Chapter 597 Pain is a kind of protection, Nine-headed Monster
Their current condition is somewhat similar to that of burn patients.
It’s just that the human epidermis has multiple layers, and what is falling off now is only the first layer.
Human skin has three layers in total.
If broken down further, there are dozens of layers.
If you observe the longitudinal section of the cortex under a microscope, you can clearly see that the hide is divided into three layers: the thinnest upper layer is called the epidermis; the thickest middle layer is called the dermis; and the lower layer is called the subcutaneous tissue.
Now, the epidermis of the three antique dealers has basically fallen off.
The dermis is exposed.
This layer looks a bit like bloody tender meat.
In fact, it is also human skin.
However, the human dermis is distributed with a large number of pain nerves, which is also one of the characteristics of human evolution six million years later.
Pain, many people are afraid of and hate this word.
Little do people know that pain is actually a form of protection for the body. When a part of the body hurts, it reminds you that this part is being hurt.
Just imagine, if we had no sense of pain, and we put our hand into boiling water, even if our whole hand was boiled to pieces, we would still be unaware of it.
The sharp knife almost cut off the neck, but there was still no warning sign.
How terrible this is.
Therefore, pain is a kind of protection for the body.
It tells us humans which behaviors and which objects can cause harm to our bodies.
After eating something poisonous, we will feel stomachache. We will not eat it again next time.
The intense pain from being scalded by boiling water left a deep impression on us. Next time, we know that boiling water is dangerous and we must never let it touch our bodies.
Or when a blade cuts your hand, it hurts, making us understand that knives can injure the body.
Next time I use a knife, I will be extra careful.
The human epidermis is very thin, and its main function is to resist the invasion of external bacteria and viruses.
The dermis below is very thick, and it has the basic conditions for the distribution of a large number of sensory nerves. Therefore, when our epidermis is gone, even if only a drop of water splashes on the dermis, we will feel severe pain.
It is conceivable that the three antique dealers are now exposed to the skin layer. Even if they lie in bed without moving, it is worse than death.
They are subjected to torture like being cut into pieces at all times.
Especially after the epidermis is peeled off, the dermis continues to crack, and the pain increases tenfold.
The conditions of the three antique dealers worsened every day.
Today, the cracks in their dermis should have continued to expand.
However, after taking the carrots according to Li Quan's instructions, the skin cracks not only did not continue to expand, but instead tended to narrow.
Such a gratifying change naturally gave Leader He new hope.
My mood also improved.
Narrow smiled for the first time in many days.
"This Li Quan is really good. First he prescribed a fever medicine that can delay the symptoms for three days. Now he has come up with a carrot to treat the disease. Hey, who would have thought that the vegetables we often eat are more effective than any antibiotics.
What a pity! It would have been great if Dean Li Quan had not been infected."
The leaders of the CDC expressed their heartfelt admiration.
Li Quan's performance was indeed extremely dazzling.
Unfortunately, Li Quan is now infected and is also in a coma.
Moreover, his condition is getting worse day by day and he is expected to die soon.
"Mr. Wu used to have a prejudice against traditional Chinese medicine, thinking that Western medicine could replace it and occupy an absolute dominant position in the market, which was enough to prove that Western medicine was better than traditional Chinese medicine. Now, I have to accept the fact that traditional Chinese medicine is not as bad as I imagined. It has its own unique features, and it may really complement Western medicine very well.
If I have to describe it, Western medicine is of a hard nature, while Chinese medicine is of a soft nature.
Just like the combination of hardness and softness in our Chinese martial arts, the combination of the two may create a new school of medicine."
Wu Zhaoxing, the director of the Beijing No. 1 Hospital, also felt deeply moved at this moment.
It was not easy for him to become the director of the First Hospital. He started as an intern and climbed up step by step with his feet on the ground.
Dean Wu Zhaoxing has a background of studying abroad, and has conducted medical research and clinical medical work in the United States, island countries, and even many developed countries. Therefore, he is a leader in Western medicine.
They also highly respect Western medicine and look down upon traditional Chinese medicine.
There are many doctors in China who hold similar ideas.
And the more outstanding the doctor is, the more he admires Western medicine.
