Chapter 464: National Affairs, Plague Prevention and Control

An egret called "yo yo" and hovered in the sky. It stretched its long neck and observed the silent Twolegs in the valley. Two people were standing in the middle, looking at the setting sun in the west. Dozens of people surrounded the outside, like mountains holding the sun.

Alyssa opened her eyes wide and watched the egret turn several times. She leaned on her lover's shoulder and asked in a worried voice.

"Xulot, the plague you mentioned is so powerful. How should we deal with it?"

Shulot stretched out his arms, hugged the delicate girl tightly, and stroked her gently for a while. Then, he gathered his thoughts and preached again.

"Epidemics are different, affecting various parts of the human body and causing different symptoms. For example, headache, fever, sensitivity to cold, cough, bleeding, and acne. Therefore, we need to identify specific symptoms and take targeted measures. "

"For ordinary epidemic qi, as long as the body is strong, the food is sufficient, and the yang energy is abundant, it is enough to resist! The human body's immune system will work to resist external invasion. This is that evil cannot prevail over good. Although you are exposed to the epidemic qi and are infected, , but there will be no serious symptoms. For example, in common epidemics, malnourished old people and women are always the first to get sick, while strong and well-fed young adults often have mild symptoms. Or end up getting sick."

Hearing this, Alyssa nodded to express her understanding. In villages all over the world, priority is always given to the diet of young adults, and they have the most vitality. Then she noticed her lover's choice of words.

"Xulot, you said there are 'ordinary' epidemics, does that mean there are also 'dangerous' epidemics?"

"Yes! Some diseases are extremely poisonous and spread extremely quickly, so they are extremely dangerous. I know of nine types alone. If any one of them spreads, it can cause tens of thousands of deaths. of casualties!”

Shulot paused and collected his thoughts. Then, he ordered Na Xiu.

"Naxiu, take note of what I say below, they are very crucial!"

"Obey you!"

Naxiu bowed gracefully and picked up the pen and paper again.

"In the east of the world, far away from the sea, there are nine extremely poisonous diseases. According to the degree of danger to the alliance, the first is typhoid fever, the second is smallpox, the third is plague, the fourth is measles, and the fifth The sixth is diphtheria, the seventh is mumps, the eighth is malaria, and the ninth is yellow fever!”

"Well, Your Highness, how should you write these nine kinds of diseases you mentioned?"

Naxiu remembered half of it and raised her head in embarrassment. These diseases have not yet appeared in the Americas, and naturally there are no corresponding descriptions.

"Give me a pen and paper, and I'll write it myself!"

Shulot stretched out his hand and took the pen and paper. He tried to remember, first wrote about typhoid fever, and then drew a little man. The villain is holding his stomach and suffering from diarrhea, and the feces flows into the river.

"Enteric typhoid fever attacks the intestines and symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and bleeding. The mode of transmission is contact with feces and contaminated water sources."

Then there was another little man, covered in tiny dots, lying motionless on the ground. The villain exhales in the air and flies into another nearby villain.

"Smallpox, the disease invades the whole body, and the symptoms are rashes, pus, and ulcers all over the body. The mode of transmission is respiratory droplets and contact with items used by the other party."

Later, the new villain's limbs became blackened like the Black Death, and rats and fleas appeared around him.

"Plague, the disease invades the lungs and the symptoms are fever, chills, bleeding, and gangrene. The mode of transmission is through rats and fleas, which spread the disease everywhere."

The fourth villain also has small dots on his body.

"Measles, the disease attacks the chest and abdomen. The symptoms are red, flat rashes. The mode of transmission is breathing. It is similar to smallpox, but the disease is slightly milder."

When the fifth villain was drawn, Shulot paused. He didn't know much about cholera, but for the next few hundred years, cholera was probably confined to India and was not introduced to the Americas. After thinking for a while, he drew a little man with diarrhea and wrote roughly.

"Cholera, the disease attacks the intestines, and the symptom is watery diarrhea. The mode of transmission is also the patient's feces contaminating water sources."

Then, the sixth little man has a big neck, and the seventh one has a big mouth.

"Diphtheria, as the name suggests, is a disease that attacks the neck, forming swelling and white patches, and is spread through breathing. Mumps, a disease that attacks the cheeks, forming swelling, is spread through breathing. Both diseases are killers of children!"

