It's not that hard to open a hospital in another world, right?

Chapter 153 Give him pure oxygen?

How can we eliminate the risk of infectious diseases?

Gretel spread out a pen and paper in front of his desk.The Magic Council gave them good treatment, and a dormitory was vacated at the Bridge College at the foot of the headquarters mountain to house them as advanced students.Even if Gretel came late, he was allocated a separate single room with a bathroom, a bed, a bookcase, a wardrobe, and all kinds of furniture.

Although it was half the size of the suite provided in the magic tower, it was enough for Gretel.

Gretel was able to start writing his dissertation in peace.On the white paper, the quill pen draws the handwriting line by line. Although it is not as easy to use as a ballpoint pen, it can barely make do in this era.After the stage of copying books on poor-quality thick paper, Gretel expressed satisfaction with the current writing conditions:

"On the Possibility and Preventive Measures of Diseases Caused by Close Contact with Bats"

Key words: bat; disease; infection; virus host

Gretel's pen tip stopped.Bats carry more than 4100 viruses, which makes them the source of many diseases, with outbreaks from time to time; however, trying to prove this without a high-powered microscope...

Ugh, that's a serious challenge.

Gretel put down the quill, rested his chin with his right hand, and unconsciously scratched his mandible with his thumb.God knows that he is in the direction of clinical medicine, not research.Even for those researchers, you let them do research when they have nothing to do and bats can't afford it?

Ten out of ten will be furious.

Gretel put down his pen and looked around.

There are quite a lot of tools around him, such as alcohol lamp, flask, crucible, test tube... A complete set of simple alchemy equipment lies safely.Two bottles of high-concentration alcohol squatted beside him, with a peaceful and harmless expression.

The microscope is in the box next to it, and I haven't had time to take it out yet.The surgical instruments were in another box, tightly wrapped, unpacked, and not sterilized...

When he was on the battlefield before, he packed half of the hospital with the momentum of moving.Fortunately, otherwise, would the airship of the Magic Council go around and take him to pick up his luggage? Gretel was full of confidence—certainly not.

However, these alchemy equipment certainly cannot help him complete the experiment.Gretel made up his mind about the p4 laboratory he had seen in the news, and then looked at the alchemy equipment in front of him, which could not even match the chemistry laboratory of a middle school, and silently crossed his mind.

Gretel started rummaging through another small box.Mana pearl, useless; [cold and heat resistance] ring, useless; [corpse explosion] ring, useless; Mu Xin, useless...

Confirmed, all the magic equipment currently owned can't help at all.

Gretel turned out the teacher's letter expressionlessly.After thinking about it, he took out his thesis on bacteria and dysentery, made a copy with magic, stuffed it into his pocket, and walked out of the academy quickly.

"Bernard... Bernard!"

The single room in the college was only big enough for Gretel to live alone.Of course, it’s not impossible for a barbarian to make a bed on the floor, but Gretel didn’t want him to live in a slump, and he didn’t want to squeeze a two-meter-tall giant into the limited space.

Therefore, the savage was temporarily placed in the hotel, and Gretel planned to go out for a walk when he was free after class and find a house to rent.But now...

"Bernard, accompany me to Oak Ridge, let's go to the teacher's friend for help!"

At the foot of Oak Ridge, Elder Wood of the God of Nature Church was struggling.In the past few days, he has treated several adventurers one after another, with fever, headache, muscle pain, and vomiting——

It doesn’t seem like a big deal at first glance. It’s normal for a few people to fall ill after going to the mountains, catching a cold or eating a bad stomach.But if you ask carefully, they have all gone into the mountains to catch bats in the near future or within a month!
"Don't mess with the bat."

This is an ancient motto of the sect, which has been passed down for a long time, and it is unclear why.

This thing comes out at night, it looks ugly, and it doesn't taste good, so there really aren't many people left to catch it.

But in recent months, the Magic Council has set off a trend of catching bats...

And now a patient sent to him, after having a fever and a sore throat, is now out of breath!

