Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 91—Claude's request

This is a room with an area of nearly 20 square meters. There are three double-opened glass windows on each side. The interior is very simple, with white walls and gray floors. In the middle of the room is a large, thick white wooden table that occupies one-third of the room. The wooden table is filled with all kinds of large and small glassware. If it wasn't for Mrs. Maria, Claude almost thought that she had entered a chemical laboratory in her previous life.

On the right side of the room is a row of 40-meter-deep wall-mounted black wood cabinets. This is a little like a pharmacy cabinet with a small drawer on it. The drawer is also covered with a small label. It should be used for medicinal materials. In the upper left corner of the room is a two-meter-long pool with thin white marble tiles. Claude found that the pool was also filled with copper faucets. It seemed that Mrs. Maria had spent a lot of money on her pharmacy laboratory and she had brought in tap water.

"Madam, is this your pharmacy lab?"Claude asked.

“This is only part of it. The glassware in this room is mainly used for refining and synthesizing. Sometimes I use it to do some experiments of interest. There is also a room inside. For our pharmacist, that room is the most important, because all the herbs must be processed before they can refine the synthetic agent, so the medicinal processing room is equivalent to a simple alchemy magic symbol. Check this out

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

Claude followed the past to see, inside the room area, decoration and outside this is almost as big, the difference is that this room is a bit messy, or can be said to be stuffed with a variety of goods and utensils, these utensils in addition to a small part of the trickiest and glass products, the rest is mostly made of brass, Many, like a large piece of furniture, are floor-to-ceiling, making the whole room look like a production workshop.

“Pharmaceutics comes from the magician's alchemy. The earliest therapeutic agents were refined by the magician in the alchemy magic array. Only these therapeutic agents are provided to nobility. Civilian can't enjoy this service. Even if they are sick, they can only pick some herbs and take them according to their experience. This is not very effective, and sometimes it will aggravate the condition.

It is said that the plague broke out later, and the magician couldn't refine so many therapeutic agents in the alchemy magic array, so he reversed the steps in the alchemy magic array and taught the civilian to perform a preliminary low-level treatment on the herbs before boiling the potion. To save yourself. This is the most important moment in the development of pharmacy, and it is also the real beginning of modern pharmacy.

In a sense, it is the magician's alchemy that created the modern subject of pharmacy. At first, the recipe for almost all diseases was obtained from the magician's alchemy test, such as therapeutic agents and detoxification agents.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the magician's lack of attention to these pharmaceutical formulas. Their eyes never fell on the civilian.

And the pharmacists who get these recipes are the most respectable people, although they will not be magic, and do not know what Alchemy Magic array, but they still strive to understand and grope, and according to the occasional pointing of the point of the reverse introduction of medicinal materials and the refining and synthesis of medicaments, In the long years a little bit of the pharmacy to improve up.

Although the medicines they made were not as perfect as the magician's refining in the alchemy magical array, even the therapeutic effects of a few tenths of a magical medicament were a gospel for the vast civilian. Because they already have their own therapeutic agents, they don't have to worry about getting hurt. ”

Mrs. Maria introduced the origins of pharmacy to Claude in a very proud tone: “The room you are seeing now is the latest medicinal processing center for pharmacy. For our pharmacists, this room is our alchemy magic. Symbol."

It seems that Mrs. Maria is very proud of her identity as an intermediate pharmacist. She took Claude slowly through a piece of equipment and introduced him to the name and purpose of the appliance: "This is a separation tank, mainly relying on rapid rotation to separate the impurities of the medicine. This is a pulverizer. Large medicinal materials and mineral properties can be placed inside and chopped and stirred into a powder.

This is a water storage tank…This is the dispensing box…This is the extraction cylinder…This is a slicer…This is a boiling pot…This is the pressure kettle…..This is a filter and a distillation pot for concentrated syrup…"

"Madam, what is the motivation for your appliances?"Claude felt a bit strange. There were crankshafts underneath many of the appliances in this room, so it was obvious that these appliances were not manpower-driven. Just like the crusher, an estimated diameter is seventy or eighty centimeters, and how much effort is needed to get it to work…

According to Claude, the world has not invented a steam engine, basically using both hydraulic and wind power. For example, Kingdom opened the gun-making workshop in Baromiese County, with an annual output of nearly 50,000 firearms and more than 3,000 helpers. All they used were hydraulic machines, because the address of the workshop was in a valley, and they used the water flow impact of the waterfall to drive the hydraulic machinery to make the fire.

"You know when you push the window out and look outside."Mrs. Maria said with a smile.

The biggest difference between this room and the outside room is that there is only one window on both walls. The glass on the window is still attached to the window paper, so the light is not enough. When Mrs. Maria comes in, she puts a bright pearl.

Mrs. Maria is referring to the right wall, and Claude pushes the window away and understands. It turned out that the outer wall of the wall was equipped with a large turntable, just like the hydraulic mills arranged on the riverside. The water flow led the blades on the turntable to turn the turntable, and then the stone mill inside the mill was rotated.

