Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 325 The incredible illness
After receiving the news, Purficott rushed to the settlement where the accident occurred as soon as possible, and even postponed the inauguration ceremony of the new city in the capital.

This behavior of the Northern Lords has undoubtedly caused a lot of worries. Many people are worried about whether a major plague has occurred. Otherwise, there is no way to explain why Perficott postponed the inauguration ceremony of the Northern Capital for a village.

You must know that in order to celebrate the completion of the northern capital, not only celebrities from all walks of life in the empire and the New World gathered in this city, but even the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Anne made a special trip to attend the inauguration ceremony.

Under such circumstances, Purficott delayed the completion of the new city because of an epidemic in a settlement, which obviously made people worried.

However, Purficott had no time to take care of this at this time, because when she rushed to the village where the epidemic occurred and examined the sick patients, the conclusions she drew were very worrying.

It's gangrene.

Gangrene refers to special morphological changes such as black and dark green after tissue necrosis due to secondary infection by putrefactive bacteria and the influence of other factors.

Because the decomposition of necrotic tissue by putrefactive bacteria will produce hydrogen sulfide, which combines with the iron decomposed from hemoglobin to form iron sulfide, which will make the necrotic tissue black.

This disease is only a complication because its cause is a putrefactive bacterial infection caused by tissue necrosis.

If there is no tissue necrosis, you will not get this disease.

But there are so many causes of tissue necrosis that even Purficott can't tell for a while whether they are infected with some kind of disease or have eaten bad food, or for other reasons.

"Seal down the entire settlement, send people to collect water sources, food and patients' clothing samples from the settlement, and disinfect the entire village!" Purficott immediately issued an order and sealed off the village: "It's still healthy. Everyone must stay at home and are not allowed to move around at will. All food and drinking water will be distributed by dedicated personnel. No one is allowed to drink the current water source until it is confirmed that there is no problem with the water source! "

Purficott is very worried about whether the water source is polluted. After all, this area in the north was still wild before her people opened up here. No one can say what is there. If the water source is polluted, the problem will be huge. It's serious.

So while she ordered people to seal off the village, Purficott also ordered people to invite shamans from nearby aboriginal tribes. She felt that these local shamans might know something about the situation.

After all, magic and various mysterious powers exist in this world, and Purficott does not dare to look at and solve problems based entirely on the experience of the original world.

If this is some kind of magic curse or something like that, and she handles it according to the experience of the original world without knowing what is going on, big problems may occur.

Although Lily, the shaman apprentice of the Wildmane tribe, has been learning alchemy from the alchemy professors in her laboratory, after all, Lily is just an ordinary shaman apprentice with limited knowledge and experience. It is hard to say how many shaman apprentices she can send. use.

Relatively speaking, it is more effective to ask the shaman of the local tribe for information.

But before the shaman arrived, Purficott didn't intend to just wait.

At this time, she was fortunate that the new airship given to her by the businessmen was luxurious enough, because the businessmen also prepared a laboratory for her on the airship, so that she could do some things even on the airship. Simple alchemical experiments and other studies.

Originally this was just a move to please Purficott, but now it has come in handy. At least Purficott does not have to send the collected samples back to Eagle Beak Cliff for analysis. Preliminary identification of these samples can be carried out in the laboratory.

However, the identification results made Purficott very confused.

There was no problem with the water source, which made Purficott immediately breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, if there is a problem with the water source, it means that the settlement may no longer be available and must be relocated elsewhere.

Although this is not a too serious issue, the abandonment of a settlement is indeed a bit involved at this time. After all, the site selection and construction of each settlement took a lot of energy and time. If it was abandoned, she could not guarantee that a new settlement would be built within the next few months.

Especially now that midsummer has passed, the autumn in the north is very short. Once winter comes, it will be a disaster for the settlements that have not yet been built.

Therefore, if there is no problem with the water source, at least the probability of the settlement itself needing to be relocated is greatly reduced.

Then there's food, which is also the biggest target of Purficott's suspicion.

However, the identification result is still no problem.

Although the main food sources of this settlement include wheat and rye, two of the main suspects of Purficott, Purficott did not find traces of poisonous wheat and ergot in the food samples sent.

She even suspected that not enough samples had been collected, and ordered people to collect and inspect the food from all sick people's homes door-to-door. The final result was no problem.

This made Purficott very confused. After all, there were no problems with water and food, so how did the people in this settlement get sick?

Thinking of this, Purficott could only focus on the patients themselves and began to analyze what was wrong with their bodies.

This analysis didn't matter, but the conclusion it reached surprised Purficott.

Because these people's bodies are very healthy except for gangrene, and there are no signs of illness.

This made Purficott feel incredible.

After all, the patients had hallucinations and felt severe pain like burning fire. In severe cases, gangrene appeared in their limbs. But now the test results show that except for the gangrene, everything is normal and they are still in good health?

Purficott felt that his intelligence had been insulted, as if he was pressed to the ground and rubbed repeatedly.

But the great detective Sherlock Holmes once said that when a thing eliminates all the impossibilities, what remains, no matter how outrageous, is the truth of the matter.

Therefore, after repeatedly verifying that his identification and examination results were correct, Purficott could only reluctantly admit that these patients did develop gangrene when their bodies were healthy.

Things are outrageous and everything is unbelievable.

Purficott wasn't sure what was going on, but the issue was undoubtedly at an impasse.

She couldn't find a way to solve the problem, and these people suffered from gangrene. All she could do was to treat the patients as much as possible and find ways to save their limbs.

But this is not easy. After all, it is difficult to completely cure gangrene even in the old world with advanced medical treatment, let alone in this world where antibiotics have not yet been invented.

Under such a deadlock, shamans from nearby tribes finally responded to Purficott's call and came to the settlement.

(End of this chapter)