Chapter 60: The Plague (2)
Bottle of water
Ye Baozhen was having a headache because the academy found that the epidemic patients were suffering, and several wardens and several doctors from the academy also gathered at the bottle of water to worry.
"Mountain Chief, the Lord of Ren'an wants to see you and is waiting outside the door." Liu Yong stepped forward and said.
"What is she doing here, when is this coming, how can the county lord only know how to cause chaos." One of the wardens complained dissatisfiedly.
"That's it, people are county lords, we can't put on a show like this, we should see it or see it." Another wardener sighed helplessly, "People have grades, what do we have?" ”
Ye Baozhen glared at the two wardeners, and said angrily, "Go and invite her in." ”
"I've seen the mountain chief and a few wardenmen, doctor." Nan Lingmo came in and saluted everyone and said, "The students have come here this time to implore the mountain chief and the wardens to allow the students to go to the quarantine area outside the west corner gate of the academy to see the sick person. ”
Since Chef Zhang of the men's home found out that he had died of the epidemic, all the people who lived in the same room with him were sent to a vacant courtyard in the West Point Gate to be placed, guarded day and night, and it was strictly forbidden to enter and exit.
"Lord Ren'an, you are the county lord and the body of a daughter, the epidemic is very dangerous, and if you pass by, you will die," the dormitory warden advised, "The county lord should obediently go back to the school building and stay and don't come out to cause trouble." ”
"Yes, county lord, you better go back and drink a few more bowls of decoction to prevent epidemics!" Dr. Zhang said unceremoniously.
"Doctor Wang, Doctor Zhang, the county lord knows the severity of the epidemic, but the county lord wants to ask the medicine issued by the Imperial Medical Department in the morning to be effective for the symptoms?" Nanling Mo saw everyone's unreasonable expressions, so he raised his identity. "As we all know, the county lord's mother has the nickname of 'soul fairy', and the county lord's maternal grandfather has the reputation of 'miracle doctor'.
"This ...... But the county lord, you must know that once you enter the courtyard, you cannot come out. A warden's warden persuaded bitterly.
"The mountain chief, the warden, and the doctors, the lord of this county can make a military order here, and the lord of this county will voluntarily go to the West Point Gate Epidemic Yard to check on the patients, and all the consequences will be borne by the lord of this county, and the academy will not be involved." Nan Lingmo walked to the mountain chief's table as he spoke, and wrote down the military order with a brush, blocking everyone's mouths tightly.
"Doctor Wang, Doctor Zhang, I don't know if the two of you have a prescription for healing?"
"There are no new prescriptions, and the ones that are now used for people infected with the epidemic are still the same ones that were used in previous years." Dr. Wang said.
"I wonder if the two doctors will allow me to show me the prescription?" Seeing that everyone no longer objected to him, Nanling Mo bluntly saluted Ye Baozhen and the others and said, "Mountain Chief, fellow dormitory supervisors, please allow one of the two doctors to take the student to the courtyard of the epidemic area in Xijiaomen to have a look, and by the way, allow the student's personal maid to follow the student." ”
Ye Baozhen looked at Nanling Mo writing the military order again, and writing such a firm request to go to the courtyard of the epidemic, or his beloved disciple, nodded in agreement with difficulty, and said: "You can go if you want to, you must be prepared to go in,"
"Yes, the student will go back and prepare."
Nan Lingmo returned to the house, and Princess Rong Zhen and Lin Chaoying were still waiting for her in their house.
"County Lord, you're back, the food is cold, the slave maid is warm with hot water, hurry up and eat!"
Nan Lingmo sat down and smelled the aroma of rice, only then did she feel that she was really hungry. At this time, she didn't care about the image of a lady at all, and feasted happily: "Mei Xue, you hurry up and pack up your things, I'm going to the courtyard of the West Corner Gate." ”
"What?!" Everyone was stunned, and Mei Xue hurriedly said, "County Lord, I can't go, there are people infected with the epidemic on the West Corner Gate, how can you go?" ”
"Yes, yes, seventh sister-in-law, I heard that this epidemic is very scary, you can't go, otherwise I won't be able to explain to Seventh Brother." The eldest princess Rong Zhen also hurriedly said, and even Lin Chaoying nodded in agreement, resolutely disagreeing with her going.
"The eldest princess, Chaoying, Yu Gong, I am a county lord who is divided by the imperial court; Yu Private, I am a doctor, and since I was a child, I learned medical skills from my mother and grandfather, just to save people. How is it possible to ignore this situation today? Nan Lingmo put down the chopsticks in his hand and said, "Since I know medical skills, why can't I give it a try, in case it will be cured?" ”
"But my seventh brother has explained ......," the eldest princess Rong Zhen said reluctantly.
