Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 91 Claude's Request

This is a nearly twenty square room with three double-open glass windows on each side, with very simple interiors, white walls and grey floors. In the middle of the room is a large, thick white wooden table, which covers a third of the room. The wooden table was full of glassware of all sizes and sizes, and if it wasn't for Lady Maria, Claude almost thought she had entered a chemical lab in her past life.

On the right side of the room is a row of black wooden cabinets with 40 cm deep patches. This is a little like a pharmacy cabinet with a small drawer with a small label attached to the drawer, which should be for filling medicines. In the upper left corner of the room there is a 2-meter long pool with thin white dolomites on it. Claude found a copper cage on top of the sink, and it appears that Mrs. Maria spent a lot of money on her drug lab, all of which attracted running water.

“Ma'am, is this your drug lab?” Claude asked.

“This is just part of the room, and the glassware is mostly for extraction and synthetic agents, and sometimes I do some tests of interest. There's also a room that's the most important thing for us pharmacists, because all medicines have to be processed to extract synthetic drugs, so the drug treatment room is equivalent to a poor alchemy charm array. Let's see...”

Mrs. Maria walked to the end of the room and opened the white wooden door.

Claude looked at the size of the room, the decorations and the size of the outside, except that the room was a little messy, or perhaps filled with various items and utensils, most of which were made of brass, apart from small pieces of black iron and glass, many of which were floor-to-ceiling like a large piece of furniture, making the whole room look like a production workshop.

“Pharmacology is derived from the alchemy of magicians, and the earliest therapeutic agents were synthesized by magicians in the alchemy magic array. Only that these treatments are provided to nobles, that civilians do not have access to the service and that they can only pick up some herbs themselves, even if they are sick, and take them empirically, so that the treatment is ineffective and slow and sometimes exacerbates the disease.

Later, when the plague was said to have broken out, the magician was unable to refine so many therapeutic agents in the Alchemy Character Array, he pushed the steps in the Alchemy Character Array backwards and taught the civilian population to perform the initial low-level treatment of the drug before cooking it into water for self-rescue. This is the most important moment in the development of pharmacology and the real beginning of modern pharmacology.

In a sense, it was the magician's alchemy that created this modern discipline of pharmacology. Nearly all of the initial formulas for disease treatment were the results of magician's alchemy trials, such as therapeutic agents, antidotes, and the formula for these primary agents.

Of course, it also has a lot to do with magicians not paying attention to these formulations, and their eyes never reach the civilian population.

And the pharmacist seniors who got these formulas were the most respectable ones, and although they didn't know any magic or alchemy magic arrays, they still worked hard to understand and explore them, and based on the occasional pointers step-by-step reverse introduced the handling of the drug and the refining and synthesis of the drug, and improved the pharmacology little by little over the years.

Although the drugs they make are not as perfect as those refined by magicians in the alchemy spell array, and even have only a tenth of the healing effect of those spells, they are a gospel for the vast majority of the civilian population, who already have their own healing agents and need no more fear of suffering from injuries and illnesses. ”

Mrs. Maria proudly introduced Claude to the origins of pharmacology: “The room you see here is the newest pharmacological processing center, and for us pharmacists, this room is our alchemist magic bullet array. ”

It appears that Mrs. Maria is very proud of her intermediate pharmacist status. She slowly walked past an appliance with Claude, introducing him to the name and purpose of the appliance: "This is a separating tank, which relies mainly on rapid rotation to separate the impurities from the medication. This is a shredder where large quantities of medicines and mineral properties can be shredded and stirred into powder.

This is a water tank... This is a dispensing box... This is an extractor... This is a slicer... This is a pot... This is a pressure kettle... This is a filter and distillation pan for concentrated water... "

“Ma'am, what is the motivation of these devices?” Claude felt a little strange that many of the appliances in this room had crankshafts underneath them, so obviously they weren't powered by manpower. Like that pulverizer, an estimated diameter of 70 to 80 centimeters, how much effort is needed to make it work...

Claude understands that the world hasn't invented steam engines, basically using hydro and wind. For example, the kingdom runs a gun factory in Barromise County, which produces nearly 50,000 guns a year and employs more than 3,000 domestic workers. All they use are hydro-mechanical machines, because the address of the workshop is in a valley, and they use the water impact of the waterfall to drive those hydro-mechanical guns.

“Just push that window outside and you'll see.” Mrs. Maria said with a smile.

The biggest difference between this room and the one outside is that there is only one window on both walls, and the glass on the window is still attached to the window paper, so the light is a little low, and Mrs Maria put another bead of light when she came in.

Mrs. Maria is referring to the right wall, and Claude pushed the window open, got it. Turns out there's a big turntable on the exterior wall of this wall, just like the hydraulic mills that are arranged by the river, that uses the water to drive the blades on the turntable to turn the turntable, and then the stone grinding inside the mill to rotate.

