The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 53 Cowpox
There is no effective treatment for smallpox, and various medical books focus on prevention, and modern smallpox has long since been eradicated.In the 70s, the world was vaccinated, and in the 80s, the WHO announced the eradication of smallpox.

Among all the preventive measures, vaccination is the best, and it can be divided into types such as human pox and vaccinia, among which the toxicity of vaccinia is relatively weak.

This is an effective measure to induce the body to produce automatic immunity to prevent smallpox by utilizing the common cross-reactive antigen of vaccinia virus and smallpox virus.

Cuihua and Heiwa searched dozens of medical books for research on the cultivation and extraction of vaccinia, the people to be inoculated and the methods of inoculation, and finally formed a thin volume.

In order to find out the source of the book, Hei Wa in Ningdi came up with the idea of ​​importing it.

After ascertaining how many missionaries there were in Lingnan, only two junior high school educated people waited for several nights and rummaged through the Chinese and English dictionaries before they tossed out a copy of "Smallpox Prevention".

He also made a special trip to find a missionary to translate it into Daxia characters in a hypocritical manner.

Just as the couple was tossing and turning Chinese and English, the Tatars in the north launched a fierce attack on Daxia.In less than ten days, the border was torn open several times. The Xu family army was the first to bear the brunt and suffered heavy losses. Xu Zongbing was seriously injured and died in the battle.

The front collapsed for a while, thanks to the imperial court's reinforcements rushing in, the defense was almost successful.At this time, smallpox was no longer considered, and the Daxia army either defended desperately, or defended against the enemy head-on.

The number of infected people is doubling every day. Except for a few people who treat the nobles in the palace, all of them have arrived in the northern border.

In addition to isolation, cooling the feverish soldiers can only be done hard.But the number of infected people has exceeded half of the total, and the isolation environment is useless.

When news of General Xu's death from serious injuries spread to the capital, the Empress Dowager fainted, and Xu Shangshu turned gray overnight.

It was at this moment that the King of Shu received Heiwa's courier. He read and read the "Smallpox Prevention" in Europa and the translation in Daxia for two hours, and finally consulted with the staff.

On the second day, the Prince of Shu's Mansion sent hundreds of servants to the various villages in Shu to find the cowpox.He just had an intuition that the method of vaccinia mentioned in this book should be able to solve the root of smallpox.

And Mr. Yuan Qian, who found such a treasure for him, repeatedly mentioned in his letter: This is what he got inadvertently from the imported goods store in Ningdi, and he did not invent this method. Please don't mention him in this move. .

Very simple words: It's not that the subordinates are not greedy for fame and fame, but that they are ashamed of the author of this book, and the subordinates are just a porter of this book.

On the road of fighting for the emperor, people who have become more and more cold-blooded, their eyes are red when they read this letter.Forget it, you don't have to worry about debts, you are the one who is worth a thousand dollars, and there is a lot of room for rewards.

After paying the errand, Cuihua's stay in Ningjiang Mansion ended.Set sail again, this time Mr. Fan and his old servant and two guards were added to the team, 15 people + two dogs.

The luggage is also getting more and more, and the dried shrimps are dozens of catties, which is not counted as Cuihua's smuggling.

Dried sea cucumbers and dried shield fish (abalone) were not spared either. Er Tou asked his mother-in-law to send some of these delicious seafood to his new friends while packing his luggage.

For the children's friendship, Cuihua paid the courier fee several times more expensive than dried seafood.

From Ningjiang Mansion to the capital, the water and sea routes are the closest.If it is a waterway, it must flow upstream the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and pass through Shifu.

There is no forbidden sea in Daxia, but the ship technology is relatively ordinary and cannot sail far.However, there is still no major problem in offshore navigation, but the navigation speed is related to the season, and the risk is greater compared to waterways.

A group of people discussed the route, and the two said that they wanted to take the sea route, but the water route of the Great Yellow River was already tired and crooked.I am never tired of catching the sea every day, and I want to go fishing on a big boat and enjoy the sea breeze.

An old urchin like Mr. Fan used to see a lot of mountains and rivers, but the farthest he went to the north was Mobei, and he had only been to Jiangnan in the south.

This trip to Ningjiang Mansion in the east is also the first intimate contact with the sea.The magnificent sea makes my husband express his poetic spirit, and he can't stop splashing ink. If he has the opportunity to sail, he can't wait to set off immediately.

There are no direct sea ships to the capital, and the farthest is Triton Mansion, which was the former lair of King Lu.

Mr. Yuan Qian also made a speech at the cement factory and cement road in Ningdi, secretly discussing with his wife that they can get together again when he arrives in Ludi.

I hope my daughter-in-law can stay in Triton Mansion for a longer time.The Ludi cement factory delineated by the King of Shu is located in Fangdong Mansion not far from Triton Mansion.

Just when the two were about to leave, the maid of the Shu Palace finally found a buffalo with pox in a remote village ten days later, and bought the buffalo from a farmer's house for 50 taels of silver.

The King of Shu has dozens of farms on the outskirts of Chengdu, and he found the largest one for closed management and packed up all the doctors in the mansion.This group of doctors regards this cow as their ancestor, counting the pimples every day and observing the scabs.

The general points mentioned in medical books are four steps: selecting seedlings, harvesting seedlings, storing seedlings, and lowering seedlings.

When selecting seedlings, scabs, no matter how large or small, round or thick, purple in color and clear without turbidity, are the best;

The harvested seedlings can be stored, choose suitable scabs, remove floating dirt, wrap them in dry bamboo paper, mark the date of seedling picking, put them in a clean porcelain bottle, and store them in a cool and dry place.

This kind of vaccine is most suitable for people under the age of thirteen or fourteen to inoculate, and the older the age, the greater the risk.When planting seedlings, first grind the pox scab into powder, add water and mix thoroughly, use cotton to stain the seedling slurry, and apply it to the scratched part of the vaccinator's arm.

After about 2 hours after planting the seedlings, take Xerox Pill, and the immune effect will be produced after about 20 days.

The ingredients of Xipo Dan are: 1 liang of red bean (Xiaofan red bean), 1 liang of black bean, 1 liang of mung bean, and 1 liang of powdery grass. The main function is to clear away heat and detoxify.

Such a clear statement shows that when witnessing the miracle of history, the doctors of the government all showed the attitude of not fearing death.

The first batch of vaccinators, there are three kinds of people, the first category is children under 13 years old and above 3 years old, the second category is adults aged 14 to 25 years old, and the third category is young adults aged 25 to 35 years old .

There are people on death row, as well as servants and family members under heavy rewards.After sorting them into categories, they were all locked in small rooms isolated by Zhuangzi.The seedlings were only planted after being fed with good friends for seven days.

The government doctor is divided into two teams, one team is mainly responsible for selecting, harvesting and storing seedlings, and the other is only responsible for planting seedlings.

In the first batch of experimenters, 10 people were inoculated in the three groups of people. After being inoculated, the people who were vaccinated were shut down and moved to another house, only to wait for them to develop pox.

The tense atmosphere in the Shu Palace was no less than that in the farm. The Shu King asked to report several times a day, which was short of a live broadcast.

(End of this chapter)