Episode 491
At that time, Sima Hui raised her hand and said.
“I’ll look for cowpox on the ranch!”
“Oh, the sooner you hurry, the better.”
Have you always said that starting is difficult?
In the atmosphere created by Sima Hye, other lawmakers began to say what they would do one by one.
“Then, I guess we will have to have unmanned personnel quarantine all the doctors who have been exposed to the patient.”
“I will prepare some medicine. “The patient has to endure it for now.”
“I’m about to run out of soap. “I need to prepare this in large quantities…”
Thank goodness.
Jin Cheon-hee gave Sama-hye a look of gratitude.
Then Sima Hui pursed his lips and motioned for him not to worry.
Thank you.
It was then.
“Hello! “Do you have anything?”
The Podu bosses and Podu officers began to flock in with their determination to be superior.
Jin Cheon-hee turned around in surprise and saw everyone looking at her with grim expressions.
“Visitors must wash their hands before entering.”
But there’s no way you can hear that.
“We received a report that a plague has broken out here!”
“It didn’t happen here.”
“Anyway, is there anyone here with smallpox?”
“…there is.”
No quarantine, you guys. We need to do the Jongdu Law!
* * *
The Hua Empire also has a response to the plague.
Basic countermeasures include quarantine measures that prevent people infected with the plague from leaving their homes and meeting other people, as well as controlling streets and villages.
There was also a history of setting fire to the entire village and even burning people to death when a local high-ranking person became violent.
In severe epidemic situations, one castle may be controlled, which would paralyze the surrounding economy.
In any case, mankind has long known that the basis of epidemics is isolation.
I knew it.
The same was true for Podobu Manager Ma Jong-hak.
‘Oh damn. Why are you here? Baeklinui Pavilion is a place favored by His Majesty the King. ‘What should I do?’
It would only be a loss to displease His Majesty the King by disturbing Baeklin’s Pavilion for no reason.
The problem is that if the plague spreads and many people die, it will have an impact on government positions in the future.
‘And why did the incinerator come in person?’
If it were just an ordinary Uigak, I would have tried to appease him somehow, but the opponent is Baekrin Uigak, and that is also a bully.
It is not that Baeklin Uigak has no political power and it is not easy to see.
Jin Cheon-hee first called Captain Podo to a quiet place, sat him down, and spoke calmly.
“To get straight to the point, Baekrin Uigak is currently in a state where research on smallpox has progressed to some extent. So, if you leave it to me, I think we can control the spread of smallpox to some extent.”
“Is treatment possible?”
“We cannot do anything other than symptomatic treatment. However, we are trying to make prevention possible.”
“Is prevention possible? So does this mean capitation law? If that’s the case…”
There are ways to prevent smallpox even in this day and age.
This is a method of contracting smallpox in advance by inserting pus or scabs from a person with smallpox into the nose or wearing underwear worn by the patient.
It is said that this can prevent smallpox, but since it uses the smallpox bacteria itself, people with weak immune systems often die.
Plus, there are other risks.
“Yes, there are cases where the methods used to prevent people from getting smallpox actually spread the smallpox. But what I want to say is another way.”
Let’s be honest.
It would be even more strange if we were to rephrase it here, using superstitions and beliefs to fit the times.
What Jin Cheonhee said was simple.
“We received information from Baekrin Uigak that a person who had cowpox never got smallpox again, and we have conducted several investigations.”
“Is there any data?”
“It’s at the headquarters. However, it appears that it will take a considerable amount of time to bring it here.”
“….”
Manager Podo was lost in thought.
It wasn’t an order from above, and if he just trusted the words of a single member of the National Assembly and tried to fight off the small intestine, and ended up using more nonsense, his career in government would be over.
“I can’t resist…”
“Hahaha… Take a look at this before you reject it.”
Jin Cheon-hee took out a golden bracelet from her hand as if she had been waiting.
The bling-bling, shining sign of the inspector pierces Captain Podo’s eyes.
“omg…?! That thing…!”
He hurriedly refined his robes and bowed to the symbol symbolizing the emperor.
“I’d like to meet the inspector directly under the new Podo Captain Ma Jong-hak.”
“I… I tried to avoid using this as much as possible, so I’m sorry.”
Jin Cheon-hee said with a sad expression.
“If you follow my instructions and you fail, the responsibility lies with me. Do you know, Captain Podo? “If there is a disciplinary action in the future, you can say that it was done under the sole authority of the inspector general.”
Jin Tianxi’s expression was not arrogant.
Rather, he looked anxious, like someone who had scrapped a high-interest credit card revolving.
“Can you help me?”
Captain Podo bowed as if he had never spoken arrogantly.
“Please order!”
“Ha… yes. Don’t tell the police. “You can post it on the official document.”
“yes!”
Now the die is cast.
The grape boss can handle the matter with Jin Tian-hee’s stake, and if Hangzhou goes into trouble, it will be Jin Tian-hee himself who dies.
Gold Silver King took the lives of the people and said, ‘Hehehe, yes. You made a mistake? Let’s do better next time?’ These are not people who will just move on from this.
“Please send some scribes at this time.”
