Nineteenth Century Medical Guide

Chapter 117 114. Business in the Theater
Laszlo is a pure businessman without any title of nobility.

In the past, he might still care about his civilian background, and he wanted to fight for some appearance.But after experiencing the uprising[1], Laszlo suddenly felt that the title of title was not so important, and it was money that really determined identity and destiny.

Now, he has proved with his actual actions that his original choice was not wrong.

In Hungary, he has never had a title, but his status is no worse than anyone else.Even when talking with Count Gyula Andrahi, the spiritual leader of Budapest, they just call each other by first name without too much etiquette.

After coming to Austria, as long as he wants, he can buy a count for a small amount of money anytime.But at Morazo's wedding banquet, Laszlo politely declined Queen Elizabeth's proposal for a knighthood.

At least for now, the relationship between Austria and Hungary is delicate. The two sides have reached consensus but also disagreed in several talks, and the final result has not been clarified.

The future is unclear, and Laszlo is reluctant to express his attitude so early.

The current situation in Central Europe is complicated, and Austria is in the center of interests. There are pressures from all parties in the southeast, northwest and north.As the half-agent of Earl Andrahi, he not only had to seek business opportunities in Austria and maintain the economic exchanges between the two places, but also had to find out more information for himself and prepare for future development.

The person I was invited to meet today was an old friend from the business world. He has been very active in Germany, Italy and Austria recently, and it happened to be possible to exchange some information from him.

The time was set at three o'clock in the afternoon. Laszlo had a leisurely lunch, changed into a formal suit and was about to leave when the housekeeper suddenly went upstairs: "Master, Dr. Carvey is here."

"Huh? Didn't you say that the experimental report will be two days away? Why did it come today?"

Laszlo looked in the mirror and was about to stop the servant who was wearing a bow tie when he suddenly thought of something: "It's not a bad thing, go ask him if he has had lunch. If he hasn't eaten, let the kitchen hurry up Make a few decent ones to feed him."

"I just asked. Dr. Carvey didn't come until after dinner."

Laszlo straightened his bow tie and chose a purple-black coat: "Since he has eaten, let him get into the carriage quickly, and I will arrive after I finish picking out the boots and cane."

"Good sir."

Fifteen minutes later, Laszlo's private carriage left the manor.

Kavi was a little confused by this operation, but heard from the housekeeper that Laszlo was going to see someone today: "I didn't expect you to be so busy, and you came at a bad time. I brought all the animal experiment reports on oxytocin , including dosage, effects and symptoms.”

"No rush." ​​Laszlo said, "Take it out when you get there."

Carvey closed the black bag at hand: "Where are we going?"

"The Burgtheater." Laszlo said with a smile, "accompany me to meet someone."

"To whom?"

Laszlo opened the glass window and looked out of the car: "I went to see an old friend. I wanted to talk about the silk business that he is good at. But since you are here, I can try to ask him if he has a joint venture to run a pharmaceutical business. factory's interest."

The car passed the ring road, circled the city center and arrived at the entrance of the Burgtheater.

"He is Italian and likes opera and ballet, so every time you talk to him, you have to get a seat in the theater first." Laszlo got out of the carriage and took Carvey directly into the theater, "By the way, I remember you too Italian?"

Carvey followed him and replied: "I was born in Lombardy, but of German blood."

"Oh, Lombard, I remembered, you still inherit the title of baron?"

"The king has already nodded, it's just that the official proof has not come down yet."

"It will be easier to handle things with a title. He values ​​this kind of thing more. After all, there are too many liars these days, and having a title is more reassuring."

Laszlo greeted the waiter with a smile, and then went straight upstairs: "But it depends on whether he is interested. If not, then I will do it alone. He is a weirdo who likes to see surgeries. To praise you well, you should also say a few more words to show your talent, don't always act indifferent."

"Show talent?" Carvey didn't know what he had to show, "Mr. Laszlo, this is a bit embarrassing for me"

Since investing a sum of money in the Burgtheater, Laszlo has become the little boss here.

The Italian just gave his name, and was sent to the VIP room on the third floor. After waiting for an hour, he saw Laszlo: "You've come."

Laszlo took off his hat with a smile, stepped forward and hugged him: "Kino, my old friend, long time no see."

