Plague Doctor

Dark clouds piled up in the sky, and there were hidden lightning flashes. A thunderstorm seemed to fall at any moment.

The surgical building of the medical department is not far from the training center. Gu Jun and the others followed Brother Qiang on foot, and soon arrived outside the front steps of the twenty-story building. They looked up, and saw that this colossal monster was pressing on top, and every floor was covered by blue reflective glass to block the situation inside.

"This way." Zhou Jiaqiang walked up the old stone steps and led the way in large strides.

Everyone followed the steps, passed the revolving glass door, and walked into the lobby on the first floor.

The spacious and bright lobby is similar to the surgical building of an ordinary hospital. There are no bustling scenes of patients and family members, but the medical staff are also busy coming and going. Their white coats have work certificates on their chests. At a glance, they are either F-class or G-level personnel, belonging to different departments of surgery.

Apparently the entire surgical building is now mobilized for this group of patients with the disease.

"This way." Brother Qiang beckoned in front.

Gu Jun kept an eye on his surroundings as he walked, naturally wanting to get more information. He has been here for half a month, and he still doesn't have a clear understanding of the structure of the medical department.

Suddenly, his eyes saw something, the pupils of his eyes dilated, and his heart tightened suddenly.

It was a disease bulletin board on the wall over there. People passing by hurriedly passed by, and no one took a second look. It has long been used to it.

"Ah." "That's it?" Wang Ruoxiang, Sun Yuheng and the other four also saw it, and their complexions changed a little...

"Oh, just a few common diseases." Zhou Jiaqiang had expected that they would be like this, and the interns could read the bulletin board, and immediately took them there.

The footsteps of the five people were heavier than before. Every hospital will have this kind of bulletin board, displaying knowledge and pathological pictures of certain diseases. The same is true for this piece on the wall, made of stainless steel, glass windows, and foam boards, but what are the pictures on it?

The strange and crazy pictures stung their eyes, their hearts and brains.

【Cracked soil skin disease: The disease was first discovered in Chilin City, Mobei in November 1987. In the early stage of the disease, due to lymphatic reflux disorder, the patient's lymph fluid accumulates in the subcutaneous tissue, causing persistent edema throughout the body, and then produces a pathological state of fibrous hyperplasia, fat sclerosis, skin thickening, and limb thickening. The disease is often misdiagnosed as elephantiasis leg lymphedema at the early stage, but in the middle stage, hard wart-like vegetations appear on the surface of the patient's skin, which continue to proliferate to cover the whole body, and the skin surface looks like cracked soil...]

They saw in the case picture next to it that the patient was naked but already out of shape, really like a monster made of a pile of cracked soil.

Those swollen skins had a horrible blackness, but yellow warts proliferated on them in lumps, as if pulling the flesh to pieces.

"Hmm..." Tian Zelun swallowed heavily. Even though he was a medical student and had seen the banyan tree and the human-faced dog, he still felt sick and uncomfortable.

【Orbital Cavity Hematoma: The disease was first discovered in April 1995 in Lanshui City, Jiangnan. In the early stage of the disease, malignant tumors appeared in the orbital cavity of the patient, which caused exophthalmos due to forward compression, and invaded the skull backward into the cranium, resulting in increased intracranial pressure, severe headache, and vision loss. When the disease enters the middle stage, the abnormal tumor will further invade the brain, and the patient begins to experience unconsciousness, auditory hallucinations, and visual hallucinations, which gradually aggravate into delirium and blindness...]

In several pictures of the case, the patient's face was haggard like a skeleton, but his eyes were severely protruding and bloodshot, as if they were about to burst.

The frantic look is probably because he saw something extremely terrifying. What exactly did the patient see in those hallucinations?

[Systemic Qionghua cysticercosis: The disease first broke out in the Qionghua City area of ​​Western Guangxi in February 1935. The intermediate hosts of Joancystis are pigs and wild boars, and humans are the only final hosts. People were infected by eating pork containing Cysticercus viburnum...]

"Oh." Liu Hong sighed after seeing it. And Sun Yuheng endured the depression in his heart, but his teeth were biting and beating slightly.

The picture of cysticercosis was the scariest and most disgusting sight they saw on this bulletin board.

The patient did not feel any abnormality at the initial stage, but the eggs quietly multiplied in the small intestine, and then the larva escaped, drilled into the wall of the small intestine, and reached all parts of the host's body through the blood circulation or lymphatic system, including the subcutaneous tissue, muscles, brain, eyes, etc. , internal organs, nerve sheaths, bones...

