Chapter 46: Biochemical Warfare

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou emphasized the role of toilets and septic tanks in epidemic prevention to Zhang Zhongjing, and Zhang Zhongjing gladly accepted.

Then, Liu Hou continued to explain other preventive measures: "Doctor Zhang, before I tell you about other preventive measures, I would like to briefly tell you about the life history of this plague insect: this schistosomium parasitizes the blood of the human body, and its eggs are excreted from feces or urine.

Its larvae must develop inside the snail. If the feces and urine pollute rivers and lakes that happen to have snails, the larvae can mature and become mature organisms that can infect the human body.

At this time, as long as a person comes into contact with the water body of these snails, the mature larvae can enter the human body through the guò skin or mouth, making the person a new infected. These insects are so powerful that they can even climb into the dew of the grass on the shore, and some people can get infected even if they come into contact with this dew.

Now that you know the way of infection, you know how to prevent schistosomiasis infection in humans, right? ”

"This ......" At this time, Zhang Zhongjing felt a headache, Liu Hou's words he couldn't digest for a while, and what he said was too unbelievable. What worm needs to be developed and matured with the help of a specific snail, as long as it comes into contact with water, it is simply unheard of, and even the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is not so absurd.

Liu Hou frowned and was silent when he saw him, so he said, "You don't need to doubt the truth of this matter. This is all the result of the research of Master Zuo and the immortal masters of the past dynasties with great magical powers, and it is absolutely impossible to be wrong.

You have to study their research methods well. This is definitely a matter of benefiting the country and the people, benefiting the common people, and saving the people from fire and water. Think about it, as long as we grasp the living habits of these insects, we can take targeted measures to prevent them from infecting people, and the people will no longer be harmed by these plagues, and there will be one less plague in the world.

We can know from the life history of schistosoma mentioned above that its transmission can be blocked from several links, one of which, as I just said, strengthen the management of feces, because the eggs are excreted from the feces, as long as the feces do not pollute the water body, but are treated through the septic tank, then the eggs have no chance to hatch. Know that septic tanks can kill insect eggs. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Zhongjing nodded secretly, the toilet and septic tank plan had been discussed just now, and he had no objection to this.

"Second, since the eggs have to develop in the snail's body, we can destroy the snail. As long as there is no snail, then the disease cannot be transmitted. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Zhongjing's face turned green, and he snorted: "This, how is this possible, there are hundreds of millions of snails in rivers and lakes, and they are hidden in the silt at the bottom of the river. ”

"Hehe, immortals may not be able to do it, but mortals may be able to do it. Some poisons can kill snails, as long as the medicine is thrown into the rivers and lakes, how many snails will be poisoned. There is also a way, any small lake where snails are found, you can fill it with earth, and whatever is in it will die.

Of course, this can only be done for the very small Hubo, and a giant like Dongting Lake is no different from Jingwei reclamation. ”

Liu Hou tried to recall some promotional videos about schistosomiasis that he had watched before, "Of course, there is another way to eliminate snails, which is to hide." Can't you hide if you can't afford to provoke it? As soon as snails are found in that body of water, people are discouraged from touching these bodies.

So the first thing you do when you go back is hire some people, preferably people who are already sick, and let them go into the water to touch the snails.

Investigate all kinds of water bodies such as rivers, lakes, streams, springs, etc., and all the places where there are snails are called plagued water, and you should mark them on the map, and at the same time, erect warning signs next to the water bodies to warn the people not to touch these waters.

They also sent people to the vicinity of these bodies of water to propagate and persuade the people, telling them that there was a plague god lurking in these waters, and to keep them away from these bodies of water.

As long as no one touches the water, there will be no new cases, and the epidemic can be quickly extinguished.

All that's left is to get all the patients in one place, and it's up to you and your research team to figure out how to treat the disease. At that time, you can study as much as you like, and I will definitely support you with my full support. ”

After Liu Hou finished speaking, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, there was only so much knowledge about schistosomiasis that he could remember, and he couldn't help with other things, whether he could put out the epidemic in the future depended on Zhang Zhongjing and his team of doctors.

Zhang Zhongjing frowned when he heard this, and he fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he said: "This place has always been the land of fish and rice, as the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft water, many people rely on fishing, planting lotus seeds, lotus roots for a living, if they are allowed to leave the rivers and lakes on which they depend, it will definitely affect their livelihoods." This measure is easy to say, but it may be difficult to implement. ”

Liu Houdao: "Confused, my life is lost, is it useful to make that little money?" Let me tell you, you must do this well, if this matter is not done well, the epidemic will not be extinguished. Well, then, for these people who rely on water for food, ask the government to set up new settlements for them, and allocate more land to them as compensation.

Anyway, now that the war is raging, a lot of fields have been abandoned and ownerless, and it is time to make use of them. When we were in Lingnan, we re-established villages and farmland for some of the people who had been affected by the floods, and our officials were very experienced in this area. I'll just let them do it with you. ”

"In this way, I thank the prince on behalf of the people, with your words, the livelihood of the people will be settled. It is a blessing for the people to have a prince like you. Zhang Zhongjing arched his hand.

