Chang'an, Dongshi, hospital.
The news of the advent of penicillin brought huge traffic to the hospital.
People who were watching the excitement, those who were sick, and those who thought they were sick formed long queues on the narrow streets.
Through the open door of the hospital, you can see the strange scene inside——
Round glass bottles filled with transparent solutions were hung from the beams in net pockets. The mouths of the round glass bottles were facing downwards, and a slender plastic hose extended out and was connected to the back of the patient's hand...<
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The patients all wore masks and were sitting on benches, chatting and laughing, or looking up at the round glass bottles with some worry.
This is a new medical device that appeared together with penicillin. According to the scholar Li Xiaolangjun, it is called intravenous infusion, or it can also be called,
Hanging bottle.
This name is quite appropriate.
In a restaurant two streets away, an old man dressed as a businessman, or Situ Zhi, picked up a walnut kernel from the dinner plate and threw it into his mouth with a smile.
"Teacher."
Beside him, a child with pale hair and skin said softly: "Those carriages..."
"I know."
Situ Zhi glanced at the carriages behind the hospital. Without guessing, he knew that the carriages were filled with dignitaries from Chang'an who were suspected of suffering from syphilis.
Li Ang has written in scientific journals that penicillin is a specific drug for curing syphilis.
For the sick dignitaries, they want to recover but don't want to show up in public and cause ridicule, so the best way is to invite Li Ang to their house secretly to treat the disease.
But Li Ang is not a little doctor with no connections, how can he be hired casually?
What's more, according to him, intravenous drip requires professionals and professional equipment, and can only be performed in the hospital.
Click.
The teeth crush the walnut kernels and chew them.
Situ Zhi took a deep breath, pondered, and savored the subtlest changes in the air.
The disease was cured.
The drug called penicillin really dispelled the dead energy trapped in the patients, allowing their bodies to continue functioning.
Miracle.
A playful smile appeared on Situ Zhi's face. He rubbed his fingers and shook off the walnut fragments stuck to his fingertips. "Lian Xuanxiao will be back soon."
The pale child blinked, "Are we leaving Chang'an?"
"Yeah."
Situ Zhi nodded and said: "It's a pity. If you can give me another three months, no, it only takes one and a half months, I am confident that I can crack his medicine."
"There will be a chance."
The pale child said softly: "Next time, the teacher can win it back next time."
"Win?"
Situ Zhi raised his eyebrows and looked at his disciple with a smile, "Do you think we lost this time?"
"..."
The disciple did not answer, but expressed his attitude with his furrowed brows.
"No, this time, we did not lose."
Situ Zhi turned his head and looked at the hospital two streets away again, as if he could see Li Ang busy in the hospital through the brick wall.
"My good disciple, you still fail to understand the true meaning of disease."
Situ Zhi rubbed the other person's hair lovingly and said with a smile: "The essence of disease is transmission, exchange and diffusion.
A person floating in the endless deep space without any contact with the outside world will never get sick, but will only die of hunger, thirst, or old age.
When a person walks in the mortal world, he cannot avoid contact with the outside world.
Every time he eats or drinks carelessly, gets injured, or even comes into contact with animals or other people, he will increase his probability of getting sick.
He might get malaria from mosquitoes,
You may get flower and willow disease from the gold-selling cave,
You may suffer from bloody carbuncle due to being cut by a razor blade.
You may have contracted leprosy just because you passed through a certain village. Your whole body will be covered with bright red rashes, your hair will fall off, your limbs will shrink, and you will have large areas of edema or tumors on your body.
Do you still remember that we traveled to various island countries in the Endless Sea and recorded information about disease types and population numbers?"
"Remember."
The apprentice nodded, "A sparsely populated and isolated island has relatively few types of diseases.
But if a certain disease that is not easily fatal and continues to spread, such as leprosy, it will be difficult for them to stop the spread of the disease. They will continue to be plagued by this disease for decades or hundreds of years.
The larger the population and the more frequent the island countries are in contact with the outside world, the more types of diseases they have."
"That's right."
Situ Zhi smiled with satisfaction and said: "The more people there are, the more food and livestock are needed.
It means that farming is more developed, and the distance between people and people and livestock is closer.
Humans have human diseases, and livestock have livestock diseases. Only a few diseases can be transmitted between the two.
But when this probability is magnified to tens of millions,
Livestock animals will inevitably transmit diseases to humans.
And the disease will inevitably begin to evolve, change, and spread.
city,
Large cities,
Large cities that are crowded, noisy, with dense flows of people and people traveling from north to south have become the best Gu altars for diseases."
He stood up, paced back and forth in the room, and said happily: "Syphilis and syphilis are just one of them.
It is true that Li Ang developed an effective new drug, but he was simply unable to prevent the disease from spreading throughout the Yu Kingdom along the Chang'an trade route.
People always hide their illnesses and avoid medical treatment, let alone such an unspeakable disease.
There will always be people who, knowingly or unknowingly, will spread the disease and take root in corners that Li Ang and Yu State cannot take care of.
And those new, more terrifying diseases,
With the development of Yu State, the concentration of population and the construction of cities,
It becomes more and more uncontrollable.
Until one or several diseases appear that can sweep the world and no one can control it."
Situ Zhi danced with excitement and frantic expression, muttering to himself: "Meat eaters are despicable. The Yu State will not realize this, but that Li Ang - I admit that he is amazingly talented, he may be able to realize this.
changes in,
But it is impossible for him to stop the development of Yu State and the construction of the city.
He could only choose to drink poison to quench his thirst, follow Yu Guo, and repair this mess.
We stand with natural selection and are the ones making weapons,
And he is responsible for building shields and passive defense.
As everyone knows, if you keep it for a long time, you will lose it.
We will never lose this war."
Situ Zhi walked to the window, overlooking the busy Chang'an Street outside the window, and said intoxicatedly: "In my hometown, there is such a myth and fable.
The gods built a box and put all kinds of evil caused by humans into it.
Hypocrisy, slander, jealousy, pain, illness, sadness...
Because of the desire for knowledge, the box will eventually be opened, releasing all kinds of evil diseases.
And the last hope of mankind will always be buried at the bottom of the magic box."
He turned around, rubbed his disciple's hair again, and said with a smile: "Let's go. Let's speed up the process."
The disciple stood up subconsciously and asked, "Where are you going?"
"One of the centers of shipbuilding, river transportation, and maritime transportation in Yu State,"
Situ Zhi stepped out of the house, his voice echoing in the room, "Jiangnan."
This chapter has been completed!