to others, and several workshops were opened here. He didn't know the specific situation...
…
Anyway, the entire valley, as well as several surrounding mountains, have been contracted out to others. If you open a mine and a few workshops, you can also hire a few villagers and add some income to them, right?
"I'm not sure either." Elder Erwin shook his head slightly. "Although the identification technique told me that it was a lead problem, the release of the detoxification technique cannot completely solve their illnesses... Let's go up and have a look together?"
Gretel stood up with him and discussed with Appa for a few words. The Silver Moon Deer knelt down and let him climb on the deer's back. They all walked to the mining area on the ridge together. The other three people were walking on foot, which was better than him.
The steps are much lighter and more flexible.
The further up the stairs you go, the more ugly Elder Erwin's face becomes. Gretel also feels heavy:
The lush mountains were like open wounds, with several mountaintops exposed. The greenery was no longer there, the trees were gone, and large and small ores glowed with a gray-black metallic luster, covering the entire mountaintop.
The stream at the foot of the mountain winds towards the village. Along the stream, ant-like crowds are busy dragging baskets of stones to the water's edge, and then carrying the stones away from the stream. With Gretel's meager knowledge of smelting, they are probably in
Panning ore?
"This is how pollution comes." Elder Erwin said softly. Gretel nodded heavily and remained silent:
From mineral sand to streams, from streams to groundwater, it spreads to the surrounding soil, is absorbed by plants, and is enriched in plants, animals, and human bodies. That’s why Elder Erwin said that the entire nature is sick.
After walking for a while, yellow smoke rose straight into the sky. Suddenly a gust of wind blew, Cerela wrinkled her nose and sneezed with all her strength:
"Ah! What...what does this smell like!"
There was an unpleasant sour smell, mixed with the smell of rotten eggs, which made people shed tears. Grete quickly cast a bubble spell on himself, Apa, and Bernard, and frowned:
This is the smell of sulfide. Sulfide is needed to refine minerals... There are many kinds in his mind. He can't say which ones will pollute the land, but the light sulfide itself is enough...
They climbed over mountains and ridges and ran all the way to the entrance of the mine. The entrance was narrow and dark, allowing only one or two people to go in and out carrying ore on their backs. The miners with dark faces were almost crawling on the ground carrying heavy ore. Gretel rushed forward.
, quickly shoot an identification technique
"Galena, sphalerite, quartzite, calcite..."
Grete still has to think hard about the specific composition and molecular formula of these ores; however, there are two elements, which are definitely not wrong.
"This is a lead-zinc mine! In lead-zinc mines, the most likely to be associated with, the most likely to cause large-scale pollution, and harm human health, is..."
That’s right, this is it!
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