Chapter 325: Unbelievable Illness
After receiving the news, Perficott rushed to the settlement where the accident occurred and even postponed the inauguration ceremony of the new city in the capital.
This behavior of the northern lords has undoubtedly caused a lot of worries. Many people are worried about whether a major plague has occurred. Otherwise, there is no way to explain why Perficott postponed the northern capital for a village. Dedication ceremony.
You must know that in order to celebrate the completion of the northern capital, not only celebrities from all walks of life in the empire and the New World gathered in this city, but even the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Anne made a special trip to attend this event. inauguration ceremony.
Under such circumstances, Purficott delayed the completion of the new city because of an epidemic in a settlement, which obviously made people worried.
However, Purficott had no time to take care of this at this time, because when she rushed to the village where the epidemic occurred and examined the sick patients, the conclusions she drew were very worrying.
It’s gangrene.
Gangrene refers to special morphological changes such as black and dark green after tissue necrosis due to secondary infection by putrefactive bacteria and the influence of other factors.
Because the decomposition of necrotic tissue by putrefactive bacteria will produce hydrogen sulfide, which combines with the iron decomposed from hemoglobin to form iron sulfide, which will make the necrotic tissue black.
This disease is just a complication, because its cause is a putrefactive bacterial infection caused by tissue necrosis.
If there is no tissue necrosis, you will not get this disease.
But there are so many causes of tissue necrosis, so many that even Perficott would have a hard time judging whether they were infected with some kind of disease, bad food, or other reasons. .
"Seal down the entire settlement, send people to collect water sources, food and patients' clothing samples from the settlement, and disinfect the entire village and town!" Perficott immediately issued an order and sealed off the village. Get up: "People who are still healthy must stay at home and are not allowed to move around at will. All food and drinking water will be distributed by dedicated personnel. No one is allowed to drink the current water source until it is confirmed that there is no problem with the water source!"
Purficott is very worried about whether the water source is polluted. After all, this area in the north was still wild before her people opened up here. No one can say what is there. If the water source is polluted, the problem will be huge. It's serious.
So while ordering people to blockade the village, Purficott also ordered people to invite shamans from nearby aboriginal tribes. She felt that these local shamans might know something about the situation.
After all, magic and various mysterious powers exist in this world, and Purficott does not dare to look at and solve problems based entirely on the experience of the original world.
If this is some kind of magic curse or something like that, and she handles it according to the experience of the original world without knowing what is going on, big problems are likely to arise.
Although Lily, the shaman apprentice of the Wildmane tribe, has been learning alchemy from the alchemy professors in her laboratory, after all, Lily is just an ordinary shaman apprentice with limited knowledge and experience. It's hard to say how much use it can be put to.
Relatively speaking, it is more effective to ask the shaman of the local tribe for information.
But before the shaman came, Purficott did not intend to just wait.
At this time, she was fortunate that the new airship given to her by the businessmen was luxurious enough, because the businessmen also prepared a laboratory for her on the airship, so that she could do some things even on the airship. Simple alchemical experiments and other studies.
Originally this was just a move to please Purficott, but now it has come in handy. At least Purficott does not have to send the collected samples back to Eagle Beak Cliff for analysis. Preliminary identification of these samples can be carried out in the laboratory on the airship.
However, the results of the identification made Purficott very confused.
There was no problem with the water source, which made Purficott immediately breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, if there is a problem with the water source, it means that the settlement may no longer be available and must be moved to another place.
Although this is not a too serious issue, the abandonment of a settlement is indeed a bit involved at this time. After all, the site selection and construction of each settlement took a lot of energy and time. If it was abandoned, she could not guarantee that a new settlement would be built within the next few months.
Especially now that midsummer has passed, the autumn in the north is very short. Once winter comes, it will be a disaster for the settlements that have not yet been built.
So if there is no problem with the water source, at least the probability of the settlement itself needing to be relocated is greatly reduced.
Then there is food, which is also the biggest target of Purficott's suspicion.
However, the identification result is still no problem.
Although the main food sources of this settlement include wheat and rye, which were originally the main suspects of Purphycott, Purphycott did not find poisonous wheat in the food samples sent. and the shadow of ergot.
She even suspected that not enough samples had been collected, and ordered people to collect and inspect the food from all sick people's homes door to door, and the final result was no problem.
This made Purficott very confused. After all, there were no problems with water and food, so how did the people in this settlement get sick?
Thinking of this, Purficott could only focus on the patients themselves and began to analyze what was wrong with their bodies.
This analysis didn't matter, but the conclusion it reached surprised Purficott.
Because these people's bodies are very healthy except for gangrene, and there are no signs of illness.
This made Purficott feel incredible.
After all, the patients had hallucinations and felt severe pain like burning fire. In severe cases, gangrene appeared in their limbs. But now the test results show that except for the gangrene, everything is normal and their bodies are still intact. Very healthy?
Perfect felt that his intelligence had been insulted, as if he was pressed to the ground and rubbed repeatedly.
But the great detective Sherlock Holmes once said that when a thing eliminates all the impossibilities, what remains, no matter how outrageous, is the truth of the matter.
So, after repeatedly verifying that his identification and examination results were correct, Purficott could only reluctantly admit that these patients did develop gangrene when their bodies were healthy.
Things are outrageous and everything is unbelievable.
Perficott was not sure what happened, but the issue was undoubtedly at an impasse.
Can't find a way to solve the problem. These people suffer from gangrene. All she can do is to treat the patients as much as possible and find ways to save their limbs.
But this is not easy. After all, it is difficult to completely cure gangrene even in the old world with advanced medical treatment, let alone in this world where antibiotics have not yet been invented.
Under such a stalemate, the shamans of nearby tribes finally responded to Purficott's call and came to the settlement.
(End of this chapter)