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Chapter 556, Salvation Medical College (5)

The so-called A1 drugs are a variant of sulfa drugs. As a broad-spectrum antibacterial drug, sulfa drugs have many advantages, but one disadvantage is also very obvious, that is, it is very easy to develop resistance. When Shi Gaozhi “invented” this drug in the early years, the current efficacy of those products that were launched is no longer known how much worse than the earlier ones. Fortunately, there are many other compounds based on sulfa, most of which also have good antibacterial effects. Of course, because of the difference in chemicals and ingredients, the effects and adverse reactions of the drugs will be somewhat different. These require a large number of experiments to obtain various data.

Most of the drugs sent here have completed animal experiments. This means that these drugs already have the characteristics of obvious efficacy and low adverse reactions. At least, they have such characteristics in mice used for preliminary experiments and pigs used for further experiments. Scrooge knew from the knowledge of later generations that among all kinds of animals, with the exception of those in the primate order, the animals that are genetically closest to humans are almost considered pigs. Considering the number of primates and the difficulties in breeding, as well as the most fundamental problem brought about-the high cost, Scrooge chose pigs as the experimental species for further screening.

Scrooge has the largest pig farm in United States, and experiments with pigs produced from the 163 pig farm are much lower in cost. Moreover, there are some other advantages to doing so. First of all, this is equivalent to the development of drugs suitable for humans while also developing drugs that can be used in pigs. Many drugs that were rejected and eliminated in the third phase, that is, the human trial phase, have changed. Livestock medicines, of course, there are also medicines used by patients and sick pigs. There are many such medicines, but when they are on the market, they have different names for different treatment targets.

Moreover, compared with mice, pigs as experimental animals can be recycled after the experiment. After the experiment, the pigs are all treasures. The bristles can be used as brushes, and pig skins can be used for various leather goods. Of course, the purpose of pork is not to mention. Therefore, the use of pigs as test objects in the experiment is almost nothing to MacDonald. This alone can save MacDonald a lot of costs.

After these two steps, in general, the probability that these drugs may cause danger is greatly reduced. As far as the type A1 drug is now used, because it is a sulfa drug, its efficacy may not be particularly good. At least compared to the C type drug that the company is still developing and testing secretly, its efficacy will be It’s much worse. However, years of experience in the research and development of sulfa drugs can also guarantee that the danger of this drug will not be too great. Unlike class C drugs, there may be a very fatal allergic reaction.

Now this patient is the first patient in the hospital. Of course, he must be as safe as possible. This is the first step to open the market in China. Therefore, Dr. McMillan chose to use safer A1 drugs.

Perhaps because Western medicine is less used in the East, the resistance of bacteria here is not obvious. The A1 drug has achieved quite good results on that patient. In addition, the patient’s body is also good, so only five or six days later, the patient can be discharged from the hospital and go home.

This case is very convincing, and Scrooge is willing to pay for publicity, so some newspapers in Hangzhou are full of “Hua Tuo’s magical skills reappear” and “Incurable disease healed instantly.” Such reports. Although these reports did not immediately improve the business of the Salvation Hospital, at least the reputation of the Salvation Hospital, at least in the surgical field, has spread.

The people of the Liberation Association ran a newspaper called “Xin Chao” in Hangzhou. In this newspaper, Mr. Macmillan opened a column to popularize common diseases, such as smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough, meningitis, polio, The causes, symptoms, harms, and treatment methods of a series of common diseases such as schistosomiasis. These texts were first written by Mr. Macmillan in English, and then Zhou Shuren translated it into Chinese.

Although the knowledge promoted here is really difficult to understand for most readers, especially for those who have only received traditional Chinese education, even if they look at the accompanying pictures in the newspaper, it is difficult for them to understand. Can not start from Yin & Yang Five Elements, but explain the cause of a disease, and give a treatment plan.

But this kind of propaganda is still very useful, that is, some people in Hangzhou know one thing: there are some diseases, especially diseases that Chinese medicine is almost impossible, and now at least some people claim that they can be treated.

