Yaichiro and his younger brother Jiro looked at their family members dumbfounded, and hurriedly walked over and asked, "What happened?"
My wife shyly whispered: "They took a look at me and Asaki's hair and said..."
As he spoke, the voice behind the woman sounded like a mosquito.
Yachiro didn't hear what his wife said clearly at all, and asked anxiously: "What did you say?"
"Says there are lice." The wife and the woman lowered their heads, their faces turned red.
"Ah?" Yachiro was a little confused. What does it matter if a poor man has a few lice? Does this matter?
"People say that lice on the body can spread the plague." A man who had just shaved his head entered the tent with his head hanging.
Is there such a thing as this? Yachiro and his younger brother stared at each other, not knowing what to say.
"You two, come out and have your heads shaved!" Outside the tent, a woman in a white coat shouted into the tent.
Yachiro and his brother sighed helplessly, forget it, just shave it, and you don't have to comb your hair.
So Yachiro obediently sat on the stool outside the door. After a while, as his hair continued to fall, his head felt cooler and cooler.
After shaving her hair, the woman behind her took out a soaked towel from a bucket nearby and twisted it a little. He casually picked up Lamy Ichiro's head and wiped it with a few strokes.
The shaved woman waited for Yaichiro to stand up, then shook the white cloth to clean all the remaining hair, pointed to the stool in front of her, and said to Yaichiro's younger brother Jiro: "Sit down!"
Jiro had no choice but to sit there with a sad face.
When Yachiro entered the tent with his head slicked back, the little son in his wife's arms looked at him and started to get happy.
After a while, after Jiro also finished shaving his head. The woman in charge of shaving her head swept all the hair that had fallen onto the floor into a pile. A guard came over with a torch and set the hair on fire. So the flames that exuded a burnt smell kept crackling, and it took a long time before there was no movement.
At this time, the woman outside the tent called the Mishiro family to come out again, and then took out five pieces of yellow soap and nineteen pieces of white cotton from a red bucket.
Yaichiro took it and smelled it, and there was a sour smell. Do you think this is food?
"Remember, there is medicine in this. Use this to wash your hair every day. After five days of washing, you will no longer have lice. The cotton cloth is for wiping your face."
Mishiro and others looked at each other in confusion, thinking that the gentlemen here are very strict in their control, not only about lice, but also about wiping their faces.
After the women left, everyone just sat down and chatted for a while. A tall woman wearing a white coat and a mask walked in again.
Yachiro and others saw that this woman's eyebrows were very beautiful, but they didn't know what she looked like under the mask.
Then, a girl who looked like a child appeared from behind the woman. She was also dressed normally; but she had a big brown bag on her shoulder. Everyone was stunned when they saw that this girl's eyebrows were even more beautiful.
What is this for?
The girl suddenly said. "Master asked us to check your body to see if you are sick."
Are these two women doctors? By the way, shouldn’t all doctors be bald monks?
In the Edo period, most doctors shaved their heads like monks. This tradition is said to originate from the Warring States Period, when doctors on the battlefield shaved their heads to show that they were non-war personnel.
(Most doctors in the Edo period came from hereditary medical families, and they usually had to practice medicine for 10 to 20 years before they could practice medicine independently. If the family had no children or the heir was unwilling to be a doctor or had poor medical skills, he would choose an outstanding person from among his disciples. Or adopt a person from another medical family as an adopted son and let him inherit the family. Because the mainstream of medicine in Edo is traditional Chinese medicine, in addition to learning medical skills, doctors also need to learn Chinese and the Four Books and Five Classics.)
The tall woman walked a few steps forward with her hands behind her back, looking at everyone in the tent one by one. When she saw Yaichiro's son, she frowned and walked over.
Yaichiro saw this woman pointing at her son and saying something to the girl next to her. He himself didn't understand a word, so he turned to look at his brother, who also shook his head to express that he didn't understand.
After listening to what the tall woman said, the girl said to Yaichiro's wife: "The teacher said your child is sick, and she wants to check it carefully."
Yaichiro's son has been in poor health since last year. Not long after arriving in Matsushima Town, he saw his son's belly bulging day by day and becoming thinner and thinner. Yachiro knew it was a disease caused by hunger. He tried his best to find food and eat it first for his son, but he still wasn't feeling better. He had recently started to cough, especially at night.
Thinking of this, Yachiro quickly took his son from his wife's hands and carried him to the lower bunk. I saw the female doctor taking out a strange thing from the box that the little girl was carrying and putting it on her neck. There was a soft tube in the middle of the thing, and I didn’t know what it was for. The hanging end was a round shape. Something, one side is shiny and the other side is black.
Yachiro's wife and daughter both got down from the upper bunk and walked to the opposite side of the lower bunk, watching in awe.
I saw the female doctor unbuttoning the child's clothes and first hanging the thing hanging on the chest on both ears. Only then did Yachiro realize that one end of this thing was actually made of metal.
