Episode 575
‘The short average lifespan of people here is not simply due to the climate or parasites. And that’s why the people of the North Sea Ice Palace have to be subtracted from the average.’
Jin Tianxi realized what the Master did not say.
Rep. anyway.
Neither a politician nor a thinker.
I have no intention of coming to the outside world and interfering in the internal affairs of other people’s clans.
Just saving the patient in front of you and returning home is already too much.
‘Whew. First, solve the problem at hand.’
A soldier from the treatment center stopped Jin Cheon-hee.
No matter how you look at it, you can see the facial features and hair color of Joongwon-in.
And even though the clothes she was wearing had no decorations, they certainly looked expensive.
Instead of kicking him like he did to the poor, the soldier spoke politely to Jin Cheon-hee.
“Entry is being restricted because it contains a contagious disease patient.”
Jin Cheon-hee presented an introduction to the North Sea Ice Palace.
The soldier answered matter-of-factly.
“Please come in.”
It was clear that he didn’t want to take responsibility.
As I was guided in, the inside of the treatment center was full of hospital beds.
The patient’s urine and feces and numerous odors of sweat mixed together to create an unpleasant odor.
The patients were full of moans, and some had their entire bodies tied up and even their mouths covered.
However, he seemed to be delirious and was shaking and foaming at the mouth.
“The patient here is an emergency…!”
There are no therapists to help.
Each person just looked at them with empty eyes.
Only then did Jin Cheon-hee realize.
‘You’re waiting for the time to die.’
If it’s an infectious disease that can’t be cured, it’s usually done by gathering people in one place, isolating them, waiting for them to die, and then burning the bodies.
Since you can’t cure it anyway by giving medicine or water, you tend to neglect it, thinking it’s a waste of resources.
Jin Cheonhee hurriedly approached.
He pinpointed the patient’s blood pressure to prevent him from having a seizure and checked the skin rash starting from his neck.
Strangely, there is no rash on the soles of the feet, but the body is hot with a high fever.
The patient next to me said.
“You shouldn’t have let me die.”
At that moment, it was empty!
The patient whose acupuncture point was checked started trembling again.
“That can’t be possible.”
“Everyone is just waiting for the day they die… Perhaps because they are new therapists, they are still naive.”
Jin Cheon-hee calmed down the convulsing patient for a moment by pointing out the blood pressure.
But I didn’t know how long it would last.
Fortunately, it seemed to be a nervous system attack caused by the disease, not a blood flow problem, so blood pressure was administered, but this was just a treatment to prevent death.
“Doesn’t the patient next to you have a rash on the soles of his feet? Oh, and the palm of your hand.”
“It’s fascinating. Can you tell just by looking at one thing?”
“Not really.”
Jin Cheon-hee asked various questions.
Is there an itchy area and where did the rash start?
Are there any chills, fever, or muscle pain?
How many people are completely healed?
“Those who can endure it in about two weeks will come out alive, and those who cannot endure it will die within it. “The guy you knocked out won’t be able to survive until he gets old.”
“A lot of old people are dying.”
“That’s right. “Children also die well.”
While taking an additional pulse, Jin Cheon-hee thought.
‘It looks like typhus…?’
In modern times, you can easily take a blood test.
Even if you can only check that, it is much faster and more accurate.
But it’s impossible now.
The nightmare of misreading came to mind.
‘If you look at it all together, I think it’s typhus. It is also an infectious disease that appears in cold regions.’
typhus.
It is also collectively called Rickettsia.
If you look at the name alone, it may seem like a cousin of typhoid fever, but it is a completely different disease.
It occurs mainly in cold regions and is caused by small insects called lice.
A louse infected with typhus spreads the disease by biting the human body, and the feces it produces enters the blood vessels and causes an infectious disease.
During World War I, as many as 3 million Russians died from typhus, and even more people died in Poland and Romania in Eastern Europe.
That wasn’t all.
The number of infected people also surged among soldiers, and 150,000 soldiers in Serbia had to die en masse.
Later, the number of patients begins to reach tens of millions, and the fatality rate fluctuates between 1 and 20%, making it even more unpredictable.
The reason is that power varies greatly depending on age.
It is fatal for the elderly and young children, but the fatality rate drops significantly for the young and healthy.
This is why the patient suffering from the seizure was also an elderly person.
‘1 During the incubation period of about two weeks, chills, headache, rash, and fever begin, and the rash spreads from the torso to the extremities, but has the unique characteristic of not appearing on the palms, especially the soles of the feet.’
Thanks to that, I was able to quickly think of typhus.
‘The problem lies next.’
For patients with weakened immunity.
It has been recorded that symptoms of insanity such as auditory hallucinations, confusion, and delirium tremens appear.
This is because the central nervous system was damaged.
If these symptoms of insanity are combined with a rash, the patient is usually considered to die here.
This is a cold region, but it is not completely frozen either.
The lake is warm and has an appropriate temperature.
Add to that the extreme gap between the rich and the poor, creating an environment that is too conducive for lice to grow on their own.
And the lice spread the disease as they spread everywhere.
‘This… is completely different from the infectious diseases that Master treated in the past.’
Treatment with antibiotics is possible.
