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Chapter 912 Smallpox and Vaccination
Li Jinde and the others came to the square in front of the Kyushu Library, and they really felt how magnificent this library is located in the center of the Academy of Sciences.

The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest in the Temple of Heaven is already a magnificent building, but it is still a little worse than what cement can achieve. This building occupies a wider area and is more majestic.

"This building seems to be a seamless one. How did it work?" Selina stood under the Kyushu Library and was amazed at the towering giant building.

"I don't know." The guide who led the way said that he was just a resident living nearby, and he couldn't understand what the cement used was, and it was just a stone.Without cement, it would be impossible to make such a building in such a short time.

"It's incomprehensible..." Sarina became more and more interested in the hidden technology in the East.

In addition to the street lights and trains seen on the surface, it is estimated that Huaxia hides more complicated technology behind it.

"Please show your IDs." Soldiers were stationed at the gate of the Kyushu Library, and these soldiers stopped those who wanted to enter the Kyushu Library.

"What certificate?" Li Jinde asked.

"Of course it is a student certificate of the Academy of Sciences. Only students are allowed to enter the Kyushu Library." The soldier standing guard said.

Li Jinde saw that the Academy of Sciences strictly guarded the entrance and exit of the Kyushu Library and did not allow outsiders to enter, so he had no choice but to ask the British sailors to convey his meaning.

"How could this happen? It's really disappointing." Princess Sophia pouted when she learned that outsiders could not enter the Kyushu Library.

Selina felt a little regretful.

"There is no other way, we have to look elsewhere." Li Jinde knew that some parts of the Academy of Sciences were related to top secrets and technology, and it was impossible for ordinary people to touch them.

For example, the level of confidentiality of factories and research institutes is higher than that of the Kyushu Library.As a place where most of the technical materials and classics opened so far are stored, the Kyushu Library is so precious that it is unimaginable.

Just when Li Jinde and others were about to leave, two women in white coats came out of the door with thick books in their arms.

"I heard that a virus called smallpox is raging in the west, and tens of thousands of people have died because of this virus. If our "vaccination technique" in the Central Plains can spread to the west, maybe we can save millions Human life." One of the beautiful women said.

"We medical students have nothing to do with the affairs of the Western side," another woman said.

"If it can save people's lives, I think we should have a way to promote vaccination. In the past, our predecessors inoculated a small amount of pox fluid from mild smallpox patients to normal people through the nose, so that the inoculated people only had mild smallpox. , but have immunity to smallpox." Said a woman in front.

"Our medical predecessors in Huaxia are naturally powerful, but planting 'human pox' is also risky. One or two out of a hundred people will die because they cannot resist the patient's pox fluid." Another woman said.

"I think even so...the Western side is far inferior to our method of planting 'human pox' in the prevention and treatment of smallpox virus. The method invented by our Chinese predecessors can save many lives there. And it is said Professor Zhan Na from our School of Medicine proposed a method of inoculating people with vaccinia pox fluid. The fatality rate of the inoculated people is only one in hundreds of thousands, which may be safer than our inoculation of 'human pox'. Our side of Huaxia There are still some places suffering from smallpox, and if a vaccine can be produced, it will be a good thing for us," said the woman before.

"Xiao Xiu'er, are you going to suggest the production of 'smallpox vaccine' to the military leader?" another woman asked.

"I do have that intention, but I don't want to alarm the military leader just because of this matter of mine." The woman before was none other than Xiao Xiu'er.

In history, smallpox has killed more than 5 million people successively, and a large number of people in Europe and America died because of it, even some princes and nobles were not spared.

China also suffered from the scourge of smallpox before the invention of the "human pox" prevention technique.Later, after the invention of "vaccination", the mortality rate dropped greatly.Even so, "vaccination" itself is dangerous, and secondly, universal vaccination has not been achieved, and smallpox still became an extremely terrible virus in ancient times.By 1950, 7765 people had died from smallpox.After universal vaccination was implemented across the country, it was not until 10, 1960 years later, that the smallpox virus in China completely disappeared.

Xiao Xiu'er noticed the horror of this virus, and originally wanted to suggest to Chu Yun that people should be vaccinated against "human pox".However, the fatality rate of "human pox" is not low. If 10 million people are vaccinated and tens of thousands of people die at one time, Xiao Xiu'er really cannot escape the blame.

However, among the doctors Chu Yun summoned was Edward Jenner, who invented the "Vaccinia Plantation Method". The new vaccination method at the end of the 18th century reduced the mortality rate to only one in hundreds of thousands, and a population of [-] million may be several hundred. Deaths... Far fewer people die from smallpox in one year.

Moreover, the smallpox vaccination can completely exterminate the smallpox virus, leaving humans with one less natural enemy.

It's just not so easy to vaccinate everyone.

"You are thinking of a very good thing, I think, the military master will definitely approve your request. Isn't Professor Zhan Na hired by the military master to come to the Academy of Sciences? You can go to propose to him first, and then request as the medical department Your lord is promoting universal vaccination," said another woman.

"Let me try." Xiao Xiu'er thought for a while, if she could spread cowpox universally and save many people, even disturbing the military leader should be acceptable.

Xiao Xiu'er and her companions walked out of the Kyushu Library, and found Li Jinde and the others who were about to leave at the door.

"Looking at their attire, they seem to be envoys from a mission from the West." Xiao Xiu'er's companion said.

"It doesn't seem like they are..." Xiao Xiu'er had seen Princess Sophia and Sarina in Buzhuang before, so she naturally remembered them clearly.

"You know them? Want to go over and say hello?"

"Why don't you go back first, I'll see what they are doing here."

Xiao Xiuer knew that Ella was more concerned about the arrival of Princess Sofia, so she wanted to go over and see what Princess Sofia wanted to do when she came to the Academy of Sciences. Of course, she didn't know that Chu Yun had settled this matter.

"It's you? The doctor who appeared that day? No, you also appeared in Buzhuang!" Selina also found Xiao Xiu'er, and immediately recognized Xiao Xiu'er who had helped her set bones.

(End of this chapter)