Chapter 853: Europe Without a Bath
Although it is said that professional things should be left to professional people, what if there are no professional people?
Since ancient times, the Central Plains Dynasty has had such an official institution as the Tai Hospital, although it is not necessarily called this name, but for thousands of years, the official Tai Hospital and private doctors have long come up with a mature medical system, and they began to ponder craniotomy as early as the Three Kingdoms period.
And after the end of the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire that took over was neither sacred, nor Roman, nor could it be called an empire.
The perfect urban public facilities of the ancient Roman Empire have been declared lost, no one cares about the drainage system and public health conditions, and even the medicine that can affect a nation has been declared dead.
At this time in Europe, the profession of doctor belonged to the side business of barbers, or the two were not clear at all, and this influence even affected barbershops in later generations.
Many people have seen the three-color lamppost in front of the barbershop, which has three colors of red, blue, and white, and the reason why these three colors are chosen is not because they are eye-catching, nor for other reasons, but because red represents arteries, blue represents veins, and white represents gauze.
In other words, the tricolor light represents bloodletting, because when the barber is a part-time doctor, the main treatment is bloodletting.
Further development, it is basically a headache for the doctor, a pain in the foot, and if the cure is not good, it will be cut off, in this case, those barbarians in Europe still think that they can deal with the Black Death?
As a result, when the Black Death broke out, there would always be people pushing wheelbarrows at dusk, shaking bells in their hands and shouting, "Collect the dead!" Then the families opened the doors, carried the dead to the carts, and pushed them out of the city to be burned or buried.
Monk Mike watched the "boils" on those who were sick become the size of walnuts, eggs, and goose eggs, and watched them die.
Later, even the corpse pit outside the city could not fill so many corpses, so the corpses could only be scattered and discarded, and the scene was unbearable, and more and more people believed that this disaster was God punishing the world.
Not only in Italy, but also in the north of Italy, the plague also reached Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, along Italy's Black Sea Route.
The two commercial cities of Genoa and Venice were also hit by the plague, although Genoa blocked the port and refused to allow any foreign ships.
Then the French port of Marseille accepted a ship that was rejected by Genoa, and the Black Death came to France again.
A great plague, if it cannot be controlled in the initial stage, is almost a catastrophe that can no longer be prevented when its scope expands.
As long as a person with the Black Death virus enters a city, it will not take a few days for any prosperous city to become a dead city, and Milan, Turin, Verona, Florence and other prosperous and wealthy cities have all stepped into such a disaster.
Everywhere the Black Death went, food was scarce, prices were skyrocketing, morals were ruined, families were broken, churches were broken, governments were dismantled, and the end of the world was imminent.
In the midst of such a disaster, there are countless people who hide themselves in their houses and starve to death, are abandoned by their loved ones, and enjoy themselves in the sense that God's end is imminent.
Social ethics have completely collapsed, all human order has completely dissipated, even if you kill someone on the street, no one will stop you most of the time, you will only hide behind the cracks in the doors and windows, quietly pay attention to the outside world, if you can still find a living person on the street.
All human resistance, in the face of the Black Death, became a joke.
No matter how elite the army, no matter how holy the monarch, no matter how devout the believers of God, in the face of the Black Death, they were all just a group of rotting corpses, and the plague spread faster and faster in Europe.
In just ten years, the entire European continent has been shrouded in the Black Death, and all disputes between human nations have disappeared, replaced by the fear of being shrouded in this darkness.
The catastrophe lasted for a long time, and in many countries, such as Smolensk, in 1386, only 5 people died!
About 25 million people died in one-third of the European continent, which does not mean that only one-third of the population died in one place, but that "in the areas where the Black Death broke out, almost humanity died, and in the rural corners where the Black Death did not spread, the population of Europe remained."
The famous Italian novel "Decameron" is a group of young men and women who hide in a country house to escape the Black Death, telling stories and chatting to survive.
If it's just the plague, it's nothing, after all, people haven't died yet, and the plague will pass sooner or later, or it will be artificially eliminated or humans themselves will evolve antibodies, which is not a big problem.
The point is that the Holy See jumped out at this time.
After the Black Death gradually disappeared, the Holy See began to vigorously publicize that the ashes on the human body were given by God to resist the disease.
God knows how they came up with the bullshit claim that the Devil would give the Grime as a talisman, and the European barbarians, who were scared into dogs by the Black Death, believed it without doubt......
I believe it, because the Black Death is gradually disappearing, and at this time the European barbarians happened to start not bathing, this dramatic coincidence made the barbarians think that not bathing can really resist the disease.
After believing it, the European barbarians pioneered a theory: human bathing will cause the pores of the body to open, so that those toxic gases can enter the human body, so people will get sick, and the Black Death is more likely.
Ordinary European barbarians are better, they really can't stand it anymore and will wipe it with a wet towel, the key is that those pious monks really set an example and thoroughly implemented this set of propaganda of the church.
Why did St. Abraham, St. Simon and St. Eucleasia, these people be able to add a holy word to their names and become the saints of Europe?
For Abraham insisted on not washing his face or feet for fifty years, and Mr. Simon allowed the worm to arch over his festering wounds, and never washed until he died.
As for the great Madame Santa Eufflacia, she presided over a convent and taught more than 130 of the most devout nuns, strictly supervising them not to bathe for the rest of their lives......
Including the Holy See Saintess who Emperor Chongzhen looked down on, but fortunately Emperor Chongzhen couldn't look down on her - just imagine, no matter how charming a beauty is, she will never take a bath for the rest of her life......
For example, Agnès, the mother of King Henry IV of France, really insisted on not bathing for the rest of her life, and was finally canonized as a saint......
