Wanli 1592

Chapter 1318 There is no cure for the disease
The number of officers within the Natural Disaster Response Strategy Division is considerable.

Xiao Ruxun incorporated a large number of officials into it, and many young officials were thrown into this bureau just after they were selected, becoming a clerk, and then they were about to start running errands in different places.

Doing so can also fully exercise an official's ability to handle affairs, expand his horizons, and let him understand how many disasters the country has, how the people are suffering, how great the responsibility is on him, etc., which is of far-reaching significance.

In order to better deal with these problems, a large number of professionals will also be incorporated into the Natural Disaster Response Strategy Department. Chen Jinglun and Chen Zhenlong and his son were previously incorporated into it to deal with locust plagues, but now the schistosomiasis in Jiangnan is not harmful at all. No less than a plague of locusts.

These are all national-level strategic tasks that require the entire country to mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources with strong mobilization and execution capabilities to coordinate and plan actions.

This time, Xiao Ruxun sent two action teams to the south of the Yangtze River. One team went directly to the garrisons in Jiangxi and Huguang to help the army establish a relatively complete mechanism for preventing schistosomiasis. The capture and investigation of the incidence range of schistosomiasis.

Xiao Ruxun specifically asked Liu Chuanhai, the doctor who led the team, to tell him that once related cases were found, he would organize people to salvage snails in the nearby water.

He told Liu Chuanhai that when catching snails, don't do it yourself, and don't touch the water body. Instead, use fishing nets and other things to catch them. Don't touch them after you catch them, and immediately throw them into boiling water to boil them to death.

Cook for at least half an hour, and then immediately send all the snails caught back to the capital for him. He needs to confirm some things.

Liu Chuanhai understood that he immediately organized people to go southward, and quickly traveled southward by boat from the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. He arrived in Nanjing in less than five days, and then went deep into the people in the south of the Yangtze River to conduct investigations according to Xiao Ruxun's requirements. The first stop was Dangtu County, Taiping Prefecture.

Because he received Xiao Ruxun's imperial decree to "fullly cooperate and grant the green light", he knew that the matter was serious, so Du Kangyong, acting as the governor of Nanzhili and one of the five tiger generals of land reform, personally led a team to accompany Liu Chuanhai to Dangtu County.

The first person in Nanzhili came, so Sun Wei, the magistrate of Taiping Prefecture, also came with him, and the two immediate superiors came together. Zhao Zhili, the county magistrate of Dangtu County, suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

He invited a local doctor to tell Du Kangyong and Sun Wei about the existence and dangers of the disease. When they learned that the disease widely existed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Du Kangyong and Sun Wei's complexions were not good.

"I used to occasionally hear that bugs invaded the human body and caused diseases in my hometown, but I didn't know that the scope was so large."

"Yeah, worm disease also happened in my hometown, but I didn't know it could infect so many people."

Liu Chuanhai nodded, and asked Zhao Zhili, "Is the former County Magistrate Zhou okay now? Has your body ever recovered?"

This is also what Xiao Ruxun asked him to do, and he also specially brought some condolences from the central government to the previous county magistrate.

"Magistrate Zhou's body has generally recovered, and he has improved greatly after taking the medicine. It is estimated that he will be able to resume work after a period of recuperation."

Zhao Zhili replied to Liu Chuanhai like this.

"Okay, I will tell His Majesty."

Liu Chuanhai said: "Magistrate Zhao, please take me to Xiangyang Village. I want to see the people who got sick and the waters where they live. What we know now, the cause of this disease Comes from the water and is transmitted by a species of snail."

"screw?"

When Liu Chuanhai said this, Du Kangyong and Sun Wei also found it strange.

"What kind of snail can infect this disease?"

"Is it just a snail?"

Liu Chuanhai nodded.

"That's what His Majesty said. It is a snail called the snail that spreads the potbellied disease. The snail is extremely small, less than an inch long, but the poisonous insect that can cause the disease is inside the snail.

