Yes. At present, no medicine anywhere in the world, including the miraculous "Crown Prince's Blessing," had ever undergone a Double-blind Experiment.
In other words, the Assistant Doctor's Handbook would not contain any recommended therapeutic drugs. Then what was the point of compiling this handbook? Joseph merely smiled and shook his head. "In fact, the greatest role of assistant doctors is disease prevention.
"For example, as long as they tell the villagers to drink boiled water during outbreaks of Cholera and Dysentery. Of course, it's best to drink boiled water at all times. "Clearing stagnant water in front of and behind homes before and after the rainy season, and using mosquito nets, can effectively reduce the occurrence of Malaria.
"Not eating raw meat can prevent all kinds of Parasitic Diseases...
"During the season when colds break out, cover your mouth and nose with cloth before going out...
"After being injured, don't smear all sorts of messy things on the wound, such as mud. Clean it with Phenol instead...
"Believe me, as long as every village and town can do these things, people's chances of falling ill can be reduced by more than half.
"Oh, once the experiment for inoculating cowpox is complete, Cowpox Inoculation will be one of the core duties of assistant doctors. So this preventive method can be written into the Handbook in advance, and they can introduce it to the people ahead of time."
At this point, Joseph added, "It seems I missed an important matter just now, which is establishing the Disease Prevention Committee, dedicated specifically to handling large-scale infectious diseases.
"You know, in fact, with many epidemics that cause the deaths of millions, if just a few villages are brought under control at the very beginning, perhaps they can be avoided...
By now, Covisat already felt