Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 845 Construction of Ancillary Lands ([-])

In all fairness, the South Railway Company has spent a lot of effort in the construction of its affiliated sites, using a lot of the latest domestic technology, the latest scientific research results and cutting-edge equipment, especially in the medical field that is crucial to the well-being of the people and population growth. The resources invested are massive.If it is converted into per capita medical resources, it is even much higher than that of the local people. It makes people have to sigh how much the company attaches importance to medical career and medical development.

In the past two years since the establishment of the Southern Railway, in addition to the outstanding achievements in infrastructure construction, it has spent a lot of energy on health and culture—this is undoubtedly the result of the strong personal will of the Southern Railway leader, because No sensible leader would invest a lot of precious resources in "relatively unimportant" aspects such as health and culture at the very beginning of the company's establishment. From this perspective, Mo Ming, the current helm of the Southern Railway, is indeed "not sensible".

Where is he "irrational"?First of all, he let go of his old face and ran to the mainland on the east coast. He recruited a group of graduates from Dayuhe Medical College, Nursing College and other schools to work in the Southern Railway, and gave them extremely high treatment.After these people arrived at the railway ancillary area, together with some doctors "captured" from Daming, they set up a clinic in each of the seven settlements including Xingnan Port to provide medical services for the immigrants.In addition, through his relationship with the Ministry of Health, he occasionally invited local doctors and doctors to form a roving clinic to provide temporary medical services for local residents, which was widely welcomed by [-] to [-] residents of the railway affiliated area.

Don't underestimate the role of these outpatient departments. They may not be able to treat many diseases, but they have done a good job in undertaking health and epidemic prevention, endemic disease investigation and health knowledge promotion.To put it bluntly, at present, there is no condition in the east coast to have a township-level clinic in every settlement. In many places, village doctors are fooling around, which is far inferior to the South Railway.

If all of the above are nothing, then President Mo Da has something even more "insane", that is, he also took out a large part of the funds that are not very abundant, and personally donated 2000 yuan to establish a company in Xingnan Port. A health research institution called "South Railway Institute of Health".This research institution was just completed in the first half of this year, covering an area of ​​3.8 square meters, with a total of about 40 buildings, divided into six major research departments: bacteria, pathology, chemistry, sanitation, serum, and germs—but don’t be fooled by these majors. The reputation has been bluffed. In fact, the East Coast is limited to various reasons, so some basic research has been carried out in these fields, and the results obtained are limited.

“Don’t be shy to admit that the current health status of our residents—especially those in the South Railway affiliated area—is still at an extremely low level. To fundamentally reverse this situation, we still need to invest heavily in medical research and education Career, cultivate a medical team with ability, morality and a certain scale.” This is what Mo Ming said at the inauguration ceremony of the Southern Railway Institute of Health.Within one month after its establishment, this medical research institution successively recruited 20 students from the east coast and 1 naturalized Patagonian student—of course, this student must first learn Chinese in the preparatory course—as a medical research institution. assistants of staff.

As soon as the Nantie Sanitation Research Institute was established a while ago, it immediately carried out a number of sanitation tests, water quality inspections and other tasks.Among them, scientific research tasks include: prevention and treatment of measles, plague, scarlet fever, yellow fever, diphtheria and other infectious diseases that have been raging on the east coast for a long time; research on the nutritional components of main food resources on the eastern coast, the nutritional components of Chinese food (designated Chinese food) and how to use it Chinese food is more suitable for people on the east coast; solutions to some children's malnutrition problems and so on.In addition, there are some experimental projects commissioned by the local Ministry of Health, such as water quality surveys, drug tests (tests with Thuelche people) and so on.

At the same time, as a country where the Eastern and Western cultures converge violently, the East Bank has also conducted in-depth research on the medicine of the Ming Dynasty.Native people have gone a long way in this area and have made some progress in herbal medicine.Of course, the newly established Nantie Health Research Institute will not give up the research on oriental medicine. It even has a "pharmaceutical specialty" branch hanging under the chemical research department, which is dedicated to the study of Chinese herbal medicine. The prescriptions in it, and then organize people to conduct research and analysis together.

There are currently 18 researchers in this branch, almost all of whom were doctors of the Ming Dynasty. They relied on more than [-] volumes of Chinese medicine books in the library (collected by the Blackwater Pioneering Team, and are still continuing to enrich the Chinese medicine library), and have studied various Chinese medicine The ancient books and prescriptions have been repeatedly verified and researched, and at the same time, the traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions that have been used since ancient times are scientifically discussed. For this reason, a large number of human experiments are carried out, and the truth must be verified.