Since then, the Salvation Hospital has admitted more patients, most of whom are suffering from serious illnesses and are almost on the verge of death. So much so that McMillan sighed that he seemed to have returned to the era when his father was even his grandfather decades ago. Because only in that era, the proportion of critically ill patients in hospitals was so high.

Among the patients admitted in the first month, only about half survived. If this happened in later lives, it is estimated that the Salvation Hospital will be smashed by angry patients’ families and other people who make a living. The desk of Dr. McMillan, the Dean, must be full of court summons.

However, in this era, I don’t know how to worry about such problems. Because in this era, people are really used to seeing people who die of illness. Getting sick and then dying is the norm in this era, and no one will make a fuss, even the patient’s family. At the same time, people in this era have very low expectations of doctors, and they generally do not demand that doctors be able to cure the disease. In addition, when these patients were sent to the Salvation Hospital, when they arrived, their family members were already prepared that they would die in a short period of time. So when the patient dies, everyone will think that the hospital cannot blame the doctor, and once the patient is cured, the doctor in this hospital will be truly amazing.

In this way, the Salvation Hospital quickly gained a reputation. At least, now in Hangzhou, everyone knows that there is such a hospital, and everyone knows that although the methods of this hospital are a little scary-it often breaks the stomach. But it will cure some of the most dangerous and life-threatening diseases. Even some old Chinese doctors sometimes mentioned this hospital to the patient’s family: “The old man has tried his best. However, this disease is really dangerous. Maybe you can only try your luck at the Jiu’en Hospital.”

Of course, the best news for the Salvation Hospital is that, in this way, they will have no more worries when using those experimental drugs.

As the Salvation Hospital began to stand firm, the admissions work of the Salvation Medical College was carried out smoothly.

People who come to the Salvation Medical School to sign up for study can basically be divided into two categories. One is the people of the Liberation Society. The Liberation Society uses this opportunity to send these people over and use this as a stronghold to make relevant preparations before the uprising. A group is some students who want to study medicine abroad. For them, it is a good choice to study at Salvation Medical School for a period of time, and then to study in United States or Europe or even Japan. And for some of the secret activities behind the Salvation Medical College, the Revival Society, through Xu Xilin’s relationship, allowed the Anhui New Army, which is under construction, to use this as its own military medical training point. In this way, many things related to the military can be carried out.

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“Mr. Zhou, we will have a batch of important items transported to the college tonight.” Dr. MacMillan said to Zhou Shuren, “These items will be sent to the underground warehouse overnight. You know, for the sake of confidentiality, we will carry things. You can’t hire ordinary porters. So I may have to trouble you and our other comrades to be porters together.”

“What is it? Is it a weapon?” Zhou Shuren’s eyes opened wide.

“Zhou, you know discipline, there are some things I can’t say.” Dr. McMillan replied, “but, even if it is, it doesn’t mean anything. You understand.”

“Yes, I understand.” Zhou Shuren sighed, he knew that the uprising was definitely not that early. In the original history, the Revolutionary Society hurriedly rebelled in 1907, and almost the entire army was destroyed. One of the major reasons for this evil result is that someone informs it. Now, the main leaders of the Liberation Association have received a certain degree of training in secrecy. Moreover, a set of disciplinary systems regarding confidentiality and crisis response measures have been initially established. And here, the most important thing is that in some important departments, a one-line contact method is adopted, and the information that can be understood by individuals in each link is relatively meticulously regulated. In this way, even if one or two people fell into the hands of Man Qing for some reason, they would not be able to confess the entire revival society in one breath. In this way, the Recovery Association will have enough time to deal with these crises.

In addition, in the original history, the revolutionary parties, including the Liberation Association, appeared to be quite hasty when preparing for the revolution. One of the reasons for this is certainly the organizational ability of these revolutionary parties. Problem, but on the other hand, there is another reason that cannot be ignored. That is, their economy is completely dependent on overseas donations, and the patience of these donors has never been very good. But now, the Macdonald Consortium does not have such a problem. Therefore, the real uprising is still early, and even if some guns are brought in now, the quantity will be very limited.