Chapter 178: Good Medicine
When the village chief Chai saw Lizheng, tears flowed from his eyes.
The situation in their village is even worse than in the back village, where nearly ten people have died. Farmers, when they are sick, they usually carry it first, and they can't bear it, so they will think of getting medicine to eat. When they couldn't bear it, they found that a large number of people in the village were sick.
It's just a fever, but a lot of people have a rash and a little common sense knows that it's smallpox, and the village is in chaos. At this time, some relatives in the back village heard about Ye Yu taking medicinal materials to the village, and the head of Chai Village hurriedly wanted to go to Lizheng to ask for a little, but he didn't expect to hear that people came to the county seat and chased after him.
"Brother Chai, let's talk about this matter when we go back, let's see the attitude of the government first."
With such a serious illness, the government will not ignore it. After all, there are still so many people in the county, and if they don't cure the outside, if the county is also infected, the officials will not have a good life.
The order from above came down quickly, and fifty officials escorted a few packages of strict doctors out of the county seat, and they went back to check on the condition of the village. After determining that it is smallpox, the next step of prevention and control will be carried out.
Seeing the doctors in the team, Li Zheng and Chai Village Chief were relieved. In any case, there is hope when you see the doctor.
As long as the county official is not a corrupt official who is afraid of things, the people below will have a way to live.
The group hurried to Whitewater Bay. Along the way, officials will go to each village separately to notify the village chief and count the number of feverish people, and then send the news back to the county seat.
At the end of the day, the situation was not optimistic. After the officials summed it up, there were 16 villages along the way that there were people suspected of suffering from smallpox. The front and back villages are not the most serious, the most serious is a small village at the foot of a mountain. They are a little further from the sea, and most of the villagers make a living by hunting in the mountains. The two who collected the ducks went to that village first.
Not only did the two of them buy and sell ducks, but they also collected more or less other living creatures, and they passed through many villages along the way.
When the officials found them, the two were in the yard to cage the chickens and ducks, planning to go to the county town tomorrow to sell all the goods.
Strange to say, judging from the route of smallpox infection, the disease was brought by them, but these two people did not appear to be infected at all.
"Qian Shan and Qian Hai, have you ever suffered from smallpox?"
The two brothers were stunned, and honestly replied that they had indeed suffered from smallpox. It is also because smallpox's family is almost dead, and life has improved in recent years after fleeing all the way to this side.
No wonder, people who have had smallpox are no longer infected. The officials directly arrested them to be strong men and gave them a hand to the doctors.
In the most serious village, I heard that the first person who fell ill was a hunter, and he died of high fever in a few days. The people in the village didn't care at first, but after helping the orphans and widows to organize the funeral together, many people in the village began to have fever and rashes within a few days.
The population of the small village is not large, and a single illness affects most of the village. The old village chief drove the people who were not sick to the mountain and did not allow them to come down, and he and the villagers guarded the village and waited for death.
He knew how contagious this disease was, and he also knew that there was no cure for this disease at all, so he had to boil it himself. So I didn't let people go out of the village to find a doctor, for fear of spreading smallpox.
Who knew that the Qian brothers had already brought the virus out.
The source of infection was found, and the Qian brothers also asked about their routes these days. The patients were also sent out in each village to be isolated and treated together, and everything was in order. It's just that smallpox is too bad, and if the high fever does not go away, the condition will deteriorate sharply overnight, and the effect of the medicine will not be saved at all.
A dozen people died one day, a few more on the second day, and on the third day......
On the third day, Ye Yu came to the village.
She was well protected from smallpox. Originally, she shouldn't have left the island, but she had nearly one million earned from the villagers in her hand, and she could buy a lot of medicines at Sister Sang's side. If she were told to watch the villagers struggle with the smallpox virus, she wouldn't be able to do it. So after the first batch of medicines was rushed to the islanders, she asked Sister Sang to buy more medicines.
The most useful are antipyretics and topical ointments. These medicines are not easy to buy in large quantities, so Sang Qi spent some time, and then bought Ye Yu and had to process them for a second time. The antipyretic medicine was ground into powder, and the ointment was squeezed into a large jar, so it was delayed until the third day before coming to the village.
The small fishing village that used to be lively and lively is now quiet and panicked, Ye Yu took the powder and ointment to Lizheng, and returned to Baoshan Island after saying the dosage for children and adults.
Li Zheng immediately asked people to give antipyretic powder to a few people in the village who had a high fever that did not go away, and the ointment was also dug up by one person and slowly rubbed it by himself.
The ointment smelled so great that it wafted through the whole straw hut. The doctor who came to check on the condition was very unhappy when he saw that they were using drugs without authorization, and he reprimanded Li Zheng.
Li Zheng didn't take it seriously, it was right that these doctors came to treat them, but the antipyretic soup they prescribed was not effective. Some even drank it as if they didn't drink it, and they still had a high fever. Ye Yu's girl's master is very capable, and the medicine brought from Baoshan Island always has to be tried. If it is better than these doctors' medicine, the people in the village will be saved.
The head of Chai Village was very envious, and one more medicine would give him more hope, so he cheekily asked Li Zheng to ask for some for the seriously ill.
An hour later, the villagers who were taking care of the sick were pleasantly surprised: "Lizheng! Uncle Tian seems to have lost his fever! ”
Several people came to report the good news one after another, all of them who had drunk the fever-reducing powder sent by Ye Yu before.
Smallpox is ferocious, but there is a good chance of recovery if you survive the high fever. The people of Baishuiwan suddenly lifted their spirits and looked at the two jars in Li Zheng's hand.
"Lizheng, why don't you give me two spoonfuls?"
"Lizheng, I want to eat three spoonfuls!"
Lizheng: "......"
The two cans of medicine became everyone's hope for life, and more and more people came to ask for medicine, so that few people went to get the soup that the doctors boiled at noon.
"What's going on? So few people come to receive the decoction today? ”
"I heard that the village has the kind of medicine that can quickly reduce fever, and there is also a cool ointment that can relieve itching by rubbing it. A lot of people went to get medicine there. ”
When several doctors heard this, their brows furrowed.
"When did the village get a doctor?"
I've never heard of a doctor in the back village before.
"I don't know about this little one, but I heard that someone came to deliver medicine before."
The doctors looked at each other and walked towards the site where the patients lived in Whitewater Bay. They wanted to see what the magic medicine was.
Li Zheng obediently took out the powder and ointment for the doctors to see.
"Slightly bitter ......"
A doctor tasted it, and it took a long time to say these two words. The other two doctors looked at him strangely, and also dipped a little medicine powder to taste.
As a result, a stick of incense passed, and they didn't taste any medicinal ingredients except for the slight bitterness.
It's a shame for the healer! What kind of powder is this?!
The three doctors went crazy.
(End of chapter)