MTL - My Senpai Knows Magic-Chapter 164 malaria

Blair? "

"Blair is here too?"

"He's that **** Blair!"

"Damn, he invented the superfluous thing like the stethoscope!"

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As soon as Catherine's voice fell, Chen Luo and Christine did not speak, and the surroundings seemed to be fried, and the atmosphere instantly boiled, and the atmosphere was even warmer than the discussion of the plague just now.

At the same time, Chen Luo also felt deep resentment from the people around him.

However, he is regarded as a devil and a symbol of evil in the mathematics community, and he has long been used to being hated by others.

Chen Luo ignored everyone, but looked at Catherine and asked, "Doctor Catherine, have you found out what disease caused the plague?"

Catherine shook her head and said, "Not yet, this disease has never occurred in Wangdu, and the doctors don't know what kind of medicine to prepare."

"What kind of symptoms do patients have?" Diagnosing the disease is not easy for doctors in this world, so Chen Luo changed his way of asking.

Catherine looked at him and said, "The patient sweats profusely, has a headache, is thirsty, and often has intermittent chills or fevers..."

Chen Luo asked: "Is the interval between the two attacks exactly two days or so?"

Catherine froze for a moment, looked at him, and said in surprise, "How do you know?"

This conclusion was just discovered by several doctors. The patient was generally normal between the two episodes of the disease, but each time the attack occurred, he would immediately be in danger, or even die...

Chen Luo murmured, "Malaria..."

He was not a doctor, but he had also heard of malaria.

Malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis are also known as the three major diseases in the world. Malaria, an intermittent fever disease, has been dubbed the "Murderer of Millions". If the impact of malaria is evaluated according to the number of victims and the degree of victimization, then , it is called the most devastating disease in human history.

Throughout the 17th century, malaria raged around the world and nearly killed Kangxi, and even into the 19th century, it remained a common disease on the European continent.

After entering the 21st century, nearly 300 million people in the world are infected with malaria every year, and 1 million people die as a result. This is still in the modern age where medical technology is developed and bloodletting therapy is still the mainstream of the continent of grace. In the absence of specific medicines, patients are infected with malaria. , If you want to survive, you can only rely on luck.

[ps: Quoted from History of Medicine, p. 296, by Lois. 】

Catherine looked at Chen Luo in confusion and asked, "What?"

Chen Luo regained his senses and whispered, "I may have a cure for this plague."

Catherine heard the words with a look of joy on her face, grabbed his hand excitedly, and asked, "Student Blair, is this true?"

Chen Luo nodded and said, "I saw in a book before that someone called this disease "malaria" and successfully cured many patients."

Catherine hurriedly said, "Where is that book now?"

Chen Luo shook his head and said, "I lost it when I moved house later, but I still remember two medicines for treating malaria, provided we can find the raw materials..."

While the Medical Association and other doctors were still debating what method to take to treat this plague, Chen Luo, Katherine and Christine had come to a quiet room.

Christine closed the door, Catherine looked at Chen Luo, and asked urgently, "What materials do you need to make that potion?"

The discovery of quinine as a cure for malaria was one of the greatest achievements of 17th century medicine.

Chen Luo understood this knowledge because Tu Youyou's team discovered artemisinin, solved the problem of ineffective antimalarial treatment, and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. When mainstream and non-mainstream media rushed to report, Chen Luo, who was in college, was also one of countless young people who were proud of Chinese scientists.

To this end, he specially went online to learn about malaria, and also knew that before artemisinin, quinine was the best special medicine for malaria.

It's just that the cinchona tree used to produce quinine is not found everywhere in South America, and Chen Luo doesn't know whether such a tree exists in the Shengen Continent.

Chen Luo looked at Catherine and said, "It's a kind of tree, I don't know the name of the tree, I only know that its bark is gray-brown, thinner, with light and many cracks, the corolla is white or light yellow-white, and the inner edge is Has pale yellow villous hairs…”

Catherine looked at Chen Luo and said in confusion, "I know many plants, but I have never heard of this kind of tree."