"What? There are guests? From Newster County?" Elder Wood waved to the students impatiently. "Arrange a place for him to stay temporarily, and then talk to him after I cure this patient!"

"But……"

But the house of the Church of the God of Nature is just like that.Gretel handed over Elwin's letter on his front foot, but his back foot was already drawn in, and he stood far away.When Elder Wood was treating patients, he stretched his neck beside him:
The patient's breathing was obviously faster than ordinary people, the wings of the nose fluttered rapidly, and the lips were cyanotic.Gretel silently counted at the side, even if the breathing rate didn't reach 30 breaths/minute—without a watch, he wasn't sure—at least it could reach 27~28 breaths/minute!

Is this... enough for respiratory distress?

Elder Wood raised his oak staff and murmured a prayer.A light rain fell, and the patient seemed to be getting better, trying to cough up a pile of thick phlegm.However, it didn't take long for the healing technique to stop, and soon he looked out of breath again.

interesting.What is the principle of this therapy?Improve the ability of alveoli to exchange oxygen?Or directly increase blood oxygen saturation?

Gretel quickly opened his mind.Seeing that the elder's second healing technique had failed, he could only maintain it but not improve it, so he took a step forward:
"This patient has lung problems! He needs to be given oxygen!"

"Suck... what?"

Beside Elder Wood, a level 5 priest and an apprentice looked sideways at the same time.Gretel took out a small tube of oxygen from his pocket and held it in front of his face:
"A part of the air is the gas needed for human breathing, and it is also the gas necessary for the flame to burn! The vitality of people and the vitality of the flame are all maintained by it! If there is too much of this gas, the power of the flame will be reduced. Multiplied—you see!"

He took out a twig, lit it, and flung it until only sparks remained.Lifting the test tube upside down, the barbarian pulled out a dagger, and slashed off the mouth of the tube, Gretel quickly inserted the branch into the test tube——

The blazing flame that erupted at that moment simultaneously illuminated the eyes of the three priests.

"Fire is like this, and so are people! This patient is almost out of breath. Breathing ordinary air is not enough for him, so he needs to inhale this pure gas!"

Is that right?

The servants of the God of Nature are skeptical.The room was silent for a while, except for the patient's rapid panting and a sound like a bellows.Elder Wood suddenly stretched out his hand:

"Son, show me this tube in your hand."

Gretel hurriedly touched a new test tube and handed it over.Elder Wood held the smooth test tube wall, looked left, right, up, and down, but couldn't see why.Finally had to ask Gretel:
"Son, the gas in this tube is what you said, 'pure, and can maintain the vitality of the human body'?"

"Yes!"

"Is it useful to let the patient inhale it?"

"It works, but very little! It takes a lot of this gas to do it... It's better to have a mask over it, let the patient breathe directly, or use a tube directly into the lungs..."

Ventilator!Oxygen pipeline!How about an oxygen tank?What's the use of such a small test tube...

Elder Wood frowned in thought.Holding a small test tube in his left hand, he suddenly raised his right hand and pointed the tip of the oak stick at the patient:

"Then give it a try..."

The green leaves on the staff swayed gently, and a translucent air bubble was formed out of thin air, surrounding the patient's head. It was the air bubble technique that Gretel had learned. Level 1 mages and level 1 priests can use it, and the senior priest in front of him is naturally more familiar with it.

"I pray: the same gas in this glass tube, the gas that maintains the vitality of the human body, fills the air bubbles, so that the patient can inhale effortlessly..."

Gretel was dumbfounded.Without potassium permanganate heating, without high-pressure separation, directly gather pure oxygen with magic?

Boss, are you sure what you gathered is really pure oxygen?Not adulterated with anything else?Not doped with some carbon monoxide or something?

What is the rationale for this?
In any case, this strange magic did work.Bubble technique—or in the air bubbles used as an oxygen mask, the patient's complexion gradually stabilized, and the cyanosis of the lips began to subside.Oxygen inhalation or something really worked!

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