"It's true that I haven't seen you for some days."

Chino has a medium build and looks a bit fat after 40 years old, but judging from his facial contours, he looks no worse than when he was young: "How are you doing recently? Business in Austria is not easy, right?"

“Business comes second”

Laszlo thought of the coming-of-age dance held for his daughter again, sighed for a while, and pulled Kavey behind him: "Come, meet my great benefactor, Dr. Kavey Hines. He is the one who rescued her." Take my life back, otherwise you would not be sitting here listening to the opera when you came to Vienna, but attending my memorial service."

"so serious?"

"It's all caused by oysters." Laszlo gently pulled down his collar, revealing a small scar, "Just those lumps of meat almost killed me."

"Oysters are a delicacy, but delicacy can also harm people?" Chino felt incredible, "I think Dr. Carvey is still very young."

"17 this year."

"Only 17?"

"This is the real medical genius. What is the name of a very famous Italian surgeon you mentioned last time? It seems to be 28." Laszlo was full of praise for Carvey's ability, "It's really bad 11 years old."

"No, to be honest, Mr. Laszlo, 28 is already very young. But." Chino couldn't help but look at Carvey twice, "Are you really only 17?"

"It's really only 17 years old."

"Too young."

"Mr. Laszlo thinks highly of me. In fact, it was just an ordinary air cut." Seeing Laszlo bragging for a while, he felt that it was too much, so he quickly explained, "And I just finished it." The finishing work, the first half is all thanks to Mr. Ignatz."

"Ignac? That Ignac who is the quicker?" Chino opened his eyes wide, "I saw his operation in Vienna three years ago, and the speed was indeed fast enough. So, you are his student? "

"Correct."

"Young and promising."

"I didn't see it before. I thought you went to the surgery theater just to seek excitement. But now it seems that you really like surgery."

"You don't understand, surgery is also a dance, but it's done with a scalpel." Kino has gone through several dances in his mind, "If I really want to use a metaphor, surgery should be performed on the tip of a knife." waltz."

After finishing speaking, he hummed a minor waltz tune in his mouth, and waved his hands back and forth in mid-air in accordance with the tune.

Laszlo saw that the foreshadowing was almost done, and began to cut to the point: "My feelings are different from yours. Lying on the bed facing steel knives and various surgical instruments, without the hypnosis of ether, you will definitely not be able to understand a dying person. The feeling of being alive again is too painful and amazing."

Chino nodded repeatedly, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was not interested in Laszlo's rescue process: "Dr. Carvey is performing surgery with Professor Ignatz now?"

"I can already perform part of the surgery myself. Of course, the big scene still has Mr. Ignatz on stage."

"It's amazing, you can be a surgeon at the age of 17?"

"Hehe, humility, Dr. Carvey successfully performed a cesarean section." Laszlo said casually, and then hurriedly stepped on the brakes, pointing to the dancers on the stage wearing tights and low-cut dresses They said, "It's almost time, let's watch the ballet first."

"You just said cesarean section???"

Chino really liked ballet, but the cesarean section in front of him whetted his appetite even more.He glanced at the stage, and immediately turned his gaze back to Carvey: "Can Dr. Carvey perform a cesarean section? Did it succeed?"

Seeing the rare opportunity, Carvey wanted to take the opportunity to talk about oxytocin.

But Laszlo felt that the time was not yet ripe, and the ballet was about to start, so he interrupted him in time: "Kino, there is something wrong with you. Today's repertoire is your favorite "Giselle", and the main dancer is still the young Beautiful Beatrice, don't you see it?"

"But cesarean section." Chino was a little embarrassed, "Mr. Carvey, after the first scene is over, you must tell me the process."

"sure."

Beatrice is the prima ballerina and the only dancer in Vienna who can combine performance and dance technique.

Just at the beginning, she received a burst of warm applause.

Kino really likes ballet. He just talked about the silk business at the beginning, and then he was attracted by the wonderful dance moves.Especially at the end of the first act, Giselle was abandoned, and Beatrice's solo dance vividly expressed the remorse, hatred and grief.

"How?" Laszlo couldn't help asking after the first act ended.

