Influenza is very contagious. As front-line medical workers, doctors often need to wear N95 masks to prevent it. If it is more strict, they must also wear disposable isolation gowns, masks, eye masks, hats, shoe covers, etc.
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Then hang a bottle of hand sanitizer on your waist and disinfect it anytime and anywhere.
But in 1960, doctors often only had masks made of gauze or cotton, which could not protect against viruses at all. Many elderly Chinese medicine practitioners were not even willing to wear masks.
So as the Changping branch began to accept patients on a large scale, doctors fell one after another.
Lin Sanqi always thought that his little girlfriend would definitely not be able to hold on. After all, a pair of A's, a thin girl weighing at most 90 pounds, could not have very good resistance, even if Lin Sanqi usually supplemented her with papaya milk... …
Unexpectedly, Pan Ye did not fall, but his father fell first.
In Lin Sanqi's dormitory, Doctor Lin was lying on the kang, his eyes closed, and he was shaking with cold.
Lin Sanqi and Lin Licao stood aside obediently, their eyes filled with anxiety.
Pan Ye took the thermometer, took a look at it, and whispered: "Uncle Lin is now 40 degrees Celsius."
In addition to high fever, Lin Sophora flavescens was accompanied by sore limbs and sore throat, but there were no cold symptoms such as cough and runny nose. Lin Sanqi thought that these should still be symptoms of the flu.
Lin Licao was the eldest son and an honest man. At this time, he was as anxious as an ant on a meat pot.
"Dad, do you think Chaige Jiedu Decoction or Baihu Sanhua Decoction is more suitable for your current situation? Or our Qingre Powder? Just tell me and I will make the medicine right away."
The influenza outbreak in Changping in 1960 was definitely not as optimistic as Lin Sanqi thought. So far, there have been many deaths.
Although later Japanese data show that the mortality rate of influenza is 0.55% for those over 60 years old and 0.01% for those under 60 years old.
But in 1960, the current average mortality rate reached 5%, especially among the elderly and children. The above is only the data among the patients.
There are also a large number of uncollected data, such as the poor people waiting to die at home. These people have never been to the hospital and are not included in the statistics even if they die.
It's just that Lin Sanqi has been busy with logistics these days and didn't know that the epidemic was so serious. He always thought that it was the flu. A cold would not kill anyone.
But Lin Licao, who has been fighting on the front line, knows exactly how the corpses were carried out of the hospital...
Although Lin Sophora flavescens was feeling uncomfortable due to the fever, her mind was not confused. She first smiled and nodded at Pan Ye, her future wife:
"Xiao Yezi, thank you for your hard work. Uncle Lin is not a big problem."
"Uncle Lin, why are you so polite to me?"
Then Lin Sophora flavescens said to his eldest son:
"I won't take those traditional prescriptions this time. I want to try Xiaoqi's ibuprofen and amoxicillin prescriptions. After all, this is also the secret recipe passed down by our Lin family, although even I, the contemporary head of the Lin family, don't know it. What kind of medicine, hahaha.”
Lin Sanqi also smiled awkwardly and said:
"Hey, dad, these are all medicines invented by the Lin family. They will be passed on to future generations. Aren't they all inherited by our Lin family? There is no difference."
Lin Sophora and Lin Licorice both chuckled.
Pan Ye was at a loss. She had always believed that the medicine Lin Sanqi took out was a secret recipe passed down by the Lin family. But now in front of the head of the Lin family, Lin Sanqi's little trick has actually been exposed.
Lin Licao also wanted to see the magic of his little brother, so he smiled and said:
"Okay, let Dr. Xiaolin be the sitting doctor for a while today."
Everyone present was his family, and Lin San was not polite and said to Pan Ye: "Go and get me a glass of water. I want warm water."
"Okay!"
Pan Ye quickly brought the water, and Lin Sanqi took out three pills from his pocket:
"Dad, in my own family and I won't pretend to be a ghost, if you take these two pills, you should see soon whether they have any effect."
Lin Sophora flavescens, Lin Licorice, and Pan Ye all stretched their heads to take a closer look, and saw that they were three pills with shapes they had never seen before.
Capsule medicine has been promoted in foreign countries in the 1960s. However, due to the inability to produce capsule shells in China, it was not until the late 1980s that it was slowly promoted.
Therefore, several Chinese medicine doctors in 1960 had never seen such strange medicines.
As a doctor, Lin Sophora flavescens was also curious. He did not ask where the medicine came from, he just asked:
"Xiao Qi, what's the point of these two pills?"
Lin Sanqi explained to the pill in his palm:
"Dad, these two pills each have their own uses. This yellow pill is called Loxoprofen, which is mainly used to relieve pain or reduce fever. This one is called Mabalosavir tablets. Take two pills at a time. It is specially used to treat influenza. ”
Lin Sophora changed her position and leaned on the bed:
"I can understand reducing fever and pain, but how do you understand this flu?"
"Flu, the full name is influenza, in Western medicine terms.