King Louis XIV of France, who ascended the throne in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, bathed twice a year for the noblewomen of his kingdom, and the rest of the time was basically to wipe his body with a dry towel.
If anyone were willing to look through the daily records of Louis XIV's imperial physician, they would find that Louis XIV himself had to bathe carefully under the guidance of a doctor, bathing only once in 64 years, from 1647 to 1711 – an astonishing record that is still preserved today.
If the world had been going according to its original history, then Louis XIV would have been significantly inferior to Louis XV, who had only bathed three times in his life, one on his birthday, the second on his wedding, and the third on his burial.
In this case, the whole aristocratic class of France, even the king, stenched like a beast of prey, and the queen smelled like an old goat, both in summer and in winter.
Including the right of the first night that later generations envied and died countless people, at that time, it was more of a responsibility borne by the leader than a welfare and enjoyment - think of the girl who has not bathed for more than ten years......
Under the circumstances at that time, ordinary people did not pay money to the lord lord, the so-called king, and people were unwilling to fulfill the responsibilities of the lord, and those Europeans who waited in line for the lord to exercise the right of the first night before daring to take his daughter-in-law back to sleep had to prepare gifts and silver coins, begging the lord lord......
Therefore, it is really difficult to understand the worldview of those Ou Blowing, their Ou Daddy was eating steamed buns in the Central Plains when the people were eating steamed buns, their Ou Daddy had to avoid the pickets of the Holy See when the Central Plains scholars were visiting the Qinglou, and their Ou Daddy was blazing on which family and which family did not pay attention to hygiene and successfully built the Paris Dung Ring City Defense Belt......
So those who want to travel back to the Middle Ages to be a knight, a lord, a king, or a princess or a kiss to wake up Snow White, go ahead and see if the chickens in their pants want to work overtime or take a holiday......
Why did a book of Marco Polo's travelogues attract so many missionaries to the Far East in search of a land full of gold? Is it really just because of the gold everywhere?
I'm afraid that the yearning for beautiful things that exists in human nature, the kind of heaven-like description, also takes up a lot of space, right?
However, the missionaries are not effective in preaching, and they cannot attract many people to believe, but only Xu Guangqi's bad breeds disguise their religion because they are eyeing some of their knowledge, and the reason may not be that these missionaries do not take a bath?
Without bathing and extremely unpaid hygienic conditions, it is not difficult to understand that the plague was rampant throughout Europe, and the barbarians in later generations were few because these goods liked to die, and the medieval people were completely the ancestors of these goods who were dying.
As for why those barbarians who came to Daming, especially those laborers, why didn't their arrival have any impact on Daming? Theoretically, they're more than a Mayflower can carry, right?
Why didn't the Central Plains Dynasty have a great plague, especially something like the Black Death, because of these barbarian missionaries or because of the arrival of these laborers?
The reason is very simple, because the Central Plains Dynasty itself is not a good family, and the gameplay of throwing dead corpses to harm water sources has long been played by the Central Plains Tangkou, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, the champion Hou has already used this trick.
Since I have used this kind of trick to hang the people and fight the crime and promote the teachings of the saints by the way, I still need to remind others from using this trick to harm myself? As for the prevention and control of the plague, because of the population density, after a few bloody lessons, the Central Plains Tangkou has never relaxed.
After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne and tossed out such a monster as the Royal Academy, Daming's medical technology advanced by leaps and bounds on the original basis, not only the prevention and control of plague is the top priority of the medical school's research, including ordinary sanitary conditions and medical methods are also constantly breaking through.
So Emperor Chongzhen can wave as much as he wants, after hundreds of thousands of barbarians become laborers, what should the Ming Dynasty do, and there are no waves at all.
The reason why Amin fell into bad luck this time was not without reason because tens of thousands of barbarians affected the entire expeditionary army.
The first is that the base number of barbarians is too large, and there are more than 20,000 barbarians who surrendered, which is close to the same as the number of armies led by Amin, and even faintly exceeded.
When there are many captives, it is easy to cause confusion in management, and the hygiene is not so particular, which provides favorable conditions for the spread of bacteria.
The second is that there are even fewer doctors in the army with Amin, and once something big happens, a few doctors can't be busy at all.
And the army led by Amin is the army closest to Tsarist Russia, which is the most headache for Emperor Chongzhen and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.
Regardless of how much Tsarist Russia dropped the chain, in case Mikhailovich's guy went crazy or learned the style of Emperor Chongzhen's Pingtou brother, regardless of putting together a death squad to scare Amin's department, it is estimated that Amin's department is really cold.
It is precisely because of this that Emperor Chongzhen asked the Governor's Office of the Five Armies to send two guards again, in order to prevent the barbarians from suddenly attacking Amin's department.
And Emperor Chongzhen's special request to avoid Amin's subordinates was to prevent Amin's subordinates from spreading the disease to the new and old guards, otherwise the more it spread, the more troublesome things would become.
At the same time, the teachers and students from the Tai Hospital, Tai Hospital, and the Medical College were sent to understand the pathology and contagiousness of the disease, and at the same time to figure out how to treat it.
At the very least, we can't let this plague spread to Daming because of this group of Cossack barbarians, and even if the Black Death is not afraid, it must not be allowed to spread to Daming.
After solving the problem about Amin's department, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered another question.
It seems that he also has a son in Bavaria, the Holy Roman Empire in Europe, and it seems that he also married a princess of the Holy Roman Empire as a concubine?
I don't know how that son is doing in Europe now, whether he has adapted to life in Europe, and how he is doing with Bavaria's rule......
PS: If you burn down a nunnery, you can't feel distressed? Why don't you feel distressed when you burn the Old Summer Palace? Oh, dog stuff!