Chapter 87: Vaccinating against vaccinia
In April of the fourth year of Jingding, more than 400 people were busy working around hundreds of small buffaloes. More than 200 of the 400 people had smallpox scars, and they mainly reinforced the pens of the baby buffalo and kept them from approaching.
The mood of the herd seems to be quite stable, but the cattle that are clean are all cows, and some abnormal parts appear on their ** parts at this time. The red and swollen places are as bright as peaches and plums; When it festers, it's as beautiful as cheese.
Zhao Jiaren arrived here with his wife and children on the first day of April, and the doctors in white coats were working nervously. They suck the pus out and dilute it slightly with distilled water. Despite their experience in Jeju Island, the doctors were nervous. After all, it was Zhao Jiaren's family who was vaccinated with cowpox this time.
Zhao Jiaren's family was followed by the shareholders, who watched nervously as the doctors dealt with them, completely ununderstanding the use of the disgusting abscesses taken from these cows.
Zhao Jiaren's shoulder was disinfected with alcohol, and the doctor used the sterilized steel plate to cut a wound on Zhao Jiaren's shoulder, and then pressed the cotton wool stained with cowpox pus on the wound on Zhao Jiaren's shoulder. Even before they received hygiene knowledge, those shareholders would not have done such a disgusting thing, and now they are even more unacceptable in their hearts.
It didn't take too long to plant cowpox for Zhao Jiaren's family, and soon it was the turn of the shareholders. The shareholders are all starting to back down, which is too evil and more like witchcraft than medical treatment. When everyone hesitated, they saw Qi Ye roll up his sleeves and sit in the position of borrowing seeds. The doctors didn't want to delay and dealt with it immediately.
Seeing the long queue of people who were about to be vaccinated with cowpox, Qi Rong walked up to Zhao Jiaren and asked Zhao Jiaren almost with grinning: "Zhao Zhizhou, what do you mean by this?" ”
Zhao Jiaren didn't care about such a small pain, and his wife didn't care very much. However, his wife was holding Zhao Jiaren's pink and tender son, and she was extremely distressed. Hearing Qi Rong ask such a question at this time, Qin Yuzhen's gaze at Qi Rong was very unfriendly.
Qi Rong could understand this unfriendliness, but he still felt that this matter was too strange to care about it at all. This matter is related to Qi Rong's life. Seeing that Qi Rong found Zhao Jiaren, other shareholders also gathered around. Since Zhao Jiaren was vaccinated with vaccinia in public, it shows that it is not Zhao Jiaren who deceives everyone. But seeing the pus, the shareholders were very uneasy.
Zhao Jiaren smiled at the group: "Smallpox can not only infect people, but also cattle. However, for some reason, smallpox is less toxic in cattle than in humans. When I was on a study tour, I read a book collected by my family, saying that there was a place where there was smallpox, and the village girls who milked the cows survived. But a lot of people who didn't touch cows died. Later, after having the idea of immunity, I remembered this matter, so I used this method. Although it is not known whether they will be immunized after vaccination, at least no one has contracted smallpox from vaccinia. ”
As for whether these shareholders are willing to borrow vaccines, Zhao Jiaren does not care at all. Epidemic prevention is a very interesting science, and some infectious diseases can produce antibodies by simply killing the germs and injecting them into the body. However, much more cannot be handled so simply. Zhao Jiaren knew that before he crossed over, Chinese scientists had already developed the technology of direct genetic modification to produce vaccines.
At the end of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren decisively abandoned this thought. In the current technical conditions, he can only go according to the knowledge accumulated by tradition. Cowpox is the use of the very virulent bovine smallpox virus to make humans resistant to the smallpox virus. Cowpox is not the only type of bovine infectious disease that is being used. The other is the very famous tuberculosis vaccine BCG, which was domesticated by two scientists from generation to generation by borrowing bovine tuberculosis bacteria on bovine bile potato culture medium. It took the two of them 13 years and 230 generations of domestication to finally get a new type of low-toxicity tuberculosis bacteria. After receiving this vaccine, resistance to tuberculosis bacteria is created.
Every time he thinks of the hard work of his predecessors, Zhao Jiaren can't help but feel a sense of pride and mission. In such a mood, the unhappiness with shareholders has also disappeared. Zhao Jiaren smiled: "This matter is not reluctant, I just suggest that you should do it better." There are so many that you are not afraid, and what are you to be afraid of. ”
After speaking, Zhao Jiaren took over his son, who was no longer crying, from his wife, and the family of three began to walk to a conspicuous position in the vaccination team. It's not just these shareholders who are very worried about vaccinia, the purpose of Zhao Jiaren's public vaccination this time is to let everyone see that even the delicate and expensive Zhao Zhizhou has been vaccinated, so as to dispel other people's uneasiness.
This time, more than 40,000 people were vaccinated with cowpox. Basically, they are all Zhao Jiaren's subordinates, and some of them are officials and officials in Fuzhou. The reason for the end of inoculation was that more than a hundred baby female buffaloes had run out of pus. Vaccinia is very weak in cattle. The cow's reaction is not to die, but to get out of the pus.
After the last day, Zhao Jiaren also felt a lot more relaxed. He also doesn't want to blow the wind on the island of Langqi Town, off the coast of Fuzhou, where the next vaccination will take a while. Because it is not so easy to get pus from a smallpox patient who is suffering from the disease. Because it is easy to spread the virus when transporting patients, don't spread smallpox before you have been vaccinated. And it is not easy to get hundreds of heifers who have not had smallpox. If Zhao Jiaren was not the governor of Fuzhou, he would not have been able to complete it.
Just when the stall was ordered to be closed, Zhao Jiaren saw a group of dozens of people going to the dock in a group, looking like they were going to leave by boat. In the midst of the crowd was a man in an official uniform, and the color of the uniform was that of a servant.
Seeing this group of people, Zhao Jiaren's face naturally became ugly. This is the characteristic of the Great Song Dynasty, the system of small officials who completely blackened their hearts. The entire Great Song Dynasty includes the now retired officials, that is, more than 20,000 people. And the number of officials in the compilation is not very large. However, each official has dozens or even hundreds of subordinates outside the establishment. Those taxes collection, card setting and so on were all done by these officials who led the establishment of these small officials.
As a native of Anhui and the second generation of a paper mill, Zhao Jiaren knows the grassroots in Anhui very well. Seeing this situation, Zhao Jiaren felt as if he had seen the grassroots in Anhui.
In the big cities of New China, this kind of thing basically does not exist. The so-called 'hired personnel' is only a means of de-accountability, and in fact all personnel under the public system have a complete establishment. If something happens, you can be held accountable. Zhao Jiaren used to be very repulsed by this delicate relationship, and now he believes that if he wants to solve the problem of the Great Song Dynasty, it is not to reduce the number of officials, but to expand the ranks of officials. Wipe out the team of minions.