MTL - Harry Potter’s Morning Light-Chapter 2738 Land of Firebirds (46)

  Chapter 2738 Firebird Land (forty-six)

  Compared to "certain" potions scholars, Cassino dabbled in a lot of Muggle research materials. In 1767, an Italian toxicologist named Abbe Fontana wrote a monograph on snake venom. Doctors at the time believed that snake venom was either acidic or alkaline, and it needed to be mixed with liquid ammonia or liquid alkali. A small amount of amber oil is used to treat specific poisonous snakes and release the acidic substances in the snake venom to achieve the purpose of treatment.

Fontana pointed out that venom is neither acid nor alkali, and proved through experiments that using ammonia to treat poisonous snake bites is ineffective, and by dissecting the teeth of poisonous snakes, he explained that poisonous snakes bite animals and inject them into animals through hollow fangs The system in the body, not all venomous snakes can spray poison like cobras.

The color and shape of snake venom are strange, some are like honey, some are like condensed milk, and some snake venom can decompose muscle, and some snake venom can cause blood coagulation reaction. Cobra venom contains anticoagulant ingredients, which itself is a kind of nerve Toxins, if the blood stops flowing, it will affect the flow of toxins throughout the body.

  People at the time believed that the human body had a detoxification system if it wasn't for the deadly venom, and that the toxins would become less and less over time. But Fontana conducted experiments, and if the amputation can be done in time before the toxin enters the circulatory system, then the creature can survive.

  Some people like to use poisonous snakes to make wine, but they must not use fresh poisonous snakes. You need to dry and bake the poisonous snakes, drain the snake venom from the fangs, and remove the poisonous glands, so that the poisonous snakes lose their toxicity before brewing.

   But it also depends on the concentration of alcohol. If the concentration of ethanol is not enough, the concentration of snake venom is too high, and medicinal wine will also become poisonous wine. It is also a medicinal material soaked in wine, and the low-concentration wine can only be used externally to treat rheumatism and the like. High-concentration ethanol tinctures can be taken orally. The production process does not necessarily have to be static, but there are also processes such as heating, distillation, and purification. The poisonous components are extracted and removed by using the volatilization and heat resistance of alcohol.

Some venoms will not dissolve in spirits and oils, but will be precipitated by alcohol, because the characteristics of venom are similar to gum arabic. Fontana defined snake venom as a kind of animal glue, which was not recognized by other scientists until 1860 The venom is proteotoxic.

  His studies continued until 1799, when the Archduke of Austria, who supported Napoleon's work, was forced to leave Florence after Napoleon entered Florence due to the war between France and Austria.

This ill-fated scholar was born in the family of a royal notary in northern Italy one year. He had a fairly happy childhood, but when he was young, his family was in trouble and he had to return to his hometown to work as a school worker. Although he was 27 He began to receive scientific attention at the age of 36, but it was not until he was 36 that he was summoned by the Archduke of Austria, who won funding by having him look through a microscope at microbes found in still water.

He later set up a museum for the Grand Duke, and visited Paris and London successively to expand the collection of the museum. After the Grand Duke left, Fontana believed that he had an obligation to ensure the integrity of the museum. He lived directly in the museum and used the museum to grow flowers. Grass, until his death at the age of 74.

  Compared to some people whose fate is really rough, Fontana seems to be relatively smooth, but the most difficult thing in life is actually the ten years from 27 to 37 years old, when it is not recognized.

  Most people will start a family and start a business during this period, or enjoy love and life while young and beautiful, but he spends his time in laboratories and various poisonous snakes.

  Because of people's long-standing prejudice against poisonous snakes, without the support of the Grand Duke, he might have remained unknown for a lifetime, and human understanding of snake venom and toxicology would not have advanced by leaps and bounds because of him.

Some enzymes are simple proteins that can catalyze both inside and outside the cell. When a person cuts an apple, it quickly turns brown. This browning not only affects the color of the food, but also affects the taste. Represents decay and deterioration.

   But browning is not all harmful. Coffee and bread will also produce burnt yellow during the roasting process, and thus cause aroma. During the cooking process, the enzymes inherent in the processed raw materials will also produce a variety of enzymatic chemical reactions.

  High temperature can indeed kill many microorganisms, but not all microorganisms can be killed by high temperature. There are high-temperature-resistant bacteria near submarine craters. They can survive by using the enzymes in their bodies.

  Enzyme can improve the fresh and tender taste of meat, but it also has deadly toxins. In short, herbal alchemy is not as lovely as staghorn wine after entering a certain stage.

  Pomona has a headache just looking at these things. Cooking a meal is not so complicated. When she was accompanied by Severus before, she could barely sit still. She couldn't be more restless than her junior.

   Now she has an above board excuse to stop reading Cassino's book after she put it on the shelf. She lives in this place, and if Jennifer has a problem she can't solve, she is always there to help.

  Because she had time, she could read the French materials that Albus showed her. Although Paracelsus was born after Nicholas, Nicholas who drank the elixir obviously knew him.

   Paracelsus once put forward the theory of fighting poison with poison, that is, if there is any poison in the body, it should be treated with similar poison, but the key lies in the mastery of the dose.

   "Fighting poison with poison" is not using the poison of scorpions to deal with centipedes, but treating the human body as a battlefield. For example, snake venom serum, it first "squeezes" the venom from the snake's fangs, and injects it into the body of a horse or other animal. The venom that can kill a mouse may not necessarily kill the horse. The horse will produce antibodies that neutralize the venom. Antivenom is purified from antibodies extracted from horse blood.

Small doses of healing substances can also heal people. Paracelsus opposed the use of panaceas. "Sugar" compound pills, which contain myrrh, snake meat and other substances, often do not treat the symptoms properly, and instead lead to worsening of the condition.

