"Oh, so that's it!" After hearing Lawrence answer his question seriously, the priest of the Passion Church also realized that he seemed to have misunderstood him, so he quickly changed the topic.
"By the way, can you tell me what the pharmacopoeia you are talking about is? I know about pharmacopoeia, but in my impression, it should be one or several thick books, and the price is
It’s very expensive, I’m worried—”
"Oh, I don't think you need to worry about this problem." Lawrence said with a smile. "Because what I want to compile now is not a general pharmacopoeia, but only a book specific to this region."
For grassroots doctors, this kind of pharmacopoeia can be said to be the core skill in their medical practice. Because in this era, the prices of various basic medicines are extremely expensive for ordinary people, not to mention those medicines that are related to the extraordinary.
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Therefore, when Lawrence trains these grassroots doctors, a very important guiding ideology is to formulate pharmacopoeias with regional characteristics for each region to reduce the cost of treatment as much as possible.
After all, the future patients of these grassroots doctors are basically a group of ordinary people who have certain financial difficulties. Therefore, compared to the treatment effect, the cost of treatment is also extremely important, and even far more important than the treatment effect itself.
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So during this period of training, Lawrence also started the compilation of the pharmacopoeia by asking these apprentice priests and doctors from various places.
In addition to recording the specific conditions of some animals, plants and minerals on Green Island and the surrounding areas, Lawrence also collected some traditional medicinal prescriptions on the island with several priests of the Passion Church who came to help.
However, considering that there is a high possibility that these prescriptions are just placebos, Lawrence and the others also need to dialectically review these prescriptions through various methods in order to screen out the truly effective ingredients.
"For example, a type of moss that the locals call reindeer tail has very obvious medicinal effects." Lawrence said, taking out a handful of dried moss.
"There should be some ingredients in these moss that can kill bacteria and reduce inflammation, so crushing these things and covering them on the wound can promote the growth of the wound."
"In addition, this moss also contains some ingredients that can suppress coughs, so these things can also be used as cough medicines."
"In the past, people on the island only used this kind of lichen to fumigate wounds or inhale it to treat coughs. But according to our previous research, after extracting the active ingredients with alcohol, the effect of this kind of lichen is better whether it is taken internally or externally.
Steamed and fumigated.”
Having said this, Lawrence took out a small bottle of golden liquid and said to the priest in front of him. "But be careful when using it. When using this medicine to relieve cough, you do not drink it, but use a sprayer to spray a little bit of it.
Enter the throat."
"——What you are doing now is indeed very meaningful." After looking at the ball of moss on the table and the small bottle placed next to it, the high priest of the Passion Church of Green Island immediately said to Lawrence
said.
"Can you tell me if there is anything we can do for you? If nothing unexpected happens, all the members of the Passion Church on the island will put this matter first in the coming period."
As the God of Suffering who has medical treatment in his clergy, his clergy naturally pay great attention to this technology.
Therefore, after realizing that Lawrence now had a method that could greatly improve the medical level on the island, this group of clergy from the Passion Church immediately prioritized cooperating with Lawrence.
"Of course I need your help in some areas." Lawrence said immediately after hearing the priest's question.
In fact, the only reason why he is telling this cleric now is because he hopes to get the help of these church members who have been here for tens or hundreds of years so that he can collect the information he wants as soon as possible.
"No problem, we will try our best to help you in this regard." After hearing Lawrence's request, the priest nodded seriously and said.
"In fact, we have collected a lot of prescriptions from the region before. Unfortunately, we did not summarize these prescriptions due to lack of manpower, so the number of credible pharmacies we have collected so far is only in single digits."
Although the God of Suffering also has medical responsibilities, because the number of believers and personnel on Green Island is too small, it is difficult for the priests here to get enough help.
To give the simplest example, because of insufficient divine power, the power possessed by these priests can only judge the overall efficacy of these medicines and whether they are poisonous, which is very rough. As for deeper things, they are unable to do anything.
This is why the priests of the Passion Church currently have only a few extremely rare prescriptions, and have not analyzed and summarized more prescriptions.
However, the arrival of Lawrence changed the situation in this area. In addition to teaching a dozen selected students these days, he also analyzed the records taken from the church.
However, except for a very few records, most of the prescription records can only be determined after experiments. Therefore, Lawrence's overall progress is not very fast now, and he has only summarized a few new things.
For example, the herbal extract potion called Reindeer Tail is one of Lawrence's few achievements these days, but it needs to be admitted that it takes time to search for the raw materials for making the potion or to compare similar potions.
And now with the help of the Green Island Chief Priest of the Passion Church, a large amount of repetitive work can be entrusted to these church personnel with certain training, which can save a lot of time.
Just after this meeting, a large number of personnel from the Passion Church began to analyze various prescriptions. Then many simple and cheap prescriptions were compiled into this pharmacopoeia belonging to Green Island.
It was also during this time that the first ship from New Saul Island entered the port of Green Island and brought the first batch of goods for trading to the island.
"There are not many grains and grain products in this cargo, because except for your New Saul Island, there is not much grain production in our islands." A baron, who was a representative of the nobles, told Lawrence on the dock.
Speaking of.
"Considering that this is an island in itself, I don't think there will be much demand for various seafood here, but we have prepared a small amount of livestock jerky and canned meat to see if anyone will buy it."
"That's right, but next time we can bring some canned fish and meat from tropical specialties to test the water. Because the nobles here still have a certain amount of consumption." Lawrence nodded. "By the way, the best thing you brought this time is
What is bulk cargo?”
"The biggest cargo is mainly our specialty vegetable oil and sugar, and people here have ordered a lot of them." The baron replied. "I guess it's because it's too cold here, so everyone needs those high-end products."
Caloric food keeps the cold at bay.”
"It's not just that." Viscount Surrey, who came to the port to greet the first cargo ship, said.
"You know, except for a few places on our island that can grow some cold-resistant grains like rye or potatoes, most of the grains have to be imported."
"This has also led to the fact that importing these grains has become a big problem for our island. Especially the accompanying food security issues."
"In addition to keeping everyone fed, the biggest benefit of imported sugar and oil is that it can solve a large part of this food security problem."