Chapter 122: Conflict of Ideas
Recently, a strange thing happened in the city, many people carried baskets all day long around the streets, specifically to inquire who had spoiled fruits and vegetables, once they heard who had them, they ran to beg people to sell them to him.
Ordinary people only have some apples and pears, and they are all not very good fruits, and they are sour and astringent, but for them, such fruits are better than nothing, so they will not let the fruits spoil, and they don't buy many in the city.
Once they heard that there were fruit trees planted on their villages, they couldn't wait to buy them, and they also picked out the broken ones to buy, and pulled them into the city like a car.
I've never heard of this before, and all of a sudden, the entire Luoxiang Mansion was talking about melons and fruits, and people greeted each other with "Hey, is your fruit bad?" ”
In this atmosphere, in a conservatory of the Wei family's house, a group of people were chattering around the rotten melons and fruits they bought.
"What's the smell of this, is Master really sure that medicine can be made from such a thing?"
"Master has always warned us that we must not eat moldy and spoiled food, but now he says that this kind of mold can cure diseases, isn't this a contradiction?" Someone wondered.
"Senior Brother Chen, that's not what I said, some medicines, eating one alone is poison, but when combined with other medicines, it becomes a good medicine, this is poison or medicine depends on how to use it, the same reason, the mold on this melon and fruit food, eating it like this will eat the dead, but the master makes it into medicine, that is the magic medicine!" Fang Tan said.
Li Tao also said: "That's the reason, didn't the master say it, when he treated Zhou Jian, he used penicillin, although it is a medicine made by overseas masters, but others can make it, we will definitely be able to do it, as long as we can make it, this poison is naturally a good medicine!" ”
The little junior brother surnamed Chen was the youngest, but he also understood this truth, so he regretted it when he asked, and now after listening to the words of the two senior brothers, he hurriedly gave the two of them his hand and said: "Thank you two senior brothers for solving your doubts!" ”
Fang Tan and Li Tao naturally knew that he just didn't react for a while, so they waved their hands to signal that it was okay for him.
After a group of apprentices finished reading the melons and fruits, they went to Wei Zhao again and told him that the mold was already there, but Wei Zhao was not in a hurry, and continued to let people light the fire in the conservatory, so that the house was kept moist and warm, and mold was grown.
These days, he's busy doing something big!
In the past few days, he returned to Fucheng and found one thing, there were many fewer people in Fucheng who went to the hospital because of wound infection.
Wei Zhao heard Chen Yaozhou say that in the past, at least one patient with suppurated wounds came to seek medical treatment every day at this time of year, but this year it was basically a new injury, and he couldn't see a single patient with suppurated wounds for ten days.
Wei Zhao asked the apprentices to go out to investigate, only to find out that this happened because of the pamphlets that Chen Yaozhou had sold before.
When he first competed with several doctors, he treated a beggar whose wound was suppurated, and then Chen Yaozhou compiled his knowledge about wound care into a booklet and sold it.
Later, the things on this booklet were verified by many doctors, and sure enough, it was found that treating the wound according to the method on the booklet can effectively prevent the wound from suppurating, so it was passed on to ten, hundred, and the booklet basically became something that every family in the city had, once someone in the family was injured, even if it was a small wound, they would immediately stop the bleeding according to the prescription, and then go to the nearby hospital to bandage, and no longer smear grass ash, spider webs and other things to stop bleeding.
Knowing this, Wei Zhao suddenly remembered the running guy who was burned in the restaurant last time, and the man who had diarrhea in Anping Village, he wanted to simply write some common first aid methods into a booklet and sell them in the major bookstores in the city, so as to effectively prevent the worsening of some diseases.
After discussing with Dr. Wang, both of them felt that it was very feasible, Wei Zhao was now quite famous, and the pamphlet issued in his name would be easier for the people to accept.
So he is now sorting out these things in the room every day, and Doctor Wang takes his apprentices to select medicinal materials, and then tries to make medicine according to the method given to them by Wei Zhao, and then conducts dialectics to see if the effect of the medicine can meet expectations.
Regarding burns, Wei Zhao thinks that it is something that should focus on popular science, even in modern times, many people are incorrect in dealing with burns.
Many people's first reaction after burning is to wipe it with something that can be touched at hand, which is a very wrong behavior, which will cause the skin that has been exposed to high temperature and become fragile to be re-injured.
The second is to wipe some things indiscriminately, such as toothpaste, although it does have a cooling effect, but toothpaste is not a medicine, some toothpaste is acidic, some are alkaline, and some are irritating, indiscriminate smearing may cause wound erosion and increase damage.
In view of the fact that even later generations did not have a complete understanding of burns and scalds, and did not deal with them correctly, he listed this as a key object of popular science, and the first booklet was prepared to focus on burns and scalds.
When the apprentices came over, he was sorting out the knowledge of burns and scalds, and when he saw them coming in, he handed over the sorted things to Fang Tan and said, "You go and ask your master, last time he sold the booklet on trauma treatment, which bookstore he sold it in, and then take this booklet as well, and ask them to print and sell it, the selling price should not be too low, but it should not be higher than a book." ”
If it is sold too low, the booklet will appear cheap, so that many people will disdain the booklet, and if it is sold too high, it will lose the original intention of popularizing knowledge, so Wei Zhao set the price of the booklet at the price of a book.
Fang Tan took the booklet and found that it was about burns, so he hurriedly looked through it, and the other apprentices also gathered around him and looked at it together.
Wei Zhao divided the burns into three types, and the burns were first-time: the injured skin was red, swollen, and felt hot and painful, but no blisters appeared. Second-degree burns: local redness, swelling, fever, unbearable pain, and obvious blisters. Third-degree burns: The skin is darkened, but the pain is not noticeable. Then he wrote the corresponding solution.
His booklet is completely written in the vernacular, without any difficult professional vocabulary, as long as it is a literate person, it can be read and understood, Fang Tan and the others looked at each other after reading it, and they didn't understand why Wei Zhao did this?
They are healers, and only those who are sick will have their place to use, if in the future, everyone will judge their own conditions and treat their own wounds because of Wei Zhao's pamphlet, then what money can they make as a healer? What is the value of existence? What will the other healers think?
Fang Tan is a straightforward person, he thought so in his heart, so he asked, Wei Zhao was stunned by his question, and then frowned.
He thought that such a pamphlet would ease the pain of the patient and reduce the burden on the doctor, that it would be easier to treat a fresh wound than an inflamed and purulent wound, and that it would be easier to sell ointment for burns than to deal with a broken and infected wound, but he forgot that this is not the modern age!
The doctors here are still in an era when they have to secretly hide good prescriptions, and the patients in this era have weak medical awareness, and some minor injuries and diseases, as long as they can resist the past, they will not spend money to see a doctor. His propaganda of how to deal with wounds and how to help patients reduce their pain to the lowest extent without spending money is cutting off the lives of many doctors!
Another point is that the status of doctors in this era is too low, but all those who have some money and power are common to beat and scold doctors and smash people's medical centers.
He wanted to accumulate prestige among the people through these things, but he could not oppose the other doctors of his time, and not every doctor could understand his purpose in doing so.
Once his booklet is released, and the patient encounters serious burns or other trauma in the future, the first choice is him, the person who issued the booklet, and when the time comes, once the other doctors are dissatisfied, then the "friendship" he has established with these doctors will fall apart!
Wei Zhao fell into deep thought for a while, what should he do? Do you do nothing and conform to this era?