Sun Shichang's question also stunned Yang Qingyuan for a moment.
Yang Qingyuan also recalled the previous diagnosis results of Tang Shenwei, Li Binhu and many famous doctors in Jinling. Not only Sun Shichang, but also many of them had made similar diagnoses.
Jinling was the ancient capital of the Zhou Dynasty, and there were many famous doctors among it. Everyone said this, and it certainly made sense.
Yang Qingyuan thought it was a misdiagnosis at first, but as more and more people were diagnosed in this way, Yang Qingyuan began to waver.
In the end, all the doctors were divided into two groups. Most of them believed that the symptoms were more likely caused by poisoning, while only a small group believed that it was an epidemic.
When Tang Shenwei and Li Binhu diagnosed and suspected symptoms of poisoning, Yang Qingyuan actually felt that he had to redefine the epidemic this time.
Now Sun Shichang said the same thing, which was obviously the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Before Sun Shichang arrived, many Jinling doctors who thought it was poisoning had already begun to discuss Yang Qingyuan's previous practices in their hearts, although they did not say anything.
It is a taboo for an outsider to command an expert!
Yang Qingyuan's misjudgment is likely to lead to treatment errors, making the epidemic situation in Jinling City uncontrollable.
Now even Xinglin's top national player, Senior Medicine King, thinks it's more like poison, so that's probably it. Yang Qingyuan is beginning to question his decision-making!
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Yang Qingyuan was a little unsure at this time, but in the end he chose to stick to his point of view.
"Senior Brother Sun, I have been with you for several years in Wudang, and I can still distinguish between poison and disease."
Not only can he distinguish them, Yang Qingyuan's understanding of poisons and diseases is better than that of Xinglin national players.
From the concept of modern medicine, poisoning is a reversible or irreversible interaction between chemical substances and chemical components of biological systems, which interferes with the body's normal metabolism and homeostasis mechanism; poisoning has no prevention and treatment mechanism to a certain extent.
Disease refers to a process in which the body is abnormal in life activities due to disorder of its own homeostasis after being damaged by the cause under certain conditions, and triggers a series of changes in metabolism, structure, function, space, and size. Mainly Manifested as abnormal symptoms, signs and behaviors, the disease can be resisted by one's own immunity.
Generally speaking, poisons as defined by the Dazhou medical community are basically non-infectious.
Even a strange poison like Jinbo Shunhua is more of a remnant of toxicity that does not decay.
But epidemics are different!
The biggest feature of the plague is its extraordinary transmissibility. The spread from person to person makes the plague change its color.
When Yang Qingyuan thought about this, he became uncertain, because the resistance of ordinary martial arts practitioners to diseases is much stronger than that of ordinary people, but now there are a large number of martial arts patients in Jinling City. Doesn't this explain from the side? , the physical resistance did not play any role? !
Is it really poison? !
In order to obtain confirmed results, Yang Qingyuan brought Sun Shichang, Tang Shenwei, and Li Binhu to an inn.
This was the place where the epidemic was first discovered, and Liu Li and Feng Wei were the first to be infected with the disease.
Previously, Tang Shenwei and Li Binhu focused on researching the right medicine and spent a lot of energy on exerting the medicinal power of tea, but they had never been to this place.
"Three of you, you can diagnose and treat the police here, and then you will know why I am so sure..."
Sun Shichang and the others followed their instructions and diagnosed Liu Li and other detectives.
Li Binhu and Tang Shen were so subtle that they didn't react much. After Sun Shichang completed a simple inspection, his expression changed drastically. He released Liu Li's veins, looked at his skin carefully, and used a wooden stick to widen his nostrils. , observe the situation inside.
"It's... unbelievable! No wonder Junior Brother you insist on saying that this is an epidemic!"
Judging from Sun Shichang's diagnosis just now, Liu Li and Feng Wei were indeed suffering from the epidemic. No matter from the appearance of their symptoms or their pulse conditions, they were the same as those of the previous patients.
"Two of you, have you noticed that these detectives are completely different from the patients just now?"
Tang Shenwei and Li Binhu looked at each other. They were both good at medicine, prescribing the right medicine to the patient's condition, and using corresponding medicines to combat it.
Regarding the causes and pathology, he is not much better than those famous doctors in Jinling.
"Although the symptoms of these patients look exactly the same as those of the previous patients, the causes of their illness are completely different. The reason for this person's illness is infection, but it is the evil spirit that enters from the mouth and nose. It was his skin that started the disease."