Shulot took a deep breath. He pondered for a while, and then drew a little man posing, with the words hot and cold written next to it.

"Malaria, the disease attacks the liver and directly damages Ihotel. The symptoms are shaking, alternating cold and heat all over the body. It is spread through mosquito bites."

The last villain has red eyes and tongue, and is vomiting and bleeding.

"Yellow fever, the disease attacks the lungs. Symptoms are fever, body pain, red tongue and red eyes. It is spread through mosquito bites."

Thinking of these two serious diseases, Shulot sighed and warned seriously.

"Although malaria and yellow fever are at the bottom, they are no less harmful to the human body than the first seven, and are even more powerful! It's just that they rely on mosquitoes to spread, are restricted by terrain, and occur in hot and rainy lowland rainforests. Invading the Mexican Plateau where the Alliance is located.”

Shulot turned around and looked deeply to the south.

As long as Pandora's box is opened and malaria mosquitoes and Aedes mosquitoes from Africa are introduced to the Americas, malaria parasites and yellow fever viruses will permanently take root in the tropical rainforests. All rainforest residents in the Americas will always have to endure the test of epidemics. This is a natural disaster that no one can change! The only good thing among misfortunes is that neither malarial mosquitoes nor Aedes mosquitoes like the climate of the tropical plateau, so they pose little threat to the heart of the alliance.

"In the far east, there are nine dangerous diseases!"

Alyssa murmured to herself, with worry in her eyes. She held her lover's arm tightly, her voice anxious.

"Xulot, are there any other dangerous diseases? If these extremely poisonous diseases are introduced into the alliance, what should we do?"

"The essence of epidemic qi is tiny life. There are thousands of lives, and there are naturally far more than nine kinds of dangerous epidemic qi in the world! However, these nine are the ones we need to worry about and guard against at the moment."

Shulot smiled slightly and comforted his lover.

"Alyssa, the reason why I asked you to take charge of the kingdom's medicine is because I want to treat the prevention of epidemics as the most important thing! The most important thing for the country is to prevent and control the plague. You don't have to be too anxious. For these nine kinds of I also have a method to deal with the epidemic inspired by the gods!”

After saying that, Shulot frowned and thought carefully for a while.

According to the type of plague pathogens, these infectious diseases can be divided into two categories: bacteria and viruses. Bacteria include typhoid, plague, cholera, diphtheria, and malaria; viruses include smallpox, measles, mumps, and yellow fever.

For bacterial diseases, the best way to deal with it is naturally antibiotics. However, in this era, due to inefficient culture technology, lack of purification technology, and insufficient observation accuracy, it is absolutely impossible to produce high-concentration antibiotics. However, you can try to prepare a low-concentration penicillin solution. This is not for antibacterial purposes, but for cultivating bacterial strains from generation to generation.

In order to obtain truly effective penicillin, it is necessary to screen Penicillium groups in a long-term and targeted manner. Because Penicillium often secretes antibacterial and nontoxic penicillin and antibacterial and toxic patulin at the same time. Whether crude penicillin can cure or kill a patient may depend on luck. If the non-toxic penicillin is mixed with an excessive proportion of patulin, it will be a poison that can kill people in minutes!

The trial production of usable penicillin does not require much manpower, but it takes an extremely long time. Historically, after Fleming discovered penicillin, he cultivated Penicillium for about ten years. After generations of screening under the microscope, he obtained a suitable penicillin bacterial population, which provided a population base for large-scale industrial production of penicillin.

"The first task. Naxiu, arrange for a few capable people to collect different types of Penicillium from rotten grains and fruits. Then, use sweeter fruit juice to culture Penicillium. The amount of Penicillium accumulates to a certain Once the mixture is done, add the oil and stir, pour out the water layer below, and then use charcoal powder to absorb it.”

Speaking of this, Shulot was stuck for a while. He knew that penicillin was soluble in water and could be absorbed by charcoal powder. Next, what is used for further extraction? The young man was not sure. He thought about it and gave vague instructions.

