Cholera, a virulent infectious disease, originated in foreign countries and was later introduced to China by sea. The word cholera is transliterated from the English word Cholera, and the original meaning of the name is daunting and shocking: suddenly, something bad happens, everything is messed up! This shows the high level of translation of medical predecessors.

After Yao Yuan listened to Wang Libin's translation, the muscles on his face trembled, and he also knew the horror of this disease, so he immediately asked all the Chinese and foreign doctors on the ship to come over.

Yao Yuan went to Suzhou this time, and in addition to Western doctors, he also invited several Chinese doctors to go with him. Among them, there is one person who is the most famous, his name is Wang Shixiong, a person from Hangzhou. Wang Shixiong's great-grandfather Wang Xuequan was a famous doctor who wrote two volumes of "Medical Essays", and his grandfather Yongjia and father Qicang were also proficient in medicine, and he had supplemented and proofread the book. When Wang Shixiong was 14 years old, his father was seriously ill, and before he died, he instructed him: "Between the world and the world, there must be a time to use the world, you know what to say, I have no regrets." After his father's death, he studied medicine according to the family motto, but eventually due to his family's poverty, he could not live without a place to cook. In order to make a living, he went to Wuzhou Xiaoshun Street in the winter of the same year. Working during the day, earning food to support the family, reading medical books at night, burning ointment and sundials, never tired of it.

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there was also a cholera epidemic in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Wang Shixiong did not avoid the evil, tried his best to treat it, and after a detailed contact with this disease, he wrote the manuscript of "Treatise on Cholera" in 1838. This year, during the war in Suzhou and Hangzhou, Wang Shixiong took refuge in Shanghai, and at the same time worked in the Shanghai hospital opened by Luo Weilin.

After all the Chinese and foreign physicians gathered on the deck, Yao Yuan asked Pasteur to tell him about the symptoms he had found, and asked a few guards to carry the sick Qing prisoners to the deck.

The incubation period of cholera is only one or two days, and once it occurs, it is very ferocious. There is such a description in later movies, on a hot summer day, a rickshaw driver appears in the picture. He pulled the rickshaw and trotted briskly from far and near, and he was strong. Suddenly, the driver felt thirsty and saw a puddle of water in a small puddle on the side of the road, so he drank it with his hand, regardless of whether it was clean or not. After quenching his thirst, the coachman continued to run......

A few hours later, the driver in the camera looks like a different person, and he becomes depressed. Struggled with walking, bouts of diarrhea. Unable to find a toilet, he was impatient to defecate everywhere. Close-up: The stool expelled by the coachman is first loose, then it becomes a clear water sample, and the zuihou becomes a rice washing water sample. "A good man can't stand three bubbles of". The driver was quickly knocked down by frequent diarrhea. Severe dehydration left his eye sockets deeply sunken and the skin of his fingers wrinkled. Like the hands of a washerwoman who has been soaked in water for a long time. zuihou。 The coachman fell to the ground and never got up. These are true portrayals of how terrible the cholera epidemic is.

After the three Qing prisoners were brought up, everyone jumped, but in a short period of time, the three Qing prisoners had become dehydrated and in shock. According to historical records, there have been seven epidemics of cholera. The first began in 1817, when cholera began in India and spread to the Arab region. then to Africa and the Mediterranean coast; In the second pandemic of 1826, it reached Afghanistan and Russia, and then spread throughout Europe; The third pandemic, it crossed the ocean and arrived in North America in 1832. Within 20 years, cholera had become "the most feared and striking disease of the 19th century."

Buster took a pair of white cloth gloves and put them on, took a tray and collected some feces from the Qing army, and said: "I took it back to the cabin to examine it with a microscope, these patients need to be hydrated, otherwise in a few hours, dehydration will kill them." ”

Yao Yuan nodded, although this sissy is a little annoying, his rigorous attitude towards medical conditions is very commendable.

Luo Weilin nodded and said, "These patients need intravenous infusion to replenish saline, and I will arrange it immediately." "Intravenous infusions appeared at the beginning of the 19th century, and the cholera epidemic in Scotland in 1831 was also an important event in the development of intravenous therapy. In the midst of this epidemic, Thomas Latta experimentally infused a saline solution with a patient who was 'dying and nothing would sting him, but in fact he was so emaciated that I was afraid he would die before I had the utensils ready'. But Latta's treatment was successful, and the patient, Zuihou, recovered and survived. The success of saline injections has led to the widespread use of this therapy in cholera epidemics, and although its success rate is limited, in this case, it is already the most haode treatment.

After Wang Shixiong and other Chinese doctors gave a few Qing soldiers a look, smell, and inquire, after discussing for a while, Wang Shixiong first gave acupuncture to several Qing soldiers to stimulate the patient's acupuncture points, so that several Qing soldiers gradually woke up from shock, and then they also prescribed Chinese medicine, and several doctors went to boil medicine separately.