Sun Shichang put on his whale skin gloves and said, "Junior brother, is this the reason why you insist that this is an epidemic?"
Yang Qingyuan nodded, that's why he insisted it was an epidemic.
Sun Shichang frowned, "It seems like there are two different groups of patients in Jinling City!"
Li Binhu was puzzled, "Senior Sun, what do you mean by this?! Do you mean that although their symptoms are the same, they are two different diseases?!"
Sun Shichang shook his head, "It's hard to say now!... Get the needle!"
A set of silver needles was quickly placed next to Sun Shichang. Sun Shichang's movements were like lightning. In just one breath, he had already pierced thirteen silver needles into Liu Li's meridian points.
Under this stimulation, Liu Li, who had fallen into a coma, slowly woke up again.
"Yang Hou...who is this?!" Liu Li had just woken up and was still in an extremely weak state.
"I have some questions for you, Sun Shichang. Please try your best to answer them!"
Liu Li was stunned for a moment when he heard Sun Shichang's name, and then his eyes changed from disbelief to relief.
The name of Medicine King is known all over the world. It seems that his life has been saved!
"Do you know how you contracted this disease? Qingyuan said, you were the first to contract it. There must be some special link that caused you to be infected. It was probably because you ate something you shouldn't have eaten, and Or you smelled something or touched something unclean, think about it and see if you can think of anything?!"
Liu Li was about to speak when Yang Qingyuan on the side said, "Brother, I know what you want to ask."
Yang Qingyuan then repeated the situation Liu Li described at that time.
Sun Shichang had been treating illnesses, saving lives, and studying medicine all his life. When he heard the scene retold by Yang Qingyuan, he couldn't help but cursed angrily, "Beast! This thief deserves to be killed!"
After Yang Qingyuan finished speaking, Liu Li added again, "We found five or six hundred corpses in the cellar. Some were intact, and some were rotting and infested with maggots. There was indeed a stench in the cellar. It is different from the ordinary corpse odor. Several people like me were ordered to deal with the corpses, smelled the stench, and turned the corpses. Could it be that the disease was contracted at that time?!"
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Tang Shenwei couldn't help but ask, "Senior Sun, could this be the cause of the disease?!"
Li Binhu on the side also said, "According to my medical skills from ancient books, outbreaks of plague are often accompanied by corpses. This is why battlefields after wars are more likely to cause epidemics. Plagues mostly occur after deaths, and corpses are found after death. If not treated in time, it will rot and attract flies, rats and other dirty things to gather, which will cause epidemics. It is not impossible for hundreds of corpses to pile up together and not be treated for a long time to cause epidemics."
But Yang Qingyuan is still skeptical about this view. The spread of this disease is not like a normal plague at all.
"By the way! Yang Hou, there is one more thing!" Liu Li said again at this time, "I was unconscious before and didn't go into details. At that time, we captured a few prisoners and asked them about Huang Ye. The cellar of the island is a medicine refining place dedicated to doctors, and some of the people they capture will be sent to him."
"You are refining medicine, I think you are clearly refining poison!" Li Binhu was originally a good-tempered person, but when he heard that a doctor actually tested medicine on living people, resulting in hundreds of deaths, he became furious.
"But even so, this must be poison. How could it become a symptom of the epidemic?" Tang Shenwei raised questions, but then said to himself: "Could this be related to the poison that was poured into these poor people before they died? ?!”
After a few breaths, Tang Shenwei overturned his own conclusion, "It shouldn't be! This person died like a lamp going out. Even if the deceased had someone force-fed this strange poison before his death, the poison would only be accumulated in the human gastric juice, and the blood would The flow has stopped and the meridians have been blocked, so there is no way it can spread throughout the body, let alone play any role in producing the plague?!"
After thinking deeply, Li Binhu objected again, "Brother Tang, I thought otherwise. This Capt. Liu has contracted the disease. According to what Senior Sun just said, he got sick due to the entry of violent breath into his nose. It is very likely that it is related to It’s related to the corpses in the cellar. And the symptoms of the Jinling plague are exactly the same as those of these arrests. Although the ways of getting sick are completely different, there must be a connection between the same symptoms."
Sun Shichang just closed his eyes and thought deeply, but did not express his opinion. After a while, he slowly stood up, opened his eyes and said, "Qingyuan, is Miss Ji in Jinling?!"
As soon as Sun Shichang mentioned Ji Mingzhu, Yang Qingyuan thought, "Brother Sun, could this be a gu?!"
Yang Qingyuan's words stunned Tang Shenwei and Li Binhu. Neither of them had thought in this direction.
