Chapter 243 Strategies
Tap, tap, tap.
The sound of intensive footsteps broke the silence of the Imperial Medical Office.
The expressionless Emperor Yu strode into the courtyard and raised his hand to stop the doctors who were about to salute in panic.
Behind him, followed by Xue Gongshan Chang Lian Xuanxiao, Zhongshu Ling Xueji, servant Zhong Dongfanglu, Shangshu Pushe Pei Su and other important officials,
Everyone followed Emperor Yu, stopped and looked inside the door.
In the room, Li Ang, wearing a white coat, was sitting on a folding stool, manipulating the spider's silk thread, taking out bloodsucking adults one after another from Yi San's abdomen, and picking out eggs one after another.
The entire project was torture. The average body length of blood-sucking adults was 20mm, and the buried positions were different in depth, and they were all still alive.
Eggs are even smaller in size, and they are deposited in the liver, stomach, and lungs. Every time they are picked, one must be careful to prevent damage to the organs.
Even with Li Ang's current cultivation base and his rich experience in using ink silk, he was still sweating profusely from exhaustion.
But for Yi San, this process was even more painful.
He lay flat on the bed, his eyes were covered with a cloth, and his hands and feet were bound to prevent him from hurting himself.
At every moment, he can seem to feel that there are fine silk threads passing through his body.
Stinging, itching,
bleeding, cramps,
On his swollen stomach, there were dense and tiny holes one after another,
Blood and sweat flowed down the skin and dripped into the wooden barrel at the foot of the bed—
The barrel was filthy, blood and schistosomiasis were mixed together, exuding an indescribable smell.
"Just hold on for a while longer."
Li Ang blinked his painful eyes hard, and said with difficulty, not knowing whether he was speaking to himself or Yi San.
Qiu Feng was silent, wiped the sweat off his forehead with a towel, turned his head and saw Emperor Yu and the ministers, and subconsciously wanted to salute.
"no."
Emperor Yu waved his hand, stood where he was and waited silently.
After a long time, Li Ang finally put down the spider web and slowly stood up from the chair.
He cleaned up the blood on Yi San's stomach with his thoughts, and asked two doctors not far away to carry a stretcher to send Yi San, who was completely exhausted, to the room to rest.
Then he turned around and saluted Emperor Yu, "Your Majesty."
"Can this disease be cured?"
Emperor Yu asked in a low voice.
Li Ang thought for a moment, "Your Majesty is asking about the symptoms, or the root cause?"
"What's the difference?"
"Treatment of the symptoms is just like what I did just now, using a new medical method, using Niansi as a tool, to carefully remove the Gu worms and eggs from the patient's belly."
Li Ang said: "But judging from the results of the investigation, the adults are pervasive, and the eggs are everywhere. As long as one adult and one egg are not found, the disease will recur again.
The probability of complete cure is very low.
In addition, even if it is a temporary solution, it is necessary to be at least in the hiding place, preferably a teacher who is above listening to the rain. After strict training, he can extract worms from the patient without harming the patient. "
Li Ang's tone was bitter and helpless. How many teachers in Yu State meet the requirements? Is there a few thousand?
Even if it is him, he can barely help one patient a day, and he needs to recover his energy and thoughts in the rest of the time.
Compared to the vast number of patients, it is just a drop in the bucket.
Emperor Yu also understood this, and asked deeply.
Li Ang paused, "Develop new medicines to completely cure patients."
"New drug?"
Empress Xue's elder brother, Zhongshu Ling Xue Ji frowned and asked, "Is garlic not useful?"
Li Ang shook his head, and said: "The patients admitted to the Imperial Medical Office have all taken allicin before, but with little effect. I'm afraid it's because of the different pharmacology—allicin can't kill Gu worms."
"Suzhou can't lose."
Emperor Yu said slowly: "Suzhou is located in the center of water transportation, and the annual transportation of Jianghuai rice is tens of millions of stones. If Suzhou is lost, the south-to-north grain transfer cannot be carried out."
To feed the 40 million people in Yu State, a huge amount of grain is needed every year,
Jianghuai accounts for more than 70% of the grain in the world. Every day, countless ships transport grain from the Jianghuai River to the north along the canal system built in the former Sui and Yu dynasties.
If Suzhou gets out of control, not only Jiangnan Road will suffer, but the entire northern counties and counties may face the risk of famine.
At that time. How many more people will die?
"Sunrise,"
Lian Xuanxiao, who had been lowering his eyes all the time, raised his head, and asked peacefully: "If you are given all the resources, manpower, material, financial, and authority, do you think you can find new effective medicines to control the water poison? "
". Disciple thinks, I'm afraid it's very difficult."
Li Ang shook his head slowly, "This water poisonous insect reproduces too fast and its vitality is too strong. From a pharmacological point of view, even if some useful drugs are used, they will cause great harm to the human body."
The best specific drug for schistosomiasis is praziquantel. This drug can excite, contract, and convulse the worm body at the lowest effective concentration. When the concentration is slightly higher, the worm body can burst and be swallowed by human immune cells. It has the effect of exterminating insects.
But to produce it, materials such as phenylethylamine, chloroacetyl chloride, potassium phthalamide, etc. are needed,
Not to mention all of them, just one is enough to stump Li Ang.
His words, like the winter wind, made the courtyard deserted again.
How absurd that a huge empire that rules over 400 million people and possesses countless monks and armored soldiers is helpless against some small bugs that are as small as hair.
“.Just follow the previous strategy to control the epidemic.”
Emperor Yu sighed and said: "Nearby state capitals provide medicinal herbs to treat patients, and dispatch manpower to maintain water transportation—stay away from the epidemic area as much as possible, or pass through the epidemic area quickly.
The Ministry of Households will investigate, and merchants are strictly prohibited from hoarding goods and driving up food prices. Offenders will be punished severely.
The Imperial Medical Bureau organized medical officers to go to Suzhou to see if there was any way.
As for Sunrise you.”
He paused for a moment, and said earnestly: "You are the most authoritative person in Yu country on Gu insect disease, so you should do your best in Chang'an for the sake of so many people of Yu country erecting shrines for you.
I will give you what you want, and find the right medicine no matter what. "
"As a commoner of the State of Yu and a disciple of the Academy, I should naturally do my best."
Li Ang bowed, and said seriously: "But I think that instead of staying in Chang'an, going to Suzhou may be more effective as a minister."
"Um?"
Emperor Yu was a little surprised, "Are you sure? Water poisonous Gu insects have existed since ancient times, and none of the famous doctors of the past dynasties can cure them."
"Water poisonous Gu insects are indeed difficult to treat. However, at least they can restrict the spread."
Li Ang said: "Just like malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, water poisonous worms should also invade the human body through some means to parasitize.
Since mosquitoes are killed in advance, malaria can be controlled.
Then, perhaps as long as we find the transmission route of Gu insects, we can control the spread of water poison.
It is impossible to find a way in Chang'an just by reading books.
Therefore, I ask Your Majesty for permission to send officials to Suzhou to investigate on the spot and find a way to eliminate Gu. "
(end of this chapter)