This is a room with an area of nearly 20 square meters, with three double-opening glass windows on each side. The interior decoration is very simple, with white walls and gray floors. In the middle of the room is a large and thick white wooden table, which is enough
It occupies one-third of the room. The wooden table is covered with various large and small glassware. If Madam Maria hadn't been next to him, Claude would have almost thought that he had entered a chemical experiment in his previous life.
room.
On the right side of the room is a row of 40 centimeter-deep black wooden cabinets against the wall. These cabinets are a bit like those in a medicine shop. There are small drawers on them, and there are small labels on the drawers. They are probably used to store medicinal materials.
There is a two-meter-long pool in the upper left corner, with a thin piece of white marble on it. Claude found that there is a copper water faucet on the pool. It seems that Madam Maria spent a lot of money on her pharmaceutical laboratory.
The big capital has attracted tap water.
"Madam, is this your pharmaceutical laboratory?" Claude asked.
"This is just part of it. The glassware in this room is mainly used for refining and synthesizing medicines. Sometimes I also use it to do some interesting experiments. There is also a room inside. For us pharmacists, that room is the only one.
is the most important, because all medicinal materials must be processed before they can be refined into synthetic medicines, so the medicinal materials processing room is equivalent to a simple alchemy magic array. Let’s take a look..."
Mrs. Maria walked to the end of the room and opened the white wooden door.
Claude followed and took a look. The area and decoration of the room inside were almost the same as the one outside. The difference was that the room was a little messy, or it could be said to be filled with various items and appliances. Except for a small part of these appliances, they were black.
Apart from iron and glass products, most of the rest are made of brass, and many of them are floor-standing like a large piece of furniture, making the whole room look like a production workshop.
"Pharmacology originated from the alchemy of magicians. The earliest healing potions were refined and synthesized by magicians in the alchemy magic array. However, these healing potions were only provided to nobles, and civilians could not enjoy this service.
Even if they are sick, they can only pick some herbs and take them based on their experience. In this way, the treatment effect is not good and slow, and sometimes the condition will be aggravated.
It is said that when a plague broke out later, magicians were unable to refine so many healing potions in the alchemical magic talisman, so they reversed the steps in the alchemical magic talisman and taught civilians to perform preliminary low-level processing of the medicinal materials before boiling them into potions.
To carry out self-rescue. This is the most important moment in the development of pharmacy and the real beginning of modern pharmacy.
In a sense, it was the magician’s alchemy that created the modern discipline of pharmacy. In the beginning, almost all disease treatment prescriptions were obtained from the magician’s alchemical experiments, such as therapeutic potions and detoxification.
The formulas of these primary potions are like this.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that magicians don't pay attention to these potion formulas. Their eyes have never fallen on civilians.
The senior pharmacists who obtained these formulas are the most respectable people. Although they do not know magic and do not know any alchemy magic arrays, they still work hard to understand and explore, and follow the occasional guidance step by step.
The processing of medicinal materials and the refining and synthesis of pharmaceuticals were reversely introduced, and the pharmaceutical science was gradually perfected over the long years.
Although the potions they prepared were not as perfect as those made by magicians in the alchemy magic array, and even had only a fraction or a tenth of the therapeutic effect of those magic potions, it was good news to the majority of civilians.
, because they already have their own treatment potion and no longer need to worry about being injured."
Mrs. Maria introduced the origin of pharmacy to Claude in a very proud tone: "The room you see now is the latest medicinal material processing center of pharmacy. For us pharmacists, this room is ours."
Alchemical magic talisman."
It seemed that Madam Maria was very proud of her status as a mid-level pharmacist. She took Claude slowly past each piece of equipment and introduced him to the name and purpose of the equipment: "This is the separation jar.
, mainly relies on rapid rotation to separate the impurities of medicinal materials. This is a crusher, and large medicinal materials and medicinal materials with mineral properties can be placed in it to be chopped and stirred into powder.
This is the water storage tank... This is the medicine dispensing box... This is the extraction cylinder... This is the slicer... This is the medicine boiling kettle... This is the pressure kettle... This is the filter and distillation pot for concentrated medicine.
…”
"Madam, what is the power of these appliances?" Claude felt a little strange. Many appliances in this room have crankshafts underneath, so it is obvious that these appliances cannot be driven by human power. Just like the pulverizer, a
The diameter is estimated to be seventy or eighty centimeters. How much strength is required to make it rotate and work...
According to Claude's understanding, the steam engine has not been invented in this world, and water and wind power are basically used. For example, the gun-making workshop opened by the Kingdom in the county town of Barromise has an annual output of nearly 50,000 muskets.
There are more than 3,000 servants. All they use are hydraulic machines, because the workshop is located in a valley. They use the impact of the waterfall to drive the hydraulic machines to make muskets.
"Just open that window and look outside and you will know." Mrs. Maria said with a smile.
The biggest difference between this room and the room outside is that there is only one window on both walls, and the glass on the window is still covered with window paper, so the light is somewhat insufficient. When Mrs. Maria came in, she placed another Pearl of Light.
Mrs. Maria was referring to the right wall. Claude opened the window and understood. It turned out that there was a large turntable installed on the outer wall of this wall, just like those water-powered mills arranged by the river.
The water flow drives the paddles on the turntable to rotate the turntable, which then drives the stone mill in the mill to rotate.