"Excellent, the last time I came to Vienna, Beatrice was still a little girl, I didn't expect to become the chief in just three years." Kino still looked at the stage, "I talked to her backstage, she was a Very hardworking kid."

"It was the chief two years ago, and her Giselle is the best in Austria."

"It shows both light and darkness, life and death, which is really powerful."

"Okay, I think let's talk about my business first, this is today's topic."

"Silk is up to you, just follow the old rules and there is nothing much to talk about." Chino got up and exchanged seats with Laszlo, and sat next to Kavey, "Since we are in the theater, of course it is more exciting to chat topic is better.”

The conversation finally came back to Carvey's cesarean section, which is presumably what Laszlo meant by unfolding.

In his eyes, doing so is as embarrassing as doctoral graduates always talking about their college entrance examination scores.But there was no other way, in order to successfully win over Chino to open the factory, he could only bear with it.

He shortened the entire operation process, removed Sears' role, and also removed some preparatory work.But before using oxytocin, he spared no effort to describe the bleeding at that time:

"There is a lot of bleeding in the uterus of the parturient. We have used all the crow's beak forceps in the surgical instrument box, but it still doesn't work."

"What should I do?"

"I chose to stuff it with gauze first." Carvey made a movement to stop the bleeding, "but I immediately found out that this is not the way, because too much blood loss is fatal."

"Yes, many surgeons now think so."

"At this time, I realized that the enlarged uterus might be the key." Carvey surrounded the shape of a uterus with his hands, "Because when the uterus expands, the blood vessels will also be stretched, and blood will naturally flow out."

Kino's mood was completely mobilized: "What should I do? How can I shrink it?"

"At first I chose to do the extrusion with my hands."

"Hmm, good idea."

"But it was later found that it was not enough, the uterus did not shrink at all." Carvey explained, "This is called uterine dystonia in medicine, because the uterus of normal women will shrink back to its original size after giving birth."

Chino took a light breath: "It's so difficult."

"No way, I can only use a new drug that is still in the experimental stage." Carvey did not bring oxytocin, so he could only describe its efficacy, "This drug can contract the uterus very quickly and stop bleeding Effect."

"And this medicine? I've never heard of it."

"It's a prescription left by my father. I tried to make it. After using it, the effect is very significant. It took less than half a minute, and the bleeding of the uterus stopped." Carvey patted the suitcase, " So I found Mr. Laszlo this time, just to promote it.”

"Promotion? Just promotion?"

Chino shook his head, cursing Kawei for his waste of money: "I have seen several cesarean sections, and none of them were successful. In the end, they all ended in the death of patients with excessive blood loss. Stop the bleeding for a while"

Kino still couldn't believe his ears: "Just medicine can stop the bleeding, it's incredible."

"It's really unbelievable, but it's a fact." Carvey took out all the experimental reports, "I've done many experiments to prove that it can indeed contract the uterus to stop bleeding."

"Such an effective drug should be made into an assembly line product!"

This is what Laszlo and Carvey waited for: "It is true, but the pharmaceutical company needs a lot of capital investment, and Mr. Laszlo is also powerless."

"Are you short of money?" Chino looked back at Laszlo, feeling very strange, "You have enough money to build three pharmaceutical factories."

"Recent expenses are a bit high, and I can't get that much cash at once." Laszlo didn't shy away from his old friend, and finally expressed his thoughts, "If you are interested, we can form a joint venture, and the profit will be made at that time." It is divided according to the proportion of investment."

"Pharmaceutical factory."

"How about it?"

"How much did your medicine cost?"

"The cost of 1ml of oxytocin used in the experiment is about 5 crowns." Carvey said, "It will be more expensive if it is purified."

"Only five crowns?"

"If the raw materials are changed and rabbits are replaced with pigs, the cost can be further reduced, about 3 crowns per bottle."

"Too cheap!"

Such a huge profit made Qino tempted. Looking at the red curtain slowly opened on the stage, he gritted his teeth and agreed to the request of the two: "Okay, I will invest in the pharmaceutical factory, but the funds are limited. The silk business that was negotiated before I can't do it"

Just when the pharmaceutical factory's decision was coming to an end and Chino was about to take over the business, a strange sound suddenly came from the VIP box next door.

(End of this chapter)