This time, the unknown fungal infection broke out in Beijing No. 1 Hospital, and Director Wu Zhaoxing had personally experienced it. He had a deep understanding of the hardships involved.
Having served as the dean for so many years, he has never been afraid of any disease.
Whether it was the amniotic fluid embolism that obstetricians and gynecologists were afraid of, or pancreatic cancer that oncology called the king of cancer, or various infectious diseases with extremely high mortality rates, he had never been afraid.
He led the doctors and nurses of Beijing No. 1 Hospital to overcome one medical problem after another.
Cured one difficult disease after another.
Only this time, he was really scared.
The First Hospital of Beijing has tried all the tricks it can.
It seemed like a simple fungal infection, but it left all the doctors and nurses at Beijing No. 1 Hospital helpless.
Even though we have gathered together medical experts, microbiologists, and professors from all over the country, such a luxurious medical group has come together to come up with ideas, but we still haven't found an effective treatment yet.
Even symptomatic supportive treatment could not be found.
They could only watch helplessly as the patient's skin cracked and peeled off and his organs continued to fail.
Just when all methods had been exhausted and none of them had any effect, Li Quan's carrot prescription directly made all the patients' conditions improve. This further highlighted the extraordinary level of Li Quan's medical skills.
This is also the real reason why President Wu Zhaoxing changed his contempt for traditional Chinese medicine and admired Li Quan.
It is easy to see things, but difficult to do things.
Sometimes, I watch others pick up a poker card and easily shoot it into the wooden board.
It seemed simple, but when I tried it myself, I found that even though I used the same movements and the same playing cards, I just couldn't get the playing cards to shoot into the harder wooden board.
This is the difference between masters and ordinary people.
Li Quan's image became even more majestic in the minds of these medical experts and leaders.
Needless to say, if Li Quan can survive this time, he will definitely become a medical authority in the eyes of these people in the future.
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Time flies and it's already twelve o'clock in the evening.
When Li Quan woke up again, he was pleasantly surprised to find that although his skin was still a little sore, it seemed much better than yesterday.
This is simply unimaginable.
You know, according to the normal progression of the disease, today will definitely be more serious than yesterday.
Even Li Quan was prepared to be tied up with ropes, and then like Professor Hawking, he would wail in pain, or even hurt himself because of the unbearable pain, or bang his head against the wall.
He tried to sit up, only to find that his hands and feet were tied.
It seems that not only him, but even the medical staff in the ward have deduced from experience that his condition will develop to the point of self-harm today.
"My skin isn't in so much pain that I can't stand it, and I won't go crazy or lose control. Untie me!"
Li Quan said to the medical staff.
"Director Li, are you sure everything is fine?" Standing by the bed was a fully armed male doctor.
There is no way. The patients in the ward are very manic when they have an attack.
The female nurse was too weak to control the patient.
Moreover, in the process of subduing the patient, it is easy for the protective clothing to become loose and torn, the self-priming hood to be knocked off, etc. Once this happens, it means infection.
At present, the chance of being infected is over 99% as long as you are exposed in the ward.
"Don't worry, I'm sure there's no problem. I even feel that my condition today is better than yesterday. I feel a little uncomfortable in my throat. Did you feed me carrots?"
Li Quan asked.
"That's right! Yesterday you asked us to feed carrots to all the infected people, and we did so. Then we found that the conditions of all your infected people have improved."
The male doctor saw that Li Quan spoke clearly and his emotions were stable.
Since he didn't look like he was going crazy, he plucked up his courage and started to untie Li Quan.
However, the male doctor was obviously a little worried about accidents, so he called three more male doctors to stand by. As long as they found something wrong with Li Quan, they would rush over and control him.
They may not know that if Li Quan really goes crazy, not to mention four male doctors, even forty male doctors would not be a match for Li Quan.
With Li Quan’s current strength, he can slap several people away with just one slap.
I guess these four male doctors alone are not enough for him to slap.
After the ropes were loosened, Li Quan first moved his hands and feet.
The four male doctors stared at him nervously.
"Don't worry, I'm really fine." Li Quan spread out his hands to show that he was harmless.
He walked towards Ye Ru who was lying in the bed next to him.
