Chapter 473 Promote Cowpox? Let’s Ask the Legendary Mages First (Just Like the Black and White Silent Film Leader Plus Update 9)

Using sailors as cowpox subjects was a method that Grete decided upon after repeated thought.

——When Gretel used low-priced treatments to attract poor people, Grete’s efforts to find subjects ended in failure in nine out of ten cases. The reason is probably because adults in this world have not been under quarantine for that long:

Men have to work in workshops, on docks, in shops;

Women have to work in laundries and dyeing houses, and even if they don't have enough time, they have to take care of the whole family, doing laundry, cooking, and taking care of the housework;

Even children aged five or six, regardless of gender, have to earn money to support their families. If you rest for one day, you will have no food for one day; if you rest for ten days, no, let alone ten days, as long as three days, this job will be lost.

In this difficult world and the life of the poor, there is almost no room for error. The only ones who are free for quarantine observation are those children aged three, four or even younger.

However, Gretel felt a splitting headache when he thought about cramming twenty or thirty children into the ward and raising them for more than ten days at a time. He would never take this step unless absolutely necessary.

Of course, unless it was absolutely necessary, Gretel Social Terror Nordmark did not want to go to the city hall under the guise of a teacher and get a group of death row prisoners to serve as subjects...

How nice it would be to use seamen! Young and strong! When a ship arrives at the port, it unloads, supplies, loads, and sometimes repairs the ship, there is always a period of free time!

As long as Gretel provides them with food and accommodation during their return to Hong Kong, he can trick these sailors into coming over and isolate them for ten and a half months!

It's great to have a familiar maritime merchant come to your door. From point to point, from one merchant to dozens of merchants, if you want to recruit thousands of sailors, you only need a few dozen ships——

The only problem is that the cowpox vaccine consumes a lot of money. Sailors might change jobs while working, or stay in other ports, or fall into the water and die.

It is estimated that less than 50% of the previous batch of subjects will come back for the variola test. In this case, if there are still maritime merchants and shipowners organizations, if we hope that the sailors can come over on their own, Gretel will be grateful to God for 10%.

But the cost of the cowpox vaccine, that's called the cost?

Gretel, who has a mage tower in his name and now has a hospital, Nordmark, is rich and has crossed his arms...

Gretel wanted to prevent sailors from smallpox, so gout merchants naturally had no choice. Not only did he take stock of the manpower under his name, and quickly escorted fifty or sixty sailors over, he also worked hard to promote Grete.

Soon, the legend of Grete spread among the business circles:

"Have you heard? Sanges's father's disease was not cured by the God of War Temple, but it was cured by the Nordmark mage!"

"Have you heard? Master Nordmark took out a chili pepper from old Carlyle's lungs!"

"Have you heard? Master Nordmark took out old Carlyle's lungs and replaced them with new ones!"

Publicity turned into bragging, and bragging became the talk of the circle. When the story of Gretel's healing lungs was passed from the merchant to the alchemy workshop, and then from the transmutation system to the necromancy system, the version had become:

"I heard that you replaced an old man with cow lungs?"

Grete looked at Archmage Edgar running over in a hurry, his hair all messed up, and was speechless for a while.

Beef lungs instead?

Do you think I look like someone who would give people a cow's lung?

I'm not a master of gene editing, and I can't make an anti-rejection medicine... Besides, even if I change, pig lungs will be given priority. Why should I replace cow lungs?

A pig’s organs are about the same size as a human’s!

He tried his best to clarify the truth. ...By the way, how did cowpox and lung treatment come to be exchanged for cow lungs? The speed at which the rumors progress is too fast!

Archmage Edgar sighed:

"I thought you had something to do... Sigh... By the way, what is cowpox?"

Grete breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and was about to explain to him what cowpox was. But as soon as he started speaking, Master Edgar came back to his senses and waved his hands repeatedly:

"Don't tell me, don't tell me. I'll just look back at your paper - by the way, this paper will be published soon, right?"

In fact, according to Grete's plan, he wanted to complete the vaccine preservation aspect before submitting the article. At the very least, it must be able to be stored for ten days and a half, and be able to be transported from Nevis to the royal capital in the south——

Otherwise, how can we promote vaccination?

Leading the cow away?

However, Archmage Edgar urged him very hard. He didn't speak, but he said he didn't want to hear it, but his body was honest and he ran to the hospital every day. After running for the fifth time, Grete finally couldn't help it anymore:

"Carlos, please complete the results of the previous experiments and write a paper. Well...just write until the subjects you selected before were successfully vaccinated with cowpox, and then there was no response to the variola vaccination!"

Leon Carlos took the order and left, and then the poor young necromancer fell into dire straits...

