Chapter 243 244 Cowpox

Li Yu thought for a long time, picked up a pen and wrote on the booklet, recording the limited methods of vaccination he knew.

An hour later, after learning the news, Xiaoyu returned to the county office with seven pounds. Li Yu came out of the house and stood under the eaves of the corridor when he saw Xiaoyu walking in with a frightened look on his face.

When Xiaoyu saw Li Yu, she worriedly asked, "Madam, what should I do? Qijin and the young master are both so young."

Qijin saw Li Yu calling his brother and reached out to hug him. Li Yu took Qijin and said to Xiaoyu, "Go and clean up your house first. Yangyang is still asleep."

Seeing Li Yu's calm look, Xiaoyu smiled a little ashamedly: "Madam, I am really useless."

"Go!" Li Yu waved his hand and asked her to clean up the house. Li Yu looked at Qijin's dark eyes and teased him: "My younger brother is sleeping. Can Qijin take a nap too?"

Qijin pointed to the room and shouted: "Brother, brother."

"Little thing, you know how to call me brother. Let's go and sleep with my brother." Li Yu carried Qijin into the house and put him on Yangyang's little bed. He gently shook the little bed while Qijin grabbed the head of the bed. After playing with the toy for a while and mumbling for a while, he also tilted his head and fell asleep.

Xiaoyu packed up the house to find Qijin. Li Yu asked her to watch the two children in the house and went to Mr. Wen's study to find Mr. Wen. When she arrived at the door of the study, she saw several old manuscripts on the table. Li Yu guessed Possibly a documented case.

Not finding Mr. Wen, Li Yu went back to the house to guard the two children with Xiaoyu. Thinking that Zhou Jia and Mr. Wen had to go out to handle official duties, he found some gauze and started sewing masks.

After getting the news, Zhou Jia rushed back from the countryside and found that the people living in the east of the city had fallen into panic. Every door in the entire street was closed, and even the hard-working merchants had closed their shops.

When Zhou Jia returned to the county government office, Mr. Qian reported to Zhou Jia: "Sir, Tu Dianshi has led people to lock up the eight-member family of the sick child in the house, waiting for your return to deal with it."

"Disposal" Zhou Jia sighed, how to deal with it? Should he be captured and killed? I don’t know if anyone else is sick? This official's job is like passing a test. When one problem is solved, another one pops up. This time, it is solved, and a smallpox is caused.

Zhou Jia felt a little tired. He rubbed his brows and said to Mr. Qian: "First seal the people at home, then find someone who has had smallpox, and deliver them medicine and food on time. The people around them can't do anything without permission." Go out and walk around privately.”

Mr. Qian said: "Sir, Tu Dian had suffered from smallpox before. Mr. Wen has asked him to send medicine into the house. I will go and have people around him control the people around him."

Zhou Jia nodded and said, "Go ahead! I'll go back to the back office first." Zhou Jia looked at Mr. Qian's back, rubbed his face with his hands, cheered up and walked to the backyard.

Li Yu heard the sound of slightly heavy footsteps in the yard, and thought it might be Zhou Jia who was back. He put down the needle and thread in his hand, walked to the door and saw Zhou Jia who had just walked under the eaves, and said to him: " Xiaoxi, the teacher said you haven’t had smallpox and asked you to be careful.”

Zhou Jia nodded and asked: "You and your son must not go out these days. I don't know how many people are infected?"

"Got it!" Li Yu glanced at Zhou Jia and wanted to tell him how to vaccinate against cowpox, but he felt that using the master's excuse would be too far-fetched.

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu's hesitation, held Li Yu's hand, smiled and said softly: "Yu'er, don't worry, I'll be careful outside."

Li Yu saw him trying to comfort himself with a smile, and thought to himself: Li Yu, what are you still hesitating about? The sooner you can save your life, the better.

Li Yu felt relieved. He held Zhou Jia's hand and said, "Xiao Xi, come with me. Let's go find the husband. I have something to tell him."

Zhou Jia nodded and said, "Okay, I also want to discuss smallpox prevention and control with my husband."

The two went to Mr. Wen's study. Seeing that Mr. Wen had returned to the study and was looking for medical books, Zhou Jia saluted and said, "Sir, I'm back."

Mr. Wen nodded and said: "It's good to come back. I'm looking for the pulse records and prescriptions used to treat smallpox to see if I can re-write a more effective prescription."

Li Yu said to Mr. Wen: "Sir, there is something I want to tell you."

Mr. Wen thought Li Yu was worried about Yangyang and comforted her: "Xiaoyu, don't worry. Tu Dianshi has already led people to seal up the family. As long as it doesn't spread and they don't come into contact with patients, there will be no serious problem." .”

Li Yu shook his head and said: "Sir, I'm not worried about smallpox. I just want to ask you, have you ever tried to inoculate acne sores on people who have never suffered from smallpox to make them resistant to the disease? Smallpox again.”

After hearing this, Mr. Wen sighed and said with a wry smile: "Ever since we knew that people who have suffered from smallpox will not suffer from the disease again, my master has tried to squeeze out the pox juice from the patient and smear it into the nostrils of those who are not infected. , one of the two survived, and the other died after contracting smallpox. The master has been feeling guilty since then, and until his deathbed, he was still wondering why? What was wrong?"

Li Yu looked at Mr. Wen who was lost in memories and said, "Sir, I know what caused that man's death. It's none of Master's business..." Zhou Jia looked at her in surprise,

Mr. Wen shook his head and interrupted Li Yu: "Xiaoyu, please don't comfort Mr. Sir. He has traveled here and there over the years, partly because he wanted to treat more people, and partly because he wanted to see whether famous doctors from all over the country could do anything. A cure for smallpox has been found. Alas! Sir, he is already in his sixties, and I am afraid that he will not be able to find a cure for smallpox in his lifetime."

Li Yu saw that Mr. Wen seemed to have aged more than ten years in just half a day. He felt distressed and walked to Mr. Wen and knelt down. He looked at Mr. Wen and said, "Sir, my master's idea is right. What's wrong is He used the wrong pox juice. Instead of using human pox juice, he used pox juice from a cow infected with smallpox.

I don’t know what it looks like when a cow suffers from smallpox. I also know how to remove the pox juice from a cow, but you should know this.

Also, instead of smearing pox juice into the nostrils, you make a cross-shaped incision on your arm, dip it with a cotton swab, and then apply cowpox juice on the incision. After about half a month, the scab will fall off on the incision. No one will get smallpox anymore. "

After hearing what Li Yu said, Zhou Jia and Mr. Wen both looked at Li Yu in shock. For a moment, the room was so quiet that they could only hear the shocked gasps of the two. After a while, Zhou Jia knelt down and looked at Li Yu with excitement. Li Yu said: "Yu'er, you are so amazing."

Seeing that Li Yu spoke so clearly, Mr. Wen felt that the method of using cowpox juice to vaccinate was definitely not something Li Yu imagined. She must have experienced it before she knew it so clearly.