The epidemic occurred in Huangcao Village, located in the middle reaches of the Hongshui River. In order to prevent the spread of the plague, Chen Ke sent troops to surround the village and no one was allowed to enter or exit. This naturally aroused great resistance among the villagers, but the officers and soldiers also announced that the two
Mr. Chen will rush to the village within a few days and will not leave until the epidemic is eliminated.
The mood of the villagers finally stabilized slightly.
Two days later at noon, Chen Ke arrived as expected. Huang Afu, the leader of Huangcao Village, and Shen Kuo, who had arrived first, were waiting at the foot of the mountain.
Chen Ke first expressed his condolences to Huang Afu, then turned to Shen Kuo and said, "Brother Cunzhong, why are you here?" Shen Kuo is his treasure, and Chen Ke will naturally not let him take risks. He came here on his own.
"Haha..." Long-term outdoor work has made Shen Kuo become dark and thin, and he is no longer like the scholar he was when they first met. He smiled and said: "Xiaguan happened to be nearby and heard about the epidemic situation in the village.
, it felt like déjà vu, so I boldly ran over to have a look."
"Have you seen it yet?" Chen Ke turned over and dismounted. The leader of the village, Huang, went first and went back to the village to prepare. He and Shen Kuo walked slowly behind.
"Yes, I've seen it." Shen Kuo nodded and said: "Twenty-three villagers got sick, and the onset was very acute. Most of them started with headaches, back pain, chills or high fever, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, insomnia, and constipation. The onset was
Three to five days later, rashes began to appear all over the body. The earliest onset of the disease was red macules..."
Chen Ke had already read a brief description in the report, and now he felt more confident after listening to Shen Kuo's detailed report. After Shen Kuo finished speaking, he asked: "What do you think about this epidemic?"
"The lower official thought that this was acne, commonly known as 'smallpox'." Shen Kuo lowered his voice, paused and said: "The "Emergency Prescriptions" says that sores can spread all over the head, face, and body, and look like boils...
…In the fourth year of Yonghui's reign, the disease spread from the west to the east and spread throughout the sea." He laid out his arguments one by one with the attitude of a scientist.
"Let's go see the patient first." Although it was not what he expected, but to be cautious, Chen Ke still had to see it with his own eyes.
"Sir, you can't go up there." Shen Kuo said flatly: "This disease is extremely severe, and anyone who comes into contact with the patient will become infected."
"Then why aren't you afraid?" Chen Ke smiled indifferently.
"Xiaguan..." Shen Kuo said slowly: "Xiaguan will not get smallpox."
"Have you ever had smallpox?" Chen Ke looked at his face. Although there were some pimples on his face, compared with smallpox patients, it was absolutely as smooth as a mirror: "It doesn't look like that."
"No," Shen Kuo said with a somewhat complacent smile: "Xiaguan learned the method of preventing smallpox from ancient books. Xiaguan not only tried it on himself. In the first year of Jiayou, smallpox broke out in Haizhou, and people in our county were panicked. I
We used this method to prevent everyone in the county, and eventually the epidemic passed. Only in our county, there were few cases of the disease, and most of them were not fatal."
"What method?" Chen Ke said with a smile: "Don't be too precious to yourself."
"Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, let alone saving tens of millions of lives," Shen Kuo said with a smile: "My method has spread throughout Haizhou, and now the whole Jiangnan is probably aware of it."
"Stop showing off." Chen Ke spat, "You're so bitter, I really want someone to kick you."
"Hey..." Shen Kuo then said sternly: "I read in ancient books that the king of medicine, Sun Simiao, used the pus from the aphthous sores of smallpox patients and applied it on the skin of healthy people, causing them to suffer from a mild illness first.
Smallpox. Because the disease cannot recur, you will never get smallpox again after you recover."
"It's good to read more books." Chen Ke praised: "But you are brave enough!" This is the most basic method of variolation, but it is actually still dangerous.
"In the face of smallpox, no matter how courageous you are, you can't be too bold." Shen Kuo said softly.
"That's right." Chen Ke nodded.
As he was talking, he had already arrived at the gate of the village. Seeing that he was about to go inside, Shen Kuo stopped him and said, "Sir, you have not been vaccinated against pox. You will get sick if you go in. It's better to wait outside. I will take care of everything inside."
"Hahaha..." Chen Ke laughed loudly: "I have been vaccinated against pox a long time ago!" In this era of smallpox outbreaks, how could he not take precautions for himself and his family?
"Oh, really?" Shen Kuo was only slightly surprised. But he had already experienced Chen Ke's omniscience, so he was not too surprised and said: "It turns out that your Excellency has also read that book."
Chen Ke smiled vaguely and was about to walk in. Liu Yue'e followed closely behind him, her pretty face was livid, and she was obviously extremely nervous... This is smallpox, which is known as the worst plague in the world! It is said that after contracting the disease, you will never die.
She would also be covered in pockmarks. Although Yue'e was a girl, she was afraid of death, but she was even more afraid of being severely disfigured. She made up her mind that if she got the disease, she would commit suicide immediately and never become pockmarked.
But even so, she still has to follow him...
