Chapter 176: Pox Experiment
In the 17th century, the travelers had been dealing with various viruses of this period since the first day they landed on the continent of Australia, and you must know that smallpox and the Black Death were very prevalent during this period. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Moreover, there is no specific drug for smallpox virus, mainly prevention, the general method is the pox we often see in TV dramas and novels, through which pox can effectively reduce infection and prevent re-infection.
Although cowpox was invented by the British country doctor Edward Jenner, who is also known as the father of immunology, in fact, this great invention, he was inspired by the Chinese vaccinia, and finally invented the cowpox technique, which shows that China's contribution to the eradication of smallpox virus is also not small.
If you want to say whether there is smallpox virus in Australia, at least for this reason has not been found by the public, the geographical location here determines that it is isolated from most of the viruses, but with the frequent trade exchanges, Europeans, Ming immigrants, and the crossing of the public itself, are likely to substitute this virus into Australia.
The generation has been vaccinated against cowpox since childhood, and it is difficult to say that newborns and new immigrants will not be infected with the virus.
Therefore, it is very important to get a vaccinia vaccine, and only when the vaccine is made, will newborns in Australia be protected from suffering from this virus.
As a ship doctor Lao Hu, his responsibility is somewhat quite important, to say that engaging in research is not his strong point, but there is a lack of medical talents in the crowd, even if he doesn't want to, he must bite the bullet, let alone him, even those medical students who have not yet graduated have been included in the medical research team.
In addition to going to the hospital, they also need to come up with a variety of special drugs, of which the cowpox vaccine is one of them, and the others can be postponed, but the smallpox virus is real in Daming, and the leaders of the executive committee are not at ease if they don't get it out.
Don't say that they are not at ease, with the birth of the second generation of newborns, they also have to think about their children, in fact, according to Lao Hu's meaning, to be vaccinated against cowpox, they first have to get the cowpox virus, which they have searched all over the entire Australian aboriginal tribe and have not found.
It seems that it can only be found in Daming, and this thing is not easy to transport, and it is not well sealed in a glass bottle, and in one case, the virus may mutate at different temperatures, and no one dares to guarantee this.
Therefore, Lao Hu proposed that this vaccine laboratory should be placed in Hong Kong, where it is convenient to get vaccines and find suitable test subjects.
In order to carry out a cowpox experiment, you must first find the cow with cowpox, and only when you find the cow that has cow can you take out the desired vaccine from it. Of course, there is another method, which is by extracting pus from a pustule with a mild smallpox virus and planting it in the vaccinated person.
However, this method is more risky, that is, it is necessary to correctly determine that the smallpox virus that the patient does have is relatively mild, and if it is not mild, it is likely to be transmitted to other people, and of course, it is difficult to find a smallpox patient.
In ancient times, the government also had strict defenses against the smallpox virus, and if a patient was found to have it, it would be driven to an uninhabited area or locked up in a home and left to fend for itself.
Some patients who are in good health may survive and end up with smallpox without suffering from smallpox, except for a pockmarked face.
For the sake of safety, Lao Hu decided that it was more reliable to vaccinate from cowpox, and the risk was relatively low, so he handed over this task to Hua Tuo, who naturally knew about the smallpox virus, and this thing had already appeared in his time.
And there was no smallpox in China at the earliest, the Western Han Dynasty was introduced into China from abroad, and the earliest record was the Jin Dynasty alchemist and medical scientist Ge Hong in the "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" for the first time in the prevalence and symptoms of smallpox were described in detail: "When there is a disease than the year, there are spot sores, the head, face and body, the circumference is obstructed, the shape is like fire sores, all wear white pulp, and live with the decision, not immediately treated, the dramatist will die in a few days, and after the treatment is poor, the sores will be purple and dark, and the old age will be extinguished." Draw a vicious anger also. ”
Although it was recorded as early as the Jin Dynasty, the invention of pox was passed down in the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, although there is such a saying, but in fact pox was not officially recognized, because some people will still die after pox.
Therefore, the official did not promote this technology, but the public knows that the pox technique has been quite perfect in the later stage.
Hua Tuo is a famous doctor, a famous doctor who dared to perform craniotomy on Cao Cao, and he almost understood the pox technique explained by Lao Hu after listening to it.
Therefore, the main purpose of his expedition is to find the cow that suffers from teasing, and then extract pus from its pustules and plant it in the human body.
Although human testing is not allowed in Australia, the gang of human rights fighters are not allowed to use this method even against indigenous people, so Lao Hu proposed to bring it to Hong Kong for testing.
Hong Kong belongs to the overseas territory and is not subject to the restrictions of this law, even if there is this restriction, you can also cross the border to the Ming side for experiments, so Lao Hu specially explained to Hua Tuo, this matter is carried out secretly, and it is best not to let others know.
The gang of people in China are clamoring to give freedom to the aborigines, to tame the aborigines and let them become Australian nationals, but in fact, it takes a long time for most aborigines to become qualified naturalized nationals from barbarians, in addition to language skills, but also to observe whether they are aggressive.
In the event that they went crazy, there would have been casualties, so the Executive Committee did not approve their proposals, so they tried to start with other things.
In order to avoid trouble, the ship doctor Lao Hu asked Hua Tuo not to let others know.
Except for Zhou Billy, the people who conducted the cowpox planting experiment did not know the real reason for Hua Tuo's investigation.
The main reason why he ended the investigation experiment early this time was that he found a cow with pox, which is equivalent to finding the main virus, and he needs to take this virus to test on the human body now.
In order to confirm the effect of the experiment, Hua Tuo decided to conduct the experiment on himself, but was finally stopped by Billy Zhou, he didn't dare to let Lao Hua have any mistakes, he got a few people from the refugees, and told them that they would inoculate them, if they didn't die, they would have food and drink in the future, and if they died, their families would be properly taken care of for three generations.
Under such lucrative conditions, several people nodded desperately in agreement.
(To be continued.) )