Chapter 278. Even if the world perishes tomorrow, I will plant an apple tree. (1) The
fireman, who arrived at the orphanage that Pyeonseon and Sara called an orphanage, widened his eyes when he saw adults and children gathered together doing various things.
Cutting down trees to make materials for houses, beating mud to build earthen walls, farming rice fields and fields, making food, or working bellows at blacksmiths.
There were some who learned martial arts and some who learned to write, but there were not many such children, and most of them were learning the skills necessary for living in the future.
“I thought it was just providing a place to live and giving food… but this is beyond my imagination.”
“I think it will be difficult to prepare for the future if I just make a living now. So I am teaching many things.”
“At this level, you can call it a general school instead of an orphanage.”
“Originally, it wasn’t meant to be this big, but the patients who came to see me and Ra treat orphans and teach basic medical skills joined them…” The
painter listened to Pyeonseon’s explanation and realized what she and Sara were doing. I thought it was a big and important thing.
‘While I was swayed by worldly affairs, your wife was working on something that would change the world!’
“oh! Master.”
At that time, Sarah, who was treating the children and patients, saw the fireman and the pyeonseon coming and hurriedly bowed her head and welcomed them.
“I saw you yesterday, so what kind of greeting do you greet so warmly?”
“It was nice to meet you yesterday and it’s nice to see you today too.”
“My son.”
“Nanggun is looking after you.”
Just as a painter carries his daughter in his arms all day long, misinformation seemed to be the same.
“It’s been a while since my husband came, so why don’t you stay with me?”
“I want to, but since my wife isn’t here, I have to be here too.”
“Do you think it will go well without you?”
“There are more things to care about than looks.”
“is it. By the way, when did the older brothers come and go?”
“It was around this time last year, so I came here about a year ago.”
“hmm! You must have heard of this place before coming to me.”
“Oh, Master. Please look at this child.”
While talking, Sara brought the child she was examining a moment ago.
“why? Where are you sick?”
The painter saw the skinny child. On the surface, it was a typical symptom of malnutrition. But there was no way Sara could have simply spoken to herself about malnutrition.
“I often have diarrhea and sometimes my stomach hurts, but even though I decocted a decoction of about 1 dalpo and paid attention to food, it hasn’t improved.”
The fireman looked through the other children besides the one Sarah had brought with him.
There were many children in a similar condition.
“Where was the pain in your stomach?”
“There was no part of the pain response. I just said it hurts a little bit overall.”
“okay? What did you use for the tangjae?”
“I used white peony, persimmon, and ginger paste.”
The fireman’s face became a little serious.
“It’s like this even though I wrote it over and over again?”
“yes. Meals were also nutritious. But it doesn’t get any better.”
“What about the children in the school over there? Were they healthy from the start?”
“no. Those children were similar to these children at first, but they became healthy after taking decoctions and nutritious meals for about 15 days.”
“It’s the same prescription for the same symptoms, but the improvement is so different… Let’s start with a pulse first.”
After a while, the painter, who took the child’s pulse and pressed the stomach here and there, tilted his head as if he didn’t understand something.
Even if he had a heart attack, it wasn’t that something was wrong, it was just a typical symptom of malnutrition.
‘Is there another cause I can’t find?’
She even used her clairvoyance to examine the child’s stomach, but could not find any other cause except that the function of all organs was reduced due to malnutrition.
“Didn’t you say that you paid good attention to Dalpo?”
“Your master.”
“That should be enough for me to gain weight… Hmm?”
As the painter continued to struggle without giving an answer right away, Pyeonseon and Sarah were very surprised inside.
I had never seen a fireman so distressed after a heart attack.
He immediately judged and treated any disease, but now it was clear that he had run into difficulties.
The painter turned his head and glanced over at the other skinny children.
In fact, I saw children like that all too often on the battlefield. It was difficult to pay attention to, and there was no time to write, so I thought it was just a simple malnutrition, but if it is in this state even though I was well fed, it must be seen that there is another cause of the disease.
‘It’s strange. It’s not enteritis, it’s not indigestion… There’s no particular pain. Where did all the food I ate go?
After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly remembered that the present is very similar to the time when I went to a medical volunteer service in a remote village in Africa in the past.
‘ah! Maybe a parasite?’
It was a world where children had nothing to eat due to war and famine, so they ate not only the leaves but also the skin. If fish, small worms, snakes, or frogs were well-roasted or well-boiled, but otherwise undercooked or eaten raw, there was a very high probability of developing parasites in the stomach.
“Does your stomach often feel pressured by something?”
The child, who had been taken aback by the fireman’s question, nodded.
“yes.”
“Are you dizzy, have a headache, are hungry, but have no taste for food, and sometimes your hands and feet tremble?”
“yes.”
“You don’t have a fever?”
“yes.”
The painter was convinced that it was a parasite.
Even the other children who were similarly skinny had been checked for pulse and history.
