Chapter 204: The White Plague

"Whatever?"

"Just talk about it, not from the perspective of being a doctor." Kraft leaned on the armrest in a comfortable position, making the atmosphere seem casual, "It's impossible for us to revoke your degree." ”

Viren wiped a handful on the spine of the two books on the anatomy of the human body, felt the obvious thickness of the dust, and said gloomily, "No, I really can." ”

"Forget it, Lecturer Viren, I let it go back then, and others are also excellent alumni, aren't they?" After graduating for many years, he has gradually drifted away from the knowledge of books that he does not use, and now he may not be able to pass the entrance examination to the fifteenth life.

Kraft pulled Veren back into his chair, preventing him from continuing to imagine the current level of surgery for the graduating students.

"I see that you have a lot of infectious disease patients, and the number of cases you have been exposed to must be much higher than in the academy, so I believe you must have your own understanding."

David gave him a grateful look, shoved back his heart to his throat, and shrank back into his chair to think about what valuable information he could present.

This is undoubtedly a bit difficult, for the time being, internal medicine is far more conservative than surgery, but in some ways very open.

The conservatism lies in the fact that because pharmacological theories and pharmaceutical methods are basically derived from the extremely old theory of body fluids, the limited changes have been solidified into classics in long-term interpretation, and there are no tricks.

I took it out and told the two teachers who had just come by car from the medical school that it was purely a class axe, and there was a risk that their licenses would be revoked.

The openness lies in the fact that, aside from the four-liquid theory that is not in line with clinical practice many times, there are actually a vast number of "folk miracle medicines", "ancestral home remedies" and "missionary secret recipes", claiming to have miraculous effects, and even many people swear that they are effective.

Different from the surgery that will really die if you go down with a knife, for the matter of "getting something to eat and cure the disease", from the old farmers in the countryside to the doctors, they can say a few words, and the participation of the whole people and the medical care of the whole people have been realized in a real sense.

Many of the pharmacopoeias on the bookshelf are from this way, trying some drugs that I heard were useful, and I didn't expect this one at all.

Compared with the anatomy books that were seen by the former teacher and not opened, the more frightening scene was that Viren suddenly rose up and opened a certain prescription, and his eyes were dark, which was really possible to have his degree certificate revoked.

Thankfully, he was stopped.

These are things that cannot be said. David found himself unable to find anything to say for a moment, and the young professor sat patiently on the side, looking good-tempered, not at all irritated by waiting.

[Residence, job, financial situation, treatment style, interpersonal relationships]

After a long silence, thinking of what the other party had taken the initiative to mention, he searched for the impressions of those who came to the clinic to seek medication, and began his own narrative:

"Tuberculosis is a disease of the poor." David affirmed, with Vilen's "You kid better give me a face" look.

"I know that some people are so obsessed with their appearance that it is often seen in some women and their husbands, but I would say that it is a complete disease of the poor."

He observed Kraft's reaction, who nodded noncommittally and motioned for him to continue.

"I've seen a lot of patients who come to the clinic with cough and hemoptysis, most of them won't buy silver coin-denominated syrup to suppress cough, and even fewer are willing to buy honey."

"There will never be more than three out of a hundred." He curled up his thumb and index finger and stretched out three fingers, "There is no doubt that honey is the most useful medicine for cough, I would recommend it to every patient with severe cough symptoms of hemoptysis, but very few people will buy it." ”

"The majority of the residents in the new town are as I can tell from the clothes. Generally, the symptoms of hemoptysis are very obvious and the body is exhausted, so I come to the doctor and ask if there is any way to relieve the symptoms as soon as possible. ”

David spread his hands, "There's no way." ”

"At this point, it is very troublesome, the lesions in the lungs are bleeding, and you need to breathe as slowly as possible and reduce the damage to the lungs as much as possible, which is the same reason as the splint and immobilization of hand and foot injuries, which is very understandable."

"The best way is to rest in a comfortable environment, and the second best way is to suppress the cough and reduce the impact on the lungs, but they are more likely to choose herbal medicines."

"Based on my personal experience, elderflower and elderberry work well, and they also seem to have a little effect on fever, and the cough suppressant effect is far less direct than that of syrup. So I used elderberry and flower juice and added echinacea decoction. ”

"Some of them feel better and go back and continue to do what they have to do." David lifted the cloth that Timon had in front of his mouth and nose, "Most of them will come back, and most of them will bring their families, children are very common." ”

"You don't see in these people the slim waists, the flush on the white faces when they cough, you just feel the cough going from one person to another, more and more, closer and closer, and the country is better, and the more crowded the place, the more like the funeral man knocking on the door."

"In the most crowded area of the new city, if a person says that he has been coughing for more than 10 days, the first thing he thinks about is tuberculosis, and I would advise him to isolate himself."

"Have you counted how long they survive when they get sick?" Kraft took note of what he said, and there were no detailed statistics on these things, and they were basically subjective experiences, but the reflections were roughly the same as imagined.

"No, but they don't live long, and after a certain point, one day they will have a large amount of hemoptysis, choke to death by their own blood, or slowly lose their breath and suffocate to death. Sticking to physically demanding activities will push the day forward. ”

"That's pretty much what I know." David moistened his lips with a sip of water, and after finding it empty in front of the remaining few, he hurriedly got up to get the cup.

Kraft raised his hand to stop him from getting the dubious tea set, "Do you find it difficult if I wish to perform a surgical treatment here?" After all, compared to oral medication, my method will cause some damage to the body. ”

"No, why do you think that?" The pure physician was surprised and asked, "As long as there is an effective option, someone will be willing to try it, even if the probability of death is 50% or higher." ”

"If anything, it's that there aren't many people here who can afford your hands-on fare, and even the four-wheeled carriage is high enough to get here from the academy."

Experimenting with new treatments can still collect money, and this kind of thing can also appear in the era when the medical world is full of demons. "That's fine. Next, I will pilot the application of artificial pneumothorax treatment here, and only charge a small treatment operation fee, and the cost of occupying the site can be paid at the market price. ”

"Charging this kind of fee would make me feel uneasy." David didn't have to turn his head to know that Lecturer Viren was looking at him, the threat visible to the naked eye, "When are you going to start?" ”

"Let's start screening patients for treatment now, and if Dr. David is interested, he can learn how to do it." Kraft opened the box that Koop had brought all the way, and the neat packages of fumigated white cloth were lined up, containing a complete set of tools made in the Westminburg workshop.