Chapter 148: Control Variables and Rabbit Experiments
Not long after, Huang Chongde came back with people. Seeing him come in briskly from outside the temple, many realized that he had left the main hall.
He walked to Bai Yi's side and asked a few words in a low voice, but everyone saw Bai Yi nodding again and again, and said three or two words of entrustment to Huang Chongde. After Huang Chongde also nodded in agreement, he waved his hand and ordered the four guards to carry a crooked wooden frame in.
Rabbits are the most susceptible to fake their deaths, so today the wooden frame is also covered with a black cloth.
After the four guards carefully lowered the wooden frame, they each untied a corner and uncovered the black cloth—and a low exclamation suddenly sounded in all directions.
At a glance, the cage was full of white rabbits with delicate and dusty coats, and there were forty or fifty of them.
"It's going to ...... Offering auspiciousness? ”
The imperial doctors muttered, and for a while they didn't know what kind of medicine Bai Yi was selling in the gourd.
Bai Yi looked at his father, Bai Shijun wiped the sweat on his forehead, came out with his fists clenched, and knelt down in the main hall, "Please move to the rabbit cage and take a closer look." ”
Emperor Jianxi frowned slightly, and his eyes never moved away from the cage full of white rabbits. He raised his hand, and Qiu Shi on the side stepped forward to support his forearm, helping the emperor to slowly walk down the steps in front of the throne.
Just when everyone's eyes were focused on Bai Shijun and Emperor Jianxi, several guards had already opened the cage and took out a total of eight white rabbits from different compartments according to Bai Yi's instructions. Then he followed Bai Yi and walked towards the side hall connected to the main hall, silently withdrawing from everyone's field of vision.
Bai Ling immediately asked the concubine to step back for the time being and go to see what Bai Yi was doing.
The concubine nodded, and her eyes did not leave Bai Shijun and the rabbit cage for a moment.
"Your Majesty, please take a look."
Bai Shijun invited Emperor Jianxi to come forward and saw that on the rabbit cage on the four floors, each compartment was pasted with paper signs. Emperor Jianxi looked at it carefully, and saw that it was written "normal control", "low dose", and "medium dose" respectively...... and so on.
The people from the Tai Hospital also gathered around.
Bai Shijun took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "In order to evaluate the toxicity of the Pediatric Zhibao Pill in the palace, understand the changes in toxicology and further interventions, Bai Yi proposed that it can be verified by rabbit experiments——"
Wang Jihang jumped up almost immediately, "Ridiculous!!" Ridiculous!! How can human medicine be used on rabbits!! It's clear—"
Before he finished speaking, Emperor Jianxi had already glanced back at him in disgust, and Wang Jihang's voice died down in an instant.
"Go on." Emperor Jianxi bent down slightly and leaned over to look at the rabbits in the cage.
"We set up one control group and four experimental groups." Bai Shijun stepped forward, stretched out his hand to point out the compartment with different labels, and motioned to the emperor, "The rabbits in the normal control group will not be treated except for feeding with water; The low-dose group, medium-dose group, and high-dose group will be fed an additional part of the ground pediatric Zhibao pill powder in addition to the normal diet.
"These four experimental groups can be divided into two batches. One batch of feeding is the children's treasure pill purchased from the people, because mercury is expensive, so these pills generally do not contain mercury, and the other batch is fed with the new medicine in the palace - the emperor knows that our pharmaceutical bureau in the palace has never deducted anything from raw materials.
"So after comparing the intrauterine experimental group, the extrauterine experimental group and the normal control group, we can see some clues."
Bai Shijun reached out and took down a record book hanging on the edge of the wooden frame, opened the first page, and said softly, "The white rabbit in the intrauterine pharmacy group, after taking the Pediatric Zhibao Pill for seven to fourteen hours, began to have diarrhea, decreased eating, and slow reaction, and after twenty hours of poisoning, it began to become irritable, aggressive, and had increased secretions. And the higher the dose, the more severe these symptoms are. ”
As he spoke, Bai Shijun stepped forward again and motioned for everyone to look at the small words on the labels on each cage.
At the same time, the weight changes of the rabbits in each cage over the past few days were also recorded here. Compared with the time when they first entered the hospital, the weight of the white rabbits in the intrauterine medicine group generally decreased by six to eight taels, but this was not observed in the normal control group and the extrauterine medicine control group......
Emperor Jianxi took the record book in Bai Shijun's hand and carefully considered it word by word.
Before he could do so, he looked at Bai Shijun, "Why is there only one rabbit in the high-dose group of intrauterine medicine?" ”
Bai Shijun stepped forward with a dull face, stretched out his hand and turned the page back from the record book in Emperor Jianxi's hand, and said in a low voice, "Back to the emperor, the rabbits in the high-dose group died one each last night and this morning......"
"Your Majesty!"
Concubine Ning of the screen couldn't listen anymore, so she walked straight out with her skirt, her eyes were filled with anger, "Please ask the emperor to adjust the living notes of the little prince last month!" ”
The sound was almost a thunderclap.
"Your Majesty, the minister has something to say," Wang Jihang was already sweating when he heard it, and he also knelt on the ground at this time, "Please Emperor-"
"Shut up! Shut up! A fire appeared in Concubine Ning's eyes, "Since Atuo started taking the Children's Zhibao Pill last month because of crying at night, he has gradually been unable to eat, and he has diarrhea at every turn!" Others coaxed him a little and cried incessantly, but fortunately the palace listened to Bai Yi's words and stopped all the medicines for the little prince to calm his nerves, otherwise he would only be afraid of my Atuo...... My Ato, who is going to die like a rabbit in this cage, will die soon!! ”
Before Concubine Ning's words fell, she could only hear Zheng Shu's exclamation from behind the screen, "Niangniang! Empress! ”
- Qu Shi actually fainted on the spot.
Concubine Ning's eyes were slightly red, and she was stunned, only then did she remember these things about Atuo, and she had been hiding it from Qu Shi and not saying it.
The whole hall was in a mess, and everyone hurriedly lifted Qu Shi up, and sent her to a ventilated place to comfort and rest, and several imperial doctors received orders on the spot and returned to Chengqian Palace with the concubine to appease and heal.
……
Just when the confrontation outside was in full swing, in the side hall, Bai Ling stood by the door and looked at Bai Yi without saying a word. He was standing intently at a wooden table about his waist, unaware of Bai Ling's gaze.
Eight white rabbits were tied hand and foot and placed in front of him in turn.
Bai Yi gently stroked the forehead of the white rabbit in his hand with one hand to calm it down, and held a sharp lancet in the other hand. He moved extremely fast, without dragging his feet, and after a moment's struggle, the white rabbit kicked stiffly in the air.
After the death of the rabbit was fixed on the wooden board on its back, Bai Yi cut off the fluff on the rabbit's chest and abdomen, and the knife edge penetrated from the third to fourth ribs, and the rabbit's heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and small intestine were removed in turn.
"Put these in the number one disk." Bai Yi said in a low voice, "Mark the 'normal control group'." ”
The guards on the side looked at him with plates and pens in their hands, as if listening to a book from heaven, "...... What the? ”
Bai Ling stepped forward and took the pen and paper from the guard's hand, "I'll come." ”