Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Chapter 861: Medical Mulberry Farming, Life Encyclopedia And Manual Mimeograph Machine [Please Subsc

The [Medical Farming and Mulberry] section of [Da Ming Daily] mainly talks about the knowledge of medicine and farming.

In medicine, for example, if you are bitten by a snake in the wild, how to initially judge whether the snake is poisonous or not.

If it is poisonous, is there any way to perform emergency preliminary detoxification, or to prevent the further spread of snake venom?

For another example, if you are injured, how should you stop the bleeding and disinfect it to prevent further infection and aggravation of the injury?

For another example, there are some herbal medicines that are relatively common and in high demand in medical clinics.

Ordinary people can go up the mountain to pick some of these medicinal herbs, and then sell them to medical clinics in exchange for a little extra money.

For another example, if you have a fever and there is no medicine, you can apply a warm towel on your forehead, which is beneficial to physical cooling and can achieve the effect of sweating and fever reduction to a certain extent.

For another example, drinking more boiled water can promote metabolism, improve immunity, and help reduce the probability of contracting pathogenic bacteria and getting sick.

Another example is the publication of some useful prescriptions for common diseases, such as Ephedra Decoction, Guizhi Decoction, Yinqiao Powder, Sangju Yin, etc. for treating colds.

There are also other popular sciences about medicine, medicine, and simple prescriptions. The main purpose is to improve the common people of Ming Dynasty’s understanding of medicine and medicine through this.

Understanding and understanding of simple prescriptions.

In this way, in Ming Dynasty medical centers and places where doctors cannot reach, or when the people of Ming Dynasty cannot get timely diagnosis and treatment from doctors, they can use these popular knowledge of medicine, medicine, and simple prescriptions to carry out certain first aid and self-rescue.

Don’t underestimate this kind of science popularization of medicine, medicine, and simple prescriptions. Today, people in the Ming Dynasty have basically completed the literacy reading of 300 core Chinese characters and 2,000 important Chinese characters.

Such popular science on medicine, medicine, and simple prescriptions can be easily read and understood by ordinary people.

And as long as the common people remember such popular knowledge about medicine, medicine, and simple prescriptions, then for the common people, it can sometimes be life-saving.

After all, in this era, the diseases that really kill the vast majority of people are not incurable and incurable diseases.

More often than not, people lost their lives due to lack of timely treatment, improper treatment, or late-stage infection.

For example, most common diseases such as colds can be cured by drinking the ephedra soup, cassia twig soup, mulberry and chrysanthemum drink just mentioned.

Even if you don't take medicine, you can rest more, drink more hot water, speed up the body's metabolism, and rely on the body's immunity. Generally, young adults can recover without medicine.

But what scares the most is when family members ask for talismans for the patients, then burn them to ashes and mix them with water for them to eat.

If they are Taoist priests or monks who truly follow the Qihuang lineage, that's okay, because most of the talismans of such Qihuang Taoist priests and monks are made of Chinese herbal medicines.

After burning it to ashes, mixing it with water and drinking it will have a little medicinal effect, and it is indeed possible to cure the patient.

But the problem is that more Taoist priests and monks are cheating money under such a banner.

Just like Yan Changqing was ill when he was young in his previous life, and his parents took him to ask for a talisman from a Taoist priest.

Then he burned it to ashes and mixed it with water and gave it to him to drink. Fortunately, it didn't cause any problems to him, otherwise he would have died before he left the battlefield.

There are also common traumas. For this type of wound, you only need to bandage it to stop the bleeding, and then pay attention to changing the gauze frequently to maintain hygiene to avoid later infection of the wound.

Then most trauma patients can return to normal health.

But it is a pity that often trauma patients or family members of the injured do not have the concept of cleanliness and hygiene to prevent wound infection.

Or maybe they are worried about the cost of changing clean gauze frequently, so they fail to change the gauze in time, which leads to bacterial infection of the wound and eventually the patient's death.

However, through the popularization of common knowledge about medicine, medicine, and simple prescriptions, people can have a simple impression on how to deal with these common diseases and injuries.

In this way, when they encounter the diseases and injuries mentioned above in [Da Ming Daily], they will also know how to treat and handle them correctly.

It really doesn't work, at least it won't allow patients to go to a doctor who understands medical skills.

It is much better than the result of ordinary people having to resign themselves to their fate after getting sick.

Therefore, after the popularization of knowledge about medicine, medicine, and simple prescriptions began, the mortality rate that had been high among ordinary people did begin to decrease little by little, and the average life expectancy of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty also began to increase little by little. .

In addition to these relatively common knowledge about medicine, medicine, and prescriptions, there are also the latest medical skills from Wanmin Medical College, the highest medical palace in the Ming Dynasty.

For example, Wu Chuan, a professor at Wanmin Medical College, is descended from Wu Pu, a disciple of the famous doctor Hua Tuo in the past.

Based on the inheritance of medical skills from his ancestors and his own summary of medical skills over the years, he wrote the "Qing Sang Jing" written by Hua Tuo in the past.

