Doctor Player Chapter 293
Christine asked with a dumbfounded face.
Raymond couldn’t answer and was left alone in his thoughts.
‘It’s food! There must be something wrong with the food the poor people eat!’
It was only natural that there was a difference in the food eaten by the poor and those aristocrats who could afford it.
‘The nobility don’t touch it, the affluent commoners don’t eat much, and you have to check what the poor eat! There is a high probability that the answer is there!’
Raymond asked Christine.
“Please investigate all the foods recently eaten by sick patients. right now.”
Christine understood Raymond’s intention and moved right away.
Investigations were made quickly.
And I found the answer.
‘…It was oat bread.’
oat bread.
It was the staple food of the poor.
The more favorable the circumstances, the more wheat and rye bread was the staple food rather than oats, and nobles in particular did not even eat bread made of oats.
‘The oat bread provided to the poor common people was mixed with toxic substances.’
Raymond drool after using ‘Detection Mana’.
The oat bread shimmered here and there.
Toxic substances containing mana were mixed into the oat bread!
“Please mobilize the knights of the Crown Princess and find out where these oats came from!”
“Your master!”
Jude nodded with a hard face.
I’ve figured out the cause, but the problem hasn’t been fixed yet.
patients had to be treated.
‘This isn’t an epidemic, it’s poisoning with toxic substances. I have to create an antidote.’
Patients continued to deteriorate, perhaps because it was a very vicious toxic substance.
It was clear that they would all die over time.
One way to save patients.
An antidote had to be made and administered.
‘We need to find out what kind of poison it is. That way I can make an antidote.’
There was no time to closely analyze the toxic substance itself.
I had to guess the identity through the patient’s symptoms.
‘The patient’s most important symptom is severe diarrhea.’
However, simple diarrhea was not enough as a clue to guess the type of toxic water.
‘Any other symptoms?’
At that moment, the faces of some patients came into Raymond’s eyes.
Facial flushing.
It was a red face.
‘It’s a symptom that can accompany any situation in poor physical condition.’
Raymond was troubled.
However, the situation faced with an unknown poison.
Even the smallest details of the patient had to be taken as clues.
‘Could that facial flushing also be a symptom of poison?’
Thinking so, I immediately burst into laughter.
Diarrhea and facial flushing.
No matter how much I thought about it, it didn’t seem to have anything to do with it.
But Raymond thought deeply.
‘no. Maybe there’s a clue here. Let’s think about it. What diseases can come with severe diarrhea and hot flashes?’
Raymond used all of his medical knowledge.
From surgery to internal medicine, minor medicine, disaster medicine, endemic medicine, herbal medicine, and so on.
But I couldn’t think of a symptom that fit.
‘please. If we don’t know what type of poison it is, we can’t create an antidote.’
Raymond thought earnestly, and was it because of that earnestness?
I was able to suddenly think of a disease!
‘no way…Carcinoid Syndrome?’
Raymond was taken aback by the thought that came to his mind.
carcinoid syndrome.
It was a very rare disease.
It is a syndrome that accompanies neuroendocrine tumors that secrete neurohormonal substances, and the same symptoms as now could appear.
‘Could this toxic substance be the neurotransmitter that causes carcinoid syndrome?’
There were possibilities!
‘If serotonin is over-secreted, symptoms similar to those of now can come out. Incredible diarrhea hot flashes!’
Serotonin.
It is a hormone that has all kinds of different functions in the body and promotes intestinal function.
When such serotonin increases explosively, it can show the same symptoms as now.
‘Come to think of it, there were times when some patients who died were accompanied by wheezing. There was also a case of heart failure.’
Raymond swallowed.
heart failure and wheezing.
This is also a symptom accompanying carcinoid syndrome.
A small number of patients who died were accompanied by such symptoms.
‘There are only a handful of people, so it doesn’t fit the general carcinoid syndrome.’
Originally, carcinoid syndrome is accompanied by other symptoms in addition to gastrointestinal symptoms. differently than now.
But that part was explained.
‘Since it was ingested through oat bread, it stayed in the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract and mainly caused more severe diarrhea symptoms than normal carcinoid syndrome. This must be carcinoid syndrome.’
You finally found the answer!
Raymond got up from his seat.
Now that the type of poison was identified, an antidote had to be created.
‘There must be a serotonin antagonist!’
Antagonist.
A drug that acts on the same receptor and inhibits the action of that substance.
The problem was how.
‘I can’t synthesize a sophisticated medicine that acts on a specific receptor with my magic skills right now.’
Currently, the way Raymond implements medicine is to separate extracts from herbs that have similar effects.
‘But I can’t tell which herbs act on serotonin receptors this way.’