Although there are no rivers outside the row of stone houses, a large water tank is installed on the roof of the stone house. There is also a tube under the water tank that is aligned with the turntable. It seems that as long as the switch of the water tank is opened, the water inside will rush down the pipe to the paddle of the turntable to make the turntable rotate. Then connect the crankshaft under the appliances in the room, and the instruments can move.

"It's a genius idea, madam, who designed this?"Claude said with a thumbs up.

Mrs. Mariah smiled and showed her teeth. She answered happily: "It is my idea. I also have such a pharmacy laboratory in Wangdu, but that was originally using animal power. The turntable was placed on the ground and turned with a horse-drawn horse. It also required a groom to take care of the two horses. Sometimes the two horses were half-turned and lost their temper, which caused me to lose a lot of medicine. Later, I remembered those hydraulic machines. I put a large water tank on the roof and then connected the tap water. This is much more convenient, and I don’t have to worry about the horse strikes on the two pulltables…"

"Madam, you are so smart, no wonder you can become an intermediate pharmacist."Claude flattered.

“Nothing, I’m too far away from the predecessors who invented these refining utensils.”Mrs. Mariah waved her hand: "I am not modest, but the truth. The combination of so many appliances in this room is equivalent to the role of the magical magical array. Those predecessors, a little bit of anti-introduction of the steps and effects of the alchemy magic array on the processing of medicinal materials and the refining of medicinal products, and then carefully crafted these instruments to treat the medicinal materials, so that our junior pharmacists do not need alchemy magic characters. Refining good pharmacy, they are really great. ”

"Madam, I have a very rash request. Can you teach me about pharmacy?"Claude asked in a positive color.

"Do you want to be a pharmacist?"

"Mm."Claude nodded.

Mrs. Mariah thought about it and shook her head: "Sorry, Claude, I don't want to teach you, but I don't have time." I can only stay in Whitestag town for a maximum of half a month. In such a short time, I can't teach you a lot of pharmacy knowledge. In addition, you should still be at school, and you can't have a lot of time to learn from me…"

"I can teach myself, madam."Claude asked: "I have been in the third year of the year, and I will graduate in more than two months. The current course is fine for me, even if I take a leave of absence. And I don't need you to take me around to guide me. What I need is that you lead me into the knowledge hall of pharmacy. Tell me what I should learn first when I study pharmacy. What books should I read?

"This way…"Mrs. Maria began to nod and said, "You come with me."

Claude followed Mrs. Maria May to the outermost room, the room where the Niros Giants specimen was thrown on the ground.

"Look, Claude, I have books on pharmacy on top of this shelf. I will allow you to come to me to see these pharmacy books in the next half month. If you have time, you can come over at any time. After half a month, I will give you a small test. If you can't pass this little test, it proves that you are not suitable to be a pharmacist, and you don't have to work hard in this area. ”

Mrs. Maria said pointing to a large bookcase against the wall.

Claude found out that he had just entered the room because he was attracted by the specimen of the Nyros crocodile on the ground, ignoring the large bookshelf against the wall. In addition, while sitting and drinking afternoon tea with Mrs. Maria, she was facing the bookshelf, and she never noticed that the book was almost full of walls.

"The original lady, you have so many books here…Can I see it? ”Claude is a singer, and his favorite thing is to read a book.

"Well, do you also like reading books?"Mrs. Maria is now more and more happy in Claude's heart. It is a headache for most people to see so many books on almost one wall. Especially these books are not popular popular novels, most of them are professional pharmacy books, asking him to read. These books will find it very difficult. Claude is a happy look, his eyes fixed on the bookshelf, and he can't wait to start reading.

"Yeah, I have already read a few hundred books in my father's study. The bookstores in the town can't buy any interesting new books. Occasionally, I have a few biographies of popular novels or chicken soup. I can't find a new book worth seeing…"

"My books here are all brought here from the king. It is my collection of books. However, most of my work here is about pharmacy. Only a small part of it is about history and geography. If you like to watch it, try to find time to come to see me, as long as you don't feel bored. ”Mrs. Maria said with a smile.

"Thank you, madam, can I see it now?"Claude can't wait.

"Of course, I will give you a cup of tea and you will watch it slowly."

At this moment, Lu Dean's housekeeper came in. He glanced at Claude and reported to Mrs. Maria May: "Mrs., the wild boars are coming again, and they are very close to us, just on the hillside there. You can see it when you go out…"

Oh yeah? You take me to see. "Said Mrs. Maria.

At this time, it is not suitable for reading. Claude can't be indifferent since he heard it. Anyway, he was here to hunt the wild boar. He also left the room behind Mrs. Maria.

In fact, I didn’t go far. I went out and followed the direction of Lu De’an’s house. On the hillside less than two hundred meters away from the manor house, there were about a dozen wild boars on the hillside. Sahuan. The hillside should have opened up a few acres of mountain fields, and I don’t know what to plant. This group of wild boars is raging in the mountain fields.

“Need to go to town and ask a few hunters to drive away these wild boars? WifeLu Dean butler asked.

"Let me come, no need to go to the hunter."Claude volunteered to stand up.