Chapter 163 (2/2)

“I mean that cow! The cow we saw first when we came here!”

“I don't know what you're talking about…”

Even Yoni was scratching her head.

Kanghyok gave up explaining and took out gloves and masks from the bag.

“Put on the mask and gloves first. Dr. Joon, you should wear them, too.”

“Why?”

“You will be infected if you touch the patient or breathe in the patient's breathing.”

“Oh, I see. Will do as instructed.”

Wearing a mask and a pair of gloves, Yoju also asked, “Am I wearing them alright?”

“Sure, that looks good.”

“I feel a bit stuffy.”

“You have to endure it. Otherwise, you will be infected. You know what smallpox is, right?”

“Of course…”

“Good. Let me find out whether other village people had contact with the patient. So, you guys stay put here.”

“Oh, yes, master.”

At Kanghyok's authoritative att.i.tude, Yoju just nodded her head.

Instead, it was Yoni who dared to ask with a concerned look, “By the way, are you okay, master?”

“Me? I'm okay.”

“Why?” asked Dolsok abruptly.

“Because I'm immunized already.”

“Immunized? You're using that strange term again…”

“Shut up! Let me tell you later.”

“Yes, master.”

Leaving them alone in the room, Kanghyok went into the warehouse room where the patient and his protector were staying at.

As he had no treatment since he came in, his condition was still the same.

Rather, his condition was worse now, given that he was gasping for breath.

With a gloomy look, he put the stethoscope on his chest.

“Take a deep breath.”

“Whoo, whoo.”

Whenever the patient breathed in and out, Kanghyok could hear a rough sound in his lung.

‘Pretty bad.'

It was not caused by any phlegm, but by a damaged pulmonary alveoli.

‘Pneumonia?'

It was one of the common complications related to smallpox.

Kanghyok asked the patient, “Who did you meet for the past several days?”

“For the past several days…”

“Yes, did you meet anyone?”

“Well…”

He was now suffering from high fever and difficulty with breathing.

“I was at home because I was sick. Those I saw were this friend of mine and his wife.”

He narrated the names of those he met.

“Did you notice if any of them showed similar symptoms?”

“Really? In fact, I felt some high fever starting yesterday,” said his protector, touching his forehead.

Kanghyok checked his temperature, which was 38 °C.

That meant he, too, was inflected for a long time.

“Where is your house?”

“It's a bit far from here. Can I show you around?”

“No, no, both of you should stay here.”

Kanghyok could not allow these two men with smallpox to move around.

“Are you going to leave him alone like this?” asked the protector.

“Let me give him some pills. He'll get better.”

Kanghyok gave him anti-inflammatory drugs.

As the patient had bubbles inside the throat, he found it hard to swallow the pills.

Kanghyok got out of the warehouse quickly and went to Joon Huh.

“Dr. Huh, please make some yanggyoksan now. I need to use it for the patient.”

“Yanggyoksan for the smallpox patient?”

“Yes. He needs to eat something, but his mouth is all covered in blisters now.”

“Ah, that makes sense. What else can I help you with?”

Just like the best medicinal herb doctor, Joon Huh instantly figured out Kanghyok's intention.

“Though I gave him the medicine that would drop his temperature, that's not enough. Please make some medicine that could be used to cure his pus.”

“Got it.”

“Never enter the warehouse. Let me go out to the village to check if there is any other patient.”

“Are you going alone?”

“Yes, for now. I'm the only one with immunization.”

Kanghyok said something that Joon Huh could not understand before going out.

‘I should sequester all of those with the suspicious symptoms of smallpox first and then find a cow…'

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