Struggle in the Steam Age

"Oh, so that's the case!" After hearing Lawrence's serious answer to his question, the priest of the Church of the Passion also realized that he seemed to have misunderstood him, so he quickly changed the subject.

"By the way, can you tell me what is the pharmacopoeia you are talking about? I know about pharmacopoeia, but in my impression, it should be one or several thick books, and the price It's very expensive, and I'm worried—"

"Oh, I don't think there is any need to worry about this issue." Lawrence said with a smile. "Because what I want to compile now is not the general pharmacopoeia, but only books for the region."

For grassroots doctors, this kind of pharmacopoeia can be said to be the core skill in their medical practice. Because the prices of various basic medicines in this era are extremely expensive for ordinary people, let alone those medicines that have nothing to do with the extraordinary.

Therefore, when Lawrence trains these grassroots doctors, one of the important guiding ideologies is to formulate pharmacopoeia with regional characteristics for each region, so as to reduce the cost of treatment as much as possible.

After all, the future patients of these grassroots doctors are basically a group of ordinary people who have certain financial difficulties. Therefore, compared with the treatment effect, the cost of treatment is also extremely important, and it is even more important than the treatment effect itself. .

So during this period of training, Lawrence also started compiling the pharmacopoeia by asking these priests and doctor apprentices from all over the place.

In addition to recording the specific conditions of some animals, plants and minerals in Green Island and the surrounding areas, Lawrence also collected some traditional medicines on the island together with several priests of the Church of Suffering who came to help.

However, considering that these prescriptions may be just some placebos, Lawrence and the others also need to use various methods to dialectize these prescriptions in order to screen out the truly effective ingredients.

"For example, a kind of moss called reindeer tail by the locals has very obvious medicinal effects." Lawrence said, taking out a pinch of dried moss and said.

"There should be some ingredients in these mosses that can kill bacteria and reduce inflammation, so crushing these things and covering the wound can promote the growth of the wound."

"In addition, this moss also contains some ingredients that can suppress coughs, so these things can also be used as cough medicines."

"In the past, people on the island only used this kind of lichen to fumigate wounds or inhale it to treat coughs, but according to our previous research, the effect of this kind of lichen, whether it is taken internally or externally, is better than the original one. Fumigation."

Having said that, Lawrence took out a small bottle of golden liquid and said to the priest in front of him. "However, you should pay attention when using it. When this medicine is used for cough relief, it is not for drinking, but for spraying a little medicine into the throat with a nebulizer."

"--What you are doing now is indeed very meaningful." After looking at the lump of moss on the table and the small bottle next to it, the High Priest of the Green Island Church of Suffering immediately said to Lawrence Said.

"Can you tell me what we can do for you? If there are no accidents, all the members of the Church of Suffering on the island will put this matter first in the next period of time."

As the God of Suffering who has medical treatment in his priesthood, his priests naturally pay great attention to this aspect of technology.

Therefore, after realizing that Lawrence now has a method that can greatly improve the medical level on the island, the clergy of the Church of the Suffering immediately put the work of cooperating with Lawrence first.

"Of course I need your help." Lawrence said immediately after hearing the priest's question.

In fact, the only reason why he wants to tell this clergyman now is to hope to get the help of these church members who have been here for dozens or hundreds of years, so as to collect the information he wants as soon as possible.

"No problem, we will do our best to help you in this regard." After hearing Lawrence's request, the priest nodded seriously and said.

"In fact, we have collected a lot of prescriptions in this area before, but unfortunately, we did not summarize these prescriptions due to lack of manpower, so the trusted pharmacies collected so far are only single digits."

Although the God of Suffering also has medical priesthood, but because the number of believers and personnel on Green Island is too small, it is difficult for the priests here to get enough help.

To give the simplest example, because of insufficient divine power. The power of these priests can only judge the overall efficacy of these prescriptions and whether they are poisonous, which is a very rough content. As for the deeper things, they are helpless.

This is why the priests of the Church of the Suffering have only mastered a few extremely rare prescriptions, and have not analyzed and summarized more prescriptions.

However, the arrival of Lawrence changed the situation in this area. In the past few days, in addition to teaching a dozen selected students, he also analyzed the records taken from this church.

However, except for a very small number of records, most of the prescription records can only be determined after testing. Therefore, Lawrence's overall progress is not fast now, and only a little new thing has been summed up.

For example, the herbal extraction potion called reindeer tail is one of Lawrence's few achievements these days, but it needs to be admitted that it takes time to search for raw materials for making potions and to compare those similar potions.

And now with the help of the chief priest of the Church of the Passion Green Island, then a lot of repetitive work can be entrusted to these well-trained church personnel, which can save a lot of time.

Right after this meeting, a large number of members of the Church of the Passion devoted themselves to analyzing various prescriptions. Then many simple and cheap prescriptions were compiled into this pharmacopoeia belonging to Green Island.

It was also during this time that the first ship from New Shaw entered the port of Green Island and brought the first batch of goods for trading to the island.

"There are not many grains and grain products in this batch of goods, because apart from your island of New Sauer, there is not much grain production in our islands." A baron as a representative of the nobles told Lawrence on the pier Speaking of.

"Considering that this is an island in itself, I don't think there will be any demand for various seafood here, but we have prepared a small amount of dried and canned livestock meat to see if anyone will buy it."

"That's right, but next time we can bring some canned tropical fish to test the waters. Because the nobles here still have a certain amount of consumption." Lawrence nodded. "By the way, what is the biggest shipment you brought this time?"

"The biggest shipments are mainly our specialty vegetable oil and sugar. The people here have ordered a lot." The baron replied. "I guess it's because it's so cold in this place, so people need those high-calorie foods to keep out the cold."

"It's not just that." Said the Viscount Surrey who came to the port to meet the first cargo ship at this time.

"You know, except for a few places on our island where some hardy grains like rye or potatoes can be grown, most of the grains need to be imported."

"This has led to the fact that for us, importing these grains has become a big problem on our island. Especially the food security issues that come with it."

"The biggest advantage of imported sugar and oil is that it can solve a large part of this food security problem, apart from making everyone feel full."