Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 344 Smallpox
  Zhu Xuan took Hou Xian to the hospital.

"So many people are sick?"

Hou Xian looked at the patients coming and going in surprise, feeling unreal.

Zhu Xuan also felt it was unreal. How could there be so many patients in Yingtian Mansion during the New Year period?
  Looking at the patient's condition, the symptoms seem to be similar.

The situation was not very right now. He quickly entered the hospital, found Liu Chun who was busy everywhere, and asked what happened.

"Why are you here, Your Highness?"

Liu Chun was shocked and said: "Come to my office quickly."

He seemed to be worried about something, so he immediately took Zhu Xuan away, sprayed alcohol on Zhu Xuan for disinfection, and then brought a bowl of still warm soup for Zhu Xuan to drink.

"what happened?"

Zhu Xuan could think of the possibility of a plague, especially when he saw Liu Chun's nervous expression, he suddenly felt uneasy.

Liu Chun said: "I suspect that there will be an epidemic in Yingtian. This medicine was prepared by me. It should have a preventive effect. Your Highness is about to drink it. Before you leave here, I am preparing to write a memorial to report to Your Majesty."

"what?"

Although he had been mentally prepared for it, Zhu Xuan was still surprised when he received Liu Chun's affirmative answer and quickly drank the decoction.

Zhu Xuan asked: "When did this happen?"

"The first batch of patients came on the first day of the new year, and then there were more and more patients every day."

"Today is the third day of the Lunar New Year. There are more than twice as many patients as yesterday."

"The symptoms of all the patients are similar, including fever and headache. I haven't been able to determine what kind of epidemic it is. It was only this morning that I was sure it was an epidemic. I was about to go out and contact my colleagues at the Imperial Medical Office, and His Highness came. .”

"When necessary, we must report to His Majesty and seal the city!"

Liu Chun's tone of voice was a little rushed, and he was even flustered.

Plagues occurred in ancient times and could kill many people. Especially in big cities like Yingtianfu where people come and go, their current hospitals have become places where people gather, which is extremely dangerous.

If there are any special circumstances, I am afraid it will spread from the hospital first.

But regardless of those patients, Liu Chun couldn't do it, he was so ruthless.

Yingtian is the capital of the Ming Dynasty. If an epidemic really breaks out, the government of the Ming Dynasty may stop functioning and even put the country in danger. The consequences will be extremely serious.

Especially Zhu Xuan, the grandson of the emperor, is already at the center of the current epidemic.

Zhu Xuan didn't dare to return to the palace. If Grandpa Huang got infected, Ming Dynasty would be almost doomed.

He was also afraid.

He grew up peacefully until he was over ten years old, so he wouldn't be wiped out by the plague, right?
  "Your Highness, what shall we do?"

Hou Xian asked worriedly.

Liu Chun said: "Come here, please send His Highness and Eunuch Hou to the isolation ward. I'll go see my colleagues from the Imperial Medical Office."

They have not yet popularized the concept of masks, but in ancient China, there have been plagues in all dynasties, and a lot of rich experience has been passed down. Coupled with high-grade liquor, that is, alcohol disinfection, Liu Chun has two more hopes for his own epidemic prevention. .

Just when Zhu Xuan was going to quarantine, a doctor came over.

"Teacher, it's not good!"

"We found that one of the patients had papules, which seemed to be smallpox papules!"

"Some of the papules have turned into blisters."

he said eagerly?
  Here comes the bad news. This epidemic may be smallpox.

Then there is good news, the disease is smallpox.

If it was smallpox, Zhu Xuan wouldn't be afraid.

I have to say that the virus Liu Chun and his team were studying some time ago came just in time, but could the smallpox that appeared in Yingtian be related to the virus Liu Chun was studying?
  Zhu Xuan felt scared!
  If it was related and the virus was leaked, he would be blamed.

"Take me to have a look quickly." Liu Chun heard that it was smallpox. At the same time, he also thought that this was good news, but also bad news, and hurried to the ward.

"Let's go see too."

Zhu Xuan followed.

If it's smallpox, they don't have to worry about getting infected. With cowpox, it's absolutely safe. If it's not smallpox, they walked around the hospital and they won't get any less of the virus they deserve.

In that case, leave it to fate.

Hou Xian was very anxious. He was not afraid of death, but was afraid that Zhu Xuan would be in danger.

But had to follow.

Arriving in a ward, Zhu Xuan saw that the patient was so serious that he had to stay in the hospital for observation. There was also a family member beside him who was crying. This family member also had that kind of pimples on his body.

The patient was the farmer, and his family members were his wife and a child, lying unconscious on the bed next to him.

"Dean, help!"

Many people in Yingtian Mansion know the director of Yingtian Hospital.

Liu Chun walked over quickly, asked someone to calm down the family members, and then checked on the farmer's situation, checking all the pimples and blisters that appeared on his body.

"This is smallpox!"

Liu Chun looked solemn and said: "We Yingtian, how can we have smallpox?"

It was determined to be smallpox. This was good news, but it was also bad news.

The family members, including people in the same ward, heard that it was smallpox and screamed on the spot, feeling desperate.

"Have all the people in our hospital been vaccinated against cowpox?"

Zhu Xuan asked anxiously.

Liu Chun solemnly said: "Everyone has been vaccinated, including our family, relatives and friends, etc., all have been vaccinated."

As doctors at the hospital, they knew the importance of cowpox and vaccinated their families first.

It is also easier to convince your family.

"But how could there be smallpox?"

Zhu Xuan raised another question.

The recent thing related to smallpox is that piece of clothing from the grassland.

Most likely, the news spread in their hospital.

Liu Chun opened his mouth, and then said: "I...I don't know either! Logically speaking, our clothes have been burned by us a long time ago. Smallpox in cattle is not very toxic and will not cause papules and blisters. The time is right. Not on."

The virus broke out within these two days.

They burned that piece of clothing before the Chinese New Year.

Cowpox was researched before New Year's Eve.

It can't be related to the hospital.

Zhu Xuan thought deeply and felt that the relationship was not very big. He temporarily put down his heavy thoughts. The virus should have come from other places and said: "Give me more than 20 bottles of white wine for disinfection. I will Now go back to the palace to see Grandpa Huang, and you can continue to appease the sick people and prepare enough cowpox."

"it is good!"

Liu Chun immediately asked someone to bring alcohol.

They all have cowpox, so it's very safe!
  They had been in contact with the patient for almost three days, and not a single doctor or nurse had a fever, which illustrates the role and importance of cowpox.

The next epidemic prevention must be carried out under the arrangements of the court. Relevant decrees need to be issued to appease the people. Food, medicine, etc. must also be allocated. The most important thing is the army.

Without the army, all anti-epidemic measures are in vain, and they cannot suppress all the panicked people in Yingtian Mansion.

(End of this chapter)