Chapter Seventy-Four: The Black Plague
"What's going on?"
This is the street where Li Jue's clinic is located, and checkpoints have been set up at the intersection of the street, and the sight is blocked with a cloth, so that people can't see inside.
Looking at this strange scene, Ma Qiang looked at Zhang Sheng.
"Doctor Li, this place has been changed to a place for patients, I'm going to talk to the generals guarding here." Zhang Sheng took out his seal letter and found the guard officer here, and after a while, Li Jue, who was wearing a mask, walked out, saw Ma Qiang, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Mr. Ma, you are finally here!" ”
"No one is allowed to take off their masks without my orders!" Ma Qiang watched Li Jue approach, shouted first, and asked everyone to wear masks, and then Ma Qiang got off the horse and replied, "Doctor Li, what a good thing you have done... Can I not come? What's going on now? ”
"Let's go in and talk... It's hard to put into words. Li Jue sighed, stretched out his hand and said.
Ma Qiang turned around and ordered, "Guo Jin, you and Yan Rou take the carriage to our shop to store it, and then let the shop close and wait for my instructions, and the others will come in with me." ”
When the group walked into the street, Ma Qiang found that the street had been turned into a shelter, and the smell of medicine rushed into his nose, and the painful moans of patients could be heard everywhere.
After a while, two sergeants carried a person out, and seeing this scene, Li Jue couldn't help but sigh.
"What kind of plague is this? How many are there already? When such a big thing happened, why didn't the city be closed, but let the people run around? Running around at this time is tantamount to expanding the scope of the plague, Doctor Li, you can't ignore this, right? ”
Hearing Ma Qiang's questioning, Li Jue sighed, "I am a doctor in vain, a few days ago, someone suddenly came to the county with an old woman to see a doctor, but he died before he could see it, and the doctor was also experienced, and found that the person also had symptoms, so he suspected that it was the plague, and then found me, and I was diagnosed as the black plague in the plague, and I reported it to Liu Taishou."
Liu Taishou learned that there might be a plague in the city, and immediately wanted to escape from the city, but later learned that the disease came in from outside, so he never came out of the Taishou Mansion again.
And Guo Tingshi ordered to block the news, only treat us here as a quarantine area, and send all the sick people here, in just a few days, there are no less than 300 people lying here! I estimate that there are no less than 500 sick people in the city. ”
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Ma Qiang glanced at Liu Bei, thought for a while and said, "Let's go, let's go see the patient first, and you can stay outside." ”
"Sir, I want to go with you." Liu Bei suddenly arched his hand and said.
"Xuande.. Let's go. Ma Qiang thought that Liu Bei was a person who almost lived like an ancient man in history, and he didn't think he would die early.
"Big brother is going, I'm going too." Zhang Fei walked in first, and Ma Qiang shook his head and followed in.
When he came to a ward, Li Jue introduced, "This black plague is extremely vicious, the body is hot and cold, the eyes are bloodshot, the body is spotted, sometimes polyuria, sometimes oliguria, and finally dies." ”
Ma Qiang examined it carefully, and saw that this patient was really the same as Li Jue's introduction, and frantically flipped through his memories in his mind, but he couldn't figure out what kind of disease it was.
The so-called plague is an infectious disease to put it bluntly, but most of the infectious diseases in later generations have disappeared due to the progress of vaccines and sanitary conditions, and only such serious infectious diseases as the Black Death and smallpox will be regarded as after-dinner gossip like legends.
"No... I don't know why. Ma Qiang frowned and shook his head and said.
"Didn't Doctor Li say that it was a black plague!" Zhang Fei said hurriedly.
"Black plague is just a simple statement, just like a person is sick and has a fever, but there can be many causes of fever, such as bacterial infection, viral infection, and I don't know how many types of bacteria and viruses... If you can't know the detailed cause of the disease, there is no targeted treatment, and the only way is the most cruel isolation treatment. ”
"What is isolation treatment?" Liu Bei asked curiously.
Ma Qiang looked at Liu Bei and said slowly, "Let the healthy and the sick be isolated, and the healthy people should be isolated from each other, and when the sick people die, the plague will be over." ”
"This... What kind of saving is this? Zhang Fei almost jumped up when he heard this.
"This is indeed a solution, if it had been done from the beginning, I am afraid that not many people would have died in the end, but now it is impossible, and this disease is already present in all counties." Li Jue is much calmer than Zhang Fei, and it is not the first time he has faced the plague, so he naturally knows that it is right to sacrifice the small and protect the big in the face of the plague.
In fact, most of the plagues in ancient times ended through isolation, a county seat was isolated, and a state capital was isolated, and a state capital was isolated.
Of course, the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is also extremely important in dealing with ancient plagues, whether it is effective every time or not, it is much more reliable than burning witches to pray for blessings.
At this time, Ma Qiang suddenly heard a commotion outside, and a samurai wearing a mask walked in and said, "Mr. Ma, the assassin has arrived, just waiting for you outside, by the way, County Lieutenant Zhang, your wife is also sick, let's go back and have a look." ”
"What? Guo Yuan, don't talk nonsense! Zhang Sheng was stunned.
"How could I possibly joke about this! I was supposed to send someone who fell ill yesterday to be sent here, but your wife said she would wait for you to come back. Guo Yuan replied.
"Madame... Madam..."Zhang Sheng suddenly panicked, since the bad breath has improved, his relationship with Lu Ning has improved a lot, and he has regained a lot of the feeling of his youth.
Ma Qiang exhaled lightly, no matter what, Li Jue at least spread the matter of wearing masks, although the people don't know yet, these officials are very well protected anyway.
While this mask doesn't really completely block the virus, it's much better than leaving your mouth and nose exposed.
After all, there are no N95 masks in this era.
"Don't worry, County Lieutenant Zhang, if you were sick yesterday, you still have time, let's go, let's go see Guo Yuanjun first, no matter what, if you want to solve this plague, you have to help him." Ma Qiang waved his hand and said.
"Didn't Sir say you can't help it?" Zhang Fei couldn't help but wonder.
"There are no difficulties to solve, there are difficulties to solve, so many people are lying here, live horses should be dead horse doctors." Ma Qiang felt a little headache, and at this time, he couldn't use all kinds of physics and chemistry knowledge he was proficient in.