A Hospital in Another World?

Chapter 259

Chapter 259

"Have you heard? The Council has developed a secret remedy against the ’Seaborne Plague.’"

"Yes, I heard about it too."

Among merchants, news travels fastest. Less than ten days after Garrett successfully made sodium ascorbate, rumors began circulating among the sea merchants of Nevis City:

"Yes, in my shop, there’s a lad whose second cousin is in the Northern Fleet. I heard that all the patients afflicted with the ’Seaborne Plague’ in the fleet took this medicine and recovered quickly!"

"I heard that the Northern Fleet is about to set sail for training soon, planning to drift in the nearby seas for a few months, and test this new medicine."

"Do you think we could get our hands on this medicine?"

"I went to the White Tower yesterday to inquire, but they didn’t have it in the exchange area."

"Perhaps they’re still in the testing phase? I’ll have someone ask..."

Garrett completely ignored these matters. After calculating the yield following the production of sodium ascorbate, he realized that with his manufacturing process, 100 grams of oranges could only yield 10 milligrams of vitamin C.

With the normal daily intake of 100 milligrams of vitamin C per person, for a fleet of 1000 people, drifting at sea for 60 days, he needed to produce...

Sixty tons of oranges!

Thud!

Such a large production volume should be handed over to industrial extraction; he shouldn’t be manually producing it alone!

Therefore, after finishing his paper, Garrett quickly handed it over to Archmage Carlisle. Reading through the paper alone, along with the key points needing experimentation mentioned within it, Carlisle shook his head with a wry smile:

"1. Extracting the drug to treat scurvy would undoubtedly be more efficient. I recommend the Alchemy Guild to establish a team for multiple experiments. Given that this drug is easy to stabilize in acid but quickly changes properties in alkali, it is suggested to chop up the food and extract it with dilute hydrochloric acid, dilute sulfuric acid, dilute nitric acid, alternately;

2. Different fruits and vegetables have different effective ingredient contents. It is recommended for the team to obtain more fruits and vegetables for calculation, not just using oranges and lemons. Attached is the method of calculating the content through titration;

3. When this drug reacts with baking soda or sodium carbonate, purity and concentration require experimentation with different ratios..."

Attached behind the paper was a thick stack of experimental records, piled up to half a foot. The attitude was clearly one of "I’ve made it, you guys can handle the rest in detail, I’m out."

It was indeed Garrett’s consistent style... just like when he refined mithril last time, and the follow-up to the pyrogenic experiment the time before that, throwing out a plan and then letting others perfect it through experimentation...

This approach to research wasn’t wrong per se, but it might be a bit too arrogant. Generally speaking, mages below level five would follow their mentors to practice, and only after reaching level five would they independently research some slightly valuable problems. As for leading a team, that would typically require reaching level 7, 8, or even 9. Of course, the mage towers in other regions where a level five mage could lead weren’t included in this.

But little Garrett was only level 3!

"Alright, you’ve temporarily completed this task." Archmage Carlisle sighed, patting the paper. "But rewards will only be given after enough medicine is produced and tested by the fleet. Now, have you thought about what to research next? Do you need anything Thunder Horn can provide?"

Garrett hesitated for a moment. Penicillin was still being sought after, and so far, there were no results; the plans for the Protection and Transformation Schools at the mage tower were still in dispute, so nothing had been finalized;

In public health, the relevant departments of the Council were bickering, mainly due to the sudden increase in new expenditures, and the budget allocation hadn’t been finalized yet. It wouldn’t be his turn to intervene for a while...

"Well... I have a magic spell that I don’t quite understand. Can I ask you about it?"

"What magic?"

"The second-level spell from the Charm School, ’Alleviate Pain.’"

"Oh, that spell." Archmage Carlisle immediately relaxed. This spell isn’t difficult, I’m quite familiar with it!

The spell ’Alleviate Pain’ can make the recipient feel no pain for a period of time, making it an essential spell for mages venturing outside or traveling at home. When he advanced to a level three mage, he learned it quickly, and after so many years, he had become very proficient.

By the way, there’s also a corresponding divine magic version of this spell, historically known as a tool for priests to comfort patients—whether it hurts or not, I’ll cast ’Alleviate Pain’ for you, and the ailment will be cured within three hours.

"You can’t learn this spell? Where are you stuck? Show me by using it once—"

Was the incantation not pronounced correctly? Were the spellcasting gestures not standard? Was the spell model unable to be deciphered? Archmage Carlisle guessed. Garrett chanted a few lines softly, pointed his hand, and a wave of magical energy was released. Archmage Carlisle raised his hand to meet it, pinched himself, and indeed, he could hardly feel any pain.

Considering the natural magic resistance of high-level mages, being able to achieve this level was already quite good.

"You’re using it quite well, aren’t you? Where’s the problem?"

"The principle of this spell, what is it?" Garrett quickly poured out a bunch of questions:

"Which part of the body does it act on? Can the range be adjusted, such as only controlling a certain part of the limb? Can it relax muscles? And also..."

"Stop! —— I’ll take you to the Charm School to find someone!"

Garrett smiled slightly.

He had wanted to research this spell for a long time. ’Alleviate Pain,’ allowing patients to not feel pain for a certain period, was simply a magical tool for anesthesia in Garrett’s eyes. Local anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, general anesthesia, while anesthetizing, it wouldn’t cause central nervous system suppression, nor would it cause the patient’s heart rate to drop or lose autonomous breathing—

It’s much better than anesthesia drugs used clinically!

But the problem was, when he cast ’Alleviate Pain’ on rabbits for surgery, the rabbits would still struggle if they needed to, and would still escape if they could. When setting a sheep’s leg bone, the sheep’s muscles would still tense up, and if it couldn’t be moved, he still couldn’t move it.

In response, Elder Wood’s answer was "improve your control." But Garrett always felt that there should be another way, a better way...

The relationship between the Charm School and the Sculpting School wasn’t very good. The latter thought the former was too fancy and too insidious; the former thought the latter was too violent, only knowing how to fight and kill. Fortunately, Archmage Carlisle had been at Thunder Horn for many years and had some connections. He led him through several twists and turns, and soon found a level thirteen mage from the Charm School.

"Madame Syatt, it’s this child." Archmage Carlisle pulled Garrett into the room. In the reception room, a young woman who looked only twenty-seven or twenty-eight, with delicate features, raised her head and smiled faintly:

"Little Garrett, right? I’ve heard of you. Well, since you have questions, study here with me for a while and research it together."

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