335. Cowpox
Sun Simiao read the book that Luo Yong brought, and the first one he flipped through was the anatomy that Luo Yong placed at the top. He was immediately shocked by the content in the book.
Although the text is a bit strange, the picture is really detailed. I don’t know what strange method is used, but some pictures can be painted like real objects.
"Where did you get this book?" As Luo Sanlang said, this is a rare treasure in the world.
Looking at the cover, the paper-like font size is so symmetrical that every stroke seems to be carved out with a fine needle and measured with a ruler.
"I also got it by chance. Doctor Gao wants to accept these books?" Luo Yong asked him.
"Natural!" Sun Simiao bowed to Luo Yong and said, "Sun cannot repay you if you have the fate in your lifetime!"
"Then I have a few more books on hand, do you want them?" Luo Yong asked again.
"Yes! Of course, I want it!" Old Man Sun was so excited that his face was full of red light! This scene was really like a dream! Did he see the immortal?
"Qiao Dalang, bring the rest in too." Luo Yong shouted in the direction of the gate at this time.
"Okay." The person outside the door responded, and then soon Qiao Junlin moved all the remaining books in. He saw a bag on his shoulder and a bag in his hand. The cloth towels used to wrap books were probably as big as bed sheets!
Sun Simiao: "... are these?"
Luo Yong: "Yes."
Luo Yong is now open-minded and can't always ask him to worry about labor alone. He should also ask others to worry about it and work hard.
He has lived on Zhongnan Mountain these days. Seeing that Sun Simiao really thought it was very reliable, he simply did it all the time and picked out all the books on medicine and related majors in the space. This was just one. If he took it out, he would probably scare the old senior.
After the two bags were opened, all the books were moved to the wooden bed in piles. Sun Simiao sat there with the oil lamp and read them one by one. Although he couldn't quite understand the words, he even guessed them, but he was also very interested.
Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin didn't say anything, and sat quietly beside him, allowing Doctor Sun to travel in the ocean of knowledge without distraction.
It was not until the sky was getting brighter that Sun Simiao forced himself to put down the book: "I made you laugh. Sun really loves such a rare thing."
"No obstacle." Luo Yong said: "These books are of no use in my hands. You should hand them over to the hands of Doctor Gao so that they can make the best use of them."
"Sanlang Gaoyi!"
"Dr. Gao is kind-hearted. In the future, my younger brothers and sisters in Chang'an City will rely on Dr. Gao for one or two."
"That's natural! Saburo just go with peace of mind."
"So, Luo said goodbye."
Before leaving, Luo Yong picked out a dictionary from the pile of books and told him how to use it, using radicals and strokes to search the characters without knowing the pinyin.
Sun Simiao was like a treasure, and sent the two of them all the way to the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, and then asked his disciples to carry a carriage to Luo Yong and them far away.
Just a few days after Luo Yong and their friends left Mount Zhongnan, Sun Simiao and his disciples also came out of the mountain.
His disciples heard that in a small village on Henan Road, several villagers seemed to have acne, which made the area panic, and merchants who came and went around the place they passed by were also going around.
Whether the method of growing cowpox that Luo Yong mentioned is feasible? If you don’t experiment with real people, where can you know?
However, this method is novel and has never been heard by the world before. Ordinary people are willing to try it. Sun Simiao cannot force others to do so. But if it is in a place where smallpox appears, the situation will be very different. People are worried that they will be infected, and hearing this method can avoid disasters, so naturally some people are willing to try it.
Sun Simiao had planted human acne before, and as long as the cowpox is not much more dangerous than human acne, he is still more confident.
When they arrived at the village where there was a legend that someone had acne, the epidemic had developed to a serious situation. I heard that the famous doctor Sun Simiao came to them to save the world and could also use the method of growing cowpox to drive away evil and avoid harm. For a time, everyone was willing to grow it.
The cow that had acne was the first time Luo Yong and Sun Simiao talked about this matter. He arranged for his disciples to go out to search. After finding it, he happened to hear about someone in Henan Dao’s village, so the master and his disciple came with the cow.
Just gently cut a small wound on a person's arm and apply some cowpox pus on it. The acne will be planted and it is really convenient to operate.
Sun Simiao originally planned to try it out with one or two people first, and after confirming that this method is indeed feasible, he would help people with acne on a large scale.
However, the people in this village are really scared. Everyone is afraid that they will not be able to survive these ten days, so they just want to plant the cowpox quickly.
