Chapter 2807 Inquiry (Update on April 30)

Zheng Gu thought for a while and then said: "It was too chaotic that day. When the government servants broke in, it happened to be the lunch break."

He said helplessly: "I was in the backyard at that time, not in the medical office in front, but I could hear them breaking in and trying to take someone. At that time, I vaguely heard two doctors going to stop them. I wanted to go to the front.

But when I stood at the small door, I heard the government officials pushing the patients and their families, saying that the medicine I used in the medical office was fake and killed people."

He paused for a moment, leaving time for Master Yu and Master Xia to react, and then continued after a moment: "My intuition was wrong, so I went back, closed the small door, and then wrote a letter, closing the two doors.

Give this account book to the servants to take away and send to the capital to the master."

Master Yu glanced at Zhou Man and asked, "Why are the medical department's account books in the backyard?"

Zheng Gu said: "In fact, I had the entire year's account books in my backyard study at that time, including every purchase order."

He said: "As the Chinese New Year is approaching, the Medical Office needs to do accounting, and the general ledger must be reported to the Imperial Medical Office for review. Now that it's cold, I hardly have time to do these things during the day. I do them all at night, so I brought all the account books back.

Do it in the backyard study.”

The front is empty, even if you want to light a brazier, you need to light an extra brazier. Where can I have a comfortable study room in my own home?

And there was a wall between the front and back, so Zheng Gu took things home and made them without distinguishing between public and private matters.

Looking back at this moment, I don’t know whether it was a blessing or a misfortune.

"In other words, you didn't know where the classic medicine was when the incident happened?"

"Yes." Zheng Gu paused and then said: "That day, four of our families, including the servants, were imprisoned. The next day, I discovered that there was no classic medicine in the prison. I heard that they ran away."

This is in line with what Magistrate Luo said. Magistrate Luo also said that a drug had escaped. The drug was not in the mansion on the day of the arrest. He suspected that Zheng Gu had sent him out.

Master Yu came back to his senses and continued to the next question, "Master Zheng, let's talk about the fake medicine that killed people."

Zheng Gu sighed and said: "On the third day of November, I brought in another batch of medicinal materials. After checking everything, they were put into storage. Since the beginning of winter, due to the cold weather, the number of sick people has increased a lot, and people from other counties have come to ask for medicine.

, but such patients are in the minority after all.”

He said: "Although the Medical Office is located in Luoyang, it is Luozhou Medical Office, and you also have responsibilities for the other eight counties. Therefore, every once in a while, I will go to other counties with medicinal materials to provide free medical treatment to the poor and cold people."

"I remember the five families with patients. Three of them were tenants outside Luoyang City, and two were families specializing in long-term labor in the east of the city. The families were not wealthy," Zheng Gu said: "Several of their children were born in ten

I started getting sick one after another in the past month. They were all suffering from chills caused by wind due to lack of food and physical weakness. Because they sought medical treatment frequently and had a large population, I remembered them."

Zheng Gu said it in detail, even more detailed than what was recorded in the file. At least Mr. Yu and Mr. Xia didn't know that he had treated their children.

Zheng Gu continued: "In November, which is about the middle of the year, the elderly in their family may have been weak due to the cold weather, and there were patients at home, so they also contracted the cold. I showed them that they can be injected with acupuncture

After getting acupuncture, only the Mu family and the Huang family received medicine because the patient was an old lady and they were unwilling to get acupuncture."

Zheng Gu still felt a little regretful when he said this, and said: "I always prescribe three doses of medicine, one per day. When I prescribed the medicine, I went out to other counties. When I came back, they came to see me again, but my condition did not improve.

, but it became more serious. I felt their pulses and felt that the cold syndrome was getting worse. At that time, I suspected that their home environment was not good, so they could not keep warm, or for other reasons, which aggravated the condition. I gave them another

Three doses of medicine were prescribed."

Zheng Gu paused for a moment when he said this, and his voice became lower, "But before they finished using the medicine, they all came to the door two days later, saying that the old man at home was too sick to get out of bed, and begged me to take a look.

.I just went."

"When we got there, their family was indeed poor, but the old man's bedding was still barely enough to keep him warm. Taking medicine would not have deteriorated to this point. When I felt their pulse, it didn't seem like they had taken the right medicine, but rather they seemed to have taken it.

It looks like a cold medicine, so I have to check the medicine residue and the medicine they captured."

Zheng Gu paused for a moment and then said: "The Nepeta in the medicine has been replaced by mint, and the Poria has been replaced by Kudzu."

Master Yu didn't understand so he asked, and directly asked Zhou Man across from him, "Is it serious?"

Zhou Man nodded and said: "Nepeta relieves the surface and dispels wind, while peppermint disperses wind-heat and clears the head. It is a pungent and cool thing."

She said: "Nepeta, peppermint, and Sugen are both similar in appearance. It would be fine if he replaced it with Sugen. But if he replaced it with mint, the medicinal properties would be completely different."

I have never heard of using mint to treat colds, but...

Zhou Man frowned slightly, "Although the smells of Nepeta and mint are both fragrant, the fragrances are also different. They cover up the smell of mint?"

Otherwise, how could the drug boy who dispensed the medicine not see it?

Zheng Gu nodded, "They have smoked it with sulfur, so the smell is much lighter. If you don't smell it carefully, the smell is similar to that of Schizonepeta."

As for Poria cocos and Pueraria lobata, it's more like that. Even the clerks in drug stores who deal with medicinal materials all year round will sometimes be fooled.

If someone deliberately made them look more similar, it would be even harder to tell them apart.

Master Yu asked: "What then?"

Zheng Gu took a deep breath and said: "Of the five patients, I changed the dressings and added acupuncture, and three of them survived, and there are two more... They were too sick, and the medicine was no longer effective."

He said: "I knew there was a problem in the pharmacy, so I went back to check and found fake medicines. I checked. If I was really mistaken, it must be the batch of medicinal materials that came in on October 15th."

"Why not the batch on the third day of November?" Isn't the latest batch of medicinal materials on the third day of November?

"Because that batch of medicinal materials were basically used in other counties, I checked and found that there was nothing wrong with that batch of medicinal materials.

Zheng Gu didn't take many people to other counties. He usually acted as both a doctor and a medicine boy to prepare medicines. After seeing the medicinal materials in his hands, he was sure that none of them would be fake.

But this group in the Medical Department...

Because there are not only two doctors in the medical department, but also pharmacists, and five drug boy apprentices to help. He is basically not needed for things like getting medicine.

"What did you find out?"

Zheng Gu said with a serious face: "I can be sure that I will never mistake Schizonepeta and Poria cocos. Therefore, I did not purchase this batch of counterfeit medicines. Someone must have brought them in to replace them."

"The amount of counterfeit medicine we found was not large, and it was sealed in the pharmacy at that time. The fake Schizonepeta only weighed fifteen kilograms and six taels, and the fake Poria cocos only weighed twenty-eight kilograms and nine taels."

"Could it be that your pharmacy made the wrong medicine, mistook mint for nepeta, and mistakenly mistook kudzu for tuckahoe?"

? ?See you tomorrow

?

????
Chapter completed!