  Now her situation is like a student who knows that the final exam is approaching, but is still wandering around.

   About two or three days later, the door of the secret study was opened with a "bang", Snape looked at her angrily, and she smiled at him in a daze.

   "How much sugar have you eaten?" He said coldly.

   "Hi~" Pomona waved at him.

  He used "clear water like a spring" on her, and she woke up a lot after being drenched in cold water.

   Then he took her by the hand and left the burrow.

  The wind in April is still a bit cold on my body, but the most important thing is how the sun outside is so dazzling.

   She felt dizzy, and Snape kindly shaded her from the sun.

   "Where did you get all that sugar?"

   "Dumbledore's place, Madam Maxime gave it to him." Pomona said pitifully.

  He took a candy and smelled it.

   "You look like a guinea pig." He said indifferently.

  Pomona didn't like the metaphor, and she didn't want her Animagus to be a rat.

   Then she was brought back to the castle, to the cellar of Slytherin.

   She was placed on a stool in the Potions classroom, and within a short while he brought her a glass of "orange juice" from the office.

   "You want to say that you don't want to take medicine?" He smiled and said in a particularly soft tone.

  Pomona took the potion and drank it, enduring the spicy and bitter taste. She almost thought that she had also drank the enhanced version of Bone Spirit.

   "Ow~" She covered her head and wailed.

  Snape smiled sarcastically at her.

   "What's wrong with me?" Pomona took a while to recover.

   "Hangover, there's amphora mead in your sugar."

  Pomona pulled her hair. She thought Madam Maxim had added poison to Dumbledore's sugar.

  Amphora honey wine is very ~~expensive, and the wine starts to be consumed as soon as the bottle is opened, so it must be drunk as soon as possible.

   "That's what Albus told me." Pomona said weakly, enduring the hangover, "Go ahead and finish it."

   "So you've been eating 'sugar' these days?" Severus asked.

   "No, this is my reward, I just got it last night." Pomona said with a bitter face.

   "And you can't wait to have it all to yourself?"

   She looked at the guy in front of her who sprayed poison on her.

   "You didn't like sugar before, and how did I know that the sugar was made of wine."

  He looked at her quietly.

   "I made it." She smiled softly. "I floated the maze."

   This is what she discovered when she dug the basement that night and reworked it. The stratum structure is like a thousand-layer cake, with layers of soil of different colors layered on top of each other. Although she found no fossils, she found a lot of plant remains.

   Obviously, the plants grow in these soils, and she once spent a summer adjusting the composition of the dragon manure to change the soil into what she wanted. So what she needs to do is not to let the whole mountain float up, but to let the soil that meets certain characteristics float up together with the plants inside. She tries not to change the mountain-moving spell, and changes the moving target from "all" It was changed to a "special case", and it succeeded when the experiment was repeated. Albus was very happy and gave her the box of French candies as a reward.

   "You want me to congratulate you?" Severus asked deadpan.

"I want to ask you one thing. What is Felix Rossier's future employment goal? I remember that the employment counseling for the fifth grade has ended." Pomona also looked at him calmly "He is going to go old road?"

"What do you mean?"

   "You know what I mean." She stood up, and although she was short, she propped herself up on the table like Albus, making herself look taller. "Will he follow the Dark Lord like his relatives?"

   "He won't stay in England." Severus also said coldly.

   "Where is he going?" Pomona asked.

   "Romania, Fire Dragon Reserve, he wants to be a dragon trainer." He smiled sarcastically, "If you didn't care about chatting with Charlie, you wouldn't have noticed that he was also in the dragon's lair."

  Pomona froze for a moment.

   "He wants to study the Peruvian Vipertooth and crack the cure for dragon pox. Are you trying to say that it is an incurable disease?"

  Pomona did not directly answer his question.

   "No wonder he was sorted into Slytherin." Pomona sat down again, and sighed heavily, "Do you also think that only useless trash is sorted into Hufflepuff College?"

  She was very depressed, and even the newspaper only had Harry Potter news, and Cedric didn't mention it at all.

   "If you want something, go for it, and don't think that opportunities will fall on everyone's head fairly." Snape said calmly, "Life is inherently unfair."

  Pomona looked at him, raised her calf on a whim, and rubbed her ankle against his trouser leg.

  He was stiff.

   "You mean like this?" she said curiously, finding it very interesting.

   He glared at her angrily.

   “There is a kind of people who are born humble and want what they were not born to have, so they ‘go for’ like hell, but they fall hard at the end and catch nothing.”

   "You mean me?"

   "No honey, how could I say you? How is Patsy now?"

  He didn't answer.

   "I guess he must be very angry now. He is the best kid in the family, but Molly and Arthur don't listen to him, but listen to outsiders." Pomona said with a smile.

   "You mean, his parents disgraced him?" Severus asked.

   "No, I don't think so." Pomona retracted his legs and stood up. "I think he can only hate Albus Dumbledore, a man who is admittedly smart."

  He seemed about to lunge at her, but Pomona pointed his wand at him.

   "Don't act rashly, Severus, I don't want to hurt you."

   "You can try it." He said grimly, pulling his wand out of his sleeve.

  A firefly flew out of the fireplace and flew slowly in front of the two of them.

  She thought of that thunderstorm evening and the small private medicine storage room. At that time, she felt that something was about to break free from his body.

  He may not be an Animagus like Sirius, but he can "molt" like a growing snake.

   If she is really a guinea pig, wouldn't she be the snake's "dinner"?

   "Thank you for the hangover cure." She put down her wand.

   "You're welcome." He said still cautiously.

   She smiled at him and left the cellar.

  (end of this chapter)