At this time, Huatai came to see him, and Zhu Hongyu was full of expectations.
If Tai Hospital can really make the cowpox vaccine available two hundred years ahead of schedule, it will be a truly immeasurable merit.
You must know that in human history throughout the ages, the disaster with the highest murderous efficiency, apart from war, is the plague.
In today's era, smallpox and plague are the most typical representatives of plague!
Not to mention the plague, the famous Black Death!
The entire Middle Ages in Europe was shrouded in the shadow of the Black Death.
Conservative estimates suggest that one-third of the population of Europe in the Middle Ages died from the Black Death.
Every time the Black Death breaks out, millions of people die, which is no joke!
The great epidemic that spread throughout Shanxi and Beizhi in the late Ming Dynasty was also a typical plague.
It was precisely because of the great plague that indirectly led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
Let the Ming Dynasty’s Beijing camp completely lose its combat effectiveness!
By the time Li Zicheng reached the outside of Beijing, Chongzhen couldn't even recruit all the civilian men to defend the city.
Because most of the young and healthy population of the entire capital died in the epidemic.
And the horror of smallpox is no worse than the plague!
For example, the smallpox virus brought to the Americas by the Spanish wiped out more than 90% of the Indian population in a very short period of time.
From 20 million to one million!
It can be said that smallpox was the Spanish's best partner in conquering America.
The Inca Empire, with a population of tens of millions, fell not to European guns and artillery, but to the smallpox virus.
At about the same time in Chinese history, after smallpox was introduced to China by Europeans, more than one or two emperors were infected with smallpox.
According to legend, the two Manchu emperors Shunzhi and Tongzhi both died of smallpox.
The reason why Kang Mazi was able to sit on the throne was also related to the reason why he luckily survived after being infected with smallpox!
Especially in the past few years between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when two emperors, Shunzhi and Kangxi, were infected with the disease, these were the most terrifying years for the smallpox virus.
After all, two emperors were infected with smallpox. How many people at the bottom were infected?
I really can't think about this, and I don't dare to think about it.
Just thinking about it for a moment will make your scalp numb!
The reason why there are no relevant detailed records in history is entirely because there were constant wars in the years between the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is really impossible to say whether people died because of the wars or because of smallpox.
There is no way to count it!
The fact that smallpox was introduced into China is very likely because the Spaniards, after seeing the collapse of the Inca Empire, got the benefit of using plague to destroy a country and a civilization.
Prepare to replicate it again in China!
What they didn't expect was that the Chinese were not Indians. The Chinese were much more resistant to smallpox than the Indians, and the Chinese doctors also had certain methods of dealing with smallpox.
Therefore, in Western myths and legends, demons haunt places and carry plagues. Perhaps it is not a legend, but a fact!
They are the devil themselves!
To be honest, if the Imperial Hospital of Ming Dynasty could have invented cowpox in this era, it would be a great achievement!
Once the smallpox vaccine is popularized, the Ming Dynasty will no longer suffer from smallpox.
Moreover, smallpox may also become the most powerful weapon in Ming's hand...
The world is like a jungle, and every civilization is a hunter. The ultimate goal is to kill the enemy and allow itself to continue to exist.
In this process, there are only two laws, one is that the weak eat the strong, and the other is to use whatever means necessary.
As long as the final goal can be achieved, nothing is impossible!
Zhu Hongyu never thinks that he is a good person!
Without letting Zhu Hongyu wait long, Huatai came to Zhu Hongyu.
The moment he saw Zhu Hongyu, Huatai bowed and bowed.
"Daming Taiyuan Hospital, Zhenghuatai, pays homage to His Majesty!"
"Your Majesty's blessings will spread to heaven and last for eternity!"
When Zhu Hongyu heard this, he nodded slightly and asked.
"Huayuan is asking to see me. Why?"
Huatai bowed slightly and spoke.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I am here to express my congratulations to Your Majesty on behalf of all my colleagues from the Taiyuan Hospital!"
Zhu Hongyu's eyes lit up, and he asked with a hint of arrogance in his voice.
"Yeah?"
"Have you done any experiments? What are the specific conditions?"
Hua Tai bowed slightly and said.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, my colleagues from the Imperial Hospital have already conducted experiments!"
"Take the experiments done by the Spaniards and slave-building prisoners. After vaccination, the survival rate of the experimental samples was very high, and there was almost no illness or death."
"And after mild symptoms of smallpox occur, if these experimental samples are exposed to real smallpox patients, they will not get sick again..."
"The only problem at the moment is that it will take some time for the vaccinia vaccine to be mass-produced!"
The research and development of vaccinia in Ming Dynasty was the same as the research and development of penicillin. The reason why it progressed so quickly was due to a large number of experiments.
By relying on a large number of experiments, a large amount of corresponding data is collected.
Only then can we achieve the results we have today!
For example, whether it was cowpox or penicillin, in the initial experimental stage, the mortality rate of experimental samples was as high as more than 80%, or even more...
Today's medical progress in the Ming Dynasty, just like the medical progress in modern Western countries in history, is based on the suffering and blood and tears of other countries and nations.
In vivo experiments are only the most basic means!
The most typical example is that 70% of the weight of the human body is water, which was verified by Xiaori's in vivo experiments on Chinese people...
In my childhood, I actually learned from Europeans. Before that, Europeans also used blacks, Indians, and Asians to do surgical experiments.
The piles of bones under Christian churches in America, Africa, and Asia are proof of this!
It's just that now, Ming Dynasty is experimenting on Westerners, that's all.
That's right, in the Ming Dynasty's Imperial Hospital, the first batch of experimental samples must be Spanish and other Europeans.
Then there will be the Nanyang natives, slave-building prisoners of war, and finally the most evil traitors.
In this era, no one really regards foreigners with tall noses and deep eyes, red hair and green eyes, as human beings.
In this way, it is not difficult to understand why the hospital took samples for in vivo experiments, and the first batch must have been Spanish.
Doesn’t the order of medical experiments in later generations also start with monkeys first, and then wait until the drugs are almost mature before they are used on humans?
Yes, in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, there is no difference between those Westerners and monkeys.
Although slaves and traitors are not good things, they can be counted as human beings.
The pride of the Heavenly Kingdom is not just talk!