‘It’s a parasite after all! It’s a parasite, so I couldn’t find it even with clairvoyance.’
Although clairvoyance is a great ability, it is not omnipotent.
Symptoms such as bleeding or enlargement or shrinkage of fractured organs can be found immediately, but it is similar to how X-rays cannot see through long stretches like one or two strands of cotton wool in the intestines.
The painter found the cause of the disease, but could not give a prescription right away.
In the future, parasites are just a disease that can be easily treated with one or two repellents, but in this era, most of them were folk remedies with uncertain results.
Sarah and Pyeonseon only stared at the painter’s mouth when the fireman did not prescribe the decoction even after he finished all the pulses.
“This disease is… Whoa~. It is a disease caused by parasitic worms in the stomach, so I have yet to find a cure for it.”
“yes! Worms in your stomach? Is that a fatal disease?”
“They do not die, but the parasitic worm eats up the nutrients from the food they eat before the body can absorb them, so they suffer from chronic malnutrition.”
“If you continue to be undernourished… you could end up dying.”
“If they don’t eat, they will die sooner than other children.”
“I’ve seen worms in spoiled fish and old meat…but worms in the stomachs of living people!”
“It is not a fatal disease. So, for the time being, I will try to find a cure while feeding him nutritious food.”
“All right.”
Hwabu left the orphanage and went to Janggihwa Pyeonwon.
After hearing from the fireman that there are many children with parasites in their stomachs, the two men’s expressions became serious as if they were facing a difficult problem.
“Even in ancient literature, the disease with parasitic insects in the stomach was called internal insect disease, but it is not a fatal disease, so no special treatment has been developed yet.”
“Hehe, more than 30 children have infestation…. If 30% of the children in the orphanage have infestation, the orphans in the streets must be even worse.”
“Perhaps. Isn’t Congressman Jang good at this kind of therapy? Do you know of any medicines that are effective against insect repellent?”
“There are ways to make them drink water made with ashes, and I tried giving them laxatives, but it doesn’t seem to have much effect.”
“Is it the same for the imperial palace?”
As the painter looked at Pyeon-won, Pyeon-won also shook his head.
“Sturdy adults can use poison from mushrooms, but those little kids won’t be able to stand it. As Congressman Hwa knows, the imperial family and high-ranking officials do not suffer from malnutrition no matter how much they suffer from insect repellent. Furthermore, since insect resistance is not a life-threatening disease, it is not considered a serious disease.”
That’s what it says.
Insomnia is not a frightening disease for the wealthy. But what about these kids? It can be said to be a terrible disease that can lead to death.
The fireman smiled bitterly at Pyeonwon’s words.
“Whoa! We can’t keep feeding them nutritious porridge, so we’ll have to find a way.”
If you make an insect repellent, not only the orphans in the orphanage but also the orphans in the streets will benefit.
“We will also look for a cure whenever we have time.”
“yes. Please let me know if you find a cure that works.”
“Okay.”
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After seeing the two of them, the painter ordered his servants to bring back some monkeys and dogs.
Feeding dogs and monkeys fish or meat with parasites was not too difficult.
‘First of all, I’ll have to wait until the parasites that have entered the stomachs of animals reproduce to some extent.’
The painter was thinking of finding an effective medicine by first using known folk remedies. For this reason, water was poured into charcoal to extract lye, or poisonous mushrooms were refined to weaken the toxicity.
Meow meow…..
After a few days, the monkeys and dogs who had eaten the parasite-laden meat began to complain or whine quite a bit as if they felt something wrong with their bodies.
The painter felt sorry for the animals.
‘I won’t let your sacrifices be in vain.’
sniff
During a few days of experimentation, a large dog jumped over the cage and ran outside.
The monkey was put in an iron cage that was blocked on all sides, but the dogs did not have enough iron cages, so they only set up a slightly high fence, but they got over it.
The fireman put down the poisonous mushroom he was grooming and was about to run towards the dog, but hesitated.
If someone ate this poisonous mushroom without knowing it was poisonous, it could cause serious trouble.
The number of children learning from the servants increased, so children used to come here as well.
The fireman hurriedly put the mushroom aside so that no one else could touch it, and then the dog chased it.
Fortunately, the dog didn’t go far and was actively grazing in the backyard.
“There is a saying that dogs eat grass, but actually seeing it this way is a bit absurd.”
Even when the fireman approached, the dog did not think of running away and continued grazing.
“Are you hungry and eating grass? Well, dogs are also omnivores, so that might be the case, but… If they’re going to eat, they’ll eat softer grasses.”
It was foxtail that the dog was frantically eating.
The fireman waited for the dog to stop grazing, thinking about it.
Kkeek Kkeek…..
But the dog, which had been grazing for a while, suddenly started to vomit.
“I knew that. Dogs have to eat meat, but since they eat grass, they vomit like that… Huh?”
The fireman’s eyes, which had stepped back and watched the dog vomit, widened at the sight of the vomit.
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