It's a pity that when he was in college, he was not trained to write papers. His family was poor, his qualifications were not good, and he was not treated differently by the teachers at the college. Then, ordinary magicians...

Why do you want to write a paper?

What do you want to do research for?

Graduate quickly, become a formal mage quickly, and then find a job to support yourself! Mage apprentice, first-level mage, what great achievements have you made that you need to write a paper to publish?

As a result, the first draft of the paper written by Carlos was not even formatted correctly. Even in the author's column, he didn't mention his own name, only "Gret Nordmark"...

Grete held his forehead helplessly. He conveniently added Carlos' name and changed himself to the corresponding author.

Alas, for this research, I only provided the plan, guidance, and material conditions. Carlos did all the work. Of course, he can take advantage of it...

After reading it over and over again, the paper has been completely revised. Grete rummaged around and threw a bunch of "Ordinary Magician's Monthly" for his reference:

"Arcane" and "Magic" are not suitable. These two top publications are basically the exclusive domain of legendary mages and archmages. Their formats are relatively free and not suitable for newcomers to learn...

Stumbling and revising back and forth. A week later, the new paper that Archmage Edgar had been waiting for was finally delivered to the Lord of Thunder’s desk.

"What is this? "A discussion on the causes and effects of vaccination with cowpox to prevent smallpox"?"

The Lord of Thunder flipped through the paper from beginning to end, and then from end to end, making sure that there was not a single word related to the evocation system. He also rubbed his forehead and sighed:

"Is this what you've been busy with during this time?"

"Well……"

Gretel gave the teacher a very guilty look. During this period, his main focus was indeed on vaccines.

To be honest, the teacher was very good to him. If he didn't use the teacher's name, it wouldn't be so easy to get approval from the Medical Research Institute. From this point of view. It seems that the Lord of Thunder should not be disappointed:

"...How about I change the title and send this paper to the Plastic Energy Department? For example... "A study on the use of high-energy rays to produce smallpox preventive substances and their mechanisms"?"

"...Hurry up and publish a serious paper on the plasticity department! Don't do this!"

If you hadn't imposed a rule that any paper I would send out would have to be read by you first, so I wouldn't have sent it over...

Gretel grumbled silently and sent the paper out. As usual, the papers arrived in Ta Ling's hands first, and Ta Ling was responsible for identifying and sorting——

"Key words, plague, smallpox, cowpox, immunity? Transform to the necromancy school, plague branch——"

When Archmage Edgar rushed into his friend's study, he saw his friend holding a stack of papers, his eyes straight, and his face full of doubts about life.

"Corresponding author, Gretel Nordmark? First author, Leon Carlos?" He showed the cover of the paper to Archmage Edgar:

"——I know this Nordmark mage. He is a figure that even the Immortal Lord approves of. But he is only at level five. Isn't it too early to be the corresponding author now? Who is Leon Carlos? I didn't listen. I told you!"

"That's also a necromancer, first level..."

Archmage Edgar replied weakly. Only a first-level mage can preside over such a big project as fighting smallpox. Damn it! He can't recruit people to be his disciples...

"Submission unit, Thunder Point, Oak Grove Medical Research Institute." The old friend continued to read with confusion on his face:

"Why are the Thunder Horn papers sent to us? Also, the papers produced by the Medical Research Institute should be sent to the Conjuration Department!"

"Look at the key words." Archmage Edgar turned the paper to the title page and pointed upward:

Plague, smallpox, cowpox...

Except that the cowpox is stained with the word "cow" and it seems that it should be sent to the transformation system, it does match the necromancy system better.

The two necromancers stood shoulder to shoulder, reading together. As he read, the skeletal face of Archmage Edgar began to rise with black energy, as if he had evolved from a necromancer to a lich:

"Old friend, this paper is really remarkable."

His thin fingers gently touched the paper, his movements gentle, as if touching a perfect corpse:

"A plague - a deadly plague like smallpox - that does not rely on magic or divine magic to prevent every ordinary person from being harmed by it - can really do this, the significance of this paper is no less than , no less than..."

His throat gradually became dry and he could not speak a word. Next to me, an old friend who was on duty to review the paper also stared at the paper for a while, and suddenly asked:

"Do we want to support this?"

"What?"

"This - cow..." The necromancer was still a little unfamiliar with this new word, and paused for a moment, "Cowpox, if the review committee plans to promote it comprehensively, do we support it?"

"Are you crazy! Of course! Such a good thing!" Archmage Edgar was startled. The old friend stared at him blankly for a while, his bright red eyes turning around:

"...Supporting a mage from Thunder Horn?"

"Uh... I'd better ask the Immortal Lord..."

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