They continue to develop into mature cysticerci, occupying the patient's body before attacking. The patient's mental state began to be disturbed, and the skin began to fester. Long and thick adult worms drilled out of the skin, and also from the eyes, mouth, and ears...

Densely packed, one drilled out, and another, until all the nutrients of the host were exhausted, and the patient would die in great pain.

Looking at these pictures, which made the doctors horrified, the bodies of several interns were either a little numb or a little chilly.

Although they have been receiving all kinds of weird knowledge for the past two weeks, their lives are a little more comfortable. The dormitory is delicious and comfortable to live in. They learn general surgery, practice routine operations, and the human-faced dog is just a dog...

But now suddenly, this bulletin board pulled them back to the nightmare that started when they came into contact with the deformed remains, and fell into a deeper and deeper darkness.

"There is nothing to be afraid of. These kinds of diseases are not uncommon here. The medical department has a lot of experience in treatment, and the death rate has come down." Zhou Jiaqiang comforted them and said that the girl Wang Ruoxiang was calmer. Brother Qiang looked at Gu Jun again and said, "What can you think of now? No need for experts and professors?"

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After passing the fence, Gu Jun was silent all the time, but he did understand better.

Cracked earth skin disease, orbital cavity dysplasia, systemic vinocysticercosis...these are all stressors for doctors.

Sometimes the ignorant are fearless. People who know nothing about medicine will not think there is anything weird when looking at these diseases, they are just horrible diseases.

But like Professor Gu and even Senior Brother Zhang Lin, they have learned too much in the field of medicine in the ordinary world as Brother Qiang said, and they have built many medical towers in the depths of their spirits. The tower shapes their personality and will.

These kinds of diseases are okay, but what about the incomprehensible scratching reflex like the banyan disease? What is even more contrary to modern medicine and even human wisdom?

A skyscraper comes crashing down and there is a huge ruin upon which it is likely never possible to rebuild anything.

And people like them who just built small buildings are better at tidying up the dilapidated buildings.

Gu Jun thought, there must be some direct reasons that he didn't understand, but the Tianji Bureau must have had a painful lesson before setting up the talent selection system as it is now, and will not recruit those veterans until the last moment. If they were lost, it would be of no benefit to the Tianji Bureau, and the ordinary world would be in chaos.

It's just that the current situation has made the Tianji Bureau more and more confused.

"Let's go." Zhou Jiaqiang continued to lift his footsteps, "I'll take you to report to the orthopedics department."

Tian Zelun and Liu Hong walked quickly, Sun Yuheng sighed and followed, Wang Ruoxiang walked again, seeing that Gu Jun was still standing still, "Let's go." Gu Jun nodded and followed.

They took the elevator up to the sixth floor. The higher the elevator went, the louder the patient's pain and screams could be faintly heard. The elevator seemed to be leading to hell.

Brother Qiang said that 624 patients had to undergo various preoperative examinations, which are now arranged on various floors, and the entire medical department has been mobilized.

When they came to the sixth floor and stepped out of the elevator, they immediately saw the living patient for the first time in the crowded corridor. There was a stench in the air. Each of these patients was fixed on a mobile stretcher bed, and their limbs were shackled to the stretcher bed, whether they were normal or deformed limbs.

At a glance, there are dozens of stretcher beds on both sides of the long corridor, and deformed limbs of various shapes impact Gu Jun and his cognition...

And the howls of these patients are more disturbing than the roars of beasts.

"Come on, be careful, don't touch the patients." Zhou Jiaqiang walked over with five people, and the despairing eyes of those patients were all watching.

At this time, a male patient with deformed lower limbs saw one of them, and his wailing and screaming suddenly turned into a maniacal cry: "It's you, it's you!" His eyes were already cloudy, but they were full of fear, Angry, frantic, "It's you! It's you..."

"Huh?" Zhou Jiaqiang was taken aback, Wang Ruoxiang and Sun Yuheng looked at each other, and finally confirmed that the patient was staring at Gu Jun.

Gu Jun was stunned, his face was expressionless, and the restless feeling when the illusion appeared in his heart.

A nurse over there shouted and ran over: "Go away, he has already developed delirium, which is transforming into the third stage!"

"I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy, it's you!" The patient violently yanked the shackles on his limbs, his face was contorted in pain, and he wanted to get up to do something, but the stretcher made a clang, "It's you, The thing in the banyan tree... let me go... please, let me go..."

I like Plague Doctor.