Zhu Su and Queen Ma just watched quietly. It wasn't until half an hour later that Dai Sigong carefully pulled out the silver needle from Zhu Xiongying's body.
"Dai Lao, I see there are no red spots on Xiongying's body...have you cured the smallpox?" Zhu Su asked with some hope. After all, Dai Sigong was a world-famous miracle doctor, and he was brought back to Yingtian, which was one of the variables of history. Perhaps he alone would be enough to cure smallpox.
"How can it be so easy?" Dai Sigong wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, his old face filled with grooves full of exhaustion and sorrow. "I just used the prescription in "Qianjin Prescription" to temporarily relieve the illness of smallpox in His Highness Taisun's body, and used silver needles to temporarily seal the illness in the body..."
"However, smallpox is a serious epidemic, and I have tried my best..."
"Aren't the prescriptions left by Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, all curable?" Queen Ma asked urgently.
Dai Sigong shook his head: "Zhenren Sun's prescription can only temporarily relieve the disease, but it cannot cure it... When I was just applying the acupuncture, I heard His Highness say that there might be a way? I don't know what it is?" He looked at Zhu Su with burning eyes.
"I'm about to discuss it with Mr. Dai." Zhu Su said quickly.
He told Dai Sigong about the cowpox vaccination. Dai Sigong frowned and stroked his beard, thinking deeply. "Your Highness, are you saying that if you take the pus from the smallpox swollen body of a cow and plant it in a human body, you will be protected from the harm of smallpox?"
"It is true that once you have been infected with smallpox, you will never be infected again in this life... But if you take the thickened swelling and apply it on the human body, isn't this the same as making an otherwise healthy person take the initiative to catch smallpox? This way... Isn't it just catching up? Have you ever been sick?"
Dai Sigong's doubts are very reasonable. People who are not sick would never take the initiative to contract smallpox. This is also the reason why Zhu Su did not take the initiative to vaccinate his relatives with cowpox before. He only knew that vaccination with cowpox could prevent smallpox in later generations, but the essence of cowpox therapy was actually to take the initiative to be infected with the smallpox virus. What if something goes wrong during the vaccination process, or if there are actually some unknown procedures in the vaccination process of cowpox in later generations... Then if he rushes to promote vaccination, he may only waste other people's lives.
But now that Zhu Xiongying has been diagnosed with smallpox, Zhu Su can't care about it anymore. He told Dai Sigong about the principle of cowpox, which he only knew a little about: "Dai has also used a microscope. You should know that the so-called plague disease is actually a living 'virus'."
"Since it is a living body, it naturally has strengths and weaknesses. People infected with smallpox also have severe and mild conditions. If we can screen out the weaker smallpox virus for active infection, it may be much safer."
"Among the many living animals, cows have the mildest symptoms of smallpox infection. When humans are infected with smallpox, they often have a high fever and are inexplicably uncomfortable. Even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will be left with ugly pockmarks all over their body."
"But a cow infected with smallpox eats and drinks as usual, with only a slight lethargy. A few pustules and scars often heal completely after a few days. The smallpox virus in her body is the weakest type of smallpox virus. If she is actively infected After this weak poison is completely cured, won't we not be infected with smallpox again?"
As Zhu Su spoke, the eyes of Dai Sigong and Queen Ma became brighter and brighter. Zhu Su glanced at Zhu Xiongying and said, "It's just that this method of acne can only prevent it, but I don't know if it is effective in treating it."
"I don't have a rash all over Guan Xiongying's body yet. Maybe it's still too late... give it a try?"
"It's worth a try!" Dai Sigong stood up excitedly. The fatigue and malaise caused by the previous acupuncture had been completely gone. "His Royal Highness Taisun's disease is still being treated. If we take the cowpox pus and use my acupuncture technique to transfer the cowpox poison directly into the internal organs, the cowpox virus will attack first."
"Besides, we should get cowpox no matter what. Even if it is useless to His Highness the Grand Sun, the Queen and the Fifth Highness should still give it a try."
Dai Sigong looked at Empress Ma and Zhu Su, shook his head and sighed: "Well, I have long said that smallpox is extremely dangerous, and no one should stay near His Highness Taisun except me... But the Queen and His Highness the Fifth Prince insisted on To stay here..."
"If you don't try to get vaccinated against cowpox, you will definitely get the disease after a while."
"I've troubled the doctor to worry about it." Empress Ma did not regret staying to take care of Zhu Xiongying, but she was also very moved by the fact that Zhu Su sacrificed himself to take care of him. She looked at Zhu Su with relief, then stood up and bowed to Dai Sigong.
Dai Sigong sidestepped and asked Zhu Su about the details needed to remove cowpox. Zhu Su told everything he knew about cowpox and smallpox in detail. After hearing this, Dai Sigong already had some understanding in his heart. "So, you need to go to the epidemic area to find cows infected with the disease and have sores, use fire needles to prick the cow sores, and use the sore pus... It is best to keep the sore pus pure and not to be infected by other bacteria to prevent Infected with other concurrent diseases..." He had already used a microscope, so he naturally knew the relationship between bacteria and diseases.
