Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 16 Treatment
At night, the starlight shines faintly on the roofs of the village, and the cool breeze blows gently, bringing a hint of night chill.

Jason tried to kneel down, but was grabbed by Garys and stood aside.

Garys could feel the sadness and tension on the child's face, and could even hear the pounding heart and short breathing.

"Well, old Thomas prescribed some medicine for my mother, but it didn't work at all. Now my mother is even sicker! And... and... Thomas said that he would conduct some radical treatment... but... many people died after radical treatment... Thomas said a lot of things, such as curses and evil spirits... I am a little scared and dare not continue the treatment."

Jason's voice was filled with tears and fear. He didn't know what the future held.

Gellis glanced over his shoulder at Cardoso, and the small-time landowner responded with an "indeed."

It can be heard that Thomas has killed many people over the years.

Even if there are still people willing to believe him, children like Jason will still feel fear and terror, and then try to find someone more trustworthy and safer to save his mother.

To be honest, Garys felt that Jason was quite lucky. At least Garys himself was not a real medieval monk and would not use the "bright" and "omnipotent" medical skills of the Middle Ages to cure diseases.

Although monks understand medicine, this is a stereotype.

In the Middle Ages, monasteries were equivalent to a center for knowledge exchange. Many monks devoted themselves to medical research or practice. In many monasteries, manuscripts of medical texts from ancient Greek or Roman times were preserved, or a large number of works on herbal medicine and medical practice were written.

But it is hard to say how many people were cured by these medical texts from ancient Greece or Rome, plus the works on medical practice. It is not to say that no one was cured.

We can only talk about the glorious medical technology of the Middle Ages, which could cure cancer by cutting hands, cure diarrhea by bloodletting, and cure the Black Death by inducing vomiting with heavy metals. It was also believed that suppuration was a precursor to wound healing... Even in the early Middle Ages, astrological medicine and faith medicine were still popular, and bloodletting was suppressed as an illegal practice.

Garys stared into the boy's eyes, feeling the helplessness hidden in them, and finally nodded.

"I'll go take a look."

Even though he wasn't actually a real doctor, he was at least better than the great medieval medical pioneers.

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The village where Gellis and his companions were located was a village inhabited entirely by Christians. The arrival of the Crusader Lords also brought their Frankish fellows from their hometown. It was like the village of Skarl, only a little bigger, but also seemed more dilapidated.

After entering Jason's house, he saw the woman from the daytime. She was lying on a bed covered with rough linen. The sheets were wrinkled due to constant tossing and turning, and she was obviously in great pain.

Jason's father sat hopelessly and numbly beside the bed. Even when Jason, Garys, Isabel, Simon and others walked into the room, he just raised his head and glanced over twice without any further movement.

Garys simply checked the woman's physical condition and asked Jason about the situation, and came to the conclusion that it was actually a fever caused by a cold and tonsillitis, which in later generations could be cured with a few pills. For Garys, it was easy to tell at a glance.

But in this era...there are no antibiotics or other medicines.

Of course, under normal circumstances, a cold will not be fatal. After all, the human immune system is not a vegetarian... But once the immune system goes crazy... a fatal high fever will occur.

Unfortunately, Jason's mother is now suffering from a high fever. According to Garys, it is at least 39 degrees, but not yet 41 degrees.

The most urgent task is to find a way to control Jason's mother's body temperature.

"Do you have any towels?" Garys asked Jason, and then saw that Jason looked confused. Obviously, towels were something he had never heard of.

Gailis pinched his brows, borrowed Simon's sword, cut a piece of his clothes and cut it into strips. He then asked Jason to take the pottery pot to the river to get water, and ordered Jason's father to light a fire.

However, Jason's father kept sighing as he moved: "This is fate... It can't be saved... It's all arranged by the Lord..."

Before Jason brought the water back, Garys asked Cardoso to find some dried chrysanthemums, or dried marigolds, or licorice.

"Chrysanthemum, marigold, licorice?" After hearing the names of these herbs, Cardoso seemed to be thoughtful and confused. It was not until Garys described the morphological characteristics of these herbs that Cardoso matched them one by one and replied, "It seems that old man Thomas has some at home, but he doesn't seem to have used them to treat colds."

Time and again, Garys was certain that Thomas was uneducated. It was understandable that he didn't know about the medicinal value of chrysanthemum, but if he didn't even know about marigolds and licorice, commonly used medicinal materials in Arabic medicine... it could only be said that this guy had never been exposed to truly systematic and effective medicine.

But it didn't matter. Instead of talking nonsense with that old thief Thomas, Garys directly asked Cardoso to take Simon to get the herbs back. As for himself, after Jason fetched the water, he wet the cut strips of cloth and wiped the woman's body with Isabel.

This was a treatment method that no one present had ever thought of. Some people, such as Isabel, subconsciously resisted it, but when Garys took action with an expressionless face, the girl was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

While wiping the woman's body, Gailis said to the people beside him: "Christ once performed miracles. As long as the patients were touched by him, their diseases would be cured. I can't do such a miracle, but if you believe in me, then I can teach you how to follow the design of the Heavenly Father and heal your diseases."

"In the design of Heavenly Father, there are actually countless spirits between heaven and earth. Those spirits are so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye. Some of them are good, some are evil, and some are neither good nor evil. Most of the diseases that most people suffer from are related to those evil spirits."

"Those evil spirits will take advantage of the human body's weakness to invade it. After those evil spirits invade the human body, the good spirits that protect the human body will fight with them, trying to kill them all. At this time, the body becomes a battlefield and will start to heat up. This fever helps kill those evil spirits, but it will also damage the human body itself. We need to control this body temperature to prevent the patient from dying from damage to the body in the process."

How could it be superstition if it instilled knowledge that was truly beneficial to humanity into the minds of medieval people in a way that was easy for them to understand, so that people knew how to prevent diseases?

(End of this chapter)