I saw cracks appearing on her originally fair and delicate skin, and I could see the dermis underneath.
But it seems that the situation has improved.
The skin rupture has recovered somewhat.
"Ye Ru, how do you feel?" Li Quan asked.
"I feel much better today. Dean, you said you could save us. I didn't expect you really did it." Ye Ru smiled at him.
Just this smile immediately caused the skin on her face to contract and expand, and the cracks on the skin followed suit and contracted and stretched. The pain was so severe that she immediately frowned and gasped.
"Carrots can't cure the disease, they can only relieve the symptoms. But they are much better than fever medicine. Fever medicine requires overdrawing the body's potential and can only last for three days. Carrots can relieve our disease for a long time.
I estimate it will take ten days or half a month, no problem at all."
Li Quan sighed.
Carrots are just one of the remedies for tomb diseases introduced by Wu Zixu.
"Director Li, according to what you said, this disease still cannot be cured?" a male doctor couldn't help but ask.
"It can be cured! But it requires a special medicine, and I can't guarantee whether it is really effective." Li Quan's expression was serious.
Learning how to treat a disease and successfully obtaining a prescription for treating this hemophostatic disease does not mean that it can be cured.
Because no one has tried these prescriptions.
"I don't know what medicine I need?"
"This medicine is not on land, but in the sea. I believe you must have heard of the nine-headed insect in the myth. The medicine I want is exactly this insect. And it needs to be alive."
If Li Quan's status was not there, these doctors and nurses would definitely think he was talking nonsense.
Seeing that he had a serious expression on his face and didn't seem to be joking, everyone couldn't help but believe it a little.
"Does the Nine-Headed Monster really exist in this world?" The person who spoke was a nurse.
In fact, they were wearing protective clothing, so it was difficult to tell whether they were men or women.
It can only be roughly judged from the body shape.
"I don't know if the nine-headed worm in the myth really exists. Rumor has it that the nine-headed worm is a deformed snake. It has nine heads and is rare in the world. But the medicine I'm looking for should be more common in the sea."
Li Quan's experience and knowledge are quite good.
Wu Zixu was an ancient man. At that time, the level of science and technology was very backward and people were very feudal and superstitious.
Based on Wu Zixu's memory and the pictures he provided, Li Quan could infer that the so-called nine-headed worm was most likely a kind of worm on the seabed.
"Dean Li, please stop keeping us in suspense. Tell us what kind of bug it is."
There are a lot of insects on the seabed, but there are more fish and shrimps.
The area of the ocean is more than twice that of the land, and the deepest sea area is over 10,000 meters.
The variety of creatures in the ocean may be beyond our imagination.
We humans have discovered more than 170,000 species of marine life, the most famous of which are whales, sharks, turtles, walruses, seals, etc.
People know relatively little about the insects in the ocean.
"This worm is called a tube worm, and they live in the deep sea at a depth of more than 3,000 meters. They have a red fleshy head at the top and a straight white tube at the bottom, which makes them look like giant flowers with white stems and red flowers."
Li Quan described the appearance of the tube worm.
Wu Zixu called this worm a nine-headed worm, but Li Quan, a modern man, called this worm a tubular worm based on knowledge from books.
"Director Li, why can this tubular worm cure your disease? Can it restrain the unknown fungi in your body?" The male doctor was even more curious.
Not to mention him, even the seven or eight medical staff in the ward were curious.
The medicine that Li Quan mentioned is really strange.
"Why can tube worms cure our diseases? This has to start with its characteristics.
Its bottom is tightly attached to the rocks at the bottom of the sea, and the red fleshy head can move. The red fleshy head has many sheet-like tentacles tightly stacked along a central axis, and smaller feather-like hairs grow on the tentacles, which look like a beautiful feather. Usually, the "feathers" of the worm like to extend out of the tube and stretch as much as possible in the sea water, but when crabs or scientific research manipulators accidentally touch them, they will shrink into the white hard tube and hide.
Tube worms have sex and a heart, but no mouth or digestive system. Billions of symbiotic bacteria gather in their bodies, and it is with the "feed" of these bacteria that tube worms can survive.
It is the symbiotic bacteria in their bodies that can kill this unknown fungus.”
Li Quan said slowly.
