"If one person in the 'big head plague' group is infected, then I believe that these people are very likely already infected," Dr. Lin added.
Lin Yinan rubbed her aching temples. She hadn't slept all night, constantly scrolling through information about the plague in her online space.
According to Dr. Lin and Yun Wu, the plague is commonly known as "big-headed plague," "lump plague," and "blood-vomiting plague," also called black plague.
"I wonder if there is a cure?" Lin Yinan asked, looking at the two of them.
The two shook their heads. All they could do at the moment was to separate the uninfected people and give the infected people some medicine. Whether they survived or not depended entirely on fate.
Lin Yinan told the two to do their best to treat the patient, and to send someone back to the city to get anything they needed.
Doctor Lin and Yun Wu exchanged a glance, then picked up their pens and quickly wrote down several lists of medicines for both internal and external use.
Lin Yinan took out a pre-copied prescription from his sleeve and handed it to the two of them.
"I saw this prescription in an old book, but I don't know if it's suitable for me?"
Doctor Lin took the prescription, squinted, and examined it closely. The more he looked, the brighter his eyes became. "Wonderful! This prescription is truly wonderful!"
After a while, he handed the prescription to Yunwu, who was completely bewildered.
"Take a look!"
After reading it in a few seconds, Yun Wu couldn't help but exclaim, "This prescription works!"
Upon hearing this, Dr. Lin took back the prescriptions he had previously written and rewrote them with some markings.
"Then let's try this method. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else."
With this ancient remedy, the two men's confidence increased greatly. Even if they couldn't be cured, at least it would allow them to live a few more days and suffer less pain.
Unfortunately, on the very day they moved in, before the medicine could even be prepared, three people died.
Only then did Pige and his friends realize the seriousness of the situation.
They were really infected with a very serious disease!
The next day, ten people died.
On the third day, thirty people died at once!
Panic spread throughout the warehouses. Doctor Lin and Yun Wu kept adjusting the prescriptions and treating different patients according to their symptoms. They also carried out fumigation to kill fleas twice a day, morning and evening. In Lin Yinan's words, it was disinfection.
On the fourth day, the number of deaths from the epidemic began to decline.
Subsequently, other healthy people began to fall ill, including Piggy.
After Dr. Lin and his team continued to administer medication, the swollen lymph nodes in the patients' necks gradually softened and then slowly disappeared.
As the infected people slowly recovered, Dr. Lin and Yun Wu knew that they could not let their guard down. Some patients with hemoptysis had a particularly long incubation period, some even not showing symptoms until the tenth day.
With their previous treatment experience, even if new symptoms appeared, Dr. Lin and Yun Wu could handle them with ease.
As the displaced people who had contracted the disease slowly recovered, the year quietly passed.
After further investigation, Lin Yinan learned from the refugees that the person who had encouraged them to come to Longtan was a young lady from the Zeng family of Cangwu County.
Adhering to the principle of "I will not offend others unless they offend me, and if they do offend me, I will retaliate twice as much."
After the Lantern Festival, Lin Yinan asked Liu Ji to deliver a message to the Deng family, asking him to help investigate which young lady from the Zeng family disliked her so much.
Within two days, Liu Ji brought back the results of his investigation into the Deng family, accompanied by Deng Shifa, the eldest son of the Deng family.
Deng Shifa told Lin Yinan about the information he had found in Cangwu County.
Before the Lunar New Year, the branch of the Zeng family was responsible for distributing porridge outside the city gate.
That person had been to Longtan; her family was Zeng Xiaofeng, who made hemp paper.
Lin Yinan was taken aback. "So it was her!"
Could it be that she's taking out her anger on herself for Su Yunzhi refusing to marry into the Zeng family?
"Does Lord Lin know her?"
Deng Shifa was somewhat surprised. When did Lin Yinan get to know the collateral branch of the Zeng family?
Lin Yinan told him about Zeng Xiaofeng's desire to marry Su Yunzhi.
"Hmph!" Deng Shifa sneered.
For a while last year, he found it strange that Zeng Xiaofeng would come to see his wife every few days; it turned out that he had this in mind.
"It's no wonder they want to poach your people. The Zeng family's prosperity is only supported by their unique business of hemp paper. Now that the sugarcane paper and bamboo paper produced in Longtan are not only of good quality but also cheap, who would want to buy the Zeng family's hemp paper?"
Lin Yinan suddenly realized, recalling how severe the epidemic was, how could the Zeng family have remained unscathed?
"I wonder how the Zeng family, who provided porridge to the refugees, are doing? Have any of them contracted the disease?"
Deng Shifa frowned. Fortunately, his father was quick-witted and stopped distributing porridge as soon as he realized something was wrong. Other prominent families in the city were not as lucky as them.
He continued, "Before the plague broke out in Cangwu County, Zeng Xiaofeng had already contracted it. As the plague spread, her condition worsened."
"She's dead?" Lin Yinan asked.
Deng Shifa: "No, the Zeng family was in a state of panic, fearing that they would be infected by her. So, under pressure from the Zeng family, Zeng Xiaofeng was sent to a country estate. Now she is already terminally ill and doesn't have much time left."
"Although Zeng Xiaofeng did a good deed, she harbored ill intentions, and Heaven will eventually punish her. I wonder what the situation is like in Cangwu County?" Lin Yinan asked.
Deng Shifa looked somber. The epidemic was rampant in Cangwu County, and everyone in the city was in danger, with the people suffering greatly.
"To be honest, Lord Lin, I have come here today for this very reason. I have heard that there is a cure for the plague in Longtan, and I have come here specifically to ask for your help. I implore you to lend a helping hand and help Cangwu County overcome this crisis."
Lin Yinan thought for a moment and said, "Young Master Deng, I'll take you to see the patients who are receiving treatment."
The infection rate in Longtan has been basically brought under control, and there have been no new cases in the past few days.
For this type of epidemic, prevention and treatment should be combined. Dr. Lin and Yun Wu found the prevention and treatment methods proposed by Lin Yinan very novel. Doctors have never distinguished patients so carefully before.
However, it turns out that this method works very well.
Plague is an extremely virulent and deadly infectious disease. In ancient times, without antibiotics, even though she presented the prescription early on, many people still died.
Moreover, Cangwu County, the source of this outbreak, has likely seen countless infections after this period of spread.
This place has been designated as a treatment warehouse, surrounded by high walls and guarded by guards, prohibiting people from entering or leaving at will.
Before entering, Lin Yinan handed Deng Shifa a cotton mask, explained its function to him, and demonstrated how to wear it.
Upon entering the gate, several children were playing in the empty courtyard.
Looking at the children's joyful laughter, Deng Shifa was somewhat puzzled. Was this really a place for treating epidemics?
Upon arriving at the doctor's office, Yun Wu and Doctor Lin were preparing the medicinal herbs needed for the day with several apprentices.
Lin Yinan explained his purpose, and Yun Wu volunteered to take Deng Shifa to visit the ward.
The wards in Longtan are not like those in Cangwu County, where the air is foul, patients cry and wail, and people die from time to time.
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