Struggle in the Steam Age

For trade, Lawrence conducted a large-scale survey of the entire island with the help of the lords of the green island.

Considering Lawrence's identity and the relationship with the country behind everyone, these lords naturally don't worry about any bad results after Lawrence knows the key data.

Therefore, in this investigation, all the lords on the island cooperated with Lawrence's actions as much as possible, and shared with him the key information they had.

These data containing a series of trivial data such as population, local specialties, and land area may not mean much to others, but to Lawrence and Shumei who have mastered the big data analysis ability, they can analyze a lot Very meaningful stuff.

For example, if we analyze the two data of local population and livable space, we will naturally find that this area actually has great development potential, and it will never be as depressed as it seems on the surface.

And this news also means that if we trade with Green Island, it will be a long-term trade that can last for many years. Therefore, if we want to maximize the benefits of all parties, we need to take the possibility of this long-term trade into consideration. middle.

That is, when sorting out these key data, Lawrence found that the level of medical treatment on this island can be said to be appalling.

A settlement like Surrey Castle could have some from the Church of the Passion, or some other church staff who could provide some medical services that were obviously insufficient in both quantity and quality.

But after leaving these large cities, if people in other places get sick, they can only take it hard or find some unreliable herbs, and then start praying to the gods they believe in to see if there is a miracle.

Even compared with Green Island, the medical level of the island of New Sauer where Lawrence was before was considered very good.

At least compared to the large area of ​​wasteland and monotonous vegetation on Green Island, the Star Sea Islands located in the tropical rain forest area have more diverse creatures, so more types of natural medicines can be found.

Under such a background, it is naturally quite profitable to sell various medicines and some simple medical products to the island.

At the same time, taking into account the purpose of expanding the market and establishing word of mouth, in addition to selling medicines and medical supplies to the island, Lawrence plans to discuss with the Church of the Passion to see if there is some medical cooperation with the island.

After that banquet, Lawrence was free for several days.

According to Viscount Surrey, these Briton nobles on Green Island were actually the same as the nobles of Shaw Island that Lawrence had contacted before. After receiving this information, they were first surprised and then fell into controversy.

After all, this matter is related to everyone's income for a long time in the future, so the nobles need a period of time to coordinate various internal situations before they can give Lawrence a unified reply.

Taking advantage of this leisurely opportunity, Lawrence and Safir went to several large settlements on the island and visited the members of the Church of Suffering in those settlements, and expressed their hope to cooperate with everyone in medical treatment.

After hearing Lawrence's idea, the members of these churches basically expressed their support.

The only reservation is that Lawrence's method has never been done here before. So they hope to conduct a simple pilot somewhere to verify the reliability of this approach.

It is naturally impossible for Lawrence to object to this request of the Church of the Passion, so after discussing with the members of the Church of the Passion and the nobles. Lawrence chose Fort Surrey as the location for his experiments.

So when Lawrence completed his trip to the island and returned to Surrey, a simple medical school was built.

Lawrence didn't find it too difficult to establish a basic medical system in a territory on the edge of civilization, because he had done similar things on the Isle of Shaw before and accumulated some experience.

So after only one week of training, these students from the Viscount Surrey's territory showed their mastery of some practical medical knowledge.

"Is it so easy to train a doctor?" A nobleman asked in a surprised tone with his eyes wide open.

Because he saw a few young students who were selected for examination carefully examined and questioned the patients, and quickly discussed and prescribed a treatment prescription.

"Of course it's not that simple." Lawrence shook his head and went to the patient to check it out. Then he took the prescription and made his own judgment.

"For example, they only noticed that the old man had some diarrhea and prescribed montmorillonite powder to stop the diarrhea, but they didn't find out that the cause of the patient's diarrhea was food poisoning."

"I think this kind of diarrhea caused by eating some rotten meat or fish raw should be easy to recognize and give corresponding treatment, instead of treating superficial diarrhea like this now, ignoring more important food Poisoning problem."

Obviously, these are just low-profile barefoot doctors who have been trained for a week. At most, they just swallowed some knowledge related to medicine.

If you want to know the level of this kind of education, you have to wait until the end of the three-month overall teaching and training to find out what the specific situation is.

But even so, those who came to inspect with Lawrence were still very surprised at the speed with which these low-profile barefoot doctor apprentices were cultivated.

"This is simply unbelievable." After watching the very immature treatment demonstration of the students just now, a baron with a fief in the north said looking at the scene in front of him in surprise.

"I know these people only studied for a week. But seriously, their level is better than those so-called medical personnel who provide various medical services in my territory."

Listening to the explanations of these nobles, Lawrence finally figured out the level of the original doctors in this area.

It was unbelievable to him that the guys who used to practice medicine in this area were terribly low-level.

A large number of people who don't know anything about medicine claim to be doctors and use various seemingly insane methods to deceive the public, and use such deceptions to grab a lot of wealth.

"I admit that some diseases can be cured by burning some plants or taking a bath in hot spring water. But it is purely deceitful to say that this method alone can cure all diseases."

After listening to the nobles talking about the treatment methods of the medical staff in this area, Lawrence commented unceremoniously.

"But I can also understand why this happens, at least compared to staying there and waiting to die, this treatment can act as a placebo anyway."

"Earl Sauer, what is this placebo you're talking about?" After hearing Lawrence say a certain word, a middle-aged nobleman who also had the title of Earl asked curiously.

After hearing the voice, Lawrence looked around and found that the nobleman was one of the two highest-ranked earls on the island, and he was also a non-staff bachelor of the Briton Royal Academy of Sciences.

Obviously, the earl has the unique spirit of inquiry of a scholar, so he interrupted Lawrence at this time and asked him about the meaning of this new vocabulary.

"Placebo is a new word I created, which consists of two roots: soothing and drug." Since he wanted to explain the word clearly, Lawrence naturally started from the most basic.

"This potion is actually made of substances that have no medicinal effect and no toxic side effects, such as white sugar, dyed water or starch, etc. The appearance is similar to the real medicine—"