Chapter 44: The Plague God Appears

As mentioned last time, the vulture bone said that seeing a pregnant man successfully aroused everyone's interest.

Everyone turned their heads to see that the vulture was standing on the side of the city, pointing downstairs and shouting.

This "parade building" faces the lake on one side, you can enjoy the invincible lake view, and on the other side, you can see the landscape in the city.

Most people will face the other side of the lake and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake and Junshan Mountain, which will give people a sense of open-mindedness. Few people look at the other side of the city, where the roads are all over the place, and there are all kinds of houses of different heights and disorders, which can only make people upset, and it is really not interesting to see.

Who knew that this vulture bone was a different kind of thing, he had seen enough of the lake, so he got up and walked around, and occasionally looked out of the window on the side of the street, and even saw a big-bellied man walking in the street, and immediately let out a cry of surprise.

Strong curiosity is the characteristic of the people of the Celestial Empire, who like to gossip and watch regardless of class, even princes and generals. As soon as everyone heard that the vulture bone was so strange, they surrounded it with a hula.

Everyone looked down through the big window and saw that the street downstairs was sparsely populated. Now that the war is still frequent, the city has just changed the king's flag, many people have fled to avoid the military disaster, and the rest of the people do not dare to wander the streets until they understand the situation.

Among the pedestrians on the street, I saw a man with a big belly like a pregnant baby in October. This man must have been a man, for he was dressed in the short brown that men often wear, with a fist-sized bulge wrapped in a cyan turban on the top of his head, which was called a "flat top", and a sparse beard under his chin.

If you want to say that these may be easy to make up, but there is another point that you can't put on makeup, that is, because of the hot weather, this person's clothes are open, his chest is exposed, and his big belly is exposed outside.

If you are a woman dressed as a man, you will only wrap your clothes tightly, especially on your chest, you will definitely be wrapped with strips of cloth, where a little flesh may be exposed. It can be seen that this must be a man, and there is no doubt about it.

If you want to say that there is no man with a big belly, why does everyone make such a fuss about saying that he is "pregnant"?

Normally, a man with a big belly must be a fat man, and it is not uncommon for him to have a big belly because of his obesity. But this man is as skinny as wood, except for a big belly and a round waist, everything else is very thin, such as his arms are as thin as reedwood, and his chest is even more skinny.

His whole person gives people a very weird and uncoordinated feeling, like two bamboo sticks forking a pear, his legs are two bamboo sticks, and his body is pear-shaped. Not only that, this person is also yellow and thin, his limbs are weak, and he has to take a break after walking three steps, and he knows that he is a sick man at a glance.

Liu Hou called a soldier who was waiting on the side and gave him a few words. It didn't take long for the soldier to take the pot-bellied man upstairs.

I saw that this man was panting and sweating profusely, and when he went up to the back of the building, he trembled, and bent over a pillar to catch his breath for a long time before he recovered, obviously, climbing three floors was a big burden for him.

If you look closely, this man is short, only as tall as Liu Hou's chest, and on his exposed belly, you can see winding and bending cyan blood vessels, his face is like gold paper, and even his white eyes are yellow.

Liu Hou sighed in his heart, this person has jaundice from Yan zhòng, and it is estimated that there is a problem with the liver. He looked at Zhang Zhongjing with a solemn face. Zhang Zhongjing encountered something in his profession, and the wine also woke up for seven points, he also looked solemn, stretched out three fingers, and was ready to put it on the wrist of the pot-bellied man to help him take the pulse.

"Doctor Zhang, slow down!" Liu Hou hurriedly spoke to stop it. Zhang Zhongjing stopped, turned his head to look at Liu Hou, and waited for the following.

"Please put on your gloves first." Liu Houdao.

Liu Hou instilled a lot of knowledge about infectious diseases to Zuo Ci, and Zuo Ci passed on all this knowledge to the teachers and students of the medical school, so masks and gloves are now essential for these doctors.

