A Hospital in Another World?-Chapter 591: Rabies Vaccine—Cheating with Spells?

Of course, the existence of certain specialized protective gear is meaningful, very meaningful indeed, for preventing the spread of diseases. And the rubber-made protective items—

Compared to their predecessors, those made from animal bladders, intestines, fish swim bladders, sheepskin, and linen, they are unparalleled in convenience, reliability, and even cost!

So, Garrett... from a doctor’s standpoint, Garrett reluctantly gave some suggestions:

Like making them in different sizes, adding a small pouch on top, and promoting them in bars, certain special venues, and among sailors...

If finances permit, they could even be purchased by the navy and distributed to sailors on ships, cough cough.

However, these were just suggestions from Garrett. What he really strived to implement was securing a large batch of rubber gloves, distributing them to hospital caregivers and students, and ordering them:

“When you’re working, when you’re handling experimental subjects, when you’re touching patients, you must wear gloves! Whoever I see not wearing gloves, I’ll ask them to leave!”

The caregivers and students cheered jubilantly. Those dogs, rabbits, and filthy patients, who would want to touch them directly with their hands!

If you’re lucky, you get a handful of fur; if not, a handful of blood, or even unspeakable things...

The boss is such a good person!

He provided what we needed most!

“Don’t just shout ’long live the boss’; how is your project going?”

“We’ve made significant progress!”

The necromancers cleared a path, leading Garrett to the back building. In the innermost storage room, the magic circle kept working continuously, ensuring the room’s environment was as stable as ever:

Constant temperature, humidity, ventilation, rodent and insect proof, preventing anything that shouldn’t be in a storage room...

In a tiny room of 10 square meters, this magic circle burnt through ten gold coins a day. As the necromancers would say:

“This thing costs more than us... If it weren’t for maintaining storage conditions, we ourselves wouldn’t even deserve to use this...”

In the storage room, rabbit spinal cords were hung like cured meats during New Year. Under each, hung a handwritten tag:

The date it began storing, which rabbit it came from, how many times the rabbit had been passaged...

As a leader among necromancers, Leon Carlos carefully examined the tags, picking a rabbit spinal cord that had undergone 50 passages and naturally dried for a week: ƒreewebɳovel.com

“Sir, this treated rabbit spinal cord can now be used to resist rabies toxin!”

Garrett’s eyes lit up.

The rabies vaccine was a milestone in attenuated vaccines. Making this proved the approach was effective, and in the future, many vaccines could follow this direction—

Cholera vaccines, plague vaccines, even Japanese encephalitis and polio vaccines (God forbid, he hadn’t isolated the virus yet), all could be developed! Often, what magicians in this world lack is just an idea...

“Come, let’s perform a verification experiment together!”

“Yes!”

The students responded in unison.

With the boss wanting to verify, the students naturally had no choice. The rabbit spinal cord was cut into five small pieces, with Leon Carlos leading four magicians, and Garrett, each independently initiating experiments.

Relatively speaking, Garrett was the slowest mover:

He wasn’t much involved in the development of the rabies vaccine, merely providing direction, guiding these necromancers in their work. Naturally, things like injecting rabbits, dissecting rabbits, hanging rabbit spinal cords to dry...

He did these the least often, and was the least skilled. Conversely, the necromancers chopped up the rabbit spinal cords, ground them into an emulsion, diluted it with saline, and then injected the rabbits, all with a fluidity like flowing clouds and water.

“Done!”

“Grab a rabid one! Take its saliva!”

“Skeleton One, go!”

The backyard was a whirlwind of chaos. Unlike the front yard where they had to pretend and face patients, the young necromancers didn’t even activate the skeletons’ appearances. At a command, skeletons ran all over the yard:

One skeleton opened the cage housing the rabid dog, bent over, extended its bony hand, and grabbed the rabid dog;

Another skeleton pried open its mouth, not caring at all about its own bony hand being chewed up with loud crunches, bone chips flying everywhere;

A third skeleton held up a beaker, moved it to its mouth, and collected nearly half a cup of saliva in one breath...

Several necromancers directed the skeletons to work together, coordinating smoothly, with high efficiency. Garrett blinked, and the rabies saliva was already collected, the red-eyed dog thrown back into the iron cage with a clank of the lock.

Magic is so convenient. Garrett mused silently. Back in the day, when Pasteur collected rabies saliva, he knelt at

the feet of a rabid dog, patiently waiting, who knows for how long...

“Don’t rush, don’t rush! Line up, take the syringes, take turns drawing the saliva!”

“Inject the rabbits!”

To ensure the experimental results, and more so to ensure the magicians didn’t interfere with each other, the backyard laboratory ensured each had a separate room. Garrett divided his rabbits into two groups, one injected only with the vaccine, the other also injected with rabies saliva.

Then, he went out to see patients for half a day, came back to check:

“Tsk, seems useless? The rabbits seem off…”

The first day, activating [Animal Affinity], both groups of rabbits seemed off;

The second day, without [Animal Affinity], one could observe with the naked eye that the rabbits seemed off;

The third day, both groups of rabbits exhibited clear symptoms of rabies: hydrophobia, fear of wind, convulsions...

However, the other students’ rabbits were all fine. Garrett waited one day, then another, seven days passed, and the students’ rabbits showed no signs of rabies infection.

Transferring these rabbits’ blood and saliva into other healthy rabbits, those rabbits remained lively and uninfected...

“So why did your rabbits show no problems with the same vaccine?” Garrett eyed the necromancers suspiciously:

“Dosage issue? Or did you treat the vaccine specially?”

The four necromancers looked at each other. Finally, Leon Carlos raised a hand:

“Sir, we didn’t treat the vaccine, but the rabbits. Before injecting the rabies saliva, or at the time of injection, we used [Steel Endurance] on the rabbits, enhancing their resistance to toxins...”

Steel Endurance, a first-level protective spell. It enhances the contacted creature’s resistance to toxins.

Extensive spell experiments have proven that this spell itself cannot make rabbits resist rabies toxins; however, after injecting the vaccine, it effectively resists...

“So without magical enhancement, the safety of the rabies vaccine is insufficient! Our goal is to make the vaccine effective without the aid of spells! Continue researching!”

“Yes, Sir!”

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