Sun Simiao finally decided to believe Luo Yongyi and the strange books he had obtained, and planted all the villagers who came to ask him to fed acne.
It takes a lot of responsibility to do this. Once it fails, it will not only be greatly condemned in its conscience, but also Sun Simiao and these disciples will also be discredited and condemned by the world. After all, planting acne from cows outside this village is originally a very bold move. There is often a line between boldness and absurdity.
Fortunately, the situation of these people looks better. On the first day of acne, papules appeared on the wound the next day. It did not grow everywhere like acne, but just a little bit of it grew around the wound.
The more the papules grow, the bigger they grow, until they become suppurated. After more than ten days of unworthiness, the scabs can fall off. After the scabs fall, a scar the size of a bean is left.
Since growing this cowpox, no one in the village has had acne again. The villagers have traveled around and told each other, and even people from nearby villages have come here to inoculate them with the courage to get vaccinated.
Sun Simiao also planted cowpox for himself and his disciples, and then asked some of his disciples to go out to feed the people in nearby villages, so as not to run to this village where acne has been, and accidentally bring the disease out, causing larger-scale infection.
He himself took several other disciples to stay in the village to treat villagers who had already had acne before they arrived. This method of cowpox is only useful for those who have not had acne. If acne has already had acne, it would be useless if it was acne.
There are also some people who have been exposed to acne more than ten days ago. The disease is already hidden in their bodies and is about to be released. Such people are useless even if they grow cowpox. These are all things he recently read from a book given to him by Luo Yong.
Before Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin arrived in Changle County, news came out of Chang'an City that Sun Simiao led a group of disciples to the place where the plague was rampant.
Many people in Chang'an City were worried that their master and disciple would be in that village this time. After all, it was a dangerous place where the plague was raging. How could ordinary people come and go freely? It was not that fairy energy protected their bodies.
However, within a few days, news came from there that Sun Simiao and his disciples raised cowpox for the villagers. The cowpox did not damage the human body, but could ward off evil spirits and prevent people from having acne again.
The news quickly shocked the entire Chang'an City. Both the aristocratic families and ordinary people were shocked. Even though many big families sent people to inquire, the court also sent officials to go there. At some unworthy times, many people gathered around the village where there were acne. Some people only dared to inquire in nearby villages and towns, and some brave ones went directly to the village.
"It's true! The rumors are true!" Some people who came out of the village said:
"Doctor Sun and his disciples are here, and no one has had acne. Except for those who had acne before, no one has had acne in the village in the past month!"
"Take it seriously! Take this seriously?"
"It's true. If you don't believe it, you can go in and see it yourself. They also helped me grow cowpox. They said that as long as you grow this cowpox within a few days of people who have contact with acne, you can prevent diseases."
Just when many people were busy entering the village, Sun Simiao spoke out and said that the method of cowpox is very simple. If someone around him grows cowpox, he just needs to take a little pus from his pus rash, cut a little bit of skin on the arm of the person who has not grown cowpox, and apply the pus on the wound.
If the wound has papules in a day or two, it will become suppurative and scabs in a few days, which means that the seed has been completed.
After some time, the Central Plains seemed to be in a bad mood. The people looked around for those who had grown cowpox, asked them for pus, and some paid for it. In some places, the price was quite expensive.
On the Bai Mansion, this time, Uncle Bai took several servants to Henan Road in person. Uncle Bai was fortunate to meet Sun Simiao and confirmed with him the method of acne.
Then two of them were vaccinated with cowpox. On the way back to Chang'an City, someone took pus from their arms and inoculated them. After repeated recurrence, it was difficult to bring the fresh cowpox pus back to Chang'an City.
Scholars of this era more or less knew some medical skills, so they did not look for the doctor outside the cowpox, but instead took the Bai family to do it themselves.
The Bai family has a large population, so it was divided into several batches of vaccination. Si Niang and the others also planted cowpox with the Bai family.
The children watched as their arms were cut and pus were applied. In just one or two days, they had papules, which were a little painful and itchy, but it was not serious. After a few days, they gradually began to develop pus.
These pus are also useful. People often come to ask for it. Uncle Bai and others often plant cowpox directly for others. During those days, the Bai Mansion was very lively, until everyone in the mansion had vaccinated the cowpox and the pus was gone, and then it gradually became quiet.
Bai Mansion was planted very early, and many people in the market had not yet been able to grow cowpox at this time. People ran around for the pus, and the whole city of Chang'an was bustling.
Chapter completed!