Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 91—Claude’s request

This is a room with an area of ​​nearly 20 square meters. There are three double-opened glass windows on each side. The interior is very simple, with white walls and gray floors. In the middle of the room is a large, thick white wooden table that occupies one-third of the room. The wooden table is full of all kinds of large and small glassware. If it wasn't for Mrs. Maria, the Claude almost thought that she had entered a chemical laboratory in her previous life.

On the right side of the room is a row of 40-centimeter-depth wall-mounted black wood cabinets. This is a little like a pharmacy cabinet with a small drawer on it. The drawer is also covered with a small label. It should be used for medicinal materials. In the upper left corner of the room is a two-meter-long pool with thin white marble tiles. Claude found that the pool was also filled with copper faucets. It seems that Mrs. Maria has spent a lot of money on her pharmacy laboratory and has brought in tap water.

"Madam, is this your pharmacy lab?" Crowder asked.

“This is only part of it. The glassware in this room is mainly used for refining and synthesizing. Sometimes I use it to do some experiments of interest. There is also a room inside. For our pharmacist, that room is It is the most important, because all the herbs must be processed before they can refine the synthetic agents, so the medicinal processing room is equivalent to a simple alchemy magical array. Let's take a look..."

Mrs. Maria went to the end of the room and opened the white wooden door.

Crowder followed the past and saw that the room size and decoration were almost the same as the outside. The difference was that there was some mess in the room, or it could be said that it was stuffed with various items and appliances. Except for iron and glass products, most of the rest is made of brass. Many of them are floor-standing like a large piece of furniture, making the whole room look like a production workshop.

"Pharmaceutics comes from the magician's alchemy. The earliest healing remedies are synthesized by the magician in the alchemy magical array. Only these therapeutic agents are provided by nobles, and civilians cannot enjoy this service. Even if they are sick, they can only pick some herbs and take them according to their experience. This is not very effective, and sometimes it will aggravate the condition.

It is said that the plague broke out later, and the magician could not refine so many therapeutic agents in the alchemy magical array, so he reversed the steps in the alchemy magical array and taught the civilians to perform preliminary low-level treatment on the medicinal materials before cooking the syrup. To save yourself. This is the most important moment in the development of pharmacy, and it is also the real beginning of modern pharmacy.

In a sense, it is the magician's alchemy that has created the modern discipline of pharmacy. At first, the recipe for almost all diseases was obtained from the magician's alchemy test, such as therapeutic agents, detoxification agents, and the formulation of primary agents.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the magician's lack of attention to these pharmaceutical formulas. Their eyes never fell on civilians.

The pharmacists who got these formulas are the most respectable people. Although they don't know magic and don't know any alchemy magical array, they still try to understand and explore, and step by step according to the occasional guidance. The anti-introduction of the treatment of the medicinal materials and the refining and synthesis of the medicinal materials have improved the pharmacy a little bit in the long years.

Although the pharmacy they made is not as perfect as the magician refining in the alchemy magical array, even the treatment effect of a fraction of a tenth of the magical remedy is a gospel for the vast majority of civilians. Because they already have their own therapeutic agents, they don't have to worry about getting sick. ”

Mrs. Mariah introduced the origin of pharmacy to Claude in a very proud tone: "The room you are seeing now is the latest medicinal processing center for pharmacy. For our pharmacists, this room is ours. Alchemy magic array."

It seems that Mrs. Maria is very proud of her identity as an intermediate pharmacist. She took Crowder slowly through a piece of equipment and introduced him to the name and purpose of the appliance: "This is a separation tank, mainly relying on rapid rotation to separate the impurities of the medicine. This is a crusher, Large pieces of medicinal materials and mineral-based medicinal materials can be placed inside and chopped and stirred into a powder.

This is the water storage tank... This is the dispensing box... This is the extraction tank... This is the slicer... This is the cooking pot... This is the pressure kettle..... This is the filter and the distillation pot for concentrated potions. ......"

"Madam, what is the motivation for your appliances?" Claude felt a bit strange. Many of the appliances in this room were equipped with crankshafts underneath, so it was obvious that these appliances were not manpower-driven. Just like the shredder, an estimated diameter is seventy or eighty centimeters, and how much effort is needed to get it to work...

According to Claude, the world has not invented a steam engine, basically using both hydraulic and wind power. For example, the kingdom opened the gun-making workshop in Baromiese County, with an annual output of nearly 50,000 firearms and more than 3,000 domestic workers. All they used were hydraulic machines, because the address of the workshop was in a valley, and they used the water flow impact of the waterfall to drive the hydraulic machinery to make the fire.

"You know when you push the window out and look outside." Mrs. Maria said with a smile.

The biggest difference between this room and the outside room is that there is only one window on both walls. The glass on the window is still attached to the window paper, so the light is not enough. When Mrs. Maria comes in, she puts a bright pearl.

Mrs. Maria is referring to the right wall, and Claude pushes the window open and understands. It turned out that the outer wall of the wall was equipped with a large turntable, just like the hydraulic mills arranged on the riverside. The water flow led the blades on the turntable to turn the turntable, and then the stone mill inside the mill was rotated.