Although it is not as strong as the antibiotics used in modern times, fortunately, according to the literature, there are anecdotes of treatment with penicillin.
‘According to a paper I read a while ago, it was said that when penicillin was administered to seven people, one person died and six people’s condition improved.’
1946.
I remember being amazed at being able to view foreign papers published before I was even born on the Internet in my room.
I never thought that smiling and saying that the world has become so much better would help in times like this.
However, it is speculated that this may be because the immune system is strengthened to fight Rickettsia because other additional infections due to the disease are treated with penicillin, not because typhus is treated.
In that case, it is thought that streptomycin, which interferes with bacterial protein synthesis, may also be a treatment, but since there are no research results in this area, Jin Cheon-hee is not sure.
Penicillin also came out while playing around on overseas literature sites.
First of all, it is a disease that has been eradicated on Earth except for a few African regions.
‘Antibiotics…. How long will it take to arrive from Baeklin’s Pavilion?’
Of course, what I had now wasn’t enough.
And above all, since teeth are a problem, cleanliness should be a priority.
This means that everything must be washed, disinfected, and washed.
First, Jin Cheon-hee moved to find the director.
When I arrived at the director’s office, I found the director using a strange tool on a patient.
The soldier who approached the director whispered something in his ear, and the director then spoke to Jin Cheon-hee in fluent Chinese.
“nice to meet you. “My name is Saint-Germain, an alchemist and healer.”
Jin Cheon-hee was slightly surprised by those words.
‘Does he have a different impression from Saint-Germain depicted in The Most High?’
Is it a person with the same name?
I couldn’t tell at the moment.
* * *
A skeleton model and a human body model were prepared in the director’s office.
‘No, this is this place?’
Although the internal organs were not depicted in as much detail as they are in modern times, they still gave the impression that they had been carved out of plaster to a similar extent.
When Jin Cheon-hee looked surprised, he answered.
“I brought what I was researching from my hometown. “I was able to ask for your understanding because I am from the western region.”
“Are you from the West?”
“Oh, I’m from the West Continent. “I came here after hearing that there was a cure for immortality in the East Continent.”
Are you talking about Qin Shi Huang’s elixir of immortality?
Qin Shi Huang has been dead for a long time, but there are still people who remember him.
“okay.”
“This place has suddenly become my second home. In particular, many apprentices have become attached to these days. By the way, I have also heard the story about the White God Dragon.”
“That’s too much praise.”
He got to the point.
“What brings you here?”
Getting straight to the point seemed to be a characteristic of the people here, including the North Sea Ice Palace Lord.
Jin Cheon-hee told the story of how he came to be an emissary of the Murim Alliance, left off what he had to say, and simply explained that the epidemic was coming.
“I’ll have to check it out a little more to be sure, but… it seemed like a known illness. “If it’s true, there is a cure.”
First of all, I made a diagnosis based on modern knowledge and several examinations, but I deliberately did not say anything certain.
It was to see the reaction of the man named Saint-Germain.
Saint-Germain asked in surprise.
“Do you have a cure?”
“If your guess is correct. “I also have some medicine.”
First, Saint-Germain said he knew and guided Jin Cheon-hee to the patient.
Jin Cheon-hee handed some of the white phosphorus tablets she had brought with her to the therapist and instructed on the use and dosage.
Saint-Germain said.
“I thought you would use something called a breaking spell, but this is surprising.”
“You can’t use it carelessly here. Besides, I think the patient just got better with antibiotic treatment. Rather, the patient should be washed and the bedding should be washed or burned. “We need to get rid of this.”
“I will refer to it.”
“No, in the end, if hygiene does not come first, the white medicine is invalid.”
“I’ll refer to it, so don’t worry.”
‘Ah… this is unsettling.’
No matter how much antibiotics are used, it is meaningless if hygiene is not improved.
I was worried that I was just building up my tolerance.
However, he was rather interested in something else.
“If this medicine is really effective… can you teach me the recipe for Baekphosphorus Shindan?”
Jin Cheonhee shook his head.
“No matter what I taught you, it is impossible. It requires special equipment and methods. Even if we were to recreate it here, it would take several months.”
“Ah… it’s a shame.”
He looked genuinely sad.
Jin Cheon-hee asked.
“I understand that even if we give up on severely ill patients, we still treat mildly ill patients. “How do you do it?”
This time, Jin Cheonhee asked.
Then Saint-Germain responded proudly.
“We are also being treated with medication. Mercury and mercury are the basis of our alchemy….”
‘Hi! Mercury!’
“Mixed with opium…!”
‘Hey! ‘Apyuuhuhn?’
“If you make mercury ointment and apply it to the rash, it is effective.”
Jin Cheon-hee thought in shock at those words.
‘Aaaah! This… this human. He is an alchemist. A real alchemist! ‘You’re an alchemist who’s bad for your health!’
Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, the treatment of syphilis by exposing the syphilis area to mercury vapor was popular.
At the same time, they also created something like mercury ointment to apply to the skin.
According to the records, he said he immediately felt an improvement.
The problem was that the patient later died from complications due to mercury poisoning.
This is the treatment that kills the famous person and kills the disease as well.
