Chapter 16 Treatment
At night, the starlight shines faintly on the roofs of the village, and the cool breeze blows gently, bringing with it a hint of night chill.
Jason tried to kneel down, but Garris grabbed him and stood aside.
Garris could feel the sadness and tension on the child's face, and could even hear the violent heartbeat and short breathing.
"That, old Thomas, prescribed some medicine for my mother, but it was of no use at all. Now my mother, she is even worse! And...and...that Thomas said that some radical treatment was going to be carried out...but... Many people died after radical treatment... Thomas gave a bunch of theories about curses, evil spirits and the like... I was a little scared and didn't dare to continue the treatment."
Jason was crying, and his words were full of fear. He no longer knew what the way forward was.
Garris turned his head and glanced at Cardoso, and the wealthy landowner responded with an "Indeed" reply.
It can be heard that Thomas has killed many people in the past few years.
Even though there are still people who are willing to believe in him, children like Jason will still feel fear and fear, and then try to find someone more trustworthy and safer to save their mother.
After all, Garris felt that Jason was quite lucky. At least Garris himself was not a real medieval monk and would not use the "bright" and "omnipotent" medical skills of the Middle Ages to cure diseases.
Although monks know medical skills, this is a stereotype.
In the medieval environment, monasteries served as a center for knowledge exchange. Many monks devoted themselves to medical research or practice. In many monasteries, manuscripts of ancient Greek or Roman medical classics were preserved, or manuscripts were written. He has written extensively on herbal medicine and medical practices.
But it’s hard to say how many people these medical classics from the ancient Greek or Roman era, plus those on medical practice, have cured… it’s hard to say, and it doesn’t mean that none have been cured.
I can only talk about the glorious medieval medical technology. Cancer can be cured by cutting hands, diarrhea can be cured by bloodletting, and the Black Death can be cured by inducing vomiting with heavy metals. It is also believed that suppuration is a precursor to wound healing...even in the early Middle Ages. , astrological medicine and faith medicine can still be popular, and bloodletting can be suppressed into illegal medical practice.
Garris stared into the eyes of the young man in front of him, feeling the helplessness hidden in them, and finally nodded.
"Let me go and have a look."
Even though he is not actually a real doctor, he is at least more reliable than those great medieval medical pioneers.
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The village where Garris and the others are located is a village where the entire population is Christian. The arrival of the Crusader Lords also brought the Frankish fellow villagers from their hometown, just like the village of Skar, only larger, but it seems that More dilapidated.
After walking into Jason's house, he saw the woman from the daytime. She was lying on a bed covered with rough linen. The sheets had been wrinkled from constant turning, and she was obviously in great pain.
Jason's father sat beside the bed hopelessly and numbly. Even when Jason walked into the room with Garris, Isabel, and Simon, he only raised his head and glanced over, but there was no more movement.
Garris briefly checked the woman's physical condition, asked Jason about the situation, and then came to a conclusion. In fact, it was fever caused by colds and tonsil inflammation. In later generations, it was a disease that could be cured with a few pills. For Garris, it only took a few glances to distinguish it.
But in this day and age... there are no antibiotics or any other medicines.
Of course, under normal circumstances, a cold is not actually fatal. After all, the human immune system is not a vegetarian... But once the immune system goes crazy... a fatal high fever will come.
But Jason's mother was now suffering from a high fever. According to Garris, it was at least 39 degrees, but not as high as 41 degrees.
The top priority is to find a way to control Jason's mother's body temperature.
"Do you have a towel?" Garris asked Jason, and then he saw Jason's face was blank. Apparently towels were unheard of for him.
Garris pinched his eyebrows, then borrowed Simon's sword, cut a section from his clothes, and cut it into strips of cloth. Instead, Jason was asked to take the clay pot to the river to collect water, and he ordered Jason's father to light a fire.
However, Jason's father, while moving, kept sighing: "This is all life...it can't be saved...it's all the Lord's arrangement..."
Before Jason brought the water back, Garris asked Cardoso to find some dried chrysanthemums, dried marigolds, or licorice.
"Chrysanthemum, calendula, licorice?" After hearing the names of these herbs, Cardoso was thoughtful and at a loss. It wasn't until Garris described the morphological characteristics of these herbs that Cardoso Suo Cai matched them one by one, and then replied: "It seems that old Thomas has some at home, but he doesn't seem to have used them to treat colds."
Again and again, Garris was sure that Thomas was ignorant. It would be understandable to say that he did not know the medicinal value of chrysanthemums, but he did not even know about marigolds and licorice, commonly used medicinal materials in Arabic medicine. If so...it can only be said that this guy has never been exposed to truly systematic and effective medicine.
But it didn't matter. Rather than talking nonsense with Thomas, the old thief, Garris directly asked Cardoso to take Simon to get the herbs back. As for himself, after Jason got the water back, he took the cut The cloth was sticky, and Isabel was wiped with her on the woman's body.
This was a treatment method that no one present had ever thought of. Some people, such as Isabel, subconsciously resisted, but when Garris acted expressionlessly, the girl was embarrassed to say it.
While wiping the woman's body, Garris said to the people on the side: "Christ has shown miracles. As long as the patients he touches, the patients' diseases can heal themselves. I can't do that miracle, but you If you believe in me, then I can teach you how to comply with Heavenly Father’s design and heal your illnesses.”
"In the design of Heavenly Father, there are actually countless spirits in heaven and earth. Those spirits are so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye. Some of them are good, some are evil, and some are neither good nor evil. And most of the diseases that most people get are related to those evil spirits. Related.”
"Those evil spirits will take advantage of the human body's weakness to invade the human body. After those evil spirits invade the human body, the good spirits guarding the human body will fight with them, trying to drive them out. At this time, the body becomes a battlefield, and things begin to Fever, this kind of fever helps kill those evil spirits, but it also damages the human body itself. We need to control this body temperature to prevent the patient from dying due to physical damage in the process."
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How can it be superstitious to inject knowledge that is truly beneficial to mankind into the minds of medieval people in a way that is easy for them to understand, so that people know how to prevent diseases?
(End of chapter)