Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 261
Wang Pingan scratched his head, thinking: "If you can't think of something, let me think about it, but I can't think of anything. At most, I can think about it from a medical point of view. But what can be done about the national economy and the people's livelihood in medicine?" ?”

Seeing him thinking about it, Changsun Wuji felt amused, young people really are young people, once I asked him to think, he really remembered, could he really think of something?
Although he expressed some hope to Wang Ping'an, he always felt that even if he saw a piece of rough jade in front of him, it had to be polished.And the process of polishing must be done by him himself, so that the polished jade can truly belong to his eldest grandson's school.

Changsun Wuji tapped Wang Ping'an's bowl lightly with his chopsticks, and said, "Eat this elbow quickly, if it gets cold, it will become greasy and taste bad!"

Wang Pingan snorted, picked up the elbow in the bowl, and chewed it in his mouth, he said: "This elbow tastes really good, it melts in the mouth, no wonder the eldest grandson loves it!"

Changsun Wuji chuckled twice, and he also held his elbows and started to eat.The two lowered their heads, and started to eat and chew.

While eating, Wang Ping'an thought, "If you talk about medical skills, there are too many things that can affect the people of the world. For example, the Panax notoginseng I got can benefit countless people. Keep using it."

But on another thought, the medicine of notoginseng is new enough, but it will involve war, and it will be used by soldiers first.This is not quite in line with what Changsun Wuji said just now.

Changsun Wuji spat out a bone, and said, "Think about the common people in the world, think hard. Well, eat hard, if one elbow is not enough, I will let the kitchen do it, and eat until you think it out!"

Wang Pingan spat out a bone, thinking: "Eat so greasy on a hot day, be careful of nausea and vomiting!" He thought again, if he insisted on the national economy and people's livelihood, it would be a common disease instead of intractable diseases. just work.

typhoid?Heatstroke?None of these will work. There have been precedents. Whether doctors can cure patients is related to the individual's medical practice, but not too much to do with theory!
At this time, after the two of them had a big meal, the plate of elbows had already bottomed out.Changsun Wuji pushed a plate in front of Wang Ping'an, and said, "Eat this, sauced beef, made with the best veal, very fragrant, not worse than elbow!"

Wang Pingan picked up a piece of sauced beef, chewed it in his mouth, nodded, and said, "It tastes really good!"

He said so, but he thought in his heart: "It's good to be the prime minister. Although the sauced beef is not a delicacy, the taste of his family is far better than that of the famous chefs in the big restaurants. But when I talk to the outside world, I will Mr. Wuji lives a simple life, and the best thing he eats every day is nothing more than elbow or sauced beef, which is not luxurious. In fact, only those who have tasted it will know that if these two dishes are taken outside, they will be expensive. It’s not cheaper than delicacies from mountains and seas!”

Sure enough, I heard Changsun Wuji say: "This sauced beef is made of calves brought in as tribute from the Turks, and ordinary people can't eat it. Our Datang cattle are used to cultivate the land. If anyone kills them and eats them, that's a big deal." It's a sin, you can only eat it after you die of old age. If you don't have a disease, think about it, the meat of old cows can be compared with veal, and the taste is completely different!"

Prairie, cow!

Suddenly, Wang Ping'an had a flash of inspiration. He thought of a big event. This big event is related to medicine, and it can definitely be called a big event. It is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. There will be hundreds of millions of people who will benefit from it.It is not an exaggeration to count in units of one hundred million, because history has proved that this is a fact!

Wang Pingan suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said: "Master Changsun, you have seen a lot, and you know that there is a disease that was transmitted from the grasslands. It is very harmful. Since this disease was introduced to the Central Plains, thousands of people have died. Tens of thousands of people have died because of this disease, do you know the name of this disease?"

Changsun Wuji laughed, put down his chopsticks, stroked his beard, and said with a smile, "You actually dared to test this old man, you are quite courageous! However, if this old man tests you, you will also test this old man, which is fair. "

Looking at the sauced beef on the plate, he said, "Foot-and-mouth disease?"

Wang Pingan quickly shook his head and said, "This is caused by cattle, sheep and animals. It has nothing to do with people, and it is even more impossible for tens of thousands of people to die. I mean the disease that people get!"

Changsun Wuji said oh, he only thought for a moment, and fear appeared in his eyes, he also remembered that kind of illness.Since this disease was introduced to the Central Plains, it has never been cured. It can be said that there is no cure. People who have this disease either die or survive by themselves, and even if they survive, the face There are often scars on the skin!
This terrible disease is called smallpox because of the scars!

Changsun Wuji said, "You're talking about the... smallpox that was infected by prisoners of war from the west in the Han Dynasty and was called 'Lushang'?"

Wang Pingan nodded and said, "Exactly, the student is talking about this disease!"