Although there is no river outside this row of stone houses, a large water storage tank is installed on the roof of the stone house. There is a pipe under the water storage tank pointed at the turntable. It seems that as long as the switch of the water storage tank is turned on, the water inside
The water will rush to the paddles of the turntable along the pipe to make the turntable rotate, and then connected to the crankshaft under the appliances in the room, those appliances can move...
"What a genius idea, ma'am, who designed this?" Claude praised with a thumbs up.
Madam Maria smiled so hard that her teeth were exposed, and she answered happily: "It was my idea. I also have such a pharmaceutical laboratory in the royal capital, but that one was originally powered by animals. The turntable was placed on the ground and pulled by horses.
I needed a groom to take care of the two horses. Sometimes the two horses would lose their temper in the middle of pulling, causing me to lose a lot of medicinal materials. Later I remembered those hydraulic machines and put them on the roof.
A big water tank, and then connect the tap water to it, it will be much more convenient, and you don’t have to worry about the two horses pulling the turntable going off..."
"Madam, you are so smart, no wonder you can become an intermediate pharmacist." Claude flattered you.
"It's nothing. Compared with the predecessors who invented these equipment for refining medicinal materials, I am far behind." Mrs. Maria waved her hand: "I am not being modest, but telling the truth. With so many equipment in this room combined,
It is equivalent to playing the role of an alchemical magic talisman. Those seniors deduced step by step the steps and effects of the alchemical magic talisman on medicinal materials processing and potion refining, and then painstakingly created these instruments to process medicinal materials, making us
The younger generations of pharmacists can make very good potions without the need for alchemy magic talismans, they are truly great."
"Madam, I have a very presumptuous request. Can you teach me the knowledge of pharmacy?" Claude asked seriously.
"You want to be a pharmacist?"
"Yeah." Claude nodded.
Mrs. Maria thought for a while and shook her head: "Sorry, Claude, it's not that I don't want to teach you, it's just that I don't have time. I can only stay in White Deer Town for another half month at most. I don't have the time in such a short time."
I will teach you a lot about pharmacy. Besides, you should still be in school, so you won’t have much time to study with me..."
"I can study by myself, madam." Claude requested: "I am already in the third grade of junior high school this year and will graduate in more than two months. The current courses are no problem for me, and it doesn't matter even if I take leave.
.And I don’t need you to guide me by your side. What I need is for you to lead me into the hall of knowledge about pharmacy and tell me what I should learn first if I want to learn pharmacy by myself, what books I should read and what knowledge I should learn..."
"That's it..." Mrs. Maria thought for a moment and nodded: "Follow me."
Claude followed Madam Maria to the outermost room, which was the room where the stuffed Neros crocodile was thrown on the ground.
"Look, Claude, the books on my bookshelf are all about pharmacy. I allow you to come to my place to read these pharmacy books in the next half month. As long as you have time,
You can come over at any time. I will take a small test on you in half a month. If you fail this small test, it proves that you are not suitable to be a pharmacist, and there is no need for you to work hard in this area."
Mrs. Maria pointed to a large bookshelf against the wall and said.
Only then did Claude realize that when he first entered the room, he had been distracted by the specimen of the Niros crocodile on the ground and had ignored the large bookshelf against the wall. In addition, he was sitting and having afternoon tea with Mrs. Maria.
When I was walking, I was facing away from this bookshelf, and I never noticed the books that almost filled the entire wall.
"So Madam, you still have so many books here...can I read them all?" Claude was very happy. His favorite thing was reading.
"Well, you also like to read books?" Mrs. Maria became happier the more she looked at Claude. Most people would have a headache when they see so many books covering almost a wall, especially these books are not popular novels, most of them are
When it was a professional book on pharmacy, it would be very difficult for him to read these books. But Claude looked happy, staring at the bookshelf, wanting to rush over and start reading.
"Yes, I have already read hundreds of books in my father's study. I can't buy any interesting new books in the bookstores in town. The few books I buy occasionally are popular novels or chicken soup biographies, which are very boring.
I can’t find any new books worth reading..."
"The books I have here are all brought here from the royal capital. They are considered my collection of books. However, most of the books I have here are about pharmacy, and only a small part are books about history and geography. Do you like
If you want to watch it, just try to find time to come to my place to watch it, as long as you don’t feel bored." Mrs. Maria said with a smile.
"Thank you, madam. Can I watch it now?" Claude couldn't wait.
"Of course, I'll pour you a cup of tea and you can take your time."
At this moment, Butler Lutheran came in. He glanced at Claude and reported to Madam Maria: "Madam, those wild boars are here again, and they are very close to us. They are over there.
On the hillside, you can see it when you go out..."
"Oh, really? Please take me to see it." Mrs. Maria said.
This was not the right time to read. Since Claude heard this, he couldn't remain indifferent. After all, he was originally here to hunt wild boars. He followed Madam Maria out of the room.
In fact, I didn’t go very far. I walked out and looked in the direction pointed by Butler Lutheran. On the hillside less than 200 meters away from the manor villa, a group of about a dozen wild boars, large and small, were on the hillside.
Sahuan. A few acres of mountain fields should have been opened up on that hillside, and I don’t know what was planted there. These wild boars were making a lot of noise in the mountain fields.
"Do we need to go to the town to hire some hunters to drive away these wild boars? Madam." Steward Lutheran asked for instructions.
"Let me do it. There is no need to invite the hunter." Claude volunteered to stand up.