Liu Hou felt strange, this Zhang Zhongjing has never been a person who can pat himself on the back, why did he shoot his ass today? In fact, Zhang Zhongjing is not a sycophant at all, but just talking from his heart.

"Oh, why is this territory of Dongwu so poor, and there are such powerful plague insects. It's still good for us there, our Ugo country has beautiful mountains and rivers, pleasant scenery, and the water and soil are the most nourishing people, and the boys born are strong and heroic, and the daughters are pretty and fair-skinned. ”

At this moment, the vulture suddenly interjected, but the topic was much more relaxed, and the solemn atmosphere just now was diluted a lot.

"Haha......" Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard the words of the vulture bones, just the environment in the mountains of Ugo Country, as soon as you go out, it is a primeval forest, and the miasma and poisonous insects are unknown, and he is embarrassed to say that there are poor mountains and bad water elsewhere, and he is embarrassed to say that there are beauties in them when he grows into the kind of face full of flesh like a demon.

"Hehe......" The vulture saw everyone laughing, and laughed along, he didn't think everyone was making fun of him.

"Really, we have a lot of beauties there, Your Royal Highness the Prince, do you like beauties? Or another day, I will ask the clan to choose a few beauties for you and send them over, so that you are satisfied. Or I want my sister-in-law to get it, my sister-in-law is the first beauty in the clan, she can be called pretty, how about I want to be a side concubine for you? ”

This vulture bone, whose thinking is jumping enough, is talking and making a matchmaker for his sister. Liu Hou looked at his face that could stop children crying at night, and shuddered in his heart, if his sister looked one percent similar to him, would he be scared awake when he slept at night?

"Thank you for your kindness, but this palace is still young, so it is not appropriate to talk about marriage too early. Besides, how can the world become a family, if you want a beauty, at least wait for the world to be peaceful. ”

"Humph!" The vulture bone was going to continue to sell his sister, but he couldn't help but hear a cold snort, and when he looked up, he saw Zhang Xingcai glaring at him fiercely. He immediately retracted his head and retracted the words that came to his mouth.

Yes, looking for a woman for her man in front of someone else's wife, isn't this looking for death? Although the vulture bone is a little muddy, there is still some common sense, and he immediately smirked twice and changed the topic:

"Hehe, hehe, this insect is so powerful, a large number of Dongwu people died, no wonder the Dongwu army was so unbeatable. Why did Doctor Zhang bother to help them treat their diseases, just let this epidemic spread out, so that the people of Eastern Wu would soon die, and Sun Quan would not be able to recruit troops to fight, so we could not easily occupy the territory of Eastern Wu. ”

"Haha......" Everyone laughed again, thinking to themselves, this reckless man is really whimsical, and he can't figure it out. But there was one person who didn't laugh when he heard this, and that was our pig's foot Liu Hou, who had a flash of inspiration in his head, as if he thought of something.

Zhang Zhongjing didn't care that the banquet was not over yet, he didn't want to stay for a moment, the epidemic was the military situation, and he couldn't wait to fly to the epidemic area immediately with his wings on his back to treat patients. He hurriedly went downstairs and first prescribed a side medicine to the pot-bellied man Zhang Yongwang, and instructed him to go to the people's hospital regularly for follow-up, and he decided to open a branch of the people's hospital in Baling.

The prescriptions he prescribed were: six coins of green skin, six coins of Chuanpu, six coins of Banxia, four coins of apples, one tael of Poria cocos, six coins of Bupleurum chinensis, one tael of Yin Chen, six taels of skullcap, two taels of talc (including decoction), four coins of licorice, two taels of coix seeds, six taels of Shengshan Gardenia, one tael of betel nut, two taels of Sophora sophora, two taels of lobelia, and two taels of pumpkin seeds.

The effect is to clear away heat and dampness, and kill insects, as for whether it is effective, only God knows. After prescribing the medicine, he hurried to the Shu army camp, allocated manpower and materials, and began to devote himself to his fight against the epidemic.

The people upstairs were still giggling and drinking and having fun, as if the unhappiness caused by the pot-bellied man just now had been forgotten. Only Liu Hou stopped hip-hopping with everyone, he called Guo Youzhi aside, and the two talked in a low voice.

"Mr. Guo, I've been having a headache After sending troops to Chengdu in the future, what should I do if Dongwu and Wei took the opportunity to copy my back road.

I don't think the method he said is whimsical, if we use this plague worm to create some chaos for the two countries while sending troops, then they will have no time to take care of us, and we can send troops to recover Chengdu with peace of mind. Liu Houdao.

When Guo Youzhi heard this, his brows tightened, and he thought for a while before saying: "This kind of plague insect is very powerful, once it is applied, it will definitely cause huge losses to Dongwu, logically speaking, this is indeed a clever plan, it does not cost a soldier to surrender people's soldiers, small insects, and the role played is comparable to that of thousands of troops." ”

As soon as Liu Hou heard his tone, he knew that he must have something to do, and sure enough, he only heard him continue: "However, it is precisely because of its great power that it is a scourge, and it is mostly the people, so I want to persuade His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to use this trick carefully." ”