1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 49 How to Treat Cholera

"All you have to do is try your best to treat these patients. The hospital in San Francisco has admitted 756 cholera patients, plus the more than 1800 cholera patients in the Sacramento area, a total of more than [-] cholera patients need treatment. "Liang Yao said.

This is only the number of cholera patients who have been found. Due to the scattered gold mining areas, there are still many cholera patients who have not been found.

32 doctors treated more than [-] cholera patients, and their workload must be very heavy.

"The number of people is really too many. I'm afraid we won't be able to take care of all the cholera patients with just such a small number of people." Morris looked distressed.

Other doctors responded in much the same way as Morris.

"Although there are many cholera patients, the symptoms of the patients can be divided into mild and severe. We can arrange them according to the severity of symptoms and arrange our manpower reasonably.

As for the shortage of manpower, I will publish in the newspaper and recruit volunteers from the private sector to assist you. If there are not enough volunteers, I will pay you to hire enough manpower. "Liang Yao made his suggestion.

"It's a good way. I have treated some patients with mild symptoms, and they recovered very quickly."

Dr. Robinson agrees.

"At the same time, more than [-] cholera patients were rescued. This has never been preceded in the United States of America. Even the largest Pennsylvania Hospital, New York Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital are not capable of receiving so many cholera patients at the same time." Morris still has some concern.

"Relocating more than [-] cholera patients and treating them is not only a great test for us doctors, but also a great challenge for your organizational ability. Of course, it will cost a lot of money to do so." Another The doctor followed suit, expressing his concerns.

In this era, the medical system in the United States is not sound. Rich people often prefer to seek doctors from private clinics when they get sick, because doctors in private clinics have better medical skills.Those who have more money have their own private doctors.

There are also public hospitals, mainly for the poor, managed by the federal government, state governments and lower levels of local government.However, the level of medical treatment in public hospitals is relatively limited.This is exactly the same as later generations.

In addition, there is also a kind of charity hospital set up by charitable organizations, which is called love electricity, and mainly relies on charitable donations to maintain its operation.For example, Catholic church hospitals belong to this type of hospital.

"If there is no precedent, we will create a precedent! Gentlemen, as long as we defeat cholera, we will be recorded in the annals of history as a miracle in the history of medicine!" Liang Yao was well prepared to face these questions raised by the doctors.

"For all the cholera patients admitted, I will solve the board and lodging problem, and I will also bear all the treatment expenses, including your basic necessities, and I have already arranged it. I will withstand all the pressure from the outside world for you. All you need to do is Do your best to treat these poor cholera patients and keep them alive."

Liang Yao's prestige in the eyes of the Chinese is already at the peak of the sky, but what he wants is not only to have absolute influence in the Chinese circle.

He also wanted to have a high prestige among the white circles in California, and to do this, he had to control more than all aspects of their lives such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.

It is even more necessary to conquer their hearts and let them be completely convinced by you.

As long as you can conquer their hearts, you can conquer the votes in their hands, as long as you control the votes in the hands of these voters.With the power of the states in the United States, no matter how bad he is, he can still be a toubob in California, gain control of a state for himself and his compatriots, and have a foothold in the United States.

If his influence only stays within his own ethnic group, the upper limit of his future development will not be so high.

That's why he would rather lose money than treat other ethnic groups infected with cholera.

"I toast you."

Robinson, who had been silent by the side, poured a glass of sherry, stood up and drank it down.

"We also offer you a toast! It is a blessing for the people of California to have someone as generous as Mr. Liang in California."

The doctors in the restaurant stood up one after another with their glasses filled with wine, and solemnly toasted Liang Yao.

Looking at the entire United States, not to mention the wealthy gentry in those places, even the politicians in the government, there are very few people as responsible and established as Liang Yao.

They prefer to talk to voters and make promises they cannot keep in order to win votes from voters.

"To defeat cholera! To medical miracle! To your generosity! Cheers!"

Seeing that everyone's spirits were high and they drank the wine in their glasses boldly, Liang Yao raised his glass high, and then drained the wine in his glass.

After the meal, Liang Yao took out the pocket watch on his breast pocket to check the time. It was still an hour before Sacramento arrived in San Francisco.

Liang Yao asked Robinson to call several doctors with better medical skills to the deck. He wanted to know how doctors in this era treated cholera.

"You are doctors and you are professionals. I will not interfere with your work in terms of treating patients, but I want to know how you plan to treat these cholera patients?"

Robinson called several doctors with experience in treating cholera patients, and they gave similar answers to Liang Yao's questions.

"Relieves muscular pain and convulsions with camphor extracted from the bark of the evergreen tree."

"Powdered chilies are used as medicine to stimulate circulation in the body."

"If patients really can't bear the pain of diarrhea and vomiting, a little laudanum can be added appropriately, so that they can reduce diarrhea and vomiting a few times a day."

The doctors actively exchanged their own treatment experience and methods, and shared their treatment experience with each other.

The treatment plans given by these doctors were quite reliable, which made Liang Yao heave a sigh of relief.

At least there were no such wonderful treatments in the Middle Ages to deal with the Black Death, such as bloodletting, bathing with piss, pooping the body, swallowing emeralds raw, and whipping with leather whips.

Liang Yao was still a little bit worried that the hospital he had just opened would become a funeral parlor, but now it seems that he was worrying too much.

From the Middle Ages to the present, human cognition and medical treatment of diseases are constantly improving.

"But these can only relieve the pain of cholera patients. As for whether patients can survive cholera, it depends on whether their own immunity is strong enough." Dr. Robinson explained to Liang Yao, "In general, this is a It’s a palliative, not a cure.”

"Can cholera patients be rehydrated if they are severely dehydrated?"

Liang Yao thought that cholera could easily cause the disturbance of water-electrolyte acid-base balance, and later generations attached great importance to rehydration in the treatment of cholera patients.

The rehydration is carried out through the injection of normal saline, but this thing is also something that is only available at the end of this century.

Even if he had saline, he couldn't make injection needles with his current conditions.

"I tried to make them drink more water, but it didn't work. I also tried alcohol." Dr. Robinson shook his head.

"Drinking water directly may not be absorbed by the body, but what if the drinking water is prepared with salt and sugar? Will this promote the absorption of water by the gastrointestinal tract?"

Liang Yao remembered that some areas in Africa and South Asia with poor medical conditions used this kind of water replenishment method in later generations.

Now he can only try his best to treat these cholera patients with the existing medical conditions.Even if it is a local method heard from hearsay, he is willing to give it a try.

"I think I can give it a try."

Morris felt that this method could be tried.

"You really haven't studied medicine?" Robinson looked at Liang Yao with suspicion.

　The method of treating cholera in this chapter refers to Robinson’s personal diary. I also consulted a friend who is a medical student just now. Maybe this method is reliable. After all, the author is not a medical student.
　　It seems that the results are a little bit short of the continuation of the push, and the smart push has not risen in the past two days. I hope a miracle will happen, and I will give you a follow-up!

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