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Chapter 1237 Time
Outside Tongzhou City, with the arrival of Chief Medical Officer Chen Shigong, there was an unprecedented large-scale bathing.

Under the order, more than [-] medical households who were transferred to Tongzhou from various places by the emperor obeyed the order and took water and sulfur powder from the Yongding River outside the city to take a bath. support.

Bathing with sulfur powder is the method of sterilization and disinfection in Dongyang Military Hospital. In addition, steaming sulfur is used to disinfect clothes. Bathing with water is not blind washing. The earliest Dongyang Military Doctors used random proportions for bathing. The result is that the sterilization is killing. There are also many cases of sulfur burns on the body, and it is even more impossible to treat patients with wounds, so now they have found out the ratio that can kill bacteria without hurting the skin.

A better way is to mix a small amount of sulfur into the pancreas and use it to bathe. However, in the past, the Beiyang Industrial Zone did not have such a habit. At this time, they are working overtime to catch up with the production, but they cannot keep up in a short time.

There is also a full set of medical equipment that can't keep up. This is the final reason why Chen Shigong divided the medical households into two groups. He clearly remembered that Emperor Wanli told him before he left Beijing that the imperial court transferred 830 medical households to Tongzhou. , but at this moment there are only more than six hundred outside the city.

Traditional doctors are far less aware of isolating germs than those trained overseas. They are all brave, and they go to great lengths to save lives even when they are defeated. There are many excellent doctors among these people who suffer from inadequate protection measures. The situation I would like to see.

He has more than [-] sets of medical equipment produced by Beiyang, so only more than [-] people are allowed to enter the city. Only when doctors like them are well protected can they help more people.

When the west gate of Tongzhou City was opened, the people who wanted to rush out of the city were startled by the heavily armed doctors.

They are all white clothes and black boots. Due to the rush to work in Beiyang, the fabrics are not dyed. The three layers inside and three layers outside wrap the doctors tightly. They wear white hoods on their heads. They are all effectively protected. They are hung with medicine boxes on the left and right sides of their waists tied tightly by wide belts. When they are opened, there are a row of knives and needles of various types inside. There are black rings on the chest and back with medical characters written inside. Medicine chests, and some even wore breastplates and bowls.

It is the armor of a Beiyang military doctor. There are brazed knife slots on both sides of the breastplate's upper abdominal ribs, a reinforcement buckle on the waist for attaching the belt of the medicine box, and a slot for inserting a rectangular glass shield under the brow of the helmet. The amputation ax goes into battle to kill the enemy, and it can also effectively protect military doctors from contaminating their eyes with the blood of patients when dealing with war injuries.

This group of people came directly from the Beiyang Military Hospital. They are all young military medical apprentices with a full set of equipment. They were a little nervous when they went to the epidemic area. They studied in the Beiyang Military Hospital. They were really inexperienced, but they didn't expect that when they came here, they would all be assigned as team leaders by their senior Chen Shigong, each leading six or seven doctors and households to guide them to wear equipment, clean and disinfect.

This is their strength. The military doctors themselves know that they are not as good as the medical households in using the prescriptions for curing the plague... They are the army first, and the doctors second. It is even more accurate to say that they are all special forces, joining the infantry front Shooting in bursts with guns and changing queues are special skills, but they have to use guns to snipe long distances, pull grenades to drop bombs in thirty steps, pick up tigers and squat cannons and release them, and drive the baggage truck to quickly evacuate. meeting.

After all, no one knows when the worst happens and the military medical battalion needs to join the battlefield, what weapons and equipment will be left for them. It is impossible to carry an ax and fight hand-to-hand with the wounded soldiers. These young people are also mentally prepared. prepare.

On the contrary, traditional medical skills are not exquisite, they just rely on equipment and knowledge to know a lot about how to prevent them.

But now they and doctors and nurses are complementary.

The common people who wanted to leave the city had already gathered in front of the city gate, but they did not dare to rush through the gate because they were guarded by the city guards. They wanted to see what the officers and soldiers wanted to do when they opened the gate, but they did not expect to see this group of ghost-like characters .

Especially at the front, dressed in a military doctor's armor and wearing a military doctor's helmet, behind him hangs a banner of the chief medical officer of Beizhili, holding Chen Shigong with five thunders in his arms... This costume is really the chief medical officer, not the chief military officer?
"Don't worry the people in the city. I am the chief medical officer of Beizhili personally appointed by the emperor to curb the plague. Officials in the city, please trouble me to find it for me. The rest of you should go back home and don't go out. You can go out within an hour." There is an imperial order conveyed."

In fact, Chen Shigong has no experience as an official. He is good at curing diseases and saving people, but he doesn't have enough experience in mobilizing and managing these matters. Fortunately, there is a capable person in Tongzhou at this moment.

"The chief medical officer doesn't need to call the officials in the city anymore. The Zhizhou inspects the sick people and dies. The rest of the officials are here at this time."

The one in the crowd who answered Chen Shigong was a young man. He wore an official robe and pushed away the crowd and stood in the middle of the road to salute: "Li Sancai, the next new household doctor, did not expect that the first order at the beginning of his tenure would encounter the Tongzhou epidemic. People from Tongzhou are trapped in the city at this time, if you have anything to do, just leave it to me."

Tobe Langzhong?

Chen Shigong looked over through the glass mirror of the military doctor's helmet and took a closer look at the man's face, he was very young.

He is indeed very young. This Li Sancai was born in Jiajing in 31 years, and now he has become a fifth-rank Hubu doctor in just his [-]s. He can definitely be called a successful person.

"At present, there are six squares in the city with more than a hundred people who are sick. They are guarded by officers and soldiers and are not allowed to go in and out. The rice and grain transferred by the household department have been delivered to the door of the people on a household basis, which is enough for three months. The rest of the sick people The few neighbors are visited by doctors, and the people who come to the city gate come from those neighbors who are not sick."

Li Sancai's tone was calm, as if he was talking about something insignificant, but there was inevitably a little pride in his words. This was not his merit, but it was his ability.

Unexpectedly, Chen Shigong just shook his head flatly and said: "There is no absolute safety, let all the people go back—fire the cannon."

The following orders were addressed to the team of accompanying doctors. As soon as the words fell, the military doctors behind held up the two firecrackers hanging on the long poles in a spear-holding posture and ignited them.

This movement startled Li Sancai, and choked him so much that he couldn't hide for a while, or if he didn't hide, but fortunately he didn't hide, because Chen Shigong walked towards him.

"If the doctor has nothing else to do, let's go home for the time being. The big head plague is coming. All streets in the city will be completely closed at this time. No one is allowed to go in and out. It only takes three days to know how many patients there are in the city. Five of them will die within eight days. Cheng will die from this disease, and I don't have much time."

"Gather the yamen servants in the city, each lead a team of military doctors, distribute firecrackers and sulfur powder to each household, keep six teams, and follow me to see the seriously ill six workshops."

Under the city gate, heavily armed medical households drove into the city with vehicles loaded with firecrackers and rationed sulfur powder.

(End of this chapter)