Chapter 317 The Black Death
The more everyone thought about it, the more moved they were, and the less they wanted to cause trouble for Jiang Tangtang.
Those who were in better health began to take the initiative to take care of the people. According to Jiang Tangtang's instructions, they dealt with people's vomit and prepared firewood to boil water.
Although Linzhong Village was remote and sparsely populated, it did have a well. The water in the well wasn't much, but it was enough for them to eat and drink.
With someone taking the lead, more and more people gradually joined in.
Take the initiative to deliver medicine and food to those who are seriously ill and unable to get out of bed.
The government sent supplies three times a day: a bowl of herbal medicine for each person and two cornbreads for each person.
The bowl-sized, golden tortillas are so fragrant that just the smell of them makes your mouth water, not to mention the taste. Many people think that this is the best thing they have ever eaten.
However greedy they were, those who helped deliver the cakes did not covet the food rations of the seriously ill patients.
Two piping hot tortillas were delivered to them intact.
There are a total of 208 patients in Linzhong Village, coming from different places, and there are many selfish and petty thieves among them.
But at this moment, everyone chose to listen to Jiang Tangtang, support each other, and overcome difficulties together.
In addition to Linzhong Village, there are three other quarantined villages, where patients suspected of having the disease, such as those with high fever and vomiting, are isolated.
Jiang Tangtang boiled medicine in Linzhong Village, encouraged the patients, and then rushed to the next village with his men without stopping.
"Madam, just let us handle these things. Why do you have to do it yourself?" Yuan Si looked at Jiang Tangtang who had not rested since she came to Cangwu and ran around every day to deal with the plague, feeling very guilty.
I feel that if they had not been careless and allowed people with the plague to flow into the city, the lady would not have suffered so much.
Jiang Tangtang said, "There are some things that I must step in for."
Things like delivering medicine to quarantined villagers and doing ideological work can only be more effective if she steps in.
She is like the image spokesperson of the Lingnan government, and has always been used for advertisements. Now her popularity and credibility have reached a level that no one else can match.
Although it is a bit hard for her to do it herself, it will definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort if she shows up.
And she doesn't have to make medicine and do publicity work every day.
Since she came in person today, she can hand it over to the people below her in the future, freeing up time to do other things.
"Is there any new news coming back from outside?"
Yuan Si was a little unaccustomed to wearing a mask. He pulled it awkwardly and said, "Third brother brought back the news that they interrogated the Xirong people again. This time, a Xirong person finally admitted that when they fled to Lingnan, someone in the village had a high fever and vomited.
But they didn't know they had the plague.
They just heard that Lingnan was a good place, and many refugees from the Great Zhou fled to Lingnan. If they didn't flee, they would starve to death in the village. They didn't want to starve to death, so they fled."
Jiang Tangtang frowned and asked, "Where did they hear this news? How did they know how to come to Lingnan and how to cross the border?"
"They said there was a merchant who wanted to buy cattle and sheep from their village. The merchant showed them the way and told them how to get there and how to cross the border. It was also the merchant who kindly told them."
If this wasn't a ghost, Jiang Tangtang wouldn't believe it. How could there be so many coincidental and kind-hearted businessmen in this world?
Jiang Tangtang suppressed her anger and focused on dealing with the plague first. Once the plague in Cangwu was under control, she would go and settle the score with Xirong.
"Have you found out about their eating habits and living habits?"
Yuan Sidao: "They said that in their village, almost every household ate the beef and mutton of those who died of starvation."
"Is there nothing else?" If it was just the beef and mutton that died of starvation, Jiang Tangtang felt that the possibility of an epidemic was unlikely.
Yuan Si thought for a moment, "The Xirong people weren't very clean to begin with. I heard that in previous years, when there was no water shortage, they only bathed once every few months. But after the drought, they stopped bathing, and now they're infested with lice and fleas."
Jiang Tangtang suddenly realized that lice and fleas are also infectious agents, and hurriedly said, "Send a message to them, telling them to be careful of lice and fleas. I'd rather have my head shaved than bring lice and fleas back."
Thinking of the scene of lice and fleas running onto his body, Jiang Tangtang felt his hair stand on end.
Yuan Si hurriedly wrote down Jiang Tangtang's words, intending to pass them on to Yuan San without missing a word.
After a while, he thought of something else. "Oh, right? They also catch mice to eat. I heard someone in the village even had a fight over a mouse, and it almost resulted in a death!"
When Jiang Tangtang heard about the mouse, he felt as if his brain was suddenly electrocuted, and a flash of inspiration came to him.
Aren't rats just mice? They carry the most germs. Could it be that eating rat meat is the cause?
It seems that there was plague in history caused by eating rat meat.
Jiang Tangtang immediately called a pigeon over and sent a message to Doctor Xue.
On the other hand, after reading the medical records of the previous batch of doctors sent to Cangwu and examining the bodies of several infected doctors, Doctor Xue came to the same conclusion as Jiang Tangtang.
However, the plague of this era was not called the plague, but the Black Death.
High fever and vomiting are only the initial symptoms. As the disease worsens, the patient's skin begins to bleed, bruise, cyanosis, necrosis, etc. After the patient dies, the body turns purple-black.
When Doctor Xue came to this conclusion, his face changed.
In his medical career, he had never encountered such an epidemic. He had only seen it in ancient books from the Valley of Divine Doctors.
In addition to recording prescriptions for treating this kind of epidemic, ancient books also recorded the situation at that time in detail.
In a word, just run away quickly. There is no other way except to run away from the sick person.
All they can do as doctors is to do their best and leave the rest to fate.
Jiang Tangtang finished visiting the remaining quarantined villages and returned to the government office after dark. Without taking a break, Jiang Tangtang went to see Dr. Xue first.
Seeing Doctor Xue sitting in a chair, staring at a medical record in a daze, Jiang Tangtang had a bad thought in her mind.
She placed the cookies she brought specially on the table and said, "I brought these specially. Try them."
Doctor Xue's eyes didn't light up as usual when he saw the delicious food. He pushed the medical records on the table over and said, "Look, this is the complete medical record. At the beginning, the information I sent over was incomplete.
Vomiting and fever are actually just initial symptoms. As the condition worsens, skin ulcers will appear later..."
Jiang Tangtang had already made a guess in the afternoon, and unexpectedly, she guessed correctly. She took a deep breath and asked, "Can you prescribe a treatment?"
"There are two prescriptions in ancient books. I can write them down and give them to you to try." Doctor Xue's expression clearly told her not to hold out hope.
"You drive it out first. I'll have someone prepare it and try it out. If it doesn't work, we'll think of other ways." Jiang Tangtang stood up and walked back.
She quickly went back to her space to look for books on this subject.
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