Chapter 5 Poison and Epidemic
Du He took the medicine given to him by Sun Simiao and first tried the effect of the medicine for the serious patients in Su Mansion.
In the huge Su Mansion, more than 80 people were all recruited, and the most serious of them was a strong family like a tiger, with no big and thick three, and the muscles on his body were like iron, just like Schwarzenegger on TV in later generations, it is really hard to imagine that such a character is not as good as a weak child who is also sick.
At this moment, his limbs were tied to death, but the endless itching that came from his body made him roar again and again, and his voice was already hoarse and speechless. The wrists and ankles, the rope bindings were already dripping with blood, because the patient was constantly struggling, and the friction between the rope and the skin, like a drop of water piercing through the stone, had worn through the epidermis and penetrated deep into the flesh.
Du He asked people to forcibly give him the antidote pill.
The detoxification pill fruit has a miraculous effect, and the patient has only taken it for half an hour, and has gradually calmed down, and finally fell asleep. He was so tickled that he didn't sleep for several days, and his whole body almost collapsed, but now he was getting better, and his tired body immediately protested and fell asleep.
Du He said with a smile: "The King of Medicine is worthy of being the King of Medicine, and he really has the art of returning to heaven." ”
He was going to divide it into portions and let his men divide them among the seriously ill and relieve their pain.
I took a few more and came to the residence of Li Yifeng, Cao Yi, Han Fenghan, and Zhou Lingling, who were the first to fall ill, and their conditions were more serious than the ordinary patients in the city. However, they are all martial arts practitioners, and their physical perseverance is different from ordinary people, and they grit their teeth and persist in that pain.
Seeing that Du He sent the medicine, he didn't think about it, so he swallowed it in one gulp.
After a quarter of an hour, the effect of the medicine gradually came into play, and Li Yifeng let out a long breath: "Damn, what kind of strange disease is this, it doesn't hurt, it's just itching in the bones, but it's not so uncomfortable." He was kind and graceful, but when he was tossed by this, he couldn't help but speak foully.
Du He said cautiously: "Now nearly 150,000 people have contracted the same disease, and it is good to survive." That's right...... Now that you are sober, do you know how you got this disease? Based on what we know so far, you're the first to get it. There must be something special that has infected you, most likely eating something you shouldn't have eaten, think about it and see if you can think of anything. ”
The key to the treatment of the epidemic is not only to prevent the spread, but also to cure the root cause, but also to find the source is also one of the crucial steps.
Just like catching a thief and capturing a king, this source is not removed, even if the patient can be cured and the disease can be controlled, it will not help.
For the treatment of epidemics, he does not know medical skills, and without Sun Simiao's power to return to heaven, he is helpless. However, in finding the source of the epidemic, he felt that with his own intelligence, he could contribute to this strength, and he could still help in this problem of curing the epidemic eradicately.
Li Yifeng was the first person to be infected with the epidemic, and he must be able to find out the source of the epidemic.
Li Yifeng was silent for a while, but he shook his head and said, "No, before returning to Haizhongzhou, I have been investigating the whereabouts of the third junior brother, and nothing suspicious has happened. What's more, we don't pay attention to food and accommodation, and we eat cakes and noodles sold by street stalls. If there is really a problem with these pies, I must be the only one who has been tricked. He pondered, but for a moment he couldn't figure out why.
Du He sighed secretly, and didn't force it, letting him rest earlier.
Li Yifeng wanted to speak and stopped.
Du He knew what he wanted to ask Zhou Zhenwei, and said with a smile: "Brother Li, don't worry, your master did not escort Chang'an to Chang'an like Chen Ziyu and Yun Zhuo." He has been in contact with you and is safe for the time being, but I am not sure if he has been infected, and I dare not send him to Chang'an, and now he is leading the people in the Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall in Suzhou to help the people infected by the epidemic. ”
Zhou Zhenwei's Zhenwei martial arts halls are all over the south of the Yangtze River, and Suzhou, the largest metropolis in the south of the Yangtze River, is naturally indispensable. Although Du He issued an order to seal down all the Zhenwei Martial Arts, it had not yet reached Suzhou, and the Zhenwei Martial Arts Branch in Suzhou was still alive and well and had not been attacked by the plague.
Zhou Zhenwei expressed his hope to do his part.
Du He is short of manpower, and Zhou Zhenwei has Ba Yuxing next to him, and he is not afraid of his tricks, so he agreed, and now he is the most effective ambulance in the city.
Early the next morning, all the Jiangnan officials summoned by Du He arrived in Suzhou.
Du Ho did not let them into the city, but held a group meeting on the outskirts of the deserted city, and asked them to put up a notice to reassure the people when they returned to the village and town, so that they could set an example to prevent the possible harm caused by the plague, and at the same time told them to be careful and pay attention to whether the people in the territory had the same disease. In the end, a death order was issued, and anyone who dared to indiscriminately take advantage of the epidemic to spread rumors and cause trouble would be arrested on charges of demagoguery, severely punished, and if the circumstances were serious, they could be directly sentenced to death.
