I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle - Chapter 158

Speaking of which, what were you talking about earlier, Mr. Vulka?

"What did you just say? I wonder what it is."

"You two were talking about whether to experiment to confirm the therapeutic effect. Maybe you're thinking of using living humans as experimental materials."

"Well, if we're going to see the effect of the cure that's happening right now, we need to talk to the actual patient. What are you taking for granted?"

"Wow. Are you two going to do that? I can't help you with that either. There's nothing horrible about human experimentation."

"That's a bad way to put it. It's a clinical trial. Instead of taking treatment data on actual patients, it just reduces the burden of treatment costs. I think it's a win-win relationship because it's cheap to get treatment."

"... really? I don't suppose you can't force people who don't like it to take your suspicious medicine at night, Barca."

"I won't do that, painter. Anyway, I'm a real person with a decent feeling."

"... well, let's do that. That means treating patients who are actually ill, checking whether they have healed or not, and compiling data. It doesn't matter to me because I don't have to paint."

"No, that's right. Will the painter participate in the clinical trial? [M] I think that some diseases have distinctive physical changes, so let's have them depicted."

"... oh, no. It was a snake. Master Balka, I want to draw a picture."

"Rest assured. I'll just let you paint it so that it won't be any more."

"Ugh, how did this really happen? I can't believe my dream painter life ended up like this...."

"I'm so glad you're crying. Oh, and I'm talking about the clinical trial earlier, but I'm not just going to see if it's healed or not. Remember, I'm going to ask you to get some data."

"Well, isn't that right? What do you want me to do?

"I already explained it to Meem, but I think we should do a comparative test. You should know better about the cure."

Human anatomy is still incomplete.

However, it seems that the painter was interested in the clinical trial after the autopsy.

I can't just leave it to Meem anyway, so I'll involve the painter from now on.

That's what I decided to talk to you about now.

Determination of therapeutic effect.

I don't know much about how to do it, but in my previous life, I used to handle medical information on TV and so on.

I remember what I heard in it and explained it to Meem.

It meant that it was not accurate to simply treat a patient with a disease and discuss whether it had healed or not as a way to confirm the effect of the treatment.

Is it an effective treatment if it is actually treated and cured?

That's how I felt when I saw it on TV.

However, it seems that there are cases where the symptoms are healed even if they are completely ineffective.

For example, if a great teacher, such as a medical professor at some university, sees him and treats him, many people usually think that there is no basis for saying "this will be better".

Or even if you take medicine that says it works well for your disease.

Even if it is actually ineffective, people can be cured by mere assumption.

It's a phenomenon called the placebo effect.

Perhaps some doctors in this world are treating themselves, but many are cured by this placebo effect.

I don't know whether it actually worked or whether the placebo effect worked just because my body was cured after treatment.

Therefore, it seems necessary to verify the effect by comparison.

If you want to find out what the medicine does, you need to find out if you took the medicine you want to find out and if you didn't.

If you want more accurate data, you may be given fake medicines that are neither poison nor medicine.

Patients with the same disease are divided into two groups to verify how different or the same probability of healing is when they take medicine and when they take counterfeit medicine.

I will then use the method of comparative testing to compare the results of the two groups to determine the extent to which the treatment methods in this world are effective.

Well, I think we actually need more detailed procedures, but I'm not familiar with that part, so I'll just cut to the chase.

"Well, you're comparing the group that actually treats with the group that doesn't. Isn't that annoying?"

"Well, I'm going to do a clinical trial anyway, so let's do this. I don't like talking about weapon ointment."

Weapon ointment? What's that?

"It's a story that has been proven to work with the wrong therapies with the wrong experiments."

Weapon ointment is a story from the medieval era of the previous life.

To heal a patient injured by a weapon on the battlefield, I was applying ointment to the weapon, not to the patient's body.

It seems that this was recognized as a state-of-the-art treatment method by experiments at the time.

If you think about it normally, you can't apply ointment to a weapon and your body won't heal.

But why did that happen at that time?

There was a reason for that.

This story can be attributed to the wrong way of doing experiments at the time.

At that time, the rate of cure was higher when ointment was applied to the weapon than when ointment was applied to the patient's body.

I don't know why that happened.

That's because the ointment of the time, that is, the medicine, was kneaded with animal dung and mud that adversely affected the human body.

In other words, if we understood this correctly, it would be faster and better to apply ointment to a weapon and leave the body to its natural healing power than to receive general medieval treatment.

"Well, if that's why I want to take the data, I want to do it in a definite way. You're gonna help me, painter."

"Well, as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't seem like we're going to do human experiments with half the fun. I see. Let me help you, Mr. Balka."

Apparently the painter was convinced and willing to cooperate.

But how influential is this clinical trial actually?

At a time when healing magic exists, it is far from my common sense.

Even if you apply ointment to the weapon, there is a chance that it will heal.

I wasn't a meme, but I was a little excited about what results would come from the clinical trial before I started.