1840Indian rebirth

Shi Ya came in and said, "Sanxue is dying! Come and have a look, maybe you can save her."

The horse whistle quickly stood up and followed him out of the chief's hall, and soon came to a wooden house.

There were many people in the house, including the red girl and the little sparrow.

"Brother Shaozi, Sister Sanxue has been in a coma for a long time, can you revive her?" the little sparrow said immediately when she saw him coming in.

"Let me take a look first." The horse whistle passed through the crowd and then saw a girl lying on the bed. She was fifteen years old and slightly thin.

At this moment, Sanxue was lying on the bed unconscious, her face was sallow, her lips were dry, and she looked frighteningly weak.

The horse whistle stretched out his hand to check, and then he couldn't help but feel alarmed - a high fever, and not an ordinary high fever, at least 40 degrees.

As for the cause of the high fever, it was of course postpartum infection. Sanxue had just given birth a few days ago.

Although Mashao had asked the tribesmen to marry late and repeatedly emphasized that "younger marriages weaken the race", Sanxue was already pregnant before he proposed this, so he naturally couldn't control it.

Sanxue's body was not strong enough, and the result was a dangerous delivery. She finally gave birth to a child, but it also caused severe postpartum infection.

Ma Shao had suffered from severe wound infection before, but his strong physique was obviously not comparable to that of ordinary people. As a weak mother, Sanxue's body functions were even more fragile.

It looked like she probably wouldn't be able to survive it.

Unless antibiotics are available, the preparation of penicillin is very troublesome.

It is indeed not difficult to find some mold, but it is extremely difficult to extract clean penicillin from it. Even if it is extracted, the yield is still a problem.

In the 20th century, Dr. Fleming discovered the miraculous penicillin. After that, he spent a month unable to extract enough penicillin for one patient. After that, it took ten years to produce only a few kilograms.

This resulted in the price of penicillin being much more expensive than gold of equal weight, even hundreds of times.

It was not until the end of World War II that the production of penicillin began to increase significantly. The end of World War II was exactly a century ago.

"...Teacher, have you danced yet?" Ma Shao was at a loss for words.

"I've danced all the dances and it still doesn't work, so I came to see you." Stone Crow said, "Isn't there anything you can do?"

Ma Shao was silent for a moment, and finally sighed slightly: "Keep the air ventilated, don't block the room, and use strong alcohol to clean her body."

This is all we can do, I hope Sanxue can survive it.

Everyone also heard the implication, and immediately left with sighs.

The horse whistle also turned and left the room.

The little sparrow followed from behind and ran to him: "Brother Shaozi, is there really no other way?"

Ma Shao shook his head.

The little sparrow still refused to accept this fact, hugging his arm and said: "Brother Shaozi, everyone says you are the messenger of the Great Spirit. If you think about what the Great Spirit has told you, there must be a way. Sister Sanxue

She is so nice!”

"I am not an envoy of God." Ma Shao blurted out, then paused, "At least, I don't believe that I am an envoy of God. I have never seen the Great Spirit, and the Great Spirit has never said anything to me."

The little sparrow lowered his head: "But, but..."

Ma Shao patted her head: "Birth, aging, sickness and death are the most basic laws of nature, and we must always accept it."

The little sparrow didn't speak anymore. The two of them stood here, and the air was quiet for a while.

Just when the awkward atmosphere was vaguely emerging, Ma Shao suddenly focused his eyes, as if he noticed something.

Not far in front of them, at the door of a wooden house, there was a crop that was somewhat strange to many Indians - garlic.

This garlic comes from Clark Town, of course.

Since the discovery of garlic in Clark Town, some tribesmen have bought some from time to time and used it as a condiment.

Looking at the garlic hanging on the door, Ma Shao's eyes gradually brightened.

Allicin!

Penicillin is not the only antibiotic, why did he forget this!

Allicin is also an antibiotic and is much easier to prepare than penicillin.

More importantly, even if the preparation of allicin fails, it will not bring additional risks. After all, garlic itself is a kind of food. In contrast, penicillin needs to be extracted from mold. If the extraction fails, the mold will be removed.

If you bring it in and use it on patients, the consequences may be unpredictable.

Of course, as far as Ma Shao knows, allicin seems to have been mainly used as a veterinary drug in later generations. For example, it was mixed into feed to feed pigs and fish, and the effect on humans should not be very satisfactory.

But there is no risk anyway, the patient is almost dead, why not give it a try?

"Brother Shaozi?" The little sparrow was a little frightened by Mashao's gleaming eyes, and waved in front of him.

"Gather all the garlic from the whole family, immediately!" Ma Shao reacted and said hurriedly, "There is also a bag of strong wine!"

The little sparrow was startled, and then said in surprise: "Have you thought of a way?"

Ma Shao said: "I'm not sure yet, but we have to move quickly, Sanxue may not survive tonight!"

The whole family's garlic was quickly gathered together, and the quantity was quite large, with dozens of bunches.

"Crush the garlic, the more crushed it is, the better." The horse whistle ordered, and the tribesmen got busy, beating the garlic with sticks on clean wooden boards until it became pulpy.

Garlic itself does not contain allicin.

Only by mashing it into pieces will the sulfides inside the garlic undergo a series of chemical reactions and eventually produce allicin.

There are many chemical reactions taking place, but the operation is actually very simple.

Just mash the garlic and let it sit for ten minutes to half an hour, and allicin will be produced.

Then it’s time to collect allicin.

Allicin is difficult to dissolve in water, but is easily soluble in ethanol, that is, alcohol, so what Ma Shao needs to do next is to soak the garlic paste in spirits and change a batch of garlic paste every hour to increase the concentration of allicin as much as possible

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The efficiency of this is very low, and it is also troublesome to use the medicine. A better way is to use steam distillation, and then separate the oil and water to obtain high-purity allicin for direct injection. However, there is not even a flask at the moment, so this is the only way.

After six batches of minced garlic, it was already night time.

A small bag of spirits absorbed the allicin from six batches of garlic paste and turned yellow. Due to the rough filtering method, it was still a little sticky.

Ma Shao felt that it was almost done, so he took the bag of wine to the room where Sanxue was.

When the wine bag was opened, several people in the room were so smoked that they covered their noses. The pungent smell of garlic mixed with the smell of alcohol hit their faces.

"What is this?" asked the red girl.

"A new medicine." Mashao said, "Good medicine always tastes bad. I hope this can help Sanxue."

"Can Sanxue be saved?" People asked in surprise.

Ma Shao sweated slightly: "No, I'm not sure yet. Don't have too much hope."

He really didn't dare to vouch for the efficacy of such crudely made allicin. Moreover, even high-purity allicin could not cure all diseases.

Ma Shao carefully poured the wine into Sanxue's mouth...