Regardless, it's a pretty pragmatic move.At present, more than half of the medical personnel and 90% of the experienced doctors in the east coast are from Chinese medicine. Many of them once set up pharmacies in the Ming Dynasty and prescribe medicines for patients. personal ability.After all, in the case of an extreme lack of modern medical equipment and modern medicines, people on the east coast can only find ways to find a way from the massive collection of ancient Chinese medical books, and try to find the right medicine for all kinds of Chinese medicine treatments, theories, and prescriptions. Useful stuff for medical careers.

And those Chinese medicine practitioners who came from the Ming Dynasty also gained a lot in this process, and some even put forward groundbreaking ideas, such as the method of treating tuberculosis (vaccine obtained by vaccination) that Nantie Hospital is currently testing. A Chinese medicine doctor who had experience in inoculating vaccinia proposed it, which was very surprising.

The Nantie Institute of Health plans to add more manpower in the future to conduct a comprehensive textual research on various ancient medical books, and then compile and compile them to form a medical catalog called "Ming Medical Books Examination", which is in line with the ongoing research and demonstration in the local area. The "Song Medical Records" echoes from afar.

At the same time, the South Railway Health Research Institute has also specially launched targeted research on the "endemic diseases" in the southern Patagonia region-of course, it has just started, and there are only a few people.These researchers focused on local tuberculosis (cold in winter, long time indoors), kala-azar (very prevalent in Shandong), goiter (prevalent in Hebei), Kaschin-Beck disease (prevalent among immigrants from North Korea and Shandan) ), malnutrition (mostly among dock laborers and coal miners, these Ming immigrants are unwilling to spend money to buy a lot of non-staple food, so although they eat a lot of grains in one meal, they are still prone to malnutrition) basic Research, although there is no clue yet, but I believe that with the passage of time, research results will eventually come out and begin to benefit thousands of people in the country.

In addition to these adult diseases, as an immigrant country with a very short population, the Southern Railway Institute of Health has undoubtedly carried out a lot of research on child rearing, pregnancy and gynecological diseases.At present, this part of knowledge mainly comes from doctors who were taken captive from the Ming Dynasty. Their experience in infants and gynecological diseases is quite reliable - at least better than those Western witch doctors who were transferred from carpenters and can only amputate limbs and bloodletting Much smarter - it's not a problem to provide some advice to ordinary people.

A while ago, there were even rumors in Xingnan Port that President Mo Mingmo’s wife, Laura, a French shipbuilder, planned to invest 2000 yuan to set up a gynecology and children’s hospital in Xingnan Port to provide women and children Medical services - She really didn't want to see the newborn children of the East Coast Republic die in large numbers due to an unexpected epidemic.It's just that there seems to be a lack of talents at present, and it can't be started for a while, so it can only be built slowly.

All in all, Southern Railway has invested heavily in medical care, and its determination to solve the diseases (immigrants brought in) that threaten the health of residents in the affiliated areas is also extremely great.Judging from the current measures, their thinking is very clear, that is to carry out basic research on diseases, publicize the prevention of various infectious diseases (although the effect is not good, but we must persist), and cultivate a large number of health care, epidemic prevention and medical staff, the short-term focus is on eradicating tuberculosis and protecting vulnerable women and children.

Researchers at the Southern Railway Institute of Health have long argued that reducing deaths from disease is more important than encouraging births.The East Coast Republic is a country built on a piece of wild land, and the wild virgin land means that it is not suitable for living, or this land has not been modified by the environment and is full of various pathogenic factors. It can be seen that a large number of people die from epidemics.The grassland area in the south of the Republic (which is drier and cooler than the north) is better, but the Duck Lake Basin in the north and the vicinity of the Gerard Mountains are much more serious.

In those places, a certain settlement may have only two or three hundred people who died from native raids, but the number of people who died from various epidemics and even unknown diseases was often twice as many, which is shocking-no wonder the Dutch, The Portuguese have immigrated vigorously in Brazil for so long, but there are still only so few people. The death rate is really too high; Virginia and New England in North America are also similar. When they first opened up wasteland, a lot of people died in All kinds of diseases are really a headache.In other words, without a good medical system and knowledge of hygiene and epidemic prevention, the work of opening up wild areas will become extremely dangerous.Especially on the east coast, a place where most adult men need to be transported thousands of miles from the Far East, the desire for a good health system and medical system is even far greater than that of the colonial countries of the old continent-they don't have so many grays Livestock are used for land reclamation.

Therefore, it is imperative to increase investment in medical research!

(End of this chapter)