"It's hard to say!" Sun Shichang frowned.
In fact, there are not poisons in this world that can still spread in the human body after death. The barbarians in the southern border are good at these poisons.
The poisons used in the Central Plains are mostly known for their lethality when blood seals the throat.
But Southern Xinjiang is different. Their poison technique is even more weird and unpredictable. They can cultivate strange poisons based on corpses, allowing the poison to corrode the internal organs of the human body from the inside out, and even the surface of the skin. The blood of the deceased is stagnant and the meridians are blocked and accumulates, but it will continue to become stronger and stronger.
They use this poisonous flesh and blood to feed the poison to refine the poison, in order to add poison to poison.
"The plague in Jinling City is poisonous, and poisonous. Unheard of, and unseen. I suspect that it is mixed with the poisonous technique of southern Xinjiang, so that the plague, poison, and poison are combined into one. It has such a weird effect. It’s just that I’m not proficient in this method, so I asked this question. If I can invite Miss Ji here, it may be of great help in curing this disease."
"Senior Brother Sun, don't worry. The Pearl is in Yangzhou, but she has not followed me to Jinling. I will immediately send someone to invite her here to jointly develop a detoxification and treatment method."
There is no conclusion yet on this strange disease, so Yang Qingyuan decided to temporarily call it "epidemic virus".
Today's research findings also allowed Yang Qingyuan to find a new idea, "If it is a poison, there should be an antidote. If we find the person who refined the poison, we can at least know how the poison was cultivated, and perhaps we can find a way to detoxify it." ."
"Good!" Sun Shichang nodded. If he could know the recipe for poison, he would be able to detoxify and cure diseases with twice the result with half the effort.
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Although there is no way to detoxify and cure the disease today, it can be regarded as a fruitful harvest.
Previously, although Yang Qingyuan knew that someone had done it deliberately, he had always regarded it as an ancient version of a biochemical weapon, using the human body to spread it, so he had been managing it by isolating the pathogen and cutting off the spread.
Therefore, he had never thought about the possibility of continuous poisoning by humans, but now with Sun Shichang's reminder, his thoughts suddenly broadened.
No disease can infect 300,000 people in ten days.
But poison can...
Of course, it is impossible for one person to poison 300,000 people one by one within ten days. Even if 300 people work around the clock, it may not be possible.
But if this poison is applied to something that 300,000 people need to use, then it is reasonable to infect 300,000 people in ten days.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all human necessities.
Clothing, housing and transportation are not suitable for poisoning, only eating is convenient and simple.
In this way, the answer is ready to come out!
What is the food that 300,000 people must eat? Rice, grains, vegetables, and meat each have their own benefits, and they cannot be poisoned uniformly. Water is the only daily necessity for people.
This also explains why infected patients are more divided by region and infected in clusters.
Yang Qingyuan originally thought it was because the people in Jinling City lived in fixed places and rarely moved around, but now it seems that it was just because they were poisoned in the same well!
This also explains why many wealthy families have survived in the past.
The mansions of these wealthy families have their own wells, and they are self-sufficient in food and drink. If you want to poison, you must first sneak into the other party's mansion. To poison each household, it is not only troublesome, but also very likely. be found.
You must know that many wealthy and distinguished families have martial arts masters. Once discovered, their actions will be completely exposed, and they will not be able to use the epidemic to confuse people.
On the contrary, people use water from a well shared by dozens of households in a city street. As long as the poison is poured into the water well, dozens or even hundreds of households in the city area will definitely be infected.
Moreover, these wells are public, so poisoning them is easy.
Later, these wealthy families also gradually became infected, which also shows that this virus has a certain degree of transmissibility after being implanted into the human body.
Although it is not as scary as Yang Qingyuan originally expected, human-to-human transmission does exist.
The same is true. This kind of epidemic virus is covered with a shell of plague, making it difficult to discover its essence. If Sun Shichang hadn't come personally and discovered the clues with the medical theory of the Wenyi School, I'm afraid it would still be impossible to confirm its true ingredients.
"Come here, please immediately investigate the water wells in Jinling City and post notices. From now on, all water in the city will be disinfected and distributed by the government. Residents in the city must not drink the water from the wells privately!"
ps: (The result of Tiema Binghe’s case is the same as the author’s judgment at the time. He was not convicted of selling white noodles. The subjectivity and objectivity were inconsistent. In the end, he was convicted of illegal business and exempted from punishment. This is only reasonable! Zhongmu Court 66666!)
ps of ps, there is no need to pay extra for this part.