This snail grows in the water, which can make the poisonous insects grow up slowly, and make the water full of poisonous insects, becoming plague water. Once someone touches the plague water, the poisonous insects can invade the human body in an instant. To eradicate the disease, This snail must be wiped out. "

"I see."

Du Kangyong and Sun Wei are both from the south of the Yangtze River, and obviously they also know the harm of parasites in the human body, and their faces change when they hear it.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Chen Deng, the governor of Xuzhou, liked to eat raw fish. Later, he became ill, with huge abdominal distension and red complexion. The famous doctor Hua Tuo prescribed a prescription for him. I can't control myself, continue to eat, and in the end, the medicine is useless, and then I die because of it, and the pest damage can be seen from this.

Du Kangyong told the story.

The story of Chen Deng's death from worm disease has been widely circulated. It is a famous example of death due to worms invading the body, and it has attracted the attention of intellectuals.

"Then how to treat a sick person with worms in their abdomen?"

Liu Chuanhai shook his head and said he didn't know: "The doctors in the Taiyuan Hospital have not yet reached a unified view. Our primary purpose here is to prevent the spread of the disease, not treat it. The disease is far-reaching and cannot continue to infect healthy people. "

Zhao Zhili opened the mouth and said: "Earlier, an official who accompanied the officials to Xiangyang Village to investigate came back and fell ill. The doctor gave him the Asafoetida Pills. After taking it, he passed out a lot of worms. It doesn't last anymore and the body is recovering now."

Liu Chuanhai immediately asked the doctor, and the doctor said that there was indeed such a thing, but he also said that this method sometimes worked, but sometimes it didn't work that well, because some people who took the pill were cured at the time, but similar symptoms appeared again soon after.

"Could it be that the deworming is not clean, and there are insect eggs left in the body?"

Liu Chuanhai asked so.

"Many people also see it in this way, so if you continue to take similar insect repellents, the effect will be good."

The doctor gave such an answer.

Liu Chuanhai nodded, and asked again: "Since it can be cured, why are there still so many dead and so many sick people, and there is no cure until death?"

The doctor looked ashamed and didn't know how to answer.

In the end, it was Zhao Zhili who explained.

This question ties into a bigger problem.

"The price of medicinal materials is not cheap, and the quantity is not large. Those who have money to take it are mostly officials and powerful families. These people have money, but most of the sick people are poor tenant farmers, and they have no money at all. , I can’t get enough to eat, how can I have money for medical treatment?
Although doctors have a parental heart, and some doctors do have the heart to help, but there are indeed limited medicinal materials, and they cannot cure so many people. Besides, the number of medical clinics and doctors is really very small, but there are so many patients, most of them cannot afford it. For money, doctors also have to eat, and they cannot do business at a loss.

So the doctors are willing to help, but the patients can't afford the medicinal materials. Some big medical clinics are willing to be kind and give medical treatment. To put it bluntly, there are few doctors, few medicinal materials, many patients, and many poor people. "

As soon as these words came out, Liu Chuanhai showed indignation. Du Kangyong and Sun Wei were both land reform officials, and they obviously remembered their own situation and encounters a few years ago, and they showed sighs of regret.

"In the previous dynasty, Huimin Pharmacy Bureau was often set up to manage local medicinal materials to treat the people. What about Huimin Pharmacy Bureau? Don't there be medicinal materials in every county and state?"

Liu Chuanhai asked again.

Zhao Zhili shook his head.

"Huimin Pharmacy was okay at the beginning, but the later it became, the more it was just a cover. There were often no medicinal materials, and even if there were, they were common medicinal materials that could be found everywhere. They couldn't make insecticides, and they couldn't save people. Huimin in many places The Bureau of Civil Medicine is simply an empty shell, which was emptied by the former magistrate long ago.

When ordinary people get sick, they either grit their teeth hard, or get some boiled ginger and the like. The sun is cold, and we will start all over again, and we will not be able to obtain many medicinal materials. "

Having said this, Zhao Zhili couldn't help shaking his head.

And the doctor sighed and said: "My teacher once said that there are many difficult and miscellaneous diseases in the world, but there are medicines that can cure them. Only poor diseases have no cure..."

(End of this chapter)