Of course, this is definitely not the real Qingnang Jing of Hua Tuo.

Therefore, in order to distinguish it from Hua Tuo's "Qing Nang Jing" that was lost in the past, "Qing Nang Jing" written by Wu Chuan is also called "Wuchuan Qing Nang Jing of Ming Dynasty".

Of course, the [Medical Farming and Mulberry] section on [Da Ming Daily] only briefly introduces Wuchuan and the general content of the "Da Ming Wuchuan Qingnang Jing".

As for more specific and detailed content, you have to learn about it through the medical journal specifically published by Wanmin Medical College.

Or doctors and doctors who are interested in the "Wuchuan Qingxiang Sutra of the Ming Dynasty" can go to the Wellcome Hospital in the county and affiliated with the imperial court to buy the medical book.

In addition to its responsibility of treating illnesses and saving lives, the Huimin Hospital of the imperial court also sold medical books to the outside world.

The price of medical books is not expensive. After deducting the printing cost and transportation cost of medical books, each medical book only makes a profit of one hundred cents.

Of the profit of one hundred cents, 70% went to the author of the medical book and 30% went to Wanmin Medical College.

And the profit from this one hundred cents is really not much. Before Yan Changqing opened Wanmin Medical College, if a doctor wanted to borrow a medical book from another doctor, there were usually only two ways.

Either worship the other person as your teacher, or pay a huge price.

For example, exchanging a medical book that the other party does not have, or offering a price of a thousand gold, etc.

After all, in this era, medical books are also books.

Especially a good medical book can become a doctor's iron rice bowl from generation to generation.

Lending your medical books to other doctors is equivalent to giving half of your iron rice bowl to them.

If the other party opens a medical clinic in another place, it will be fine. If the other party opens a medical clinic in the same place as you, then you may starve to death.

Therefore, before Yan Changqing opened Wanmin Medical College, good medical books were treasures in the hands of doctors that were not easily revealed to others.

Therefore, now you can buy the "Wuchuan Qingnang Sutra of the Ming Dynasty" which is part of the inheritance of Hua Tuo's "Qingnang Sutra" for only two or three hundred Wen. This can really only be said to be half buy and half free.

In addition to sharing the "Wuchuan Qing Sang Sutra of the Ming Dynasty", Shen Wen, who has also been a professor at Wanmin Medical College in recent years, also based on his own experience in dissecting the human body, as well as pre-operative, intra-operative and postoperative surgical experience. Experience summary.

Finally, a book "Essentials of Surgery" was compiled.

This book "Essentials of Surgery" comprehensively introduces various surgical operations in Ming Dynasty from a clinical and practical perspective.

It includes basic knowledge and basic theories of general surgery, as well as common general surgical operations on various systems and organs.

It is also equipped with a large number of illustrations describing the detailed procedures of these surgeries, which can be said to be very clear, concise and practical.

At the same time, very standardized rules and regulations before, during and after surgery have been formulated.

For example, before surgery, you should pay attention to a light diet, such as milk, lean meat, fresh vegetables, etc.

Also, six to eight hours before surgery, you should not drink or eat anything, and avoid eating indigestible, high-fat, fried foods, etc.

In addition, there are requirements for the surgical environment. It is required that the place where surgical operations are performed should be performed in a clean, fresh, well-ventilated indoor environment that is frequently disinfected by high temperature and lime.

This book "Essentials of Surgery" can be said to be a systematic summary of the current Ming Dynasty surgery!

After the publication of "Essentials of Surgery", countless medical professors and doctors at Wanmin Medical College silently sighed: "I am not as good as me."

Of course, the [Medical Farming] section of [Da Ming Daily] only briefly introduced Shen Wen and the general content of "Essentials of Surgery" compiled by Shen Wen.

As for more specific and detailed content, you have to learn about it through the medical journal specifically published by Wanmin Medical College.

Or doctors and doctors who are interested in the "Essentials of Surgery" compiled by Shen Wen can also go to the Huimin Hospital in the county and affiliated with the imperial court to buy the medical book.

As for medical books like this, as long as private doctors from all over the world need them, they can only spend two or three hundred cash to buy them.

Not only these medical books, but also the one inside Wanmin Medical College includes the medical book collection of Imperial Palace Hospital. It can be said to be the largest and most complete Wanmin Medical Book Library in history.

As long as private doctors need it, they can also purchase it through the Huimin Hospital in the county!

This can be said to be a truly prosperous age for doctors. As long as you have money, you can buy all the medical books from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

If you don't have money, it doesn't matter.

As long as you have excellent medical skills, are admitted to Wanmin Medical College, and become a physician or student in Wanmin Medical College, then the medical book library in Wanmin Medical College will also be open to you for free!

If we talk about medicine, it is the home field of Wanmin Medical College.

So in terms of agriculture and mulberry, it is the home field of Wanmin Agricultural College.

In the [Medical Mulberry Farming] section of [Da Ming Daily], there is also "Various advanced farming knowledge popularization and sharing" from Wanmin Agricultural College.

