ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 337 Doctor Crotone
Lycasus closed the door and hung a wooden sign on the door that said "out of town, no consultation".

"Hey, Nicostratus, you want to go out?!" the owner of the butcher shop across the street shouted, waving a meat-picking knife.

Nick Stratus snorted and did not want to pay attention to the butcher.He always believed that it was the butcher shouting and hawking across the street every day that made rich people reluctant to go to his clinic for treatment. He had thought about moving the clinic several times, but the housing prices in Crotone were not low. The location of the house he could afford was not as good as here, so he had always had a bad look at this rude neighbor.

"How long are you going to be out for?!" The butcher shop owner was used to the doctor's attitude. Seeing that he didn't answer, he continued to ask loudly.

The well-behaved Lycasus saw the teacher's face gradually turning gloomy, and hurriedly said for him: "I will be away for about 20 days, Uncle Kus."

"So long!" the butcher shop owner exclaimed, "We are sick, what will we do if you are not here?!"

Nick Stratus's face twitched a few times, and he couldn't help but turned around and shouted: "Then just don't get sick before I come back!"

"It's not up to me to decide whether I will get sick or not. It's all a prank of the gods!" the butcher complained.

Nick Stratus didn't want to pay attention to him anymore and strode forward.

"Dr. Nick Stratus, where are you going after you have been out for so long?" another person asked.

This time, Nicostratus stopped because the person inquiring was a businessman from a bakery, a rare and important customer of his, who paid a lot of money every time he came to see a doctor.

"Go to Thurii." He replied seriously.

"Thurii? You were invited to treat diseases, right?" The businessman saw Lycasus carrying a medical box and said proudly: "Our medical skills in Crotone are the best in the whole of Magna Greece. Famous! Dionia has a larger territory and can fight, but in other aspects it is far behind Crotone, which has a long history! "

His words resonated with the owner of the butcher shop: "You are so right! Those people in the north are actually refugees. They don't have any culture or city-state traditions!"

The influence of Dionia in Magna Graecia is growing year by year, which makes the ordinary people of Crotone, a once powerful state, feel even more disappointed. Out of a sour grape mentality, they always like to take advantage of their own city-state. Compare with Dionia and then ridicule Dionia to gain some psychological satisfaction.

Nick Stratus said a few perfunctory words and walked quickly out of his neighborhood.

"Ignorance." At this time, he softly uttered a sentence.

The rise of Crotone medical skills originated from Democades a hundred years ago.This Crotone native determined to become the best doctor in the Mediterranean when he was young. He traveled around various countries to learn medical skills. After completing his studies, he practiced medicine in Athens. Because of his good medical skills, he earned a lot of money.Later, he went to Samos to treat the tyrant. As a result, Persia attacked Asia Minor and Samos was captured. He became a prisoner and was escorted to Susa. It happened that Darius, the king of kings, fell ill and he was cured. He was released from prison and served the royal family, but was restricted from returning to Greece.

After living in Persia for five or six years, he missed his hometown thousands of miles away very much.

One day, Atosha, the queen of Darius and the daughter of Cyrus, the founding monarch of Persia, developed a lump on her breast. No one could cure it, and she suffered deeply.Atossa heard about Demokedes' superb medical skills, so she reluctantly gave the Greek a try and asked the Greek to go to the inner court for treatment, and promised that as long as the disease was cured, the queen would agree to any of his requests.

As a result, Demokedes restored Queen Atosha to health. At his request, Atosha suggested to Darius that Demokedes could take Persian spies around Greece to collect intelligence for Prepare for the future conquest of Greece.

Darius agreed, and Democedes vowed to return to Susa.

As a result, after leaving Persia, he found an opportunity to escape the surveillance of the Persians and fled back to Crotone.

Although Persia was powerful at that time, it had not yet started a war with mainland Greece, let alone affected the Western Mediterranean thousands of miles away, so it could only let it go.

Demokedes opened a clinic in his hometown, recruited apprentices, and selflessly taught his many years of medical experience and the medical skills of Greece and Persia, which greatly improved the level of medical skills in the city-state of Crotone and achieved Crotone. Doctor Rotone held the leading position in Magna Graecia for hundreds of years.

However, in recent years, Dionia's medical skills have improved rapidly like its alliance strength. It is said that some difficult and complicated diseases that Crotone doctors cannot solve, Dionia's doctors can miraculously cure or cure. After getting better, some terminally ill Greeks who were not in the Dionysian Alliance tried to go to the hospital in Dionia to see a doctor, and then most of them returned to their homes happily.In this way, the reputation of "Dr. Dionia is highly skilled and was taught by Pluto" gradually spread...

