Compared to the former one, the latter one is much simpler.
Most infectious diseases are transmitted through the respiratory tract, that is, droplets and air.
When dealing with this infectious disease, masks are a must-have item.
As long as most people have masks at home, the infection rate can be greatly reduced after an epidemic occurs.
In this way, it can also give enough time for epidemic prevention.
Facing Li Ke's gratitude, Sun Simiao smiled and waved his hand.
"Your Highness is serious. This is your idea. Even if I don't remind you, Your Highness will think of it later."
"In addition, in addition to masks, His Highness can also publish some methods on preventing and treating epidemics."
"This time's disaster relief and epidemic prevention depends entirely on you, Your Highness."
Sun Simiao also admired this very much.
Some of these practices he had never heard of before.
But after doing that, it really worked.
In a sense, it can be regarded as expanding his medical knowledge and allowing him to be a student for a time.
"Ahem, cough, cough, don't dare to take it seriously."
"The Taoist priest's methods of fumigation, pouring chemicals into wells for disinfection, etc. are actually very advanced means of epidemic prevention."
Li Ke touched his face, feeling quite embarrassed. After all, he knew these things by standing on the shoulders of giants.
It's not really his original work.
However, being reminded by the other party opened Li Ke's mind.
Today’s traditional Chinese medicine seems to have not yet come into contact with the microscopic aspect.
The development of medicine must step into the micro level.
Take the plague as an example. In ancient China, it was believed that it was caused by something that accumulates in the body, destroys the body, and eventually leads to death.
This kind of thing is very small, too small to be seen, but it does exist.
On the microscopic level, it can be observed that this is caused by viruses.
As China's recognized king of medicine, Li Ke naturally didn't know how far Sun Simiao had come in medical science.
But if you tell him the micro-level content, it means that Chinese medicine can be introduced to this level in advance.
Will it cause the effect of 1+1>2?
Thinking of this, he became more and more excited.
"Daozhang Sun, if I told you that the plague was caused by something called a virus, would you believe it?"
Li Ke thought for a moment, looked at the other person and asked.
"Virus?"
"Yes, it's a virus. Let's sit down and explain it to you slowly."
Li Ke helped the other person sit down and immediately began to explain the meaning of the virus in organized language.
During this process, Sun Simiao sometimes frowned, sometimes asked questions in confusion, and took out a small notebook to start recording.
Finally, he looked at the contents in the notebook and was silent for a while before speaking.
"So what you mean, Your Highness, is that in the world we live in, there are two things, bacteria and viruses."
"People get sick because they are infected with certain microscopic viruses and bacteria."
"Yes! That's it!"
Li Ke picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Divine Doctor Sun is not stupid, it will naturally take a lot of words for you to explain something that you have never touched and cannot see.
"No wonder, no wonder."
Sun Simiao squinted his eyes, as if he had figured something out, and then he asked again.
"Then Your Highness, is there any way to observe these microscopic things?"
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it for the time being."
Regarding this question, Li Ke shook his head without hesitation.
You have to use a microscope to see this stuff.
However, let alone microscopes now, it is estimated that making magnifying glasses and telescopes is quite difficult. Where can I find the conditions to make a microscope?
When Sun Simiao heard this, a look of disappointment suddenly appeared on his face. If he could observe these things, he would be able to take a big step forward in medicine.
"But... if it doesn't work now, it doesn't mean it won't work in a few years."
He is a man with a system. Let's see if he can draw a microscope out of the lottery when the time comes.
If you really can't pull it out, you can make your own glass lenses and polish them. The difficulty in accuracy can only be overcome slowly.
"Your Highness, are you telling the truth?"
Sun Simiao's disappointed expression disappeared and was replaced by excitement.
A few years is really not that much time for him.
If there was a way to observe things at the microscopic level by then, he could still afford to wait.
Of course, he can continue to do research in this area in the past few years, and maybe there will be other breakthroughs.
After all, what Li Ke said opened up a new path for him, with unlimited possibilities on it.
"Of course it's true. Within five years at the latest, I will definitely be able to bring the microscope to the Taoist Priest."
Li Ke promised.
"In this case, I will wait for Your Highness."
Sun Simiao laughed.
In the following time, Sun Simiao asked Li Ke for a lot of advice on this aspect.
It's a pity that the latter only has so much ink in his stomach, and no matter how much he searches, he can't find any more useful knowledge.
Li Ke could only apologize for this.
But there is no doubt that this seed must have been sown.
As long as the microscope is built, we can develop into modern medicine.
After talking about this, Li Ke started to talk about the reason for looking for Sun Simiao today.
As the disaster gradually subsided, the situation changed from suppressing the spread of the plague to restoring people's livelihood. Today I came to ask about the situation.
"The situation is generally improving."
"With the efforts of His Highness, as many as 60% of the infected people in Cangzhou City have recovered, and of the remaining 40%, 20% are first-stage patients and are recovering."
"Of the remaining 10%, two-thirds are stage II patients, and only one-third are stage III patients."
Sun Simiao answered while stroking his beard.
As the largest city in Cangzhou, Cangzhou City, together with the surrounding villages and towns, has a permanent population of about 200,000.
Of course not everyone was infected with smallpox this time, but there were close to 150,000 people. Even excluding those who left at the beginning, the number of critically ill patients left at the end was still not a small number.
For the management of critically ill patients, it really depends on luck. Maybe they are fine one day, but their condition worsens the next day.
Li Ke nodded slightly, feeling a little heavy.
Because some of these patients would not have become critically ill originally, just because they did not receive timely treatment.
And all of this is caused by that guy named Wu Yong!
"Your Highness, a group of people are coming outside, requesting to see Your Highness."
At this moment, number 03 suddenly walked in and said.
"Who is it?"
"Your Highness, he said his name is Wu Yong."