The Tang Dynasty had its own set of rules for the appointment of local officials, although it could not guarantee that all the assassins were like Bao Qingtian, but most of them were capable officials with some ability. Listen to Du He's instructions, immediately understand, and promulgate various instructions in a timely manner.
Du He's method of dealing with rumors is to let the rumors go freely, shrink the situation of the epidemic by tens of thousands of times, tell the people directly, let them know all the situation, and if they want to take the opportunity to get some benefits, they can't do anything to stir up right and wrong.
So far, this method is still very good, at least so far there is no county in Jiangnan that has been chaotic due to epidemic outbreaks.
It's noon. Sun Simiao, who had rested for many hours, appeared in front of Du He in high spirits.
Du Hexi said: "Doctor Sun, the antidote you want is very effective, and after the patient takes it, the situation has improved. ”
Sun Simiao smiled and nodded, "It seems that my expectations are good, this epidemic is likely to be caused by some kind of poison." It's just that I don't know what kind of poison it is, so good. He didn't talk to Du He immediately, and couldn't wait to treat the patient.
Put your hand on your pulse and listen to the beating of your pulse.
Looking and asking, Sun Simiao inferred the patient's condition through these steps in detail, with a solemn face.
There were more than twenty doctors beside him, watching.
After a long time, Sun Simiao smiled and said to the patient: "The situation is not very serious, some are treated, you have a good rest first, and I will go to dispense medicine." ”
Du He was overjoyed when he heard it, the king of medicine is the king of medicine, under the fame, there is no vanity, many famous doctors are helpless, and he got the cure as soon as he came.
Out of the room, Sun Simiao's smile disappeared, replaced by a solemnity, and he did not dispense medicine according to his words, but said angrily: "The reason why this epidemic is serious is not because of infection but because of what should not be eaten, it is man-made, not a natural disaster." ”
Du He shook and shouted: "How can you say this! ”
Sun Simiao said: "The epidemic has a characteristic, because the patient is infected by others, so there is a disease that spreads from the outside to the inside. For example, respiration, some diseases are transmitted through respiration. Therefore, the nose is the first to be infected, and then gradually spreads to other parts as the disease worsens. Or if it is contagious by touch, the first place to be infected must be the place where the patient has been in contact. The patients in the back room are different, they start from the bottom of their hearts. There is no disease that can be transmitted directly through the body to the human body, and the only explanation is that the patient eats something that should not be eaten. They are supposed to be poisoned, but the poison is not contagious, and it does not shine into a disease. Blame, blame, blame! He said three strange things in a row, and frowned: "I have been practicing medicine for forty years, and I have not encountered this strange disease." ”
Seeing that Sun Simiao was a little helpless, Du He was stunned and asked, "Even Doctor Sun can't do anything?" ”
Sun Simiao smiled bitterly: "Sun is not an immortal, and he may be able to cure some common diseases, but in the face of this intractable disease, how can he come up with a cure without research and analysis." The previous words of recklessness were just to calm the patient's heart and inspire him to win**. That's right...... The antidote is effective, and the symptoms come back to the heart. My initial diagnosis was poisoning rather than an epidemic, so why do adults insist that it is an epidemic? ”
Du He was stunned and doubtful, he asked Su Dingfang to invite more than 20 local famous doctors, and their diagnoses were all poisoning, not epidemics.
Du He thought that they were perfunctory and almost put them all in prison, but now even Sun Simiao said something, which made him not know how to answer.
Sun Simiao's name is outside, he is the first person in the apricot forest, seeing that his opinion is the same, those doctors also protested, expressing their opinions, implying that Du He does not know how to talk nonsense.
Du He touched his nose awkwardly and said, "Actually, I suspected early on that the real cause of the illness of the patients in Suzhou was not because of infection, but I am sure that it must be an epidemic." Doctor Sun, you can go with me to see someone. ”
Du He took Sun Simiao and a doctor to the house where Li Yifeng and his party lived, and asked Sun Simiao to clean it up for him.
When Sun Simiao saw Li Yifeng's face, his expression moved, and he hurriedly stepped forward to check his pulse, looked at his hand carefully, and then lifted his nose and looked into his nostrils, and said in surprise: "Strange, really weird!" This is indeed an epidemic, different, the symptoms are exactly the same, but the cause of the disease is different. The patient's cause of illness was an infection, and the first symptoms were his nose and hands, which was a completely different concept from the previous patient. ”
This is Sun Simiao's cleverness, Li Yifeng was also diagnosed and treated by other doctors, but except for Sun Simiao, no one found out the reason for his illness.
Sun Simiao muttered to himself: "How can this be, how can two different diseases, poison and epidemic, appear in the same patient, what happened?" ”
Du He's heart moved, and he asked, "Brother Li, since you were first infected by your nose and hands, then according to common sense, you should have smelled or touched something." Think about it, if you've ever smelled something strange or touched something unclean. ”
Li Yifeng was stunned and exclaimed.
(To be continued)