Struggle in the Steam Age

Because it took a long time to come out this time, Lawrence and the whole mission went down the river on the small steamship that came to deliver the goods early in the morning after the last agreement was signed. And then returned to Port Sauer, which is located near the mouth of the river.

It's just that it's different from when there were only humans on board when they came. When they returned, in addition to the entire mission before, there were seven or eight tauren on board. The leader among them was the tauren shaman Orchid Iron Hoof who first came into contact with Lawrence and his group of humans, and the rest of them had similar identities to her, either trainee witch doctors or trainee shamans.

"We came out this time to learn new medical knowledge from you." On the way, Lanhua Iron Hoof told Lawrence the reason why their group left the tribe and entered human society. "Before our migrant workers came into contact with your doctor, they already said that your medical level is better than ours, and this time the doctor in your mission treated us and let us know more about the importance of foreign medicine. development level."

"So during the few days when your mission stayed in the tribe, the big shaman specially took part of the time to pass the assessment and select some smart and studious people from the young people in the tribe, and then I led them to You humans are studying there. I am very glad that you can agree to our presumptuous request."

"There's nothing presumptuous." Lawrence waved his hand lightly and said. "Just like what I said to you big shaman when I promised you to study abroad, this time you come to us can be regarded as a medical exchange activity. I am also very happy that you are willing to share with us those accumulated by your ancestors. Knowledge."

Last night, after meeting with the great shaman and hearing his request that some tauren could go to Port New Sauer to study medicine, Lawrence agreed after a brief consideration. Not to mention that the tauren who are already their own people should have enjoyed a better life after making contributions. Just the fact that this group of tauren went to practice at this time can greatly relieve the current situation in New Shaw. There is a serious shortage of doctors.

In any case, compared with the group of human medical students who started training from scratch nearly a month ago, this group of tauren at least has certain medical experience and foundation. After simple training, you can quickly start to do some auxiliary work, so that you can form enough strength in the shortest time to reduce the pressure on existing doctors.

After seeing Lawrence agreeing to teach the young tauren medical knowledge almost without hesitation, the older tauren opened a box behind him, and took out a large pile of them that looked messy, as if they were not Know where to pick up random garbage like things.

"The records here are the medical records we have summed up since we moved here until today." Put those rolls of bark, braided leaves and some tanned bags that look like tattered packages The tauren shaman said after pushing the soft hide of the beast in front of Lawrence. "Now take it, it may be of some use to you."

After listening to his words, Lawrence noticed that there seemed to be some pictures and runes on the pile of rubbish-looking things in front of him. Unfolding one of the book covers, he discovered that it was indeed a carrier used by the tauren to record various documents. It was filled with some words belonging to the tauren and accompanied by some pictures.

It can be seen that the new and old styles of the carriers used to record this knowledge are different, and the fonts on them are also obviously different. However, from the words and pictures that seemed to be traced stroke by stroke, Lawrence could see that this series of documents all condensed the wisdom of generations of tauren shamans and witch doctors.

According to the tauren shaman, these materials are all the various cases encountered in the course of treatment recorded by local medical staff, and how to treat them. Among them, there are not only many cases of curing diseases, but also many cases of failure. But success or failure, these things have been very useful to Lawrence.

Because according to previous diagnosis and treatment experience, although there are differences between tauren and humans, most of the situations are still very similar. Especially in the face of some common infectious diseases in tropical areas, everyone’s reactions are very similar. If you want to say something different, you can only say that the tauren are stronger and have a higher survival rate and survival time when facing these diseases. .

But correspondingly, this situation also means that the various drugs that are useful to the tauren are also very likely to be useful to humans. And those drug formulas for local specific diseases are very valuable to Lawrence, and can solve the localized diseases of many new settlers.

Not to mention that in this era, except for the supernatural treatment plan, which is more reliable, most of the ordinary treatment plans are not reliable. Whether it is the so-called panacea that added mercury, phoneme or morphine, or the laxatives that will be prescribed for you as long as you see a doctor, all of them have close to zero effect in the face of the current diseases.

And if Zhang can master the herbs used by these tauren to treat the special local diseases, Lawrence and the others will be able to solve the problem of tropical diseases, one of the most troublesome problems in tropical colonization. In this way, the number of deaths caused by diseases will be reduced, and it will also reduce the worries of those who are planning to immigrate, and increase the population input of these tropical colonial islands.

Tropical diseases are a problem that cannot be avoided if you want to settle in the tropics. Although Lawrence and others have not died of illness, this is purely because Lawrence strictly enforced the hygiene manual after going to the island and the current population is not large.

But even so, there will still be a few patients who need to use extraordinary items and medicines to be cured every week. Considering that with the development of the Port of New Sauer, more and more people will become the direct population and Lawrence and the others will be directly responsible for the medical services, so it becomes necessary to find ways to reduce the cost of diagnosis and treatment and improve the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment.

After all, after this period of hard work, there are more than 120,000 people under Lawrence's direct rule, which is just over 1/7 of the island's population. But the entire medical system and government administration capabilities have been squeezed to the limit. This is why Lawrence stopped the expansion of power during this period and limited his direct cities to the southwest and south of the island, because if he continued to expand, the current good state would completely collapse.

However, although the expansion has been stopped, the preparations for the expansion have not stopped. After all, the reason why the expansion is stopped now is to digest the results of the previous expansion as soon as possible and prepare for further expansion. Collecting localized prescriptions that can solve common local diseases is part of the preparation work.

But for Lawrence, there is an obvious problem now, that is, among these humans, he is the only one who understands the characters of these tauren because of the gift of the gods, and he doesn't have much time to devote himself to these translations.

"So that's what you're worried about." After seeing the expression on Lawrence's face and asking why, the tauren shaman comforted him. "It's very simple. The students we sent to you this time understand your language. They can help you translate these things while learning medical skills. By the way, this is just the information of our tribe. Later we will Collect information from other tribes and bring them to you in batches.”

This sentence can also show a little thought of the tauren elder. He hopes that through this method of delivery in installments, Lawrence and the others can guarantee that they will teach the students with all their heart.

While recalling the process of communicating with the tauren shaman before, he chatted with Lan Hua and his group of tauren students. Time passed so quickly. Because it was going down the river, the small boat took half the time it took to return to the port of Nova Sauer.