Chapter 272 Taking the plunge
Because of this young woman who came to see the doctor for syphilis, Li San Niang even went to the back room to ask Manager Gao how to deal with this kind of infectious sexually transmitted disease.
"The Imperial Medical Bureau doesn't have any strict requirements for treating such serious illnesses. Only diseases that are common among the general public are required to be reported to the Imperial Medical Bureau as soon as possible."
Li San Niang understood. In other words, this disease, which was mostly spread through sexual intercourse, was circulating in a small area and would not cause much harm to ordinary people. It was essentially left to its own devices.
Alright, now that she knew what to do, Li San Niang didn't say anything more.
However, Li San Niang still felt that it was best to manage such a contagious disease. She was afraid that some people would not take it seriously, and some would be too embarrassed to speak up. In the end, the disease would be transmitted to people who could not have gotten sick through shared living habits, which would be truly tragic.
"Hopefully, the lady of Green Ripple's family will listen to advice and come to take a look."
On her way home from work, Li San Niang learned from Qiu Xiang that Mr. Bu Ke wanted to discuss the matter he had previously proposed with her.
"Shall we go home first, or go straight to Shihualou?"
"Third Sister, I already told Sister-in-law Li when I came that we won't be going home tonight."
After Nineteen, who was sitting on the carriage shaft outside the carriage door, said this, Li Sanniang nodded in agreement: "That's fine then. Let's go directly to Pingkangfang and see Mr. Bu Ke as soon as possible. After we've talked, we can also go see Jiu Niang."
On the way, Qiu Xiang also went down to buy a few meat-filled flatbreads.
"You're so shrewd. Eat something now, otherwise you won't have time to eat when things get busy later."
The juicy, meat-filled flatbread was freshly made; how could it not be delicious?
Li San Niang ate two by herself. If she hadn't really been too full, she would have eaten another one.
However, Shijiu and Qiuxiang, being both martial artists and big eaters, each ate three of them before they were satisfied.
"This food is delicious. I'll buy some to take home next time I go home. I'm sure Dewdrop will love it."
By the time they arrived at the back door of Shihualou, it was already completely dark.
Looking at the lanterns lit on the street, if Li Sanniang didn't know that this place was full of cannibalistic places, she would have thought that the lanterns and the music were quite interesting.
After being greeted and escorted upstairs by Qi Zhidie, Li Sanniang calmed down, realizing that her next meeting with Mr. Bu Ke was the most important thing.
Mr. Bu Ke, still dressed in an elegant white long robe and with his hair tied up with a translucent jade hairpin, was already waiting inside the house.
"Sir, are you well?" x3
Following Mr. Bu Ke's gesture, Li San Niang sat down casually.
Mr. Ke's hunchbacked servant still stood behind him, his body hunched over. Li San Niang raised an eyebrow as she looked at a small booklet that had been laid out on the table.
Mr. Bu Ke gestured for Li San Niang to go and look, and he didn't say anything more, but instead focused on drinking his tea.
What are we waiting for? Let's take a look and see what tricks the Bad Guys have up their sleeves.
Li San Niang picked up the booklet, which was bound with thread just like the one she had given to Mr. Bu Ke before. It felt to be several dozen pages thick. She looked at it carefully in front of the candlestick next to her.
Two quarters of an hour passed, and apart from Li San Niang turning the pages and Mr. Bu Ke drinking tea across the room, the only other sounds in the room were the crackling of candlesticks.
This small booklet, spanning several dozen pages, states that through Li San Niang's method and after numerous experiments, the Bad People finally created a reusable distiller and produced alcohol with a purity of about 60% suitable for disinfection.
"Do you have a sample of this purified alcohol, sir?"
The hunchbacked servant took a small porcelain bottle out of his pocket and carefully placed it on the table.
Li San Niang picked up the bottle and uncorked it, and a long-lost pungent smell of alcohol wafted out.
The best way to judge this is to look at its disinfection effect, but you can't find someone with a wound, apply this alcohol to disinfect it, and then wait to see the wound heal, right?
Therefore, Li San Niang's method of judgment was to burn it.
First, Qi Zhidie found a brazier, poured in a small bottle cap's worth of liquid, and then borrowed a tinderbox from Shijiu. "Pfft!" The fire started. Judging from this, the purity should be about 60%, which is true as written in the booklet.
Because Li Sanniang's previous alcohol distillation project was successful, the Bad People and several related places began to have a little trust in the promises made in Li Sanniang's booklet.
Therefore, the booklet that Mr. Bu Ke gave this time clearly stated that if Li San Niang could really make cowpox, which corresponds to smallpox, and penicillin made using a traditional method that is even more potent than alcohol, they would be willing to open the door to help Li San Niang's daughters.
Li San Niang is starting to panic, mainly because they've given her too much.
Li San Niang used to think that she was only concerned with making empty promises and didn't care whether they would come true in the end.
But now she was genuinely afraid. What if the grand plan she had drawn up failed to materialize, except for the alcohol purification that had already been successful? Would she have to hang herself from a tree in the southeast?
When Li San Niang was in school, she had studied the development of cowpox vaccination, because her infectious disease group report was on cowpox vaccination, and she was confident in its procedures and methods.
However, the homemade penicillin production method is a bit risky. She only knows about it from a pharmaceutical perspective and knows the process, but she is not sure how it will go in the experimental stage.
However, judging from what is written in the booklet, all subsequent developments can be directly contacted through Li San Niang's Women's Assistance Association, which can be said to be very accommodating, giving them a great deal of freedom to help the women who join the association improve and make money.
They've given us too much; we have to make it work even if it's not feasible!
"Ten days... ah, no, seven days. Within seven days I can write down the specific method of smallpox vaccination for you. If you prepare now, when spring comes next year, you can start human trials."
Mr. Ke was very excited, but his greatest expression of excitement was simply raising his voice by one notch.
"Third Sister, will this method really work?"
Li San Niang nodded emphatically: "It can work, it definitely can work!"
"What about the penicillin that Third Sister mentioned before?" Mr. Bu Ke turned his attention to the traditional method of making penicillin. Li San Niang frankly said, "Don't bite off more than you can chew. Let's finish this smallpox vaccine first and save tens of millions of people in the Tang Dynasty from the suffering of disease. Then we can talk about penicillin."
Mr. Bu Ke did not press the matter further and lowered his head to drink his tea again.
Li San Niang asked with some anxiety, "Will you keep your word about the promise that the help you will be made to my family's daughters?"
My mother, my two sisters-in-law, and I will be very busy with this matter.
"Third Sister probably doesn't know, but you're now officially registered at the higher-ups. If they think you're useful, they'll definitely help you get things done. Don't worry."
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