"What the prince means is that this patient ......" Zhang Zhongjing didn't continue, because he saw Liu Hou nodding his head, and only the two of them understood at the scene, what Liu Hou meant was that this patient was likely to be highly contagious.

Looking at this person's jaundice, it is estimated that there is a liver problem, and the common liver disease is viral hepatitis, viral hepatitis is contagious, and it is also a disease that smells tiger color in later generations, so it must be cautious.

Zhang Zhongjing took out a pair of deerskin gloves from his arms and put them on slowly. These pair of deerskin gloves are very thin, and although they have a certain impact on the number veins on their hands, the impact is not very large, and Zhang Zhongjing has used it a lot, so he is used to it.

After Zhang Zhongjing put on his gloves, he put his three fingers on the wrist of the pot-bellied man, and his face gradually wrinkled into a chrysanthemum.

After the pot-bellied man went upstairs, he looked at the clothes of everyone upstairs and knew that they were all nobles, so he didn't even dare to breathe, and when he saw Zhang Zhongjing taking his pulse, he knew that he really met a nobleman today.

Since he got sick, I don't know how many doctors he has seen, and when he looks at Zhang Zhongjing's gestures, he can guess that he must be a very clever doctor, and there are famous doctors to help him see a doctor.

Sure enough, during Zhang Zhongjing's vein, a jade-faced boy on the opposite side said to him with a pleasant face: "You don't have to be nervous, this is Zhang Zhongjing Zhang Shenyi, I believe you have also heard of his name, just now we happened to see your illness upstairs, so please go upstairs and see if Zhang Shenyi can think of a way to treat you." ”

It was Liu Hou who spoke, and when the pot-bellied man heard this, he bowed lower, and he said in surprise: "Could it be the former Changsha Taishou Zhang Ji Zhang?" "It seems that Zhang Zhongjing's name as a miracle doctor is very famous, at least in the vicinity of Changsha, everyone knows it.

"Exactly." Liu Houdao.

The pot-bellied man was caught by Zhang Zhongjing with a hand and couldn't salute, so he had to nod and bow down to Zhang Zhongjing, and said busily:

"I didn't expect it to be Dr. Zhang's face, the villain had already heard the name of the god doctor, and two years ago I wanted to Changsha to visit the god doctor for treatment, but unfortunately I heard that the god doctor had gone to Xishu. Xishu is far away, and the villain is unwell and unable to travel far, so he missed the opportunity to visit Dr. Zhang. I saw Doctor Zhang today, and asked Doctor Zhang to save the villain's life. ”

Although the pot-bellied man has a weak breath and speaks softly, he speaks very smoothly and methodically, and is obviously not an ordinary poor person.

As he spoke, the pot-bellied man was about to kneel and kowtow, Zhang Zhongjing lifted his wrist, didn't let him kneel, and said, "Don't thank me first, your disease is very strict, and I may not be cured." What is your name? You start by telling us about your age, when you started the disease, and what your symptoms are. "Traditional Chinese medicine generally needs to look, smell, ask, and cut, and combine diagnosis with each other.

At that moment just now, Zhang Zhongjing had already completed the steps of looking, smelling, and cutting, and now he was missing a consultation.

"The villain Zhang Yongwang, 32 years old this year, originally had some land at home, and he farmed and studied before he got sick, and he lived a good life. However, after getting this disease, the villain has gone bankrupt in order to cure the disease, but it has not been cured for a long time.

The villain started three years ago, at the beginning of just some cough, fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea, thinking that the outside of the wind and cold, to the pharmacy to grab some anti-surface heat dissipation medicine to eat, but not good, oh, by the way, and the skin itching is unbearable, how to scratch can not stop the itching, often scratch the skin blood.

Later, it was found that there was a lump under the flank, and the person became thinner and thinner, and the belly became bigger and bigger, and the person often felt very tired, and he gasped for breath after walking less than two steps, and he had to stop and rest before he could continue walking.