“Why?”
“Now that this has happened, I have to record whether smallpox can be treated with cowpox and leave it as a thesis.”
I guess I’ll just have to gamble as much as I can.
* * *
The first priority is to purchase cows infected with cowpox and immediately vaccinate exposed lawmakers.
However, it was difficult for Baekrin Medical Council members, who had only learned to treat people throughout their lives, to know how to save the cow and whether it was definitely a disease called cowpox.
The council members went out in groups of twos and threes, thinking that they should head to the cattle market first.
Then, suddenly, I met a familiar face from the slums.
“Honestly, we’ve never done anything like this before. “Why don’t you ask someone who lives here about cows?”
Both the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives nodded at what a member of the upper house said.
When I caught a familiar face and explained the situation, he immediately nodded.
“disturbance? “Of course I have to do it.”
“hey! Iron food!”
“Why?”
While I was carrying my luggage, someone came running from far away.
“The divine doctor said we need to save a cow with cowpox.”
“what? Then you have to save it. “Oh, then I have to go to the cattle market… It’s a place where you have to open your eyes and get your nose cut, so I don’t know if you can find it.”
“Wouldn’t it be better if you could introduce me to a place where cows with cowpox are raised?”
“right. That would be better~”
The people in the slums each brought up their own stories and put their heads together for a while, wondering if the cows in each household were cow-diggers or not, and that the only solution in this case would be to just go to the cattle market.
Everyone seemed to be careful about their work.
Eventually, a conclusion was reached.
“How many do you need?”
“All you need right now is one, and the more you need later, the better.”
“My grandmother here looks at cows like a ghost. “I’m sure it will be okay if I go with my grandmother.”
“Then where is your grandmother?…”
At that time, a young man from the slums came carrying the grandmother.
“Grandma Cheol was a colonel!”
Wow!
“No, these crazy people are screaming in broad daylight. Damn.”
The grandmother spoke with a mouth full of missing front teeth.
“Why are you buying a cow with cowpox? I need to buy a healthy cow. “Did you plan to get scammed?”
The lawmakers spoke urgently after hearing the grandmother’s words.
“To prevent smallpox, you need cows with cowpox.”
“vaccinia…? pock? “Why…”
The grandmother thought for a while with narrowed eyes and then said.
“Ah… come to think of it, I had cowpox when I was young, but I didn’t even get smallpox. The same goes for Seohang next door. Well… there was a story before that if you get cowpox, you won’t get smallpox, but no one believed it, so I forgot. But doesn’t young lawmaker Nari understand that?”
“Lord Incineroar said he needed it.”
“Huh…”
The gun finally returned to the grandmother’s blurry eyes.
“That child is looking for you…? Then I have to find it. “What do you need?”
One of the lawmakers turned his back in a hurry.
“I will carry you from now on.”
“Oh my, how heavy I am…”
“It’s okay.”
The grandmother said as she hoisted herself on the back of the large congressman.
“Can we just buy a cow with cowpox at a low price?”
“Now I have to buy it quickly.”
“hurry?”
The grandmother said after thinking about it.
“Then I guess I’ll have to ask Childeok next door. You said you need money for that house, but if you talk well, you can buy it cheaply. “Childeok lives a little bit, so it’s far from here.”
“it’s okay.”
I never thought I would meet a cow expert in a slum like this.
The lawmakers were secretly impressed.
‘This is how the kindness I gave to Gangho is coming back to me.’
The group included lawmakers who at the time cursed the people of the slums behind their backs.
They were so embarrassed that they couldn’t raise their heads with red faces.
‘I’m thankful. ‘I’m grateful.’
At that time, a large young man spoke.
“Oh my gosh, Rep. Nari can’t even carry an old lady. “Give it to me!”
Then, he forced his grandmother onto his back.
“Thank you. Thank you.”
“Carrying people is not about strength, but about skill. If you carry it like that, your back will hurt. “You don’t even know that when you become a member of the National Assembly?”
“Ugh, Yonseok. “I was glad that the congressman’s back was prettier than yours.”
“Grandma is also a good person! really!”
He grunted and took the lead.
The lawmakers were so thankful that they were in tears.
* * *
Vaccination itself using cowpox is easy.
Just make sure you get cowpox.
According to Jeong Yak-yong’s book, you can scrape off cowpox lesions on a cow with saliva, then stick them into a person’s arm and rub the cow’s pus or scab on it.
In some places, people cut themselves crosswise with a knife and dabbed at the pus and scabs.
Of course, this is a method that requires caution for other infections such as tetanus.
But either way, it is fully possible even in this day and age.
However, we improved it further and prepared several needles with two split ends.
In the past, the people of Uigak called this acupuncture needle used for the treatment of pox on Earth as a preventive acupuncture needle.
It is not difficult to make and the price is cheaper than a syringe, so the unit price is reasonable.
‘I’m worried about whether this will be okay.’
Even in Korea, even though this method was known, there was a major setback in the cow head law due to the suppression of Western learning.
The same was true in England, which developed the cowpox method.
There is no different reason why England was the country with the highest incidence of smallpox even though it was the first country to discover cowpox.
