When he came, he didn't even think about resting, but had to see the patients first.
Regardless of whether the other party’s medical skills can end this epidemic, his dedicated and professional attitude is enough to reassure people and inspire respect.
Magistrate Sun's attitude became more respectful and humble. "The epidemic in the city is very serious now. Princess Ping'an should not go directly into the city. I will send someone to place the patient near the city gate. Princess Ping'an will see the doctor there."
The other party was Princess Ping'an, also the wife of Minister He, and she was accompanied by the daughter of the Lu family. County Magistrate Sun did not dare to make any mistakes.
At present, the situation of the epidemic here is unclear. Su Yujin thinks there is nothing wrong in being cautious, so he accepts the proposal of County Magistrate Sun.
Su Yujin prepared various things for the consultation, while County Magistrate Sun ordered someone to pick up the patient.
About a meal's time later, Su Yujin was observing the conditions of these patients in the dim light of lanterns in a tea stall near the city gate that had long ceased to operate normally.
The patient was accompanied by a doctor named Li.
Doctor Li is the attending physician at Huichuntang in Shilin County. He is also the most skilled doctor in traditional Chinese medicine in the entire Shilin County. He has been developing prescriptions for the epidemic for some time, but has never achieved any results.
When he heard that Princess Ping'an was coming, he came to observe and discuss the matter together.
Su Yujin carefully examined the pulses of these patients and checked their overall conditions. When he saw the more serious one with sunken eye sockets and a blue face, he frowned and asked, "Where did the epidemic in the entire county start?"
"Shilin County is where the epidemic first started. I have also asked people to investigate carefully. It is said that the first person to have this symptom was a cook in the kitchen of a restaurant." Magistrate Sun replied.
"Does this restaurant sell fresh fish and shrimp on weekdays?"
Seeing Su Yujin asking this, County Magistrate Sun was also stunned. After a moment, he answered, "The border is desolate and water-scarce, and fish and shrimp are rare. This restaurant is the most luxurious in the entire county, and it is also the only restaurant that sells live fish and shrimp."
"That's right." Su Yujin said, "The fish and shrimp must have died on the way here and started to breed bacteria, and the kitchen staff of the restaurant came into contact with these dead fish and shrimp and were infected."
"There were originally only a small number of these bacteria, and even if they entered the human body and were digested by the stomach, they would not normally cause any illness. It just so happened that the cook had a weak spleen and stomach, and these bacteria were not completely killed by gastric juice, so they entered the intestines and began to multiply in large numbers."
"The bacteria accumulated more and more, causing patients to experience nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and the vomitus and feces of the patients spread a large number of bacteria, causing more and more people to be infected, which triggered the epidemic."
Seeing Su Yujin's eloquent words, Doctor Li nodded repeatedly, "Princess Ping'an's words make some sense, but I don't understand what the bacteria Princess Ping'an is talking about are. But since Princess Ping'an said that the epidemic was caused by bacteria, does Princess Ping'an have any way to deal with this bacteria?"
"We can only give it a try first." Su Yujin said as he picked up the paper and pen prepared by Qingkui and began to write a prescription.
This epidemic is a typical cholera.
The culprit that causes cholera is Vibrio cholerae. From a Western medicine perspective, the treatment is to supplement electrolytes, kill bacteria and reduce inflammation. But from a Chinese medicine perspective, cholera is divided into cold cholera, hot cholera and dry cholera.
These three are distinguished by the different manifestations of symptoms, and different symptoms require different prescriptions to be treated, so that the right medicine can be prescribed.
Su Yujin wrote down three prescriptions in one breath, and clearly explained the diseases that the three prescriptions were used for.
After reading the three prescriptions, Doctor Li was immediately excited, "Good, good, good!"
After saying "good" three times in a row, Doctor Li's hand holding the prescription trembled slightly, and he bowed to Su Yujin repeatedly, "The people of Shilin County are saved, saved! Princess Ping'an is really the savior of Shilin County! God bless Shilin, God bless Shilin!"
Doctor Li was usually humble and gentle, and rarely got so emotional. This was enough to show that the prescription prescribed by Princess Ping'an was truly the right one to end this epidemic! County Magistrate Sun was also overjoyed. He lifted his dirty official robe and knelt on the ground, "On behalf of the people of Shilin County, I would like to thank Princess Ping'an for saving my life."
After County Magistrate Sun knelt like this, the yamen runners and the rest of the people behind him all knelt on the ground, and were all extremely happy.
Everyone present was from Shilin County. Whether they were relatives or friends, they had all been infected with the epidemic, and some even died from it.
How could people not be excited when they had a prescription that could cure the epidemic? Su Yujin hurriedly reached out to help, "Son, please don't be like this. This is just a prescription that can cure the epidemic. For an epidemic, it's just the beginning."
Now that we have the prescription, the next step is to prepare the medicine according to the prescription and treat people suffering from the epidemic in batches.
In the context of war at the border, when medicinal materials were already in short supply, it was not an easy task to prepare so many medicinal materials that could treat the epidemic. It was even more difficult to prevent more people from being infected with the epidemic in the process.
As Su Yujin said, this is just the beginning, and things that follow may be even more difficult.
Moreover, compared to watching the people die one by one from an unknown epidemic, the feeling of powerlessness of watching the people die one by one because you know the prescription for treating the epidemic but cannot prepare enough medicinal materials will be more severe.
It will make people feel more helpless and desperate.
But then again, now that we have the prescription, we see hope.
No matter how long the night is, the day will always come.
Magistrate Sun gritted his teeth and said, "I understand!"
With the prescription, County Magistrate Sun began to gather all the manpower and resources that could be mobilized in the county, prepared some medicinal materials according to the prescription, and began to have some patients nearby try the medicine and treatment to see the effect of the treatment.
In addition, according to Su Yujin's suggestion, people were ordered to separate patients with different symptoms of the epidemic and carefully handle the vomit and excrement of the patients. As for the dead patients, the old custom of burying them on the spot was abandoned, and they were burned in a big fire to prevent reinfection...
The entire Shilin County was brightly lit all night because of Su Yujin's arrival, and everyone was busy.
In a canyon, He Yanxiu and Lu Yuntao were leading a group of people, rushing through it.
Without lighting torches, they hurried on their way under the starry sky.
Historically, both in ancient China and abroad, cholera has occurred many times. Cholera is highly contagious, and acute patients will suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, severe dehydration, and even kidney failure and death after a few hours. The symptoms of cholera are described as mild in the novel. The treatment method of cholera in the article comes from Baidu. Don't be too picky.
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