The villain scattered all his wealth and asked for famous doctors in the city, but no one could cure him. Doctor Ping of the Rejuvenation Hall said that I was hit by a Gu worm, and my stomach was swollen with Gu, so he asked me to look for the person who was under the Gu, saying that only the person who was under the Gu could solve the Gu.

But the villain has never offended anyone, and he doesn't know any Gu people, so where can I find the Gu people. As he spoke, the pot-bellied man's tears fell.

Zhang Zhongjing finally stopped his pulse, asked him a few more questions, and then let him lie on the ground, knocked and pressed on his stomach a few times, and opened his eyelids to check it.

When Liu Hou heard him talk about Gu worm disease, he couldn't help but feel shocked, could this be...... Schistosomiasis?

I only heard Zhang Zhongjing say: "The belly is as big as a basket, and there is a sound of water when you knock it, when it is stagnant water and full, this is water swelling."

However, swelling can also be caused by uncontrolled diet, damage to the spleen and stomach, abnormal spleen deficiency, and dampness accumulation in the coke choke;

It can also be that the emotions are injured, and the qi is lost in the strip, resulting in stagnation of liver qi, and for a long time, qi stagnation and blood stasis, transverse and offending the spleen and stomach, resulting in abnormal luck and dampness;

It can also be the accumulation of jaundice, the disease is prolonged, the liver, spleen and kidney are dysfunctional, the flow of qi and blood is not smooth, the water does not become wet, and it accumulates into water. Is there anyone else near you who has the same condition as you? ”

Liu Hou rolled his eyes when he heard this, although he had also read several medical books by Zhang Zhongjing, but this dialectic was too professional, and he still sounded very difficult.

"Yes, yes, yes, there are many people in the same village as the villain, and there are countless people in the nearby villages who have big bellies like villains." The pot-bellied man Zhang Yongwang replied busily. Zhang Zhongjing naturally didn't believe that someone deliberately put the Gu worms, and he asked this question to determine whether this disease was an infectious disease.

Zhang Zhongjing took off his gloves, handed them to an apprentice who came with him, instructed him to soak them in special alcohol and disinfect them, and then said, "In this way, this is indeed Gu worm disease. This disease can be contagious, and it is a kind of epidemic disease, so many people in the four towns and eight miles have been infected. ”

When Liu Hou heard this, he had already determined that this was the famous schistosomiasis. The first time he heard about schistosomiasis was when he watched a show about Mawangdui. In the program, it was said that schistosomiasis was detected in the corpse of the Mawangdui woman, and there were melon seeds in the stomach.

It is very likely that this female corpse ate melon seeds to treat parasitic diseases in her body before she died. Out of curiosity, later, Liu Hou also checked some schistosomiasis information, and only then did he know that even in later generations, schistosomiasis was still prevalent in the Yangtze River Basin. Before liberation, there were tens of millions of schistosomiasis patients, not to mention ancient times.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, once the Gu worm disease is epidemic, a large number of people will inevitably fall ill and die, resulting in a sparsely populated epidemic area, ten rooms and nine empty rooms, and a barren countryside. The old man was too punctual in Changsha, and he also encountered outbreaks of Gu worm plague many times.

At that time, the people could be said to be dead and wounded, and the rest of the people who did not die also fled from the epidemic area, and there was a poem that said that the scene of the epidemic of the Gu worm plague was 'green waters and green mountains in vain, Hua Tuo was helpless and the little insects were he, thousands of villages and Xuli people left arrows, and thousands of households sang '1,

The old man implored His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to let me lead some doctors to treat these sick people and extinguish the epidemic. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Zhongjing couldn't help but burst into tears. The horror caused by schistosomiasis is truly shocking, and the damage caused to people's lives, health and property is no worse than a major war. Zhang Zhongjing, who has the heart of a bodhisattva, knew that there was an epidemic of Gu worm disease here, so he naturally burst into tears.

Note 1: The poem is copied by Zhang Zhongjing from Chairman Mao's "Sending the Plague God".