As far as Nick Stratus knew, there were many wealthy citizens in Crotone who often went to Thurii, the center of Dionia, for medical treatment in recent years. The organization of the Medical Forum, held every spring, invites doctors from the Dionysian Union and its allies to gather in Thurii to discuss new medical discoveries and exchange medical skills.Last year was the first one, and the conservative Nicostratus did not go, but when chatting with his returning colleagues, the few words they uttered about the novel medical theories and methods they learned from Dionysia made him laugh. Nicostratus, after being astonished, made him think deeply.

Therefore, at the beginning of this year, when Turiyi Hospital sent invitations to various allies, he couldn't wait to prepare to go.

Originally, it only took half a day to reach Thurii by boat from the port with a favorable wind, but the miserable Nikstratus suffered from seasickness and could only take the land route.

When they arrived at the north city gate, another doctor, Stasypus, was already waiting there. The three of them left the city of Crotone and headed north on the soft dirt road.

The three of them came to the pontoon of the Neto River.

During the Second War in Crotone, the pontoon bridge was burned to prevent the Dionians from breaking into the city of Crotone.During the reconstruction, for some unknown reason, the bridge deck was not only narrow, but also less stable than before.

Stacy Puss couldn't help complaining on the way across the bridge: "The Turi Ikrati River is a real wooden bridge. It is not only wide and flat, but also boats can pass under the bridge. Compared with them, our pontoon bridge is much better. It looks like it was built by indigenous people!”

Nick Stratus didn't speak. He remembered that a citizens' meeting was held in Crotone last year to discuss whether to invite the Dionians to help them build a wooden bridge over the Neto River. The self-respecting Crotone Most of the people in Rotone expressed opposition, which prevented the bill from passing. Nicostratus himself was one of them. His idea was the same as that of most people. As long as facilities such as roads and bridges can be used, the treasury's Money should be used to repair public facilities such as theaters, arenas, and temples, and even to provide additional benefits to citizens during special celebrations.

Thanks to the blessings of the gods, the weather has been good in Magna Greece in recent years, and crops have been bumper harvests. In addition, wars have occurred frequently in the surrounding areas in the past two years, and grain prices have risen. After keeping enough for their own use, people have made a small profit by selling grains on the market. .So spring came early this year, and hard-working citizens took their slaves to plant wheat seedlings in the farmland early.

Walking on the Croton Plains, as far as the eye can see, there are green wheat fields stretching as far as the eye can see.The slaves worked hard in the fields.

There is a lot of rain in the spring and the roads become muddy.In order to prevent falling, Nicostratus and his party walked slowly, and they did not leave the territory of Crotone until the afternoon.

When they trudged through the slippery mud with one deep foot and one shallow foot, and their feet began to swell, what they saw was a flat, solid and spacious road, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Teacher Stasypus." Lycasus, who had never traveled far since he was a child, shouted excitedly: "This is the Cremisa-Asprostus built by Dionia you said Mu Avenue?!"

"That's right." Stasypus glanced at Nickstratus: "Old friend, what do you think of this road?"

Nikstratus snorted and said nothing. He walked straight forward and found an empty stone pier to sit down among some resting pedestrians outside the sidewalk. He originally had some waist problems. After walking down the road just now, , I feel like my waist is about to break.

Lycasus was young and energetic. He saw the traffic coming and going on the road, which was very lively. He even crossed the drainage ditch and tried to walk on the road. As a result, he was almost hit by a pack cart and was greeted by the coachman. He cursed and retreated to the sidewalk in embarrassment.

Nick Stratus spoke to him before he became quieter.But after a while, he pulled Stasypus and asked: "What is that car for?"

Looking in the direction of his finger, a two-horse covered wagon drove north at a relatively fast speed, with Dionia's symbol "two-pronged fork and three-headed dog" painted on both sides of the tarpaulin. Vehicles on the road deliberately moved to both sides.

"That's the mail truck."

"Mail truck?"

"That's what Dionia is called. It is responsible for delivering letters and packages to people between the two places. It is said that Dionia has a department specifically responsible for this matter." Stasypus said.

"This method is not bad, it is convenient for the people of the city-state." Nick Stratus interjected.

"It would be great if we also had a mail truck in Crotone! At least we can deliver medicines to patients, so we don't have to run back and forth and waste time." Lycasus said with some envy.

"Young man, that costs money." Stasypus sighed.

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