Although there is no river outside the row of stone houses, the roof of the stone house is equipped with a large water tank. There is also a tube under the water tank that is aligned with the turntable. It seems that as long as the switch of the water storage tank is opened, the water inside will rush down the pipe to the blade of the turntable to make the turntable rotate. Then, after connecting the crankshaft under the appliances in the room, the appliances can move.

"It's a genius idea, madam, who designed this?" Crowder said with a thumbs up.

Mrs. Mariah smiled and her teeth were revealed. She answered very happily: "It is my idea. I also have such a pharmacy laboratory in Wangdu, but that was originally used for animal power. The turntable was placed on the ground with horses. Turning, it would take a groom to look after the two horses. Sometimes the two horses and the half lost their temper, which made me lose a lot of herbs. Later I remembered those hydraulic machines, they were placed on the roof. A large water tank, and then tap water, so it is much more convenient, do not have to worry about the strike of the two horses on the turntable..."

"Madam, you are so smart, no wonder you can become an intermediate pharmacist." Claude flattered.

"Nothing, compared with the predecessors who invented these refining utensils, I was too far away." Mrs. Maria moved her hand: "I am not modest, but the truth. In this room, so many instruments are combined. It is equivalent to playing the role of alchemy magical array. Those predecessors have launched a little bit of anti-alcohol magic array on the steps and effects of medicinal processing and medicinal refining, and then carefully crafted these instruments to process medicinal materials, so that we The younger pharmacists don't need alchemy magical arrays to refine good pharmacy, they are really great."

"Madam, I have a very rash request. Can you teach me about pharmacy?" Claude asked.

"Do you want to be a pharmacist?"

"Yeah." Crowder nodded.

Mrs. Mariah thought about it or shook her head: "Sorry, Claude, I don't want to teach you, but I don't have time. I can only stay in Bailu for a maximum of half a month. I haven't been in such a short time. The way to teach you a lot of pharmacy knowledge. In addition, you should still go to school, you can not have a lot of time to learn with me..."

"I can teach myself, ma'am." Claude asked: "I have been in the third year of the middle school this year, and I will graduate in more than two months. The current course is no problem for me, even if I take time off, it doesn't matter. And I don't need you to take me around to guide me. What I need is that you lead me into the knowledge hall of pharmacy, telling me what to learn first when I teach pharmacy, what kind of knowledge should I read?..."

"So..." Mrs. Maria thought and nodded. "You come with me."

Claude followed Mrs. Mariah to the outermost room, the room where the Niros Giants specimen was thrown on the ground.

"Look, Claude, I have books on pharmacy on my bookshelf. I will allow you to come to me to see these pharmacy books in the next half month, as long as you have time, I can come over at any time. After half a month, I will conduct a small test for you. If you can't pass this little test, it proves that you are not suitable to be a pharmacist, and you don't have to work hard in this area."

Mrs. Mariah pointed to a large bookcase against the wall.

Claude found out that he had just entered the room because he was attracted by the specimen of the Nyros crocodile on the ground, ignoring the large bookshelf against the wall. In addition, while sitting and drinking afternoon tea with Mrs. Maria, she was facing the bookshelf, and she never noticed that the book was almost full of walls.

"There are so many books in your wife. I can see it?" Claude is a hunter, and his favorite is reading.

"Well, do you also like to read books?" Mrs. Maria is now more and more happy in Claude's heart. It is a headache for most people to see so many books on almost one wall. Especially these books are not popular movies, most of them are When it is a professional pharmacy book, it is very difficult for him to read these books. And Claude was a happy look, his eyes fixed on the bookshelf, and he could not wait to rush to start reading.

"Yeah, I have already read a few hundred books in my father's study. The bookstores in the town can't buy any interesting new books. Occasionally, I have a few biographies of popular novels or chicken soup. I can't find a new book worth seeing..."

"My books here are all brought here from the king. It is my collection of books. But most of my books are about pharmacy. Only a small part is about history and geography. You like it. If you look at it, try to find time to come to see me, as long as you don't feel bored." Mrs. Maria said with a smile.

"Thank you, madam, can I see it now?" Claude couldn't wait.

"Of course, I will give you a cup of tea and you will look slowly."

At this moment, Lu Dean's housekeeper came in. He glanced at Claude and reported to Mrs. Maria May: "Mrs, the wild boars are coming again, and they are very close to us, just over there. On the hillside, you can see when you go out..."

"Oh, is it? You take me to see." said Mrs. Maria.

At this time, it is not suitable for reading. Claude can't be indifferent since he heard it. Anyway, he used to come here to hunt wild boars. He also left the room behind Mrs. Maria.

In fact, I didn’t go far. I went out and followed the direction of Lu De’an’s housekeeper. On the hillside less than 200 meters away from the manor house, there were about a dozen wild boars on the hillside. Sahuan. The hillside should have opened up a few acres of mountain fields, and I don’t know what to plant. This group of wild boars is noisy in the mountain fields.

"Need to go to the town to ask a few hunters to drive away these wild boars? Madame." Lu Dean butler asked.

"Let me come, there is no need to ask the hunter." Claude volunteered to stand up.