For example, "Postpartum Care of Sows" introduces various precautions for sows before, during and after birth.

Another example is "Precautions for Harvesting Pigs", which also introduces various precautions before, during and after robbing pigs...

Another example is the production methods of various home-made fertilizers, such as "Medan", which can be used as ten stones of excrement per bucket, and bio-organic fertilizers made from fish offal, etc.

Another example is agricultural tools that existed in the past but have not yet become popular, or the latest advanced farming tools that have been developed.

For example: hydraulic tillage tools, step plows, cattle turners, cultivating and weeding tools, columbians, backpack hand sprayers, etc.

Another example is the production methods of various agricultural and sideline products. For example, peanut kernels can be used to extract oil, and the peanut residue left after oil extraction can also be used to make peanut cakes. Ordinary peanuts can also be used to sprout peanuts.

The excess residue can also be used to make peanut butter

Peanut straws can also be used for bragging and so on.

Another example: soybeans can be made into tofu, soy milk, yuba, fermented bean curd, soy sauce, tempeh and other foods.

After ordinary people learn how to make these agricultural and sideline products, they can make these agricultural and sideline products to buy, and then they can also earn some extra money.

Therefore, the [Medical Mulberry Farming] section in [Da Ming Daily] is also the favorite content of ordinary people. When you get [Da Ming Daily], the [Medical Farming Mulberry] section is often the first one to look at.

If the [Medical Farming and Mulberry] section is the home field of Wanmin Medical College and Wanmin Agricultural College.

Then the [Life Encyclopedia] section is the home field of the Academy of Sciences.

In every issue of [Da Ming Daily], the Academy of Science will raise some interesting questions and some simple scientific experiments.

For example, why do chickens eat grains of sand, why do homing pigeons not get lost, why do dogs always stick out their tongues, what is the function of a cat's beard, and so on.

Another example is the experiment of two small balls of different sizes swimming on the ground at the same time, the experiment of the earth being round, the experiment of electrostatic repulsion caused by friction, the experiment of leaves absorbing water and dyeing, the experiment of blood characters appearing on yellow symbols, the experiment of ghosts appearing on walls, etc.

The main purpose is to arouse people's thinking, break their feudal superstitions, and reduce and prevent people from being deceived by the tricks of fake monks and Taoist priests.

Each of these four major sections occupies one quarto newspaper, so the total of the four major sections of "Da Ming You Bao" is ten newspapers with four sixteenth sheets.

However, due to the limitation of the current speed of information dissemination, [Da Ming Daily] cannot actually print and sell it every day, but every ten days.

The publication and distribution methods of [Da Ming Daily] are divided into direct distribution from the imperial court and local publication methods.

Generally, it is the official printing bureau affiliated with the imperial court, which prints about one million copies of [Da Ming Daily] every issue.

One million newspapers may sound like a lot, but after Yan Changqing, wearing the identity vest of Ke Sheng Ban Heng, and working with craftsmen with excellent hands-on skills, built a manual mimeograph machine, it is not too troublesome. .

Before semi-automatic mimeograph machines and high-speed mimeograph machines appeared, manual mimeograph machines that were easy to operate and cheap could be said to have been the mainstay of Yan Changqing’s previous life in the 1970s and 1980s.

Printing Tools.

Its main principle is wax paper printing, which can be said to be a major innovation after Bi Shenghuo's 2.6-character printing and a milestone in the history of printing.

For example, in Yan Changqing's previous life, most of the test papers in schools in the 1970s and 1980s, or newspapers, were printed using this kind of manual mimeograph machine.

At that time, almost all the teachers who went to the countryside knew this skill, and Yan Changjiao, as a good student in the eyes of the teacher, naturally often helped the teacher to get test papers, distribute test papers, and even print test papers.

Therefore, over time, Yan Changqing became familiar with the structure and use of this manual mimeograph machine under the influence of ears and eyes. This is also the reason why Yan Changqing was able to use the manual mimeograph machine.

Of these one million copies of [Da Ming Daily], 500,000 copies are distributed free of charge to provincial, prefecture, prefecture, and county yamen, as well as village chiefs all over the world [First come to each village to get a free copy of [Da Ming Daily] Daily] Watch the same.

Then the remaining 500,000 copies of [Da Ming Daily] were sold to the capital and the people around the capital.

The people in the capital and around the capital are still very interested in the "Da Ming Daily", which is written entirely in Dabai dialect.

After all, on a large scale, it can help them better understand the court's policies, and on a small scale, it can help them learn more medical and agricultural knowledge, which is good for them.

In addition, the [Da Ming Daily] is not expensive at only ten cents a copy. For most people in the Ming Dynasty, it is still affordable to buy it with gritted teeth.

Then local officials from various provinces, prefectures, prefectures and counties, after receiving the [Da Ming Daily], can also print [Da Ming Daily] through the printing bureau affiliated with the local government [or by entrusting merchants' printing bureaus].

Then it will be sold to local people, as long as the price does not exceed the price specified by the court.

This is also another source of local government finance. After all, local people are also very interested in [Da Ming Daily].