Chen Luo sighed. Plants that even Catherine didn't know might not exist in this world, but they certainly didn't exist near the capital. The way to treat malaria through quinine was temporarily blocked.

Besides quinine, Chen Luo knew that artemisinin was the only one that could cure malaria.

Artemisia annua is widely distributed and grows in temperate, frigid and subtropical regions of Europe and Asia. Chen Luo rarely goes out and has not seen it in the Kingdom of Loran, which does not mean that it does not exist.

Chen Luo looked at Catherine again and said, "There is also a plant that is as tall as a person. The plant has a strong volatile aroma. The roots are vertical and narrowly fusiform; the stems can grow to adult heights, with longitudinal edges and green when young. , later turning brown or reddish-brown, much branched..."

Before Chen Luo could finish speaking, Catherine blurted out and said, "Silver Grass!"

She took out a thick book from the bookshelf in the corner, flipped through it for a while, pointed to one of them, and asked, "Is this what Blair said?"

Chen Luo recognized at a glance that the thing called "Scented Silk Grass" in the book was Artemisia annua.

He breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "That's it."

"How to use it?" Catherine continued to ask: "After mashing it and extracting juice, will it be administered to the patient?"

Chen Luo shook his head and said, "It doesn't have much effect if you take it directly, you need to extract the active ingredients."

Katherine asked, "How to extract?"

Chen Luo thought about it and said, "First of all, we need to prepare some high-purity alcohol, and then we need to prepare some ether from alcohol. First, we need to prepare a large amount of vanilla. How to extract it, we will talk about it later..."

For most people, high school is the pinnacle of intelligence in their life.

Back then, Chen Luo also knew the working principles of celestial bodies at the top, and organic and inorganic reactions at the bottom; he solved the elliptic hyperbola before, and then drew the cell biosphere; he could speak English, he could also read ancient texts, he could obtain the sequence of numbers, he could speak Ma Zhe, and he could memorize chemistry. Element table, can understand physical circuit diagram...

After going to university, except for the knowledge of this major, he is almost illiterate.

Now he has forgotten most of these things. Those remaining knowledge, the extracted artemisinin, although it is better than the direct juice, but the purity is not very high.

But what Chen Luo can't do doesn't mean Catherine can't do it.

Wizards' understanding of plants is not comparable to that of wizards. They can even use witchcraft to extract some components of plants out of thin air. This is mentioned in Heliye's handbook, but he did not record the specific method. .

Catherine is obviously not worried about purification, Christine said: "I will immediately ask someone to prepare a lot of vanilla!"

Christine quickly arranged it, and Chen Luo finally let go of his heart. He didn't want malaria raging in the capital, and he couldn't help Alice.

After the tense atmosphere was relieved, Chen Luo suddenly found that Christine was looking at him with a suspicious look.

Chen Luo asked, "Is there anything else the princess has to do?"

Christine said: "Call me Teacher Christine~www.novelbuddy.com~ OK." Chen Luo looked at her and asked again: "Is there anything else Mrs. Christine has to do?"

Christine folded her arms, looked at Chen Luo, and asked, "You said, these are what you read from a book. What's the name of that book, and what else is written on it?"

This kind of reason can't be concealed from Christine. As a princess, she has a lot of knowledge. If Chen Luo continues to make it up, it is very likely to reveal the truth.

He smiled embarrassedly and said, "As expected, I can't hide it from Mr. Christine. In fact, I didn't read this from a book. It was taught to me by a doctor who traveled to the mainland. It's just that he told me not to say it casually. Teacher Ristine asked, and it's okay to tell you..."

"doctor?"

"Yes." Chen Luo nodded and said, "The matter has to start from a winter three years ago. In that winter, the snow fell heavily in Yapo City, and an old man with gray hair collapsed in front of my house. …”