Nanling Mo sighed and said bitterly: "Eldest princess, your fourth brother and seventh brother are both in the refugee camp on the outskirts of Beijing, if I don't go to Xijiaomen one day earlier to see the sick people, your fourth brother and seventh brother will have a greater chance of contracting the disease in the refugee camp on the outskirts of Beijing, if I can develop a prescription as soon as possible, your fourth brother and seventh brother can come back as soon as possible, and they don't have to stay in that dangerous place all the time." ”
The two wanted to say something more, but Nan Lingmo decisively interrupted them: "I have made up my mind, you don't have to persuade them anymore." Nanling Mo didn't raise his head and replied while eating quickly, "Mei Xue, hurry up and clean up, Doctor Wang is still waiting for me." ”
Mei Xue knelt down and hugged Nan Lingmo's legs and begged: "Master, the decision you have to make The slave knows that you shouldn't stop you, but this is too dangerous, you can't go to the courtyard of the West Corner Gate alone, it's better to let the slave and maid go!" ”
"But Seventh Sister-in-law, even the Imperial Doctor can't do anything about this epidemic, do you really have a way?" The eldest princess Rong Zhen still said uneasily.
"Don't worry, I've got my grandfather's codex with me!" Nanling Mo smiled and comforted her, and said to Lin Chaoying: "I'm not here, please take care of the eldest princess more." I don't worry about her alone, why don't you move in with her temporarily! "Usually when there is nothing to do, the eldest princess Rong Zhen comes to visit them every day, coupled with her young age and noble status, the academy specially allows her to bring a personal maid to take care of her. But now that the situation is special, she is worried that the eldest princess Rong Zhen will be afraid, so she has this proposal.
Lin Chaoying nodded and said, "Don't worry, we'll be fine." But you have to be careful. ”
The Imperial Study
On the second day, the imperial doctors sent by the Imperial Medical Department to the refugee camp on the outskirts of Beijing happened to be Zou Zheng and Xue Ranxue, the younger apprentices of Imperial Physician Li.
"How?" After the two changed their clothes, all the doctors surrounded them and asked about the situation.
"The emperor has an edict to invite Imperial Physician Li, Imperial Physician Xue and Imperial Physician Zou to go to the imperial study for questioning together." A little eunuch came to deliver the decree, and as soon as everyone heard this, they hurriedly straightened their clothes and went to the imperial study.
"Your Majesty." After the three of them saw the salute, they got up and found that the important ministers in the imperial study were all standing inside.
The three of them looked at each other, and Imperial Physician Li stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, this time the Imperial Physician Department sent the minister's junior apprentices Zou Zheng and Imperial Physician Xue, and the two of them have already told the minister some information on the way here. It is inevitable that the ministers will misspeak, so it is better to ask Imperial Doctor Xue to dictate again. ”
Xue Ran stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the minister and Imperial Physician Zou went to the refugee camp on the outskirts of Beijing together, and when the two highnesses issued the plague, more than a hundred people were already sick. Fortunately, the two highnesses quickly gathered the sick people in a few tents, and when the minister and Imperial Doctor Zou rushed over, the more seriously ill patients had ulcers on their bodies, and pus flowed everywhere. The two highnesses said that the patients who were infected were all exposed to the pus that flowed out of the disease, and then quickly became feverish, and had a large rash, and then ulcerated, and the pain was unbearable, and within a few days the whole body ulcerated to death. ”
Everyone gasped when they heard this, and Yun Tianfeng asked with a solemn face: "Doesn't your Tai Hospital and Tai Medical Department have a prescription for this epidemic?!" ”
Feng Youxiang stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, now there is a panic inside and outside the capital, and the minister thinks that if the epidemic problem is not quickly resolved, there will soon be a riot in the suburbs of Beijing, and the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
Yun Tianfeng also knew that this epidemic was not trivial, and he already knew that Yunlu Academy had just discovered that dozens of people were infected. The students of these academies are all descendants of important ministers in the court, and if something goes wrong, the court will be unstable.
Yun Tianfeng immediately ordered: "The imperial doctor and the two rotating imperial doctors who serve the queen mother will be left in the imperial hospital, and the other imperial doctors will all be arranged by the imperial medical department to go to the refugee camp on the outskirts of Beijing and the Yunlu Academy where the disease has been discovered." In addition, the Imperial Medical Department urgently recruited private doctors and medicinal materials, and all the expenses were borne by the imperial court. ”
"In addition, the three vice presidents must develop an effective prescription to curb the spread of the epidemic within three days, otherwise you will come to see you." Yun Tianfeng's words made everyone break out in a cold sweat. The imperial doctor was afraid of his head moving, and the other ministers were worried about their children studying in Yunlu Academy.