".Then, use pure boiling water, acidic hot spring water, and alkaline plant ash water to rinse the charcoal powder respectively, and then evaporate the water to dryness and crystallize. Use rotten meat to test the antibacterial properties, and then use small animals to test the toxicity. Keep the bacteria with high antibacterial and low toxicity and culture them again.”

".???Your Highness?"

Hearing this, Naxiu's red lips parted slightly, her eyes turned completely blank, as if she had been spoiled.

"cough!"

Shulot coughed lightly, thought for a while, and said again.

"When you are free, you come to me alone. I will take you to do it together. Then choose a few patient and careful female workers to repeat these tasks over and over again, and we will do it for ten or twenty years!"

"Do it for ten or twenty years?"

Alyssa opened her bright eyes wide, a little unbelievable.

"Well! This is a very slow job, and whether it succeeds or not depends on the gift of fate. It will always take ten or twenty years to get preliminary results. If Lozano can burn pure glass, It can be speeded up a lot.”

After Shulot finished speaking, he smiled, with yearning in his eyes. If we can obtain qualified penicillin within a few decades, it will be a gift from the goddess of fate! After a moment, he recovered his thoughts and ordered again in a deep voice.

"The second task is to sort out the alliance's various drugs, test their ability to treat common diseases, and write them down for backup. For example, tobacco can treat colds, and Wuyu Jade can treat body inflammation. They all have certain Anti-epidemic and sterilizing effect! There are more than 800 medicinal materials in the alliance’s priestly inheritance, most of which are herbal medicines, which need detailed research and sorting.”

"I obey you, Your Highness!"

Naxiu nodded solemnly. Organizing and recording all medications is a complex and sensitive project. Fortunately, for His Highness's sake, the priests shouldn't have much obstruction.

Central and South America are isolated from Europe and Asia. There are all kinds of magical plants and herbalism is very prosperous. Among the thousands of species of plants and trees, there are always drugs that can deal with various infectious diseases respectively. However, it requires systematic exploration and sorting. Historically, it was the indigenous witch doctors of South America who first discovered that the bark of the cinchona tree could effectively combat malaria.

"Well Cinchona Tree needs to start offshore exploration as soon as possible, to the Incas!"

Shulot made a mental note. Then, he looked serious and gave serious instructions.

"The third task is to compile the first edition of the priest manual for dealing with epidemics! The epidemic grows on the patient and can spread quickly to others or flow into rivers and lakes. Therefore, whenever there is an epidemic, the patient must be treated and isolated first, and the feces must be strictly buried. As for other people, no matter how close they are, they must avoid contact with the patient, drink boiled water, and kill mosquitoes and rats that spread the disease. In case of severe epidemics, the corpses and the patient's clothes must be burned. Send warriors to cover their mouths and noses with fine cloth to block the affected areas. Even, if necessary, take drastic measures! "

Hearing the drastic measures, Naxiu's expression was stern, and she seemed to see endless blood and fire in front of her. She bowed her head and saluted, and answered respectfully.

"Your Highness, your will is the life of the mortal world!"

Xuluot nodded calmly, his face calm. He would take time to complete the epidemic prevention manual in detail based on the common sense of later generations, and prepare the priests in advance. Then, he turned his mind and thought of the hot springs he enjoyed in the past two days, which had a certain sterilization effect.

"The fourth task is to reserve enough sulfur. Mix wood ash and oil, add sulfur powder, make sulfur soap and use it to wash clothes or skin, which can effectively kill bacteria."

The advantage of the frequent volcanoes in Central America is that there are many sulfur mines, which can obtain powerful fungicides. In places where bacteria breed, burning sulfur powder; pouring sulfur into lakes where mosquitoes breed can weaken the spread of certain epidemics.

The night fell, and the sky was shrouded in darkness. The guards lit a bonfire and lit up the valley in the forest. Xiu Luote fell into deep thought. For bacterial plagues, various symptomatic herbs are the key to treatment. The Chinese medicine of this era has relatively mature responses in the treatment of typhoid fever and malaria. Typhoid fever uses houttuynia decoction, and malaria uses artemisia annua prescription, which are all inherited from medical books of previous generations.

"If I could cross the sea to the west to obtain medical inheritance from the Ming Dynasty and obtain various herbs such as houttuynia and artemisia annua, how great it would be!"