Herbs that stop diarrhea exert their effects through all sorts of different receptor pathways.
There was no way to know which of the herbs acted on serotonin receptors with his current technology.
‘I have to check all the potential herbs first.’
Raymond tried the candidate herbs on patients.
But it didn’t have much effect.
It did not act on serotonin receptors, or even if it did, the effect seemed insignificant.
Raymond clenched his fists.
‘There is one possible drug. Highly likely to act on serotonin receptors.’
But the decision wasn’t easy.
The reason was simple.
‘That’s poison.’
Tears of the Bambino!
It was a poison that caused obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract!
Considering the variety of symptoms the venom causes, it is highly likely that the poison works against serotonin receptors.
‘If you use the right dose, you might see a therapeutic effect. But how do I determine the right dosage?’
Toxicity does not occur, and it was necessary to find out the dose that would have a therapeutic effect.
‘I have no choice but to confirm this through experiments with patients.’
The problem was risk.
There will certainly be cases where the wrong dose will result in serious toxicity.
If that happens, patients who are otherwise in bad condition will not be able to endure it and will die.
‘How?’
At that time, after hearing Raymond’s concerns, Elmude stepped out like this.
“I will experiment with my body!”
“what?”
“Sacrificing for the sick is the duty of the relief knights! I’ll eat it and check it out!”
It wasn’t just Elmude.
The other disciples also stepped forward as if they were of the same mind.
“After all, someone has to eat it and check its safety, right? please come here Let me check. I trained with swordsmanship, so I’m strong, so even if poison appears, it’ll be okay.”
“No, it is up to Lee Hanson, the first apprentice, to take risks for the sake of the patient. Her Highness, step back.”
“no. This is the work of the Catal Kingdom! Let me check.”
“I, too, helped with a meaningful work…!”
“Nya meow!”
Raymond shook his head in embarrassment.
‘…no that’s not it What kind of patient idiots.’
However, the disciples did not go out of their way simply for the sake of the sick.
It was because of Raymond.
‘If we don’t act, the patient idiot Master will try poison on me.’
‘Because Master is someone who wouldn’t stop carrying oil on his back and jumping into hellfire for the sake of his patients.’
Because if they don’t act first, patient idiot Raymond will take the risk himself!
Christine Hanson, Jude Elmud… …Even Runen Mien looked at Raymond with determined eyes.
Everyone said in unison.
“Absolutely the master can’t do the experiment himself.”
Raymond cleared his throat.
‘No, don’t you think so? My body is precious.’
Everyone was seriously misunderstanding something.
It was a difficult situation anyway.
Even if not, it was too risky to test on patients who were in a bad condition, so I couldn’t test it on my disciples.
‘Is there any better way?’
It was then that a thought struck me.
‘You can use experimental plants for hair loss treatment!’
Experimental plant for hair loss treatment!
There was an immortal Mandragora obtained from an ancient ruin!
By the way, the immortal Mandragora rune was currently being used to research a hair loss cure.
‘If you use the immortal Mandragora, you can predict the human body’s reaction, so you can safely figure out the treatment dose!’
went straight into action.
First, mandragora was fed oat bread and infected with a toxic substance.
And Bambino’s tears were taken in small doses.
Mandragora screamed whenever he ate Bambino’s tears.
[Kuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! too bitter! Mandragora choked to death! You bastards!]
Giving medicine to the immortal Mandragora does not cause actual symptoms such as diarrhea.
Instead, he screamed and explained the effect.
‘As expected, an ancient relic. It’s a great feature.’
Raymond admired it, and gradually changed the dose to feed Bambino’s tears.
[Ahh! My stomach hurts! It hurts so much! Mandragora is dead!]
[It hurts, you bastards!]
‘…hmm. It seems like they’re abusing something, but it’s inanimate anyway, so it’s okay.’
I felt sorry for him because he screamed so realistically, but he was a product of magic engineering called Mandrago. In other words, it was an inanimate object without life.
“I’m sorry,” Raymond said.
“When this is over, I will give you beef.”
go bald
It was the name Raymond had given him.
It was a name with a long-cherished desire to develop a hair loss treatment using Mandragora and earn a lot of money.
Thalgora suddenly opened her eyes.
[beef?! beef! So good! Give it to Hanson-nim!]
‘… …When did he eat Hanson’s beef?’
Raymond made a puzzled face.
Hanson’s beef skills were close to the strongest in the Houston Kingdom, so it was natural that once you tasted it, you wouldn’t be able to forget the taste.
Thalgogo let out a cry of joy.
[Beef is perfect! I will do my best for beef! Come on, give me the experimental drug! hurry!]