Smallpox, this is a disease with a very high mortality rate!In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was infected by prisoners of war from the west, so it was also called "Lushang"!
In ancient times, any disease that was contagious and would kill a large number of people was called a plague in a broad sense!And among all the plagues, no matter how they are ranked, such as death rate, time of onset, area of ​​infection, etc., no matter how they are ranked, smallpox definitely ranks first. It is the most terrible plague, bar none!

The number of people who died due to smallpox can really be said to be in units of [-] million!
For every four people who got smallpox, one died, and the remaining three were left with smallpox.Let’s not talk about it, let’s talk about Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. He was able to become emperor because he had smallpox, so he was considered not to be short-lived, and the pockmarks on his face were actually smallpox acne scars.

This is still the case for the royal family of the Qing Dynasty thousands of years later, let alone the folks of the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago!In this era, no doctor has a cure for smallpox.Even for a character like Xiaoxian Weng Ge Hong, in his "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription", he only records smallpox without specific treatment methods.

Hearing Wang Pingan mention smallpox, Changsun Wuji suddenly felt a burning sensation all over his body. He grabbed Wang Pingan's hand and said, "No disease, why are you mentioning smallpox, but there is a cure?"

Wang Pingan was silent. Of course he knew how to prevent smallpox, but when it comes to treatment, there is no rule of law. Even in modern times, no practical, effective and accurate treatment method has been found, and only supportive therapy can be used. , the most effective way is prevention.

For ordinary people in modern times, the cognition of smallpox is only the small pox marks on the arms left during vaccination. Even many doctors only hear the name, but have never seen the real one. Smallpox broke out.So let Wang Pingan say how to treat it, he can't say it, even if you use the familiar method to vaccinate the pox, you have to practice it from the beginning, and you can't just say, I can prevent this disease!

He shook his head and said, "The students are not skilled in medicine, and they haven't found a cure for smallpox yet!"

After Changsun Wuji heard this, he was greatly disappointed, and slowly let go of Wang Ping'an's hand, saying: "If we can really find a cure for smallpox, that would be great. What kind of meritorious deeds? Compared with it, leaving the image is nothing, this is the real merit that will last for thousands of years, and its name will go down in history!" After finishing speaking, he sighed again and again, shaking his head!

Wang Pingan hummed and agreed. He cleared his throat and said, "However, the student came up with a method to prevent smallpox after research. As long as he passed the dialectical test and tried it out, it might work!"

Changsun Wuji was taken aback for a moment, then raised his hand suddenly, and slapped Wang Ping'an heavily, he said angrily, "You kid, why are you panting for words, you're fooling me."

Wang Ping'an grinned when he slapped him, and thought: "I didn't speak out and gasped. You asked me if there was any cure, and I answered no truthfully, and you started to sigh yourself, so don't care about me!"

Changsun Wuji smiled and said, "Tell me quickly, what have you researched, and how can you prevent it?"

Wang Pingan rubbed his shoulders and said, "If you want to prevent it, you must first get smallpox..."

"It's really unreasonable to come here to amuse the old man again!" Changsun Wuji stroked his beard and almost pulled some of them off, he said: "It's all going to hell, how can we talk about prevention!"

Wang Pingan said: "Master Changsun, you heard what the students said. Did you find out that cows can also get smallpox?" He pointed to the sauced beef on the plate.

Wang Ping'an's pointing made Changsun Wuji startled. He said, "I haven't studied it before, so how would I know? Do cows get smallpox too? This is the first time I've heard of it!"

Wang Pingan said again: "Then the eldest grandson must know about the disease of cowpox, right?"

Changsun Wuji nodded and said, "Of course this old man knows, it's a kind of rinderpest! Why, what's the relationship between cowpox and smallpox? Could it be that they are a kind of disease?"

Cowpox is a relatively mild smallpox disease. It was not until the end of the eighteenth century that Jenner, the father of immunology, would conclude this. Once he concluded this, the smallpox disease would be brought under control.

Wang Pingan nodded and said: "My lord Changsun is absolutely right. I... I have observed in Wuli Village in my home for many years, and I have come to a conclusion that cowpox is a kind of smallpox. It is acquired by cattle, but it can also be transmitted. give it!"

Changsun Wuji let out an ah, stood up suddenly, and shouted: "No wonder smallpox was spread from the grasslands in the first place, but it turned out to be from cattle to humans! Great, smallpox is a vicious disease that has harmed countless people. Now that we know its source, we can prevent it!"

Wang Pingan said with a smile: "Exactly, smallpox can be prevented..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard Changsun Wuji say: "The old man will report to the emperor and let the emperor give an order to kill all the cattle immediately, so as to eliminate smallpox! Smallpox is a terrible disease. Cows, but can save countless people in the world, then these cows should all be damned!"

Wang Ping'an groaned and said, "This... is unnecessary!"

(End of this chapter)