"Princess, please look, this is the rash."

A soldier said, rolling up his sleeves.

My arms are red, swollen and bumpy.

Shen Li frowned and asked, "Could it be urticaria?"

"Urticaria? Isn't that poisoning?" asked Doctor Li.

He gave the soldiers a decoction to clear away heat and detoxify, no wonder it had no effect.

Shen Li nodded.

"It doesn't look like poisoning, but we need to check with a few more soldiers to see what the illness is."

As he spoke, Shen Li checked the conditions of several other soldiers, just like the soldier just now.

"Have you all eaten anything?"

The soldier said, "Just like usual, nothing special."

Suddenly, a soldier had an idea.

He frowned and said, "We've eaten snails."

river snail?

"General Huo, could you please bring me the snails you've eaten?"

Huo Heng nodded: "Okay."

Then he ordered the soldiers to bring over the remaining snails.

Soon, the soldiers brought up the remaining snails.

Doctor Li said, "Princess, I've already tested this snail with a silver needle. It's not poisonous."

"I just said, this isn't poisoning. Even if someone wanted to poison me, would they have the guts to do it?"

Huo Heng also raised his eyebrows. "That's right. If anyone dares to poison my brothers, I will pull out their tendons, peel off their skin, and hang them up in the sun for three days and three nights to serve as a warning to others."

Shen Li didn't say anything else. He stood up, picked up a snail, found a hammer, and gently hammered it, smashing the snail's shell open.

The snail meat was instantly exposed to everyone's eyes.

The color of the eyes is very light near the screw cap, but becomes darker as you go deeper.

Shen Li poked it again with the chopsticks.

The snail meat is very elastic and can quickly return to its original shape.

It was obvious that the snail meat was not fully mature.

"The soldiers' illnesses came from this snail."

"Ah? Snails?" The soldier looked surprised when he heard this. "This snail meat is delicious. We brothers have been trapped in the snow for several months without eating minced meat. There happened to be a river next to the barracks, and the brothers originally wanted to try their luck and catch some fish, but unexpectedly they saw these snails.

We came back and cooked it, and it was delicious, including the soup. How could he get sick from it?

Besides, many common people like to eat snails, and I've never heard of anyone getting sick from eating them."

Shen Li frowned deeply and turned to ask Huo Heng.

"General Huo, have you eaten it too?"

Huo Heng asked, "What? Is it serious? I only ate a few. I was worried that my brothers wouldn't have enough, so I just tried it to see what was new."

"Ah! You may be infected with parasites, and it's possible you have more than one type.

Snails themselves carry a variety of parasites, including schistosomes, strongyloidiasis, ascaris, lung flukes, and liver flukes.

All parasites are not resistant to high temperatures. If they are cooked thoroughly, the parasites will be killed and harmless to the human body. However, if you eat undercooked snails, you may be infected with the parasites inside.

Shen Li explained very straightforwardly, and then she asked the soldiers.

"Do the soldiers in the barracks have coughing and convulsions, or do they have white worms coming out of their buttocks when defecating or sleeping in the middle of the night?"

"He had coughs and convulsions, we thought it was a cold. As for the buttocks..." the soldier said, his face flushed, and he turned to look at Doctor Li.

Doctor Li also lowered his head.

He also ate snails.

These days the soldiers often go to the river to catch snails, and he often eats them too.

Indeed, in the dead of night, I always feel a strange sensation in my butt.

Huo Heng raised his eyebrows slightly and said to the soldier, "The princess knows medicine and is here to help us. What's there to be embarrassed about?"

The soldier blushed, lowered his head, and nodded vigorously.

The soldiers were all young men, and they were still a little shy when asked to talk about such embarrassing topics in front of women.

"Yes...it seems so..."

"What do you mean by seem to exist? If it exists, it exists. If it doesn't, it doesn't exist. How can it still seem to exist?" Shen Li said angrily.

She stood up and said to Doctor Li, "Please, Doctor Li, do the next step."

Doctor Li nodded quickly and said, "Princess, please give me your orders. I promise to do it."

Shen Li nodded and took out some blood-drawing devices and a cup for feces from the space.

"Draw blood and stool samples from the soldiers who are ill. I'll teach you how to do the testing later."

"What? And we have to take their feces?"

Doctor Li was dumbfounded. Although he was a military doctor, he felt nauseous at the thought that his hands would be stained with the feces of many soldiers.

Huo Heng glanced at Doctor Li and asked, "Doctor Li, is everything okay?"

Doctor Li could only shake his head in panic.

"No, no problem."

......

The sky was gradually covered by a thick layer of night, and the originally bright light became dimmer and dimmer.

In the laboratory in the camp, Doctor Li was concentrating on conducting tests according to Shen Li's instructions.

He successfully detected a large number of parasite eggs.

Among them are the dreaded schistosoma eggs, as well as the common ascaris eggs, etc.

Looking at the pile of densely packed insect egg samples in front of him, Doctor Li couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation on his scalp.

"Great job, Doctor Li! I didn't expect you to master this skill so quickly."

Shen Li walked in with a smile on his face and praised Doctor Li generously.

However, in response to Shen Li's praise, Doctor Li simply nodded slightly awkwardly, without any trace of joy on his face.

He had spent the entire day working with feces. The pungent smell and the images of excrement filling his eyes and mind made it difficult for him to muster the interest to respond to Shen Li's praise.

At this moment, no matter how sweet the words Shen Li said, they could not enter his ears which had been automatically closed.

Not only his ears, but even his nose seemed to sense the owner's inner resistance and consciously closed the channel for sensing external odors.

Even if there was a table full of delicious and fragrant food, he would not have the slightest appetite.

Shen Li took out some antiparasitic and anthelmintic drugs from the medical space and handed them to Doctor Li.

"Distribute these drugs to soldiers suffering from parasitic diseases. After taking them two or three times according to the instructions, the parasites in their bodies will be basically eliminated.

However, we must remind everyone to pay attention to personal hygiene habits in the future, especially to be extra careful about diet.

All food must be fully cooked before it is eaten, otherwise it is easy to be infected with various bacteria again."

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