Although there are no rivers outside this row of stone houses, there is a large water tank on the roof of the stone house. There is also a pipe under the tank that is aligned to the turntable. It seems that as soon as the water tank switch is turned on, the water inside will flush down the pipe onto the paddle blade of the turntable to rotate the turntable, then connect to the crankshaft under those appliances in the room and the appliances can move...

“What a genius idea, ma'am. Who designed this?” Claude sticks out his thumb to praise.

Mrs. Maria smiled and revealed her teeth, and she replied happily: "It was my idea. I have a drug lab like this in Wangdu, but that one used animal power. The turntable was placed on the ground and spinning with a mara, which required a horse to take care of the two horses beside me, and sometimes the two maras lost their temper, causing me to lose a lot of medicine. Later, I remembered the hydraulic machinery. I put a large water tank on the roof and connected the tap water to it. It would be much easier. Don't worry about the horse strike that pulled the turntable...”

“Madam, you are too smart to be an intermediate pharmacist.” Claude praised.

“Nothing, I'm too bad compared to my predecessors who invented these treatments.” Lady Maria waves: “I am not humbled, I am telling the truth. The combination of so many pieces in this room is the equivalent of an alchemy magic charm array. The step and effect of the alchemy magic array on drug handling and drug refining, and the careful manufacture of these instruments to process the drug material, so that our junior pharmacists can produce good drugs without the need for alchemy magic array, they are truly great. ”

“Madam, I have a very offensive request. Can you teach me about pharmacology?” Claude asked positively.

“You want to be a pharmacist? ”

“Mmm.” Claude nodded.

Mrs. Maria thought or shook her head: "Sorry, Claude, I don't want to teach you, I don't have time. I can only stay in White Deer Town for half a month at the most, and I can't teach you much about pharmacology in such a short time. Besides, you should still be in school, you can't have a lot of time to study with me...”

“I can learn from myself, ma'am.” Claude asked, "I'm in third grade this year, and I'll be graduating in over two months. The current course is fine for me, even if I take time off. And I don't need you to bring me around to coach me. What I need is for you to lead me into the knowledge hall of pharmacology and tell me what I should learn first if I study pharmacology, what books I should read and what knowledge I should learn...”

“Well...” Mrs. Maria nodded. “You come with me. ”

Claude followed Mrs. Maria to the outermost room, the room where the Nylos crocodile specimen was thrown on the ground.

“Look, Claude, all I have on this shelf are books about pharmacology. I want you to come to me in the next half-month to read these pharmacology books, whenever you have time. I'm going to do a little test on you in half a month, and if you fail this little test, it proves you're not fit to be a pharmacist, and you don't have to work hard on that. ”

Mrs. Maria pointed to a large bookshelf against the wall and said.

Claude only found himself in this room when he was distracted by the specimen of the Niros crocodile on the ground and ignored this large bookshelf against the wall. Also sitting on her back while drinking afternoon tea with Mrs. Maria, she was not aware of this almost whole wall of books.

“Madam, you still have so many books... can I read them?” Claude was happy to see Hunting, and his favorite was reading.

“Well, do you like to read too?” The more Mrs Maria looks at Claude now, the more joyful she is, the more headaches it will be for the general public to see so many books on almost one wall, especially when they are not popular novels, mostly professional pharmacological writings, and it will be difficult for him to read them. Claude, on the other hand, looked at the bookshelf and wanted to jump over and start reading.

“Yeah, I've already read hundreds of books in my father's study, and I can't buy any interesting new books in the bookstore in town. Occasionally, a few books are biographies of popular novels or people filling chicken soup. It's boring. I can't find any new books worth a look...”

“I brought all the books here from Wang, kind of my collection. But most of my work here is about pharmacology, only a small part of it is about history and geography. If you like, try to find time to read it to me, as long as you don't feel bored.” Mrs. Maria said with a smile.

“Thank you, ma'am. Can I see it now?” Claude can't wait.

“Sure, I'll pour you a cup of tea. Take your time. ”

In the meantime, Ludhan's butler came in. He glanced at Claude and reported to Lady Maria: “Madam, the boars are here again, and they are very close to us. Just on the hillside over there, you can see them when you go out...”

“Oh, really? You show me.“ Mrs. Maria said.

This is not a good time to read a book. Claude can't be indifferent if he hears it. Anyway, he was here hunting boars, and he followed Mrs. Maria out of the room.

In fact, not too far away, going out in the direction indicated by Lutheran housekeepers, on a hillside less than 200 meters from this estate villa, a large and small group of about a dozen wild boars are flourishing on the hillside. The hillside should have opened a few acres of mountain fields, and I don't know what was planted. The wild boars roamed the mountain fields.

“Need to go to town and ask some hunters to get rid of these boars? Ma'am.” Lutheran housekeeper, please.

“Let me do it. There's no need to hire a hunter.” Claude stood up bravely.