Since there are very few professional medical personnel in this world, Lawrence cannot count on how many real regular doctors there are in his place. Fortunately, before he traveled through time, he had read a copy of "The Barefoot Doctor's Manual" from his grandfather, so he decided to
Follow the method in that manual to train a group of barefoot doctors belonging to the island.
Lawrence also knew that the medical staff trained in this way had relatively low knowledge of medicine and pathology because they had not received systematic study. They could not cure serious or serious diseases, let alone complex diseases. At most, they could cure common diseases and reduce production.
reduce infant mortality and prevent large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases.
But compared to the current almost zero medical system in this region, this is already very good. After all, the overall development level of the world is here, and there is an extreme lack of medical experts even in cities. So if you want to establish a medical system,
Some measures must be taken.
Therefore, among the young people being trained in the hospital, in addition to immigrants, there are also many indigenous people on the island, and the methods of using local herbal medicines donated by these indigenous people for generations to treat diseases are also very important to Lawrence and others.
The establishment of the medical system here has provided tremendous help.
There are indeed a series of problems with these prescriptions, such as being scattered and unsystematic, and some of the prescriptions themselves being fake or having serious side effects. However, if effective screening is carried out, several more useful prescriptions can always be summarized.
After all, this place is far away from those industrial centers, and the various drugs used by doctors in the past are difficult to obtain. Therefore, these herbal medicines can make up for the lack of drugs to a large extent.
In addition, most drugs in this era did not rely as much on industrial production as in Lawrence's previous life. Therefore, Lawrence also established a small drug workshop on the island to produce some needed pharmaceuticals.
Of course, it is impossible to produce complex pharmaceuticals in such a production environment. It can only produce some alcohol for disinfection and several pharmaceuticals with relatively low production thresholds. However, as a spellcaster, Lawrence can produce it whenever he is free.
Come here and try to analyze the active ingredients in these local herbs through crushing, distillation, etc.
Recently he has made a breakthrough in this area: while extracting the bark of a certain tree used by locals for pain relief, he obtained some white powder. After many experiments, Lawrence discovered that this should be the natural anti-inflammatory medicine salicylic acid.
It's just that this kind of thing is corrosive to the human body, so Lawrence only used it as a technical reserve for small-scale experiments in the hospital, and recorded the results of the experiments in the files. For him, in the further
He did not intend to release the drug until a safer product, aspirin, was created.
In short, although the territory on the island can be said to be in ruins now, under the command of Lawrence, the entire development has been on the right track. If everything goes normally, the island will develop little by little.
But things in the world are not always as smooth as people imagine. Just when Lawrence was preparing to settle down on the island to farm and develop slowly, he suddenly received a wide-area telegram from the Erysion Empire Navy operating nearby.
.The telegram only informed one thing, and that was to tell the surrounding islands that they had discovered traces of pirates.
Because this sea area is the closest to the Elysion Empire, the Imperial Navy often sends long-distance patrols to patrol this area. However, due to the distance from the base, the Elysion Empire Navy generally only conducts patrols in this area.
Attack the enemy targets they can guarantee to destroy, and often avoid larger enemies.
So this time after discovering the whereabouts of the pirates, the navy's two heavy frigates took the initiative to break away from each other in order to protect the ship. Due to certain rules, they also sent fire to the surrounding areas at the same time when they were far away from the area.
An alarm was sounded in all settlements.
For Lawrence, pirate activities in the surrounding area are a very troublesome thing, because it means that he needs to summon some of the manpower currently under construction on the island to enter the port area for defense.
Although there are a lot of places to land on this island, it is too troublesome for the pirate army to pass through the vast tropical rain forest, and it is easy to cause non-combat attrition. Therefore, pirates often only attack those coastal settlements.
point, so Lawrence can also determine the landing point of pirates in advance and carry out targeted defenses.
Fortunately for Lawrence, the coastal defense fort at the entrance to the port has been almost completed, and the artillery and mines have been placed in place. Only the last finishing work on the periphery has not been completed. And with this
After the fortress, the island can avoid the possibility of direct bombardment of the port after the opponent rushes into the bay.
However, just waiting for the pirates to come to the island seemed a bit too passive, so Lawrence began to collect information about these pirates. After synthesizing the information sent by his neighbors, he roughly determined that they were now appearing in this sea area.
The general situation of the pirates in .
According to the pirate situations described by the Elysion Imperial Navy in the warning telegram, especially the flags flying on the pirate flagship and the ship types of several ships in the fleet, the surrounding neighbors can basically determine which group they encountered.
The Pirates are a group of Killing Mist pirates that have been operating nearby for the past five or six years.
According to the records of neighbors in previous years and the observations of the Elysion Imperial Navy, this pirate group now has five pirate ships. Among them, the flagship Torch and another ship are steam sailing ships with six to eight breech-mounted guns of more than 100mm.
The other three are old sailing ships with a deadweight tonnage of about 200 to 250 tons, with only some old-fashioned muzzle-loading cannons using spherical shells as weapons. Their only role in the pirate group is to attack old merchant ships and transport troops.
But what’s different from the year before when they came over is that this year’s pirate fleet only has five ships left. A 300-ton ketch has disappeared, and there are signs of repairs on other ships. So they should be the ones this year.
After encountering the defeat of the navy, they ran to these places far away from the mainland to take refuge, and they also looted the surrounding areas to boost their morale.
According to an island owner who had fought against this group of pirates before, the leader of this group of pirates was an expert black priest who used to serve the God of the Sea. But he was later killed and arrested after his piracy was discovered.
Members of his Poseidon Guard became the Black Priests.
Being a Silver-level spellcaster is already troublesome enough, but what's even more troublesome is that he should have a magic item in his hand that can cause fog to rise in the surrounding environment. The pirate group has relied on the fog generated by such a magic item in many attacks.
Cover to complete the raid.
But no one knows what this magic item that can produce mist looks like, because the captain of the pirate group kept this secret very well, and even the crew on the ship did not know it. According to intelligence, some pirates once tried to cast a spell while
He spied on this secret, but was killed by the captain. From then on, no one on the ship dared to peep and cast spells.
Although this kind of fog is just an ordinary fog, it is easy for the caster to locate the enemy through the fog. However, the sparsely populated island in this sea area does not even have a few extraordinary people, let alone the extraordinary ones.
There are relatively rare spellcasters here.
For example, there is only one spell caster on the island of Nicosia, which is a place with relatively strong supernatural power, while more islands only have a few extraordinary warriors or magic gunners. An island like Lawrence has a group of spell casters.
On the contrary, the situation is very abnormal. Because of this advantage, Lawrence is not much worried about the possible attack of the pirates.
"We should take the initiative." This was the tone Lawrence set for the next plan when he gathered the people for a meeting. Although he was not afraid of enemy attacks, it was not a good thing for a group of pirates to wander around.
What's more important is that among the merchant ships that have recently sailed in this area, the most valuable ones are probably the ships that transport supplies to New Saul Island. If one ship is lost, not to mention how much property will be lost, it will only affect the progress of the island's construction.
Lawrence couldn't accept the obstacles.
"Of course it is a good thing to take the initiative." Knight Joseph, who was in charge of the military, nodded in support and then asked an important question. "But how should we attack next?"