Dressed like a loser and went to raise a baby

Chapter 181 Cowpox, making up a story
"I, I don't know..." The little palace maid's voice was trembling, and she was obviously too nervous.

"Relax, eat and drink when you should. Don't keep thinking about whether you have contracted smallpox, lest you scare yourself into getting sick even if you are not sick." Leng Luoyue comforted her.

The little palace maid nodded, and Leng Luoyue didn't know if she listened to her words.

Six of the more than ten people who were screened by the other uterus have lost their symptoms after taking the symptomatic decoction prepared by the hospital, but they still need to continue to be observed.

Other imperial doctors and their people conducted further investigations in various palaces and departments, but fortunately no symptoms were found.

At nearly noon, Leng Luoyue went back to Tai Hospital to have dinner with Royal Physician Lin, chatting about the prevention of smallpox while walking.

Leng Luoyue said: "In the ancient books where I saw countermeasures, I also saw a method to completely prevent smallpox."

"What method?" Doctor Lin asked hurriedly, his voice a little excited.If there is a thorough prevention method, then there is no need to worry about smallpox infection.

Leng Luoyue organized her words and said: "Ancient books say that the cowpox that cows get is somewhat similar to smallpox, but cowpox will not cause death."

Doctor Lin listened carefully and remembered what happened in the village when he was a child.The cowpox produced by the cows in the village is indeed very similar to the smallpox caused by humans. However, cowpox is not a serious disease for the cows, and the people who raise the cows do not even take it seriously.

"Those who wrote ancient books found in their observations that cowpox from cows is also contagious, and can also be transmitted to humans. However, after humans are infected with cowpox, they will only feel slight discomfort and will recover quickly."

"What a coincidence," Leng Luoyue began to make up a story, "when the person who wrote the ancient books was observing, smallpox broke out in his village. The farmer who had been infected with cowpox had all his family members infected with smallpox, but he No, everyone in the family died of smallpox, only he and the old cow survived."

Hearing this, Dr. Lin was also very surprised. Logically speaking, all the family members were infected, so the farmer and the family members should also be infected if they ate, drank and slept together.

"The person who wrote the ancient books believed that the reason why the farmer did not contract smallpox was because he had contracted cowpox. As an experiment, he inoculated himself with cowpox."

"How to vaccinate against cowpox?" Dr. Lin asked.

"He made a small cut on his arm and smeared the cowpox slurry on the wound. After being vaccinated with cowpox, he only had some rashes, which healed quickly. Then he went to take care of people who were infected with smallpox. , ate and slept with people infected with smallpox, and smeared the pox pulp of smallpox patients on the wounds on his body."

Imperial Physician Lin and the medical ladies and guards behind him felt frightened by what they heard. They even applied soy milk on the wounds on their bodies. Isn't this a different way to commit suicide?
Leng Luoyue seemed to have guessed what they were thinking, and continued: "After such a desperate operation, he did not contract smallpox."

The doctor girl and the guard were stunned. They could only say that this man was really lucky.

"So he was convinced that as long as he had been infected with cowpox, he would not be infected with smallpox again. So he went to the local officials and asked the officials to call on people to be vaccinated against cowpox. But the officials not only did not believe him, but also kicked him out of the yamen . He also persuaded the villagers in the village to be vaccinated against cowpox, but everyone said that this bad pox on cows, how could it be inoculated on people? They also said that he was probably crazy and was unwilling to even try it. "

"Hey..." Leng Luoyue pretended to sigh, "So he wrote down the strategies to deal with the pox epidemic and the method of vaccination with cowpox in the medical book he wrote, hoping that future generations would verify it after reading it. "

Dr. Lin can understand the feeling of a doctor who discovers a method that can solve a certain disease, but because the method is too novel and the medicine used is too abnormal, he is questioned and no one believes it.Which senior did not hesitate to experiment on himself in order to conquer smallpox, but in exchange for the disbelief of the world, he must have been very regretful and disappointed when he died!

However, it was indeed too shocking to have people vaccinated with cowpox. Even he, an old imperial doctor for decades, found it a bit ridiculous.But since this countermeasure and this method of acne came from that ancient book, he felt ridiculous at the same time, but he also believed it.

After Leng Luoyue finished making up the story, seeing that the imperial doctor Lin remained silent, he added, "Perhaps we can verify it. If vaccination with cowpox can really prevent people from contracting smallpox, it will be a blessing to the people and a blessing to the world." blessing."

"What can we use to verify it?" Doctor Lin frowned under his hat.To verify whether this method is effective, naturally it cannot be tried on one or two people.And who would want to have cowpox pox on their body?Not to mention whether it is harmful to the human body, the acne pulp of cowpox will make people feel disgusting.

Leng Luoyue thought for a while and said: "We can try it on death row prisoners first. They have committed serious crimes and are going to die anyway. If vaccination with cowpox is really effective, they can be considered as having made a contribution to the country and the people, and have accumulated great virtues."

Doctor Lin thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll talk to Mr. Lu about this when I get back."

Back at the Imperial Hospital, Dr. Lin didn't even eat, so he went to see the envoy Lu.Envoy Lu thought he could give it a try, so he wrote two letters, one to the Minister of Punishment and one to Xu Yuyi, who did not enter the palace because of Xiu Mu, asking him to test it outside the palace.

After Xu Yu received the letter, although he thought it was ridiculous, he still followed the superior's instructions.A sick cow with cowpox was found, and with the help of the jailer of the Ministry of Punishments, a dozen death row prisoners were vaccinated with cowpox. Among the dozen people, there were men and women, young and old.

The news of the pox epidemic in the palace also spread to the palace.Qi Yan was very worried about the emperor's cousin who was in the palace, but the Queen Mother was happy that she was not in the palace at this time and did not have to worry about contracting smallpox.

On the third day, Grandma Qin's symptoms tended to worsen. She could no longer get out of bed and had to be fed food and water.

The little maid in the clothes bureau who had a headache no longer has a headache, and the number of people with acne has not increased.

The Taiyuan Hospital also asked the fully armed guards to smoke moxa for each palace and department.

Seeing Nanny Qin getting more and more acne, Leng Luoyue suddenly remembered that when she was researching information for writing novels, she had seen a recipe that the ancients often used to treat acne, called "flavored three-bean drink".

The prescriptions used to treat smallpox in Taiyuan Hospital are also old prescriptions left over from the past. Although they have some effect, the effect is very, very small. It can only relieve the pain of those suffering from acne, but it cannot cure smallpox.

Leng Luoyue hurriedly returned to Taiyuan Hospital, tried hard to remember, and silently wrote out the recipe for "flavored three-pox drink" and gave it to the envoy of the hospital, saying that it was the recipe she had read in the ancient book.

Smallpox is an incurable disease. Now that there are other prescriptions that can cure acne, Lu Yuanshi just uses them as a dead horse.

The medical lady from Taiyuan Hospital has cooked several large pots of "flavored three-bean drink" and distributed a bowl three times a day to those with acne, those with symptoms, and those who have been in contact with the disease.

The imperial doctors and medical ladies at Taiyuan Hospital would also drink a bowl of it every day. Regardless of whether they have acne or not, drinking this wonderful medicine will only bring benefits to the body without any harm.

(End of this chapter)