Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!

Chapter 2036 - 1488: The “Forbidden Technique” of Smallpox Vaccination and Those Who Weep (Part 2)

"!... "Zuwaro’s eyes flickered as he and Loshanda each took a medical book. The one in his hand was thinner, and upon flipping through it, he noticed the absence of punctuation, the dense array of square characters. On the very first page, a long title was inscribed, but it was...

"" ’Emergency Treatment of Infantile Rashes ’? Dong Jizhi?"

Beside him, Loshanda held a very thick and heavy medical book, but the title was rather short, albeit somewhat strange.

"" ’Health Treasure ’? Luo Qianfu?"

"Sir! These two are essential medical books inherited by the Jisheng Hospital! One was written by Master Dong, a doctor from Upper Country Song Dynasty, titled ’Emergency Treatment of Infantile Rashes,’ which discusses the symptoms, causes, and treatment of pox sore (smallpox) and measles... The other was authored by Master Luo, a doctor from Upper Country Yuan Dynasty, titled ’Health Treasure,’ focusing primarily on diseases and prescriptions across internal, external, gynecological, pediatric, and five sensory departments, medical cases..."

"These two Upper Country medical books are rarely seen outside, being secret transmissions of the Jisheng Hospital. According to Chang De, even in Upper Country Ming, the circulation of these books is limited. Only our ’Haidong Country,’ having endured transitions from Song, Yuan to Ming, maintaining continuous heritage without ever perishing, could preserve them... If not for treating the family of the Princess, I couldn’t have borrowed them..."

Doctor Caisan knelt on the ground, looking up earnestly at the two Dada Nobles, introducing the content of the medical books, all quotes from ’Chang De Shaman.’ Mori no Kiyoshi, serving as translator, was surprised; he never expected that this medical woman’s box contained two precious medical books? Had he known earlier, he would have... demanded more money!...

"Look! Master Dong’s discussion on smallpox is, ’Heat in the household results in rashes, visceral heat results in sores,’ ’If the heat isn’t removed, the evil energy deepens, leading to asthma, blood in stool, or abscess, and body fissures’... The treatment method is, ’Administer Purple Gromwell Powder, Life-saving Powder, or Turtle Shell Powder, if severe, use niu li ointment to disperse. If poison attacks the throat, administer a small amount of Purple Snow and Ru Sheng Soup, none that are ineffective’... Recovery post-illness requires ’avoidance of crowds, maintaining quiet, avoiding direct wind blowing’..."

"Regarding Master Luo, built upon Master Dong’s foundation, he proposed an improved smallpox formula and introduced White Chrysanthemum Powder to address blindness and eye disorders post-sores... This formula, along with treatments for various common ailments, are all in the ’Universal Healing Formula.’ Almost all of infantile ailments have cure methods..."

"..."

The two Chiefs of the Kingdom’s Priest flipped through the ’Shaman Medical Book,’ staring intently at the dense small square characters. They recognized many of the characters, but assembled together, they were incomprehensible. As for Mori no Kiyoshi’s earnest and detailed translation, it also seemed as cryptic as heavenly texts, frustratingly confusing the two. Zuwaro listened arduously for a while, filled with countless question marks. He finally couldn’t help but wave a hand, interrupting these difficult ’Shaman Healing Spells.’

"With Chief Divine’s witness! I now believe you are indeed a capable tribal Female Shaman!... However, we have an urgent question to ask seriously! Do you possess a mysterious spell known as ’smallpox vaccination’?... you know, that method where one first acquires and then consistently resists..."

"Senior Zuwaro, it’s about first selecting ’mild epidemic poison,’ acquiring a mild ’plague’ once, and then never fearing a severe ’plague’ again. A single smallpox vaccination, endowed with lifelong Heavenly Destiny!..."

"Yes! That is ’a single smallpox vaccination, lifelong Heavenly Destiny!... Caisan, do you know it?... Forget it, Sen, stop translating, I’ll write it to her!"

"?... This is, smallpox vaccination?..."

Looking at the two big characters ’smallpox vaccination’ written on the note again, Doctor Caisan opened her eyes wide, her mouth forming a Korean surprised ’O’. Disbelieving, she looked at the two Han characters, then glanced at the ferociously barbaric ’Tatar Barbarians,’ dazed for a long moment before softly replying.

"This Dada Noble ... smallpox vaccination, planting seed, is the most dangerous forbidden technique... it can easily lead to the death of noble children... Chang De in Jisheng Hospital once said that during Upper Country Yuan Dynasty, there was a secret technique of clothing inoculation for smallpox, and even a method to blow seed into nostrils... But this is the most dangerous forbidden technique, whether in Korea or Ming, very few doctors use it! Furthermore, Chief Medical Woman Chang De strictly admonished us never to privately inoculate seeds for noble children, not even to mention this method!"

"If the noble’s child contracts smallpox and despite our efforts, they ultimately aren’t saved... then it’s a matter of Heavenly Destiny, unavoidable. However, if it’s before illness strikes, inoculating noble children with smallpox, should an error occur, the medical women bear full responsibility! Not only does the medical woman who inoculated the seeds perish undoubtedly, but the entire Jisheng Hospital faces grave consequence, potentially unable to survive!"

"Heavenly Divine, smallpox vaccination is truly a forbidden technique! According to Chief Medical Woman Chang De, it’s not that this method is extremely difficult, but the crucial ’good seed’ for vaccination is exceedingly hard to obtain! The newly extracted ’poison seed’ from patients, is both toxic and fierce, and planting it in children, results in a mortality rate of four or five in ten, nearly akin to naturally contracting the illness. It’s absolutely unacceptable! To acquire ’good seed’ with weak poison, it’s necessary to use many infected living people as medium, continuously using living people for pox cultivation... Based on patients’ symptoms, continually extracting relatively weak ’poison seed,’ planting in a new batch of living people, then extracting weaker ’weak poison seed’ again..."