Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 299 Epidemic Prevention
When we arrived in Jinyang, the weather became a bit muggy.

In the early years, this place was war-torn and the market was sluggish. It was regarded as a first-class desolate place in the world. Now it is plagued by epidemics.

Last year, there was a year of drought and floods, and the land was abandoned. At this time, the prices of food and medicinal materials have risen sharply. Although the local parents and officials, as well as Su Tong’s uncle Chen Chengze, have tried their best to find ways to stabilize prices, but the local area is already poor. , There are very few wealthy households, so it doesn't work very well.

As soon as Su Tong and his group entered the ground of Jinyang, they stopped laughing and laughing. Many students were so frightened that their faces were ashen - there were corpses rolled up by straw mats and thrown on the side of the road all over the place, and some bones were all dead. It stinks, but still no one comes to restrain it.

The students are very knowledgeable about epidemic prevention, and they were dumbfounded when they saw the situation in front of them.

In fact, there were still various anti-epidemic measures in the Song Dynasty. Chen Chengze led the officers and soldiers and was already working hard to contain the corpses. He also set up a quarantine area, and he did almost everything he could. However, when the epidemic came fiercely, he was short of people and money. Even the officials are not enough, three of the magistrates died, and now the temporary magistrate was only an eighth-rank official before.

The arrival of Su Tong and the others made Chen Chengze heave a sigh of relief.

This is the first time Miss Su has seen this uncle. Her uncle used to be the imperial censor Zhongcheng and the third envoy. Now because of his health, he has no real job and is editing books in the Imperial Academy. However, the officials value him quite a lot. In the future, he will probably enter the political affairs hall.

When I saw Su Tong now, it was different from Su Tong's imagination. He actually had a majestic face with Chinese characters. Farming, he made great contributions to the governance of rivers and seas, and gave him an excellent evaluation.

Chen Zijie obviously didn't have a good relationship with his father, and they always acted businesslike when they met, without saying a word of warmth.

Su Tong sighed, and felt that the characters of the father and son were completely different, and they were not like father and son. It's just that Chen Zijie, who is so unrestrained and unrestrained, is willing to travel thousands of miles to Jinyang for disaster relief. It must be because of him Father is here.

When Su Tong and the students arrived at the arranged residence, Miss Su finally knew that her uncle treated his son and niece really well.

The station is located in a big village behind the barracks. The location is good and safe. It is far away from the central area where the epidemic broke out. There are all kinds of daily necessities inside. It is obvious that Chen Chengze is very concerned about it.

The medicines and food brought by Chen Zijie were first supplied to the army. This time, some of the army also contracted the epidemic, and Chen Chengze also set up a quarantine area.

As soon as Su Tong brought her students to Jinyang, she found that the situation was more serious than she had imagined. At least one-third of the common people were infected with the disease, and it was spreading to the outside.

They immediately asked Chen Chengze to strictly seal off the epidemic area and absolutely not let anyone leave.

Chen Chengze is not a fool. At this time, people's knowledge of epidemic prevention is actually quite rich. When an epidemic occurs, of course they will first think of isolation.

It’s just that this time the outbreak of the epidemic was a little sudden. After all, it was not a period of high incidence of the epidemic. At the beginning, some people fell ill. Everyone didn’t take it seriously, and they didn’t think about it. God, dead people can almost be measured in truckloads.

There is no need to pursue the previous matter. Su Tong led the students, first let all the doctors fully armed, and distributed the sterilized gloves and masks, and set up an incinerator in the isolation area to burn the patients who had been in contact with them. Those things can be sterilized by high-temperature disinfection. As for clothes and the like, they are all thrown into the furnace for incineration.

As for the dead bodies, they were all burned.

Originally, Su Tong thought that after she put forward these suggestions, she would receive strong resistance. She was even ready to take the students to persuade the family members of the deceased, at least to tell everyone how the epidemic spread, so that Those ordinary people understood that if the corpses were not burned, not only the whole Jinyang would suffer, but even the whole Song Dynasty would suffer.

Unexpectedly, Chen Chengze sent someone to burn the body of Xiao Xiao, without her reminding him at all.

"There are so many dead people that they can't be buried. Many of them are thrown to the side of the road and left alone. Even if there are still people at home, they won't fight against the army right now."

Chen Zijie sighed, "It's not the first time a epidemic has occurred in Jinyang. It was more serious than now, and it's not like it didn't happen. The common people know it well."

It is not so easy to house patients in the isolation area. Many patients would rather die at home than go to the isolation area. Chen Chengze wanted to enforce it, but no matter how many people they have, it is impossible to search from door to door. Besides, If the family members of the patients hide and do not report, unless the situation is particularly serious and has reached the point of dying, otherwise, those patients will not be easy to be screened out.

The whole of Jinyang is about to become a powder keg at this time, and Chen Chengze is also worried that the means will be too strong, which will have the opposite effect. If the patients attack his defense line and enter the hinterland of Song Dynasty, even if only one and a half rush in. , it may bring disaster to an entire village, or even a city.

Seeing that the isolation work has not improved, Su Tong is also very anxious.

When Fu Dahu and Fu Erbao took people out for a tour, they soon brought back a group of sick patients, and the isolation area suddenly became lively.

Su Tong was quite surprised.

Fu Dahu said solemnly: "They didn't come to the isolation area, because the government didn't have many medicinal materials distributed in the past, and there weren't even many doctors. After entering the isolation area, they could only wait for death. Patients are also reluctant to send them there.”

Su Tong understood immediately.

Fu Dahu smiled smugly, "The students brought a large amount of medicinal materials and food directly to the past today, beating gongs and drums to publicize, telling the common people that they entered the quarantine area to treat their illnesses, not to let them wait to die. There is food, there will also be medicinal materials, and there are special medicines they brought from Tokyo, if the family members are worried, each family can also send someone to accompany them, as long as protective measures are taken, there is no need to worry about getting sick.”

The family members of those patients are not afraid of being infected with the disease, but they are still worried that their other children and relatives will suffer because of it. Now that they have entered the quarantine area, the government will not leave them alone, and will still treat the disease. These patients And their family members naturally agreed, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will not stay at home and wait to die.

Su Tong nodded and patted Fu Dahu on the head as a sign of encouragement.

With this move, he not only gathered all the patients together for isolation and treatment, but also provided 'nurses'. Who else is more suitable to be a nurse than the family members of the patients?

(End of this chapter)