West corner gate yard
Mei Xue quickly cut the middle garment with scissors, and made a mask to cover her mouth and nose according to Nanling Mo's request, and everyone quickly sewed a few palm-sized handguards to avoid direct contact with infected patients. He sewed moxibustion and other fresh-smelling herbs into his purse, and hurried to the West Corner Gate.
"Doctor Wang," Doctor Wang, who had been waiting at the West Corner Gate for a long time in the Nanling Mo Dynasty, nodded, looked at the medicinal herbs he brought, and went to the courtyard with him.
It was a courtyard where the servants and cooks usually rested, and there was usually no one to live. Nan Lingmo took out a face towel to cover his mouth and nose, and instructed the guards outside the courtyard to find a way to carry more high-grade soju, and then entered the courtyard.
As soon as he entered the room in the courtyard, he smelled a festering stench, and Dr. Wang saw that Nanling Mo didn't seem to have heard the stench, so he walked straight to a patient, looked at the abscesses on his body carefully, and carefully checked his pulse.
Two quarters of an hour later, Nan Lingmo said: "This patient has sores and pus on his skin, and the fever does not stop," and looked around at the ground, "It is also accompanied by vomiting, I am afraid it is the plague." ”
Doctor Wang nodded and said, "And the infected person's condition progressed rapidly, and soon his whole body ulcerated and vomited blood and died. ”
"In order to avoid the aggravation of the exacerbation, it is better to separate the severe and mild symptoms." Nan Lingmo proposed, Dr. Wang nodded, so the two of them hurriedly diagnosed and judged more than 20 people in the hospital, and then asked the guards outside the hospital to cover cotton cloth, come in and put people in the house on stretchers according to their priorities.
Nanling Mo pondered for a long time and said: "Abscess poisonous water is the most poisonous and the most easy, for today's plan, first stop the itching, and then use medicine to reduce fever, try to see if it is effective." ”
Nan Lingmo walked out of the house, and said while writing: "Doctor Wang, when the county lord first entered the courtyard, he found that there were elephant gall gall and bowls of flowers and plants in the courtyard, which are all excellent medicinal materials for abscess detoxification and itching, and please ask your medicine boy and my maid to find out these medicinal materials and boil them into plasters to temporarily stop the pain of the patient, so as not to break the abscess again and aggravate the disease." ”
"Go, go, go." Doctor Wang looked at the prescription and wrote: elephant gall, bowl of flower roots, feather calyx, one penny each, three coins of septic herbs, boiled and cooled and applied to the abscess, "Boil more, remember that the ratio must be written in accordance with the county lord's prescription, and cannot be changed without authorization." ”
"Let those in the hospital who can still move apply it to the abscesses, and we will do it ourselves where we can't apply it." Nan Lingmo continued, "The other guards went to find a hundred sets of clean underwear and asked them to change into them. Once the abscess ruptures, dig a pit on the spot and burn the clothes. The dead went to the back mountain and buried them with lime. ”
Nanling Mo did not stop in his hands, and continued to diagnose and treat the remaining twenty infected patients in the courtyard separately from Dr. Wang, and recalled his grandfather's codex, and quickly wrote down the prescription: "Forsythia, Chuanxiong, Bupleurum, Jiuqin, green skin, honeysuckle, burdock, astragalus, saponaria thorn, rhubarb, angelica." Five dollars each, water for two minutes, fry to 7 minutes, go to the water and warm it. "Find these herbs from the prepared herbs, and prepare them according to the prescription.
Nan Lingmo personally fed the boiled medicine to the two chefs who looked the most serious, and she had been observing the reactions of the two on the sidelines. One of the cooks, who was not so sick, woke up two hours after drinking the medicine, and reported that she felt much more comfortable, Nan Lingmo was a little excited, but the other still didn't wake up.
And so on and on and A day later, the Imperial Medical Department also sent a few doctors to the academy to help, and after a few doctors came, the original two people took care of nearly thirty people and shared the burden at once, and each person took care of four people, so Nanling Mo breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dr. Wang, Dr. Li, Dr. Liu, how are the patients in charge of you now?" "County Lord, according to what is divided, two people on the old man's side complained that they felt much more relaxed, and the others did not react for the time being."
Nan Lingmo nodded and said, "It seems that the prescription still has to be changed." After speaking, several imperial doctors immediately devoted themselves to the discussion of the prescription.