It is usually caused by a virus and spreads through the air. After the virus enters the human body, it begins to replicate in the body. One becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, and so on. Therefore, after getting the flu, in addition to the initial incubation period, subsequent symptoms are often violent, causing systemic symptoms such as fever, headache, and myalgia. In severe cases, it can also cause viral pneumonia, encephalopathy, etc. ”
Lin Sophora flavescens nodded:
"I know about viruses. Back then, foreign doctors in Huadu often mentioned bacteria, viruses, and the like. But foreign doctors once said that there is currently no cure for viruses. Can your medicine cure it?"
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Lin Sanqi nodded slightly, then shook his head:
"There is currently no cure for the virus. This is a difficult medical problem to overcome. But for influenza, although it cannot be cured, there are still drugs that can relieve symptoms."
"Is this the medicine?"
"Yes, this is the medicine. Dad, please take it quickly. Your body will recover after taking it."
Lin Sophora took the cup, put the pill into her mouth readily, and swallowed it as soon as the water was given to her, without any doubt whether the medicine was poisonous.
Dr. Lin was so weak that he fell asleep after taking the medicine.
When Lin Sophorae woke up, it was already dark, and Lin Sanqi was sitting reading a novel (not a medical book...)
"Xiao Qi, where are your brother and Xiao Yezi?"
"They all went to the outpatient clinic to do some work. Dad, how do you feel?"
Lin Sophora flavescens felt it carefully and found that his high fever and soreness in his limbs seemed to disappear all of a sudden. He quickly checked his own pulse, and then his eyes lit up:
"It's amazing. The pulse is stable, soft and strong, the rhythm is regular, and it is incessant. It's true that I recovered after just one dose of medicine. It's even better than me, an old Chinese medicine doctor who suffered from typhoid fever."
Only Lin Sanqi knew that in 1960, a killer drug like mabaloxavir was definitely at the level of an atomic bomb, so it’s no wonder that the efficacy was not good.
"Hey, it's fine if it's not burned. Come here, Dad, this is the white porridge I cooked for you, this is the salted duck egg, and this is the fermented bean curd. You need to eat something to fill your stomach first."
Lin Sophora sat up, saw the porridge and side dishes on the small table and smiled:
"This is the taste of our hometown. In all my years in Sijiu City, I have never seen this kind of southern fermented bean curd. Thank you, Xiaoqi."
"Hey, how can a father say thank you to his son? Tell me what you want to eat in the future, and there is nothing I can't do."
Lin Sophora flavescens started to drink porridge in silence, and Lin Sanqi picked up the novel again and looked happily at it. He was watching Jin Yong's martial arts. He had only watched TV series before, and this was his first time reading a book.
"Xiao Qi, there is no one now. Tell me, did you become a spy during the 10 years you were missing?"
Lin Sanqi almost fell to the ground when Lin Sophora flavescens suddenly said this:
"Dad, how could I be a spy? Have you ever seen such a high-profile spy like me? And what do you think this is?"
Lin Sanqi took out his military ID card from his pocket:
"Look, I am now the deputy chief of the Procurement Department of the Digital Hospital, with the rank of second lieutenant. If I were a spy, how could I wear the glorious military uniform?"
Lin Kushen read the military certificate and put it aside, and asked seriously:
"If it's convenient for you, can you tell me where your medicines, these southern ingredients, and so much food come from? I don't think there are so many good things in China except abroad."
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Lin Sanqi knew that her 60-year-old father was worried about her, so she could only admit it bravely:
"Dad, I can only say this to you. I do know an international organization that can obtain all supplies from domestic and foreign countries. But don't worry, our organization only wants to make money and has never thought of harming society."< br>
Lin Sophora flavescens asked: "Including the hundreds of tons of food you obtained for the digital hospital and our traditional Chinese medicine hospital, is this how you got it?"
"Yes!"
"What do you trade with them for food?"
"Medicinal materials, various precious medicinal materials, such as wild ginseng, are in huge demand. Even Dean Shen used ginseng to trade with me."
"Does Dean Shen know the inside story? For example, where does this food come from?"
"I didn't say it clearly, but he probably guessed that it was his suggestion to let me hold my thigh in the digital hospital. He said that the traditional Chinese medicine hospital might not be able to protect me, and no one dared to mess with the digital hospital, so he asked me to get a job. .”
After a long silence, Lin Sophora flavescens finally spoke:
"Do you know the consequences of cooperating with them? Or do you think that you can have nothing to worry about from now on?"
Lin Sanqi was a little confused: "What's the problem with cooperating with them?"
In the eyes of contemporary college students, the state is omnipotent and will take action at critical moments.
Lin Sophora actually doesn't want to care about these messy things, but after all, he is his own son, so he has to worry about it:
"Xiao Qi, have you ever thought about it, a country is made up of countless individuals, but the human heart is the most unpredictable.
Just like if you cooperate with Director Shen, Director Shen can keep you safe in your workplace; if you cooperate with a digital hospital, they can keep you safe in the country, but the honeymoon period of all these cooperations is just temporary.
What if one day Director Shen and Director Liu of Digital Hospital step down and the new director doesn't like you and thinks you are a troublemaker, do you think you can still sit back and relax?
Maybe one day the wind direction changes, and you look more and more like a foreign spy; or maybe the domestic natural disaster ends and the food supply is restored, and you have no use value, and I'm afraid you will be liquidated by then. "(End of Chapter)