Xiuluote fantasized for a long time and shook his head gently. If you want to cross the sea to the west, you must have the European long-distance navigation technology. Once the Europeans arrive, they will inevitably bring plague. At this critical juncture, American civilization has little time and is always extremely urgent. After a while, he came to his senses and thought about the response to viral plagues again.

Viral infectious diseases include smallpox, measles, mumps, and yellow fever. Among them, the most important thing to pay attention to is naturally smallpox. At this time, the smallpox virus has been raging throughout Europe for many years, sowing countless deaths. The first virulent infectious disease brought by the colonists will inevitably be smallpox.

"How to deal with smallpox? That is naturally vaccination."

Xiu Luote thought of a novel about the end of the Yuan Dynasty. The protagonist started his career by vaccination, and the method was not complicated.

In this era, the technology that has appeared in the south of the Celestial Empire is human pox. The commonly used human pox method is divided into dry seedling method and water seedling method. The so-called dry seedling is to grind the scabs that fall off from the recovering smallpox patients into powder, and then blow it into the nostrils of the vaccinated person with a silver tube. The so-called water seedlings are made by grinding the scabs into powder, adding water to moisten it, wrapping it with a cotton ball and inserting it into the nasal cavity.

In essence, smallpox vaccination is to obtain attenuated smallpox virus from recovering smallpox patients, and then transmit it to those who have not been vaccinated, so that they will suffer from mild smallpox. Once a smallpox patient recovers, he will never get it again for life. The resistance obtained from the attenuated virus can also defend against the unattenuated virus.

The further development of the smallpox method is to use the scabs that have been vaccinated many times as vaccines. It is equivalent to targeted screening, and constantly obtains smallpox viruses with weaker toxicity. The weakest toxicity is the close relative of the smallpox virus, the cowpox virus. But this requires not only Eurasian domestic cattle, but also the cattle with smallpox.

"The longer the seedlings are passed on, the clearer the medicinal power is, and the more mature the artificial selection is. The fire poison is eliminated, and the essence remains alone, so it is safe and harmless."

Similarly, the smallpox method can also be used for measles. As for mumps and yellow fever, Xiu Luote doesn't know much and has no clear method.

"The fifth task is to choose a small offshore island far from human habitation and establish a secret medical center. Study the epidemic and try to produce human pox and cowpox. Forget it, the alliance has no outlet to the East China Sea, so this is just a preparation, so don't rush it."

Xuluot took back his words halfway through his instructions. Then, he smiled with relief and said loudly.

"Okay, that's all for today's teaching! Prepare for a barbecue, and we'll camp by the spring."

Alyssa blinked. She hugged her lover tightly, feeling the other's strong heartbeat, and also feeling the man's strong confidence and will. Inexplicably, the soft girl had a fever. She looked up at the sky, the clouds covered the moon, and soon there would be an autumn rain that would soak the deep earth.

"After Xiuluot finishes the barbecue, let's eat avocado!"

The girl's breath was like orchid, blowing in her lover's ears, making him feel like he was electrified.

"I brought some avocados. According to what you said, they can promote the secretion of hormones, and the night of the deer is long. Let's try it together and explore some fun new rituals."

"Ah?"

Xuluot's body was hot and a flame ignited in his heart. He looked at his beautiful lover, gritted his teeth, and said fiercely.

"I can eat you even if I don't eat avocados."

"Well, really? I don't believe it. Hehe."

Seeing this scene, Naxiu raised her eyebrows. She sighed helplessly, made a few gestures, and the warriors dispersed again.

Not long after, the autumn rain fell from the sky with thunder. Listening to the continuous thunder, the cold female warrior felt hot all over and her feet were weak. She looked down and found that the earth had been soaked by rain and became soft and moist.

Happy days are always busy and short. The rainy season has come to an end, the clouds have been absorbed by the rain, and the thunder can't last too long. A few days later, a group of messengers came from afar, bringing the latest report from the kingdom in the west.

The wind rises from the end of the green duckweed, and the waves form between the ripples. The autumn harvest of the world has ended, and the storm of war is about to sweep across the east!

The chapter on medicine and epidemics is finally finished! Well, it takes a lot of energy to write these, meow meow meow. Cat, please support me!