"From this point of view, I still have to go there myself. Others are very hairy, and the pus collected may not be usable. Moreover, we need to go deep into the epidemic area, so it is better for me to go there." Dai Sigong had already mentioned his medicine. box.
He had already contracted smallpox and was not afraid of the disease. If other people are sent there, one more person may be infected with the disease.
The old doctor has the heart to help others and does not want to add to the debt.
"Lao Dai, thank you for your hard work." Zhu Su and Queen Ma saluted Dai Sigong.
What followed was a long wait. Queen Ma sat on the bedside, looking at Zhu Xiongying who was doing nothing but unblinking eyes. Zhu Su was a little worried. From Dai Sigong's tone, he knew that Zhu Xiongying's smallpox could not be suppressed for a few days. If there were no cows in the epidemic area that happened to be infected with the epidemic, or there was no one in the epidemic area to raise cattle, then What to do.
After a while, he thought of Kong Xixue, whom he met at the gate of the palace. He wrote a letter to the emperor at the entrance of the palace. It seemed that he wanted to confuse the smallpox epidemic as a way of heaven to attack Xinxue, so as to give him the only chance of survival in Yan Shenggong's palace... ...But why did smallpox not spread earlier or later? It happened at the very moment when the imperial court was preparing to abolish Yan Shenggong's mansion. Could things really be such a coincidence?
However, this idea only flashed in my mind, and then was lost in the thousands of other thoughts.
The sky was getting dark, and Zhu Su and Queen Ma didn't want to light too many lamps. They only lit one beside the bed to take care of Zhu Xiongying. The large palace was lined with this single rickety lamp, and the dim environment made Zhu Su feel more and more irritable.
"The miracle doctor is back!" There was a hustle and bustle outside the palace, and there seemed to be urgent inquiries from Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao. Zhu Su heard Dai Sigong's voice telling everyone not to come closer, and then the palace door creaked open again. , I saw Dai Sigong with a happy face, holding a small transparent glass bottle in his hand as if he was protecting some treasure.
"Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life! I got the Niu Dou Pu Juice back!"
Queen Ma and Zhu Su both looked happy. Zhu Su quickly went to light the lamps, and the Qianqing Palace suddenly became brighter.
Dai Sigong had already sat by the couch, pulled out many silver needles of different thicknesses, and put them in the high-alcohol alcohol extracted by Baoyuan Bureau for disinfection.
"I will perform acupuncture on His Highness Taisun next. The Queen and the Fifth Highness please be sure to hold His Highness Taisun down and not let him move."
Zhu Su and Queen Ma nodded and held Zhu Xiongying's hands and feet respectively. Dai Sigong took a deep breath, and his trembling old hands instantly became very steady. The old miraculous doctor applied the needles very decisively, and in an instant, Zhu Xiongying's body was covered with silver needles, which were very bright and scary.
"I'm going to get vaccinated against cowpox."
Zhu Su saw the old man use a knife to cut a small wound on Zhu Xiongying's arm very quickly, then use a silver needle to pick out the cowpox pus, and apply it into Zhu Xiongying's sore with great precision. Then he kept twisting a certain silver needle, and Zhu Xiongying woke up with a sound of "ah".
"Xiongying, hold back! Grandma will never let you die young!" Queen Ma had tears in her eyes.
Dai Sigong kept twisting the silver needle, and Zhu Xiongying seemed to be continuing to feel great pain. But seeing Queen Ma's appearance, he obediently forced out a smile: "Grandma Huang, don't cry. Xiongying knows that grandma is taking Xiongying to see a doctor, so Xiongying will hold back."
"Okay, good boy. When you get better, Uncle Wu will take you on a hot air balloon ride!" Zhu Su also encouraged the little child.
"Is the fifth uncle here too?" Because Zhu Su was holding Zhu Xiongying's feet, Zhu Xiongying couldn't see him, but when he heard Zhu Su's voice, the little child's tone still showed a bit of joy.
The little child pursed his lips and endured the pain for a while. He didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly said to Zhu Su: "Fifth Uncle, Xiongying doesn't want to be the Shoucheng Emperor who rules from the top down. Xiongying wants to be a heroic leader like the Emperor."
"Heroes must also open up territory for the Ming Dynasty like the fifth uncle did."
Zhu Su was startled. He had never known that this little kid had such an opinion in his heart.
"Okay! Okay, Uncle Wu supports you!"
"What's the point of being a conservative king who only knows how to plot against his loved ones and has no independent opinions?"
“Heroes have great ambitions and a big heart that won’t let others down.”
"I will definitely become another eternal wise king of my Ming Dynasty!"
(End of chapter)
