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Chapter 14 - Chapter 14: Summer Fever

 When the pomegranate blossoms in the Women's Medical Workshop exploded into the first cluster of red, Li Chengqian was sighing longingly at the newly carved wooden signboard of "Preventing Heatstroke and Cooling". Fu Ling held up the wooden board and looked left and right: "Your Highness, you carved the word 'summer' into 'department', is it possible that you want the sun to go to work at the Yamen?" "Shut up! ""Shut up! "Li Chengqian nose tip stained with pomegranate pollen, sleeve fell out half of the carving waste of the wooden plate - above the twisted carved "small full cool","

 I'm... This is a warning of the summer heat, see us have to sign to surrender! ""Surrender is afraid of your carving knife," Lin Xiaoman smiled and took the wooden plate, fingertips across the sun marks on the back of his hand, "the west market of the Hu merchants outbreak of headaches and vomiting, Zhang doctor is said to be 'sun curse', is giving hot ginger soup." she suddenly glimpsed at the back of his hand and said, "I'm not sure if I can do it. " She suddenly glimpsed the cowhide pouch at his waist, "Is what's inside my dried lotus leaves? "

 Before the words left her mouth, the Hu merchant covered in Persian spices crashed through the courtyard door, beads of sweat dripping from his turban onto the green bricks, "Doctor Lin! Our merchants are suffering from fever and headache, the old doctor is saying that we should sun our backs at noon to drive away the evil spirits... ""High fever, nausea, no sweat? " Lin Xiaoman grabbed the temperature bamboo tablets and patchouli, "It's probably pyrexia - Your Highness, bring the key to the ice cellar of the female doctor's workshop, and twenty more glazed spray pots! "

 The felt tent of the Persian Residence Shop in the West Market was as hot as a steamer, the wool felt walls were scorched by the sun, and the scent of myrrh mixed with frankincense hung in the air. Dr. Zhang was holding a lit mugwort in a circle above the patient's head, the smoke making him cough repeatedly: "The sun spell needs to overcome fire with fire, and three incense sticks in the sun will drive away evil spirits... " "It's better to overcome fire than heat! "

 Lin Xiaoman lifted the patient's lapel, her fingertips touched the hot skin - this body burned by the scorching sun was just like the pyrexia patients she had seen in the modern emergency room. She unclasped the glazed spray bottle at her waist and sprayed the mint-soaked kudzu: "Do you know that when the body temperature exceeds 40 degrees, the internal organs are like being roasted on fire? "

 Li Chengqian suddenly raised from the ice cellar of the bronze ice identification, the ice inside the impact of the crisp sound: "Summer is not like to bake people? I'm going to let it taste the flavor of ten thousand years of cold ice! "He commanded Hu Shang to crack the ice into pieces, wrapped in silk cloth and applied to the patient's neck and armpits, "When I conquered Goguryeo, my soldiers' heatstroke relied on this to reduce fever! "

 Zhang doctor is coming to the patient in front of the bed, old eyes staring at the temperature of the bamboo slice of dizziness: "This disease when the publication of the dispersal of cold, 'Typhoid Theory' expressly ..." "expressly ..." "expressly ..." "expressly. " "Explicitly said to recognize the evidence! "Lin Xiaoman will patchouli Zhengqi water into the well water, with a bamboo spoon to pry open the patient's teeth," you see this cyanosis of the nails, dry tongue, clearly is the heat injury, and then drink hot ginger soup is to add oil to the fire! "

 She turned to the leader of the Hu merchants, "replace all your camel skin water bags with glazed bottles, filled with chilled lotus leaf tea, every quarter hour to feed half a cup. "face escalation: when the Persian priest meets the chilled therapy is busy in the middle of the Persian caravan of the high priest lifted the felt tent, head embedded with jewels of gold crown, holding a snake-shaped scepter: "Lord God of Healing, I swear in the name of the Persian God of Fire, the only way to sunback... " "Then let the god of fire taste the ice first. "

 Li Chengqian suddenly shoved a piece of ice into the priest's palm, freezing the other party so much that he exclaimed and shook his hand, and his golden crown was crooked for a few moments, "In our Great Tang, healing doesn't rely on the God of Fire, it relies on this place-" he pointed to his own temple, and then shook the temperature bamboo piece in his hand. "And this artifact that measures heat. "

 Lin Xiaoman took the opportunity to turn over the parchment scroll she had brought from Persia, which depicted the totem of the Sun God Mithra: "Lord Priest, look at this Sun God's chariot, don't the wheels look like the pupils of a patient with fever? " She dipped a cotton swab into the patient's eye secretion and placed it under the microscope, "The real 'sun curse' is these summer poisons that are smaller than dust and die when they meet ice. "

 The Persian priest stared at the blurred pathogens in the microscope, his voice trembling under the golden mask, "This... This is Mithra's trial? ""It's a warning for your devotees to stop tanning their backs. " Lin Xiaoman handed over the ice-cold mint water, "Wiping your body with this water every day is more useful than reciting a thousand hymns. "

 In the late afternoon, when the first patient was able to drink the chilled mung bean soup, another stunning addition was made to Dr. Zhang's error book, this time double-written in Persian and Chinese characters: "Heat treatment is contraindicated in pyrexia, and one should distinguish between clearing heat and dispersing cold. P.S.: Ice compresses are actually 100 times more effective than moxa smoking! "He suddenly saw that Li Chengqian was using a carving knife to chisel patterns on the ice guide, and ice shavings fell on his expensive court dress: 'Your Highness this is...'" ""Carving a summer vacation charm for the ice guide.""

 Li Chengqian didn't even lift his head, the carving knife scratched out the crooked word "cool" on the ice surface, "When next summer, every camel caravan of Hu merchants will have to...

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