" experiment is the shortcut to the truth! " Over the past thousands of years, human beings have withstood the "dimensionality reduction blows" of countless viruses . Viruses such as plague, plague , etc. have made humans pay a heavy price.
A major reason for the darkness of medieval Europe was the plague. This unprecedented plague brought European civilization to a standstill for 300 years, and tens of millions of people died as a result.
One of the main reasons why the plague was slowly "killed and controlled" in most areas later was that the plague's pockets were slowly tied up through experiments. Even today, the plague still comes out from time to time to cause trouble, but the harm is almost minimal.
Compared with the plague, this virus is much more terrifying in history. It has harvested the lives of countless emperors. For example, the Qing Dynasty the Shunzhi Emperor did not escape its "hunting".
This virus has killed 500 million people in history, and even a powerful ancient country in the American continent. It is rumored that the country was "annihilated" by this virus. For 3000 years, mankind has been helpless against this "human devil". Finally, through an accidental discovery, a country doctor finally slowly ended it through continuous experiments.
Black and terrifying smallpox
This virus has a terrible name - smallpox. I believe many people have seen reports about smallpox in some magazines and on the Internet. It can be said that is a keyword that makes people look at it.
Behind each piece of data are bloody lives. As early as the Eastern Han period, the earliest cases of smallpox had appeared in my country. With the weak medical level in ancient my country, smallpox basically meant death.
In ancient times, for ordinary people, once a doctor diagnosed smallpox, the patient's family would basically stop spending money to treat him. The next step was basically to see God's "judgment".
Even the "proud sons of heaven" like the emperor, many died from the "gun" of smallpox. For example, our country's Emperor Shunzhi, Tongzhi emperor. According to rumors, Zhu Yuanzhang 's wife Queen Ma and his grandson Zhu Xiongying also died of smallpox.
If we were to make a list of the emperors who died of smallpox, I am afraid that the number of people on the list would be at least double digits. This is not only the case in our country, but also in foreign countries. The Queen of England and The Emperor of Japan both died of smallpox.
The virus that destroyed an ancient country
It is said that from the appearance of the first case of smallpox to its virtual extinction in the 1960s and 1970s, mankind has fought a "virus war" with the smallpox virus for 3,000 years. Over the past thousands of years, the human legions have died in total as high as 500 million people.
Rumor has it that the final disappearance of the mysterious ancient country of the Americas, the Atezic Empire, had a lot to do with the smallpox virus. Many history buffs believe that this country has a population of over 20 million and a strong military.
was not defeated and destroyed by the Spanish colonists, but by the smallpox virus carried by the Spaniards. After all, the Spanish invading army did not even have 5,000 people. No matter how advanced the Spanish weapons were, it was impossible to win a huge empire with just a few hundred or thousands of people.
The Qing Dynasty feared smallpox as much as tigers and wolves
The harm of smallpox to human beings was extremely terrible. Take the history of smallpox in the Qing Dynasty as an example. Manchu has always regarded the smallpox virus as "a natural punishment". After the Qing Dynasty unified the world, smallpox caused the non-combat attrition of the Eight Banners Army to a terrible level.
It is said that during the Shunzhi period, a large-scale outbreak of smallpox occurred in the Qing Dynasty, especially because ancient Mongolians did not like bathing and had poor living habits. During the Shunzhi period, a high-level smallpox plague broke out in Mongolia.
In order to avoid the plague, it is said that Shunzhi even "asked for leave" from the regular morning court and just summoned a few important ministers for a brief meeting to settle the matter. Even because of the widespread smallpox plague in Mongolia, he did not even meet with the Mongolian princes and ministers for six consecutive years.
You must know that The strategic alliance between Manchuria and Mongolia was the basic national policy of the Qing Dynasty, and Shunzhi was so afraid of smallpox that he ignored national policy. This shows how terrible smallpox was back then. However, in the end, Shunzhi still did not escape the "hunt" of smallpox.
Among the many emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi and Tongzhi died directly from smallpox. Kangxi and Xianfeng although they "luckily escaped", they were permanently "mildly disfigured".
Chinese variola vaccination
The so-called masters are among the people. As people learn more and more about the smallpox virus, a large number of specific recovery cases exist among the people. After generations of summary and research by some private doctors in my country, treatment methods to stop smallpox have slowly emerged.
Rumor has it that in the Song Dynasty, a miracle doctor from Mount Emei cured many cases of smallpox using variolation. The core principle of this treatment method is to fight fire with fire.
means to inoculate some virus sources from people who have been infected with smallpox virus into the nasal cavity of the person. This method mainly plays a preventive role. In a sense, this is the earliest version of vaccine in my country.
As early as the Tang Dynasty period, the miracle doctor Sun Simiao used the pus from the wounds of infected patients to smear it on people to prevent smallpox. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, more advanced and mature upgraded versions of variolation technology appeared one after another.
Especially during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, because of his "love-hate relationship" with smallpox, he began to lead the nationwide large-scale vaccination against smallpox. The more advanced smallpox vaccination method with lower mortality rate was actually invented by a British country doctor Edward Jenner .
The great discovery of a rural doctor
Once when he was treating a female dairy worker, Jenner Through chatting and treating the woman, he accidentally discovered Cowpox After getting it, he would not get smallpox.
At that time, the mainstream vaccination method in the UK was variola vaccination passed down from my country. Seeing the pain of patients suffering from smallpox, he began to consider the possibility of cowpox vaccination.
To this end, Jenner collected a large amount of information and began scientific research. Finally, the arrival of a volunteer who "volunteered to vaccinate with cowpox" really opened up the prospects for his research.
Next, he vaccinated 23 "volunteers" with the cowpox vaccine. The experimental results made Jenner finally smile in victory. In the following hundreds of years, his cowpox vaccination became the world's "mainstream vaccine" for preventing smallpox.
If the "variolation technique" of our country's folk miracle doctors saved tens of millions of lives, then Jenner's "vaccination technique of cowpox" may have saved at least hundreds of millions of lives.
But what is worthy of recognition is that my country's variola vaccination has opened the door to the prevention of smallpox. In a sense, cowpox vaccination is based on variolation.
Smallpox can be called the most ferocious plague virus in history, and it is also the only plague virus that has been basically eliminated by humans so far.
It can be said that if our country's folk miracle doctors had not invented variola vaccination, and if the British country doctor Jenner had not proved through experiments that cowpox vaccination can effectively prevent smallpox, the number of people who died from the "smallpox" virus might have been far more than 500 million people.
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