The female doctor picked up the hanging metal block and placed the black side on her son's chest and stomach. After a while, she put it down. Then she pressed Yachiro's son's belly a few more times with her fingers, then covered the child's clothes and said something to the girl.
After a while, the girl said to the Yachiro family: "The teacher said that your child lacks nutrition, so he has water in his stomach."
Nutrition? Standing water? What are these?
The girl didn't understand at first glance, so she asked the female doctor a few more questions, and then said: "Just let him eat more good things."
When everyone heard that this was the case, they shook their heads and sighed. Who doesn't understand this? But for more than a year, farmers couldn't eat taro, radish, wild vegetables, these daily foods, let alone any good ones.
But what the girl said next frightened the Yachiro family.
"The teacher also said that the child also has a lung disease and needs to be treated as soon as possible."
(In the Qing Dynasty's "Measles Living Encyclopedia", pneumonia is also called lung-closing asthma and cough, lung-wind and phlegm asthma.)
The Mishiro family quickly bowed and begged the female doctor to save their child. The female doctor raised her head and said a few words to everyone, then turned and left the tent.
The Yachiro family looked at the girl and heard the girl say: "The teacher said that she has to check on other people and will come over to give the child medicine at night."
So everyone sent the girl outside the tent, bowing and thanking her endlessly.
Two hours later, outside the RV at the campsite next door.
Liu Siting took off her mask, took off her white cloth coat, raised her hand and knocked on the door.
It was Liu Sheng who opened the door: "Hey, Director Liu, please come in, please come in."
"Is Zhao Xin here?" Liu Siting asked.
"Here, I just came back from the ship. I have something else to talk to." Liu Sheng said as he stepped aside to let the other party in, and then went out.
Liu Siting first went to the bathroom and washed her hands carefully. After coming out, she walked in front of Zhao Xin and asked, "Are you free? Let's talk about two yuan?"
"Yes, there must be. It's all for ten yuan." Zhao Xin laughed while pouring tea for Liu Siting.
"Hey, you haven't slept all night. Why are your eyes bloodshot? Your face doesn't look right." Liu Siting asked.
"It's just that I didn't sleep well last night. I was just dreaming. I woke up very tired in the morning. It's okay, just take a nap and you'll be fine." Zhao Xin explained with a smile.
"Hong Tao and I basically scanned the first batch of 500 people. The main problems are the following..." Liu Siting was talking when she saw A Miao, who came in later, picking up a piece of cloth and starting to wipe the floor.
Liu Siting pointed to the seat next to her and said sternly: "A Miao, put it down. Sit next to me and listen."
A Miao timidly looked at Zhao Xin with the cleaning cloth, neither putting it away nor holding it.
Zhao Xin shook his head helplessly, reached out and grabbed the cleaning cloth and threw it aside.
"Listen to your teacher."
After hearing this, A Miao sat down obediently. Buling Buling has big eyes, looking at Liu Siting for a while and Zhao Xin for a while.
Perhaps influenced by Liu Siting's stern tone, King Duofu originally wanted to hug A Miao, but he turned around and jumped onto Zhao Xin's lap.
Liu Siting glared at King Duofu and took a sip of tea before continuing to Zhao Xin: "The problems with these five hundred people are not big. They are mainly lice and other parasites and malnutrition. A dozen children have pneumonia and need to be treated as soon as possible. . But subsequent nutritional supplements must keep up. Also, I looked at the faces of these people. Most of the children had pityriasis alba on their faces. Considering the food and drinking water of this era, I think the possibility of roundworms is very high. It’s big, so the problem of deworming needs to be dealt with as soon as possible.”
Zhao Xin petted the cat and thought for a while before asking: "Are the medicines enough?"
"This batch is fine, but if there are a few dozen more people in the next batch of 500, it will be quite troublesome."
Zhao Xin murmured: "It seems we have to go to Nagasaki as soon as possible."
Liu Siting was stunned: "What does this have to do with Nagasaki?"
Zhao Xin did not explain. He changed the topic and said: "Since there are not enough medicines, I will take Doctor Hong back tomorrow. As for malnutrition, don't we have more than two hundred horses? There seem to be dozens of mares in there. One I will go to Liu Zheng and ask him to get some mare's milk for those people every day. In addition, I have to arrange for people to go fishing in the river. Although it is not the salmon migration season, I see there are still a lot of fish in the river. Yes. Deal with it for a few days first and wait until I come back."
Liu Siting nodded and could only do this for now.
The two chatted for a while, and then Liu Siting left. She had to prepare the medicines and go to the isolation area in the evening to distribute the medicines to the pneumonia patients.
When Liu Siting left, Zhao Xin asked A Miao to follow him to help. So he was the only one left in the RV at this time.
(Blessed King, and me~~~~)
