The short video shows the ancient times, and the emperors cried with envy!

Chapter 685 The origin of plague! Cthulhu Bird-beak Doctor? Drink more hot water, Li Shimin: Isn’t this common sense?

Li Shizhen's conclusion was not groundless, because China had never experienced a large-scale epidemic since the Song Dynasty.

The bottom line is that China already has ways to fight this epidemic.

As a master of induction, Li Shizhen had naturally read books on this subject.

The Song Dynasty was the era of the second large-scale plague in the West.

Some patients were always able to come to the coast of China on the ships of the Muslims and spread quickly.

This kind of thing is simply impossible to prevent, but the rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time responded quickly and successfully controlled a terrible epidemic that swept across the country within a small area.

The first method is to burn the herbs, and the second is to give them laxatives.

The plague bacteria are in the stomach. If you are lucky, after a bout of severe diarrhea, you will recover in a few years.

Although this method is only applicable to people who have just been infected, it is effective very quickly and is enough to help China avoid disaster.

The reason why there was no large-scale outbreak of plague in the Ming Dynasty was also related to the method used by the Song Dynasty.

So where did this disease, which has killed countless lives, come from, and why did it spread so quickly? 】

This question on the sky quickly made many people look up. They had done prevention and treatment of plague, but no one had thought about it from this aspect.

[Plague, as the name suggests, many people know that this virus is spread by rats. 】

[But few people know that this bacteria, named after rats, is not actually the culprit of the spread, because the virus is not spread by rat bites. ]

[So what on earth can transmit the virus in mice to humans? ]

[The answer is - fleas! ]

[Mice usually live in dark and damp corners, and the E. coli in their bodies makes it very difficult to digest, but mice have antibodies themselves.]

【So, the fleas that also live in a dirty and messy environment are in trouble. 】

[As neighbors of mice, their life is just to suck blood every day and live a good life. ]

【As a result, the E. coli in the mouse's body entered the flea's abdomen.】

[This thing is fine for mice, but it is too big for fleas! And it can't be digested, it completely blocks the abdomen. ]

[Eventually, the fleas will not be able to suck blood, and the more they suck, the more they will get, but the hungrier they will get.]

[Eventually, countless mammals were visited by fleas and spread, and humans were no exception.]

"I see! No wonder we have to burn wormwood in the tent to repel mosquitoes and lice! This tiny thing is actually the culprit of the epidemic!"

Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin clapped his hands heavily.

The Li family is also from a military family, and they have inherited military tactics.

This is not the kind of empty talk like Sun Tzu's Art of War, which is difficult for outsiders to understand at first glance. This is solid and plain words.

For example, how to set up camp, how to build the camp, how to set up the camp, are all recorded on it.

The most important thing in the army is to choose a good location for the latrine, which should be at a certain distance from the camp. Mugwort should also be burned daily to fumigate the camp.

Li Shimin didn't understand it before, but now he understands. It turns out there is such a thing.

Sun Simiao in the hall also had a strange look on his face, although he knew from the previous inventory that there were such things as bacteria and viruses in the world.

But this was the first time I felt his importance so intuitively.

So, I stared at the video appearing on the sky screen with wide eyes, watching countless rats running out from the corners, bringing with them fleas like wasps passing through.

(The picture is based on A Plague Tale Innocence)
[So the question is, is there any way to prevent the plague? ]

[Europeans are not all fools who cling to the old ways. They figured out a way to deal with it a long time ago. There is a most convenient way. ]

[That is to control the pathogens well and let the patients receive good treatment, but thanks to the unique conditions of the Middle Ages, it is impossible to expect the masters to treat the patients as human beings. ]

【So we can only start from the source, rats and fleas. 】

【Thus, the concept of public health was put forward. 】

[The idea is that as long as the city is clean, it will not attract annoying rats and flies, and once it is clean, there will be no sewage.]

[No one would dump last night's feces and garbage from the second floor every day.]

[So, a vigorous aristocratic city-building movement began. Of course, the first thing was their castles. Wooden drainage pipes and sewage treatment centers began to appear.]

[They began to consciously bring running water into the city and use it as sewers.]

[However, the final result was that all the surrounding rivers were polluted, which was an even more devastating blow to the water source.]

[The process was full of twists and turns, but the final result was good. At least, everyone saw the benefits of this matter. As a result, public health officially became an essential part of urban construction.]

"Haha, what's wrong with these Europeans? They didn't even leave a garbage disposal channel in the city. If people gather together, diseases will definitely arise!"

In the early Han Dynasty, Xiao He, who was in charge of the construction of Chang'an City, snorted coldly and showed a look of disdain on his face.

China has attached great importance to sanitary conditions since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

After all, we are a nation with a long history of civilization, and many small details are engraved in our memory from the beginning.

On the Tang side, Li Shimin also clapped his hands heavily:

"Don't these people know that cities should be built diagonally? If they build a city like this, they will have to move to a new location in a dozen years!"

Previously, the urban construction level of the Netherlands made Li Shimin think that these Europeans had good taste, but now it seems that we Chinese have to be the ones to win!
[Of course, the most important thing is that there are specialized "garbage collectors" in the city, that is, cleaners. These people have multiple jobs and also clean up rats part-time, which can eliminate the epidemic invisibly. ]

[These are all compromises made by Europeans to fight the Black Death.

Of course, this also led to a lot of quirks, that is, many nobles began not to take baths, and used perfume to cover up their own bad smell. 】

[Public health causes turbid water sources, which makes it easier to get sick after taking a bath. In addition, not taking a bath can thicken the stratum corneum and prevent the skin from being bitten by fleas, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.]

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, Wu Zetian frowned and could not help but sigh: "They are really barbarians! Next time, let all the tribute-paying Westerners wash themselves a dozen times before entering Luoyang!"

As Her Majesty the Queen, she no longer wanted to see the stinking European nobles.

It can be said that this move of these nobles really disgusted everyone.

(End of this chapter)