Wang Shixiong wiped his hands and said to Yao Yuan: "The cabin should be disinfected with lime or sour vinegar, and the brothers who have come into contact with these people must also wash their hands and feet immediately. These sick Qing soldiers have to find a cabin to be placed alone, and they can only be contacted by our doctors. ”

Yao Yuan knew that this was to isolate the source of the disease, he immediately arranged it, Yao Yuan had no objection to the treatment of a few Qing soldiers, they also need to observe the onset of this cholera disease, it is best to cure these people, then there will be a mature treatment method after arriving in Suzhou.

The people on the boat immediately moved, and even on Zhao Qi's boat behind, Yao Yuan also sent people over to help them kill the virus and let them boil water to clean. After a busy afternoon, the people on both ships almost poisoned the cabins and decks with lime and sour vinegar, and those who had come into contact with the Qing soldiers were also cleaned. But then four other Qing prisoners also fell ill one after another, and even Zhang Guoliang became dehydrated and had no signs before the onset of the disease.

The number of sick people has increased to seven, and the atmosphere on the ship has become solemn, and all men are equal before the invisible enemy, and it will not show mercy to your men because you believe in God or are on the side of justice.

In the face of bloody battles, no one in the Taiping army will be afraid, but this kind of epidemic that kills people makes many people feel afraid, and if you die on the battlefield, you will go to death with glory and the blood of the enemy, but after getting sick, you can only moan helplessly in the slow pain and die.

In the evening, the fleet reached Hushu Pass, and the illness of the seven Qing captives began to improve after the infusion, and at least they were temporarily saved. Later, Wang Shixiong and other traditional Chinese medicine doctors gave them Chinese medicine, and Pasteur gave them some Western pills, and after the combination of Chinese and Western therapy was forcibly treated, the condition of the seven Qing soldiers, including Zhang Guoliang, began to stabilize, and the symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting temporarily stopped.

When Chinese and foreign doctors were rejoicing, a bad news ruined everyone's good mood, nearly 100 people in the Taiping army camp here in Hushu Pass began to have the same symptoms, among these more than 100 people, there were Taiping soldiers and people fleeing nearby, and there was a trend of continuous expansion.

Yao Yuan, Pasteur, Luo Weilin, Wang Shixiong and others did not care about the hard work, and immediately led the people on the ship to treat the sick and teach the methods of preventing and treating the source of the disease.

Yao Yuan immediately instructed the people in the hall to separate the wounded soldiers from the sick people, and set up rows of temporary wooden shacks on the wasteland at the lower pass of Hushu Pass to house the patients, and isolate the patients for treatment.

Fortunately, before Yao Yuan and others arrived, Xiao Yungui issued a military order, all military camps must be boiled for drinking water and food, and human and animal feces are forbidden to be dumped into the river, once the patient is found, he must be isolated and treated, and at the same time send people to clean up the dead corpses on the battlefield, clean up the mud on the road, collect lime, wormwood, and sour vinegar in nearby villages, and then carry out anti-virus in the camp. After these precautionary measures were taken, the risk of cholera outbreaks in the military camps outside the Taiping Army was greatly reduced, but there were still infected people to varying degrees in each military camp, with hundreds of people and dozens of people.

The sick people of Hushu Pass were settled, and the general order of the King of the West came, ordering Yao Yuan and others to enter the city of Suzhou immediately, and after the Taiping army broke through the Qing army last night, it had begun to send men and horses into Suzhou City in the morning.

After Yao Yuan explained the matter of Hushu Pass to the local people, he rushed to Suzhou City with his mixed Chinese and Western medical team and a large number of medicines, medicinal materials and other materials.

Suzhou City heard that it was the first place where the epidemic broke out, and Yao Yuan and the others had already been mentally prepared, but after they entered Suzhou City, they were still stunned by the scene in front of them. The gate of Suzhou was crowded with people who wanted to leave the city, bringing their families with them, the noise was shocking, and everyone's faces were full of frightened looks, they wanted to escape from this plague city as soon as possible. The gate of the city was surrounded by three fences set up by the Taiping soldiers, and those who wanted to leave the city must be diagnosed by the Taiping army's life-saving officer, and only those who did not have cholera symptoms were allowed to leave the city, but after leaving the city, they had to stay in the temporary shacks built outside the city walls, and could not go out again.

From time to time, there were people who fell in the crowd at the gates, and whenever someone fell, an open space was immediately opened around them, lest they would be exposed to a terrible plague. After the person fell, there was a Taiping Army life-saving officer to come to inspect it, after reading it, he shook his head, and then there were Taiping soldiers driving the ox cart to come, and carried the fallen person to the ox cart, the ox cart was full of corpses, and the person who fell down can basically be judged to be hopeless.

Walking inside, the ditches on both sides of the street were full of dead corpses, the streets were full of mud, garbage and feces, emitting a smoky stench, several teams of people and horses of the Taiping army drove ox carts to collect the corpses, and nearly 100 Qing army prisoners were under the custody of the Taiping army, numbly sweeping the garbage and mud from the streets. The whole city of Suzhou is no longer prosperous, and it is full of stench and fear. (To be continued......)