"Brother Liu has also been vaccinated with pox?" Shen Kuo and Liu Yue'e are already very familiar with each other. Knowing that she is Mulan's soldier, he will naturally guess the ambiguous relationship between her and Chen Ke. It is estimated that Chen Ke has also vaccinated her with pox, but no
It was obviously inappropriate to ask: "If you don't have one, don't go in."
Liu Yue'e thought to herself, "Where have I been vaccinated against acne? This is the first time I've heard of this method." She moved her eyes to Chen Ke, but saw that the other person looked up at the sky as if he didn't hear. She thought to herself: "This is because I am angry with you."
You want to follow, you want me to surrender." He couldn't help but secretly said bitterly: "In your heart, my life is not as important as your breath? In that case, it's okay, it's better to die neatly..."
"It's okay." She shook her head and said with tears in her eyes.
Shen Kuo naturally wouldn't stare at her. He thought she meant it, so he felt relieved and didn't ask any more questions.
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Huangcao Village, shrouded in the shadow of death, finally felt a little bit alive.
Previously, although the officers and soldiers announced that Chen Ke was coming, the villagers thought it was a perfunctory statement. It was not until they saw him standing in the village that they believed that Mr. Chen had not given up on them... More importantly, Chen Ke had not given up on them...
The fact that you dare to come to the stronghold with a body worth a thousand dollars shows that the epidemic is not incurable, and it is not something that the wizards say will kill everyone.
The first thing Chen Ke did when he arrived in the stronghold was to execute the tribe's wizard. In addition to being charged with spreading rumors, he was also charged with spreading plague... This move was very necessary to eliminate the "river repairing caused plague"
Rumors, but the premise is that he must prevent the spread of the plague.
So without rest, Chen Ke went to inspect the isolation area... Based on his experience, Shen Kuo ordered the leader of Huangzhai to build a temporary yard with fences in the downwind of the cottage yard. There was a row of thatched sheds in it. Anyone who got sick would
Villagers will be sent in, and villagers who are not sick are not allowed to come near this place.
At this time, the sun was setting in the west, and the villagers who were seriously ill were lying in their sheds, while those who were less ill were lighting fires and cooking in the courtyard. The curling smoke and the aroma of rice made the courtyard look like a doomsday scene.
, a little angry.
In order to prevent his subordinates from getting sick, Chen Ke did not let them follow him, but only brought Shen Kuo and Liu Yue'e in. This made Yue'e's heart even more miserable. Yes, yes, he must have been impatient with me for a long time and wanted me to die here. The field is clear to the eyes.
Chen Ke had no time to pay attention to her. He patrolled the huts with a solemn expression, occasionally stopping to look at the patients on the ground and exploring their conditions. After the inspection was completed, he was sure that it was indeed smallpox.
After the inspection, the three of them went to the gatehouse of the courtyard to bathe and change clothes... Smallpox is not heat-resistant, and a hot bath can kill the virus.
When I returned to the main hall in the village, I had been lighting the lamp for a long time.
Chen Ke saw two large baskets on the ground, filled with medicinal materials. Huang Afu said to Shen Kuo: "Mr. Shen, we have collected all the medicines you asked us to collect."
Chen Ke grabbed a handful, looked at it, and asked Shen Kuo: "Did you prescribe the medicine?"
"Let's just talk about personnel matters." Shen Kuo sighed, looked at Chen Ke and said, "I have heard that your Excellency has great medical skills, can you re-prescribe them?"
"There is no cure for this disease..." Chen Ke shook his head and said: "I can only prescribe some prescriptions to clear away heat and eliminate internal heat, and then give them more nutrition to help them survive. But whether they can survive it remains to be seen. they themselves."
"There is no cure..." Huang Afu's face trembled when he heard this: "Sir, just now, seven or eight villagers have been sent in with fever."
"Please be at ease, Master." Shen Kuo said, "They may not necessarily be sick, but may also be a normal reaction after vaccination." When he arrived yesterday, he used the old method to vaccinate everyone in the village, young and old, with pox. Of course, I won’t tell them that it was an abscess removed from the patient...
After sending away the worried Huang Afu, Shen Kuo said to Chen Ke: "Sir, smallpox has spread very widely. I am worried that it has spread to other places. It is urgent to vaccinate all the people."
Chen Ke nodded and said: "But vaccination is still dangerous. I have a method to cure cowpox without any danger..."
"Cowpox method?"
"Well," Chen Ke nodded and said, "Why do patients who have had smallpox once but did not die, never get smallpox a second time? The secret is that as long as they survive one infection with smallpox, they can gain permanent resistance within the body. The protective power of smallpox. Smallpox not only harms humans, but also attacks cattle. Almost all cattle have suffered from smallpox. In the process of dealing with cattle, herdsmen have been infected with cowpox and have the immunity to resist smallpox. We can In this way, inoculating people with cowpox is much safer than using variolation. "
The two talked about the method of vaccination all night long. It was not until dawn that Chen Ke discovered that Liu Yuee was missing.
"Where are the people?" Chen Ke asked Chen Yidao.
"Master Liu doesn't seem to be feeling well. He went back to rest." Chen Yi said with a worried look on his face: "Master Liu seems to be very ill."
"Oh?" Chen Ke probably did the same, otherwise with her strong temper, she would definitely hold on.
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