"Ahem, Bonaparte..."

A handyman from the Doge's Palace, carrying a bag full of cloth, found Lawrence in the back kitchen of the dining room, and said breathlessly:

"You've got everything you want, just got it from the market."

Lawrence nodded, adding a handful of wood to the kitchen stove, setting up an iron pot and preheating, then took the cloth bag from the handyman and motioned for him to leave.

I saw that the cloth bag was stuffed with the roots, stems, leaves, and other small objects of various plants, and Lawrence patiently rummaged through it for a while, and found the only material he needed:

Colchicum bulbs.

To be exact, what Lawrence needed was colchicine in the bulb.

Colchicine, also known as colchicine, is an organic substance that is highly toxic, but it has been found to have an excellent analgesic effect on acute gout in later clinical medicine.

Under the current rudimentary conditions, Lawrence, who was an organically synthesized analgesic, could not count on it, and could only find a way to extract this natural organic substance from colchi.

As for the other plants in the bag, it was Lawrence who asked for it in order to confuse Pete.

In this way, Pete has no way of knowing from the raw materials how this amazing analgesic came from.

Looking around at the utensils in the kitchen, Lawrence reluctantly began to look for a suitable extraction tool.

Limited by the current environment, it is completely foolish to extract high-purity colchicine, and Lawrence has to use the simplest water extraction method.

The colchicum bulbs were cut into powder and soaked in water, Lawrence then filtered the powder with gauze, sprinkled a handful of plant ash into the solution to create an alkaline environment, and then filtered again.

The next step was to extract with an organic solvent, and Lawrence rummaged through the kitchen again, but there was no way but to scoop a spoonful of lard as an extractant.

After separating the oil and water, Lawrence finally poured the lard, which was dissolved in various organic matter, into a hot pan to evaporate.

"Ahem, finally..."

Lawrence endured the discomfort of being burned by the fumes, set the iron pan aside to cool, and then carefully pulled a lump of oily white powder from the bottom of the pan.

The high-purity colchicine should be flocculent crystals, and I don't know how many impurities are contained in this lump of powder in front of me.

But Lawrence doesn't care, after Pete drinks these things, as long as he can suppress the pain of gout, as for whether there will be other health problems in the future, it has nothing to do with Lawrence.

Knock knock!

A few anxious knocks rang out suddenly.

"Hey, Lawrence! Ahem, have you finished dispensing your medicine?! ”

I saw Governor Poly push the door impatiently and entered, and immediately choked on the smoke that filled the house, and asked with a cough covering his throat.

Lawrence nodded, carefully pouring the extracted powder into a wooden cup, and replied:

"It's no problem anymore, how is Lord Pete?"

"I had several seizures in this more than an hour, and I didn't feel any more ice in the back."

Paulie said worriedly.

"Without further ado, I'll give His Excellency Pete medicine."

Lawrence said with a solemn face, casually messing up the messy materials on the table, so that people could not see what was being used, and then left the kitchen with Paulie.

......

When Lawrence saw Pete again in his original room, he was lying in collapse on a sweat-stained sheet.

Pete's right foot has almost lost its blood color, which is caused by frostbite caused by prolonged use of ice cubes.

Even though the soles of his feet were numb from the cold, the pain of gout was still not relieved, and Pete lay on the bed with a twisted face, rolling from side to side and struggling regardless of his face.

As soon as Lawrence entered, he took out a small glass from the cupboard, then carefully poured a small layer of the mixture into the glass and handed it to Pete.

Colchicine is, after all, a highly toxic substance, and once it is excessive, the consequences are even more unimaginable.

Lawrence couldn't figure out the purity of the powders, so he had to ask Pete to take a small amount of the solution at a time, and then continue to take it after there was no abnormal reaction:

"Your Excellency Pete, please take medicine. If you have any discomfort in your abdomen, please let me know immediately. ”

The weak Pete stretched out his trembling right hand to take the glass, looked at the liquid that looked like clear water inside, and drank it without hesitation.

Lawrence crouched at the head of the bed, silently watching Pete's reaction.

The atmosphere in the room seemed to freeze, and Paulie stood in the doorway with a nervous expression, staring closely at Pete on the sickbed.

Even Captain Mosley learned that Lawrence had prepared a potion for Lord Pete, and ran into the room curiously and worriedly, frowning at the clear liquid in Lawrence's hand.

After a suffocating ten minutes, Lawrence poured a few more glasses of solution for Pete and handed it to him to drink.

And just after Pete drank the fifth cup, the situation suddenly changed.

"Hmm! Belch...! ”

I saw that Pete had just put down the glass, and his whole body paused instantly.

Then his eyes widened, he looked ahead in distraction, and couldn't help but let out two moans.

"Your Excellency Pete!"

Paulie and Captain Morris shouted in unison, and before they could finish speaking, they rushed to Pete's bed and held him up.

However, Pete slowly pushed away the two who came to help, his expression had not yet recovered from his distraction, and he muttered:

"My feet... It hardly hurts, only my stomach is still a little uncomfortable..."

"What?!"

Both Paulie and Captain Morris couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Lawrence, neither of them expected that those two small glasses of water-like things would actually solve Pete's illness for so many years?!

Even the servants in this house came over one after another when they heard the movement, and when they saw Pete, who was still struggling on the bed, he was sitting on the bed with a soothing expression at this moment, and he opened his mouth wide one after another, and he couldn't believe it.

Even some of the servants who had served Pete since childhood couldn't help but burst into tears when they saw this.

"You! Your name is Lawrence, right, young man. ”

Pete excitedly grabbed Lawrence's hand and said with a bright smile:

"What kind of potion is this, God, I can barely feel the pain anymore, what is its formula, dear Lawrence, I am willing to exchange it for a mountain of gold!"

Lawrence stood up slowly, the corners of his mouth curled secretly, and he bowed with complete apologies:

"Dear Your Excellency Pete, for the sake of your health, I am even willing to offer this formula to you for free, but..."

"Just what? Say it, young man. ”

Pete waved his hand nonchalantly and motioned for Lawrence to continue.

"It's just that the production method of this potion is extremely complicated."

Lawrence said with a look of regret:

"Even if I hand over the recipe to you, it is impossible for a beginner to prepare the potion correctly, and if something goes wrong in the formulation, the final product will become a deadly poison."

Pete's face immediately became a little disappointed when he heard this, and then he turned his head to look at the potions in the wooden cup, according to his own frequency of illness, the remaining potions would not last a few days at all.

Seeing that Pete was lost in thought, Lawrence then added side-by-side:

"Also, Lord Pete, this potion can only suppress your pain, and has no healing effect. If you want to delay the disease, you have to start with every detail of your lifestyle habits. ”

The implication in this statement is already obvious: if you want to cure the disease, you must change your habits in all aspects, and as for how to change it, Pete can only know by getting Lawrence by his side.

Pete jerked his head up and asked:

"You're very knowledgeable about this disease?"

"Of course." Lawrence replied confidently with a smile.

"That's right..."

Pete let out a long breath, looked at his already somewhat deformed toes, then turned his gaze to Paulie, and said in a deep voice:

"Paulie, this young man is your subordinate, my old bones seem to need to be conditioned, you see...?"

Although the words were asking for Pauly's opinion, there was no trace of room in Pete's tone for Paulie to refuse.

"Hehe, of course it's fine, Your Excellency Pete."

Paulie gritted his teeth secretly and glanced at Lawrence, but still squeezed out a polite smile on the surface, and nodded again and again.