Chapter 840 This is too unreasonable

Rabies, nowadays still called "hydrophobia", is also called hydrophobia.

As early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong's "Emergency Prescriptions for the Elbow" recorded treatment methods, but most of them were useless.

For example, "To treat a dog bite, first use coffee to remove the blood, then use moxibustion sticks to sterilize the wound at high temperature." This means that if a person is bitten by a mad dog, the dog saliva and blood must be removed from the wound first, and then the wound must be roasted with moxibustion sticks and sterilized at high temperature.

There is also: "Kill the dog that bit you, take its brain and apply it to the wound, and the disease will not recur."

What this means is that the mad dog that bites someone should be killed, its brain taken out, and applied to the wound of the bitten person, which can prevent the attack of rabies.

How should I put it? This one seems incredible, but in fact, it is the first step in the development of rabies vaccine. After all, when Pasteur made the world's first rabies vaccine, the virus was extracted from dog's brain marrow.

But this alone is still useless, which is probably equivalent to the vaccine not being inactivated? There are still many so-called "secret recipes" in the world today, such as incense ash in front of Buddha, and some detoxification recipes, which are actually all useless.

The mortality rate after people contract rabies is almost 100%, but being bitten by a dog does not necessarily mean you will contract rabies. Therefore, most of these secret recipes are just coincidences that the person is not sick, and they are not effective drugs.

Yan Shirong asked her, "Xinbao, if a person has hydrophobia and bites someone, will he save them?"

Xinbao nodded: "When the disease finally breaks out, there is also virus in the saliva, and there is a certain chance that it will be passed on to others."

Yan Shirong asked, "Do other doctors know about this kind of thing?"

Xinbao said: "You should know this, it's a very common thing."

She also gave them a detailed account of the stages of rabies.

For example, the latent period, prodromal period, acute neurological period, and paralysis period.

There are no symptoms during the incubation period of rabies, and it cannot be diagnosed by taking the pulse.

After that, it enters the prodromal phase, during which symptoms such as headache, fever, fear, anxiety, agitation, etc. will appear. This period is most commonly two to four days.

When you start to be afraid of water, it means you have entered the acute neurological stage, where you are afraid of water and wind, have difficulty breathing, and even become extremely terrified at the mention of the word water. This lasts for about one to three days.

Then the person enters a paralysis stage, the convulsions stop, and he falls into a coma, usually dying within a few hours.

Hao Huashi said: "Your Majesty, I will go out and ask the people in the eavesdropping room."

Emperor Mingpei nodded with a serious face.

Maybe he was really old and couldn't bear to hear such things. He was so scared that he held Xinbao tightly and refused to let go.

Yan Qingshan and Yan Shirong sat on either side, knees touching each other, and none of them said a word.

Xinbao's whole body was tied up tightly, unable to move. Only his little head was still flexible. He looked at this and that, took out a bottle of pills from the space, and laboriously poured them out between Yeye's arms. After pouring out the pills, he stuffed a pill into Yeye's hand.

Emperor Mingpei didn't care what it was, he just took it and swallowed it.

Xinbao wanted to hand it to Daddy, but her two little arms were pressed down, so she could only stretch out her little hands under Yeye's arms: "Daddy, brother."

Yan Qingshan and the other man both took it, and then when Xinbao looked up to find Hao Hua, he found that he was not there.

Hua Shuang squatted down and took the bottle of pills from the gap between the three people: "Master, I will give it to Master Hao when he comes back."

Xinbao said, "You guys eat too, each of you eat one."

Hua Shuang wanted to say no, but they were really scared, so she finally nodded silently, and she and Hua Han and the others each took a pill.

The shadow guard came again to report: "We found out that this person is from Pingfeng, his surname is Yu, the child is called Yu Yang, his father is called Yu Dashan, his wife died long ago, and he opened a snack shop in Pingfeng with his parents. Only the father and son came here, and they just entered the city yesterday morning. When he went to the clinic to seek medical treatment, he started to be afraid of water and wind. The clinic said that he was suspected of hydrophobia, and then wrote a pulse case and sent it to the doctor."

The more he spoke, the colder their expressions became.

It takes three or four days to travel from Pingfeng to the capital!

Xinbao said before that there are no symptoms during the incubation period, and you can't tell whether it's rabies even by taking the pulse. And the symptoms after that can't tell whether it's rabies. Those symptoms, such as fever, can easily be confused with other diseases! ! Normally, you must first see a doctor locally, and only go to the capital after taking medicine for at least one or two days and find that the fever can't go down.

But they are here now!

This shows that these people rushed to the capital as soon as they fell ill, so they could seek medical treatment and get to the hospital in time! If they were delayed for a while, they would have died on the way.

But how many people would rush their children to the doctor as soon as they have a fever, treating it as an incurable disease?

This is too unreasonable! Emperor Mingpei gritted his teeth and said grimly: "Catch them all and interrogate them to death!"

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

"Yeah, yeah." Yan Shirong held his hand and said, "Don't worry, that's Xinbao's place, don't make a scene there."

He said to Shadow Guard, "When Dabai goes, bring the child out, as well as the family members. Then let Wei Xuanxiao and Cui Dunyi investigate, and just say that we received a tip-off that this person wants to harm Xinbao."

Emperor Mingpei pulled the jade pendant from his waist and threw it to him: "In three days, I want to know the result."

The shadow guard responded and left.

Xinbao was still in a daze.

Rabies is an incurable disease, but what if there was a vaccine?

The earliest rabies vaccine was invented by Frenchman Pasteur.

The virus was first passaged several times, then removed along with the rabbit spinal cord and placed in a sterile bottle to dry.

Fourteen days later, the dried spinal cord was taken out, ground into an emulsifier, diluted with saline, made into a vaccine, and injected into the dog's brain. Then, the diseased spinal cord that had been dried for thirteen days was injected again. After the toxicity was strengthened step by step, it was found that the dog did not become ill when injected with ordinary rabies bacteria.

This means the dog is immune.

This is the original rabies vaccine, and it should be possible to do it under current conditions.

However, nowadays is different from the later times, especially in the farms, almost every family has a dog, and dog bites are not taken seriously. Even if it is made, will they come? What's more, there are no syringes nowadays, and sterility is also difficult. We have to start from scratch.

Xinbao turned to ask Yeye: "Yeah, yeah, rabies can be cured when you are just bitten, but it doesn't mean you will get sick after being bitten. After you get sick, the vaccine is useless and there is no medicine to cure it... But the vaccine is very troublesome and may cost a lot of money, because this method is very difficult, there are many steps, and many things that are not available now are needed. Xinbao can't do it himself, and may need others to do it, and maybe it will require very capable people. So can Xinbao do it? That is, that is... is there any meaning in doing this now?"

Mingpeidi touched her little face and said softly: "Xinbaoer, you don't have to worry about how much money it costs..."

When he said this, his nose was sore and he choked up for a moment. After a long while, he continued, "Xinbao..."

(End of this chapter)