Mr. Thomson of Cavendish is just one of many physicists.

John had to thank the backward transportation and communication conditions of this era, and although the New Medical Journal published his two papers as quickly as possible, only a small number of physicists saw them in a short time. These people either don't work in either of these two areas, or they laugh contemptuously after reading it, and only a very small number of physicists who are interested in similar research will consider doing experiments to verify it themselves.

Of course, for John, it didn't matter what happened.

John prayed for peace of mind so that doctors would be aware of the dangers of misuse of X-rays. After all, this world X-ray was "discovered" by him, and in real history, doctors abused this harmful examination method to a shocking degree, and some folk "miracle doctors" even regarded him as a panacea like yapian......

If physicists had verified the existence of natural radioactivity and electrons, one can imagine what a sensation it would have been, and at that time, John, the discoverer of these theories, would have been able to make a fuss. Mr. Huntelaar climbed up and shouted, explaining that frequent X-ray irradiation is a self-defeating way, who else dares not believe it?

As for the future harassment of physicists, it would be nice to ignore it......

……

"Your letter, sir!"

One day in early October, the secretary brought John a large stack of letters: "One of them was sent by Mr. Ehrlich, saying that you would like to see it!" ”

"So much more?"

After seeing this pile of letters, John's brow couldn't help but furrow. For the past week, he has received at least 10 letters a day, including letters from old friends, as well as letters from doctors and physicists, and it would take him more than ten minutes to glance at them. He couldn't help but be a little annoyed.

After a little hesitation, John waved his hand and said, "Okay, you can come again in half an hour." ”

"Yes, sir."

The secretary nodded immediately and went out lightly.

With so many letters coming from day to day, John certainly couldn't have handled every letter himself. As a matter of fact. With the exception of letters from old friends and important people, he would only glance at most of them. If it's a letter from an old friend, stay and deal with it slowly; In the case of a letter from an academic discussion, John would forward the letter to the appropriate physicians, and if it was a letter from a physicist, he would have the secretary reply with a tactful but firm letter of rejection; If it's nonsense letters of unknown origin -- well, this John hasn't seen it yet, and the cost of communication is high these days, and not many people do such a boring thing.

Read the beginning of the letter and the beginning of the letter at a glance. John quickly sorted them out.

There are only two letters that John needs to read carefully, one is transferred by Ehrlich, and the other is very familiar, from London, England, and if you weigh the thickness, you will know that Mr. Conan Doyle has written another Sherlock Holmes detective novel!

Merely......

Now John has long since lost the excitement and excitement he had at the beginning, but only a little expectation.

Sherlock Holmes is now very famous in Europe, especially in England, where it has become almost an icon. This can be seen from the fact that Conan Doyle has doubled his remuneration at least tenfold. It's just that John regrets that perhaps it was his own funding that saved Conan Doyle from a historical predicament. Until now, although the Sherlock Holmes series has been wonderful and prolific, the final case has not yet appeared, which should have been written a long time ago, according to Conan Doyle's writing process.

"Forget it, let's read the letter first!"

Shaking his head, John opened the letter that Ehrlich had turned on.

The content of the letter is simple. It was to invite Ehrlich and John to go to Europe, a very polite public cultural invitation, but the person who sent the invitation made John's heart move, and he subconsciously paid attention to this invitation.

Robert? The name Koch is not light.

Take John's current scientific achievements. In fact, it is no less than Koch, but let's not forget that in addition to surgical techniques such as surgical sterilization and local anesthesia, theories such as blood grouping, vitamins, and genetics lack deep roots to convince most physicians and medical scientists. Just like the Higgs wave particle proposed by later physicists, it was widely questioned at the time of its proposal and slowly accepted, but it was not until it was discovered that it was truly recognized. Not to mention that in this era, the status of surgery is still unsatisfactory after all, and its influence is definitely smaller.

But Koch's words are completely different.

In the final analysis, infectious diseases are the mainstream of medical research in this era. Before the public health and economic level reaches a certain level, even the average life expectancy of people in European and American countries is terrible, and infectious diseases are the most harmful killers, so Pasteur and Koch will have a prestige that others can hardly achieve in this era!

Therefore, Koch's invitation is a considerable honor for both John and Ehrlich.

"Go, why don't you go?!"

So without much thought, John quickly made up his mind. He knew that Koch invited him and Ehrlich undoubtedly because of the progress made in the field of humoral immunity in the past two years, and these also happened to be one of the directions of Koch's research.

And......

"It's just a good time to visit the Koch Institute."

With a raised brow, a smile appeared at the corner of John's mouth. In this era, John was very interested in the confrontation between the Germans and the French. Koch attacked the Russians' theory of phagocytosis immunity, and Pasteur supported it and helped build a laboratory; The French set up an institute for Pasteur, and the Germans immediately prepared one for Koch, so it would be a pity not to see such an interesting thing......

……

“…… First of all, thank you for your forensic knowledge, which uses that new method of determining the time of death in my latest novel! ”

Conan Doyle's letter quickly relaxed John's mood.

The novelist first thanked John for his recent forensic knowledge, explained his recent situation and the situation of the latest detective novel, and finally said in a grateful and apprehensive tone: "Your letter says that my Sherlock Holmes Detective Book will be published in North America, which makes me a little uneasy, and I hope they will not cause you a financial loss......"

"Uh......"

When I saw this. John was also speechless for a while.

Shortly after the New Medical Journal editorial office was founded, a Huntelaar publishing house with only two editors was established in New York. The publishing house is also managed by Edward, but for the time being, there are not many products at all, and there are only ten books published so far, all of which are Heinz Medical School textbooks, and the most recent publication plan is "Sherlock Holmes".

A thick book. Contains all published Sherlock Holmes novels.

In fact, when John signed a contract with Conan Doyle, he had already obtained the publishing rights of "Sherlock Holmes" in North America, and the reason why it has not been published until now is because the publishing house has not yet been established, and on the other hand, it is also because in the United States in this era, publishing a British novel is simply a thankless task.

The reason is simple, piracy!

The United States in the 19th century was definitely a pirate's paradise. No foreigner's book is protected except for Americans' own work, on the basis of the Copyright Act of 1790. The barren cultural desert of the United States is simply impossible to compete with Europe in the field of literature and other fields, and if it pays the same attention to copyright as Britain and France, the result will be that it will become a pure cultural dumping ground in Europe. So just as copycats prevail in areas such as science and technology, Americans have simply played a scoundrel in the publishing industry, and the Copyright Act of 1790 is a blatant provision. Only the copyright of the works of nationals is protected, not foreign authors and publishers! Therefore in their country. The best works from all over Europe were poisoned and put on American bookshelves at very cheap prices.

For example, the literary tycoon Charles Dickens once suffered from it.

Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol was priced at £2 in the UK, which is equivalent to about $10, but it was only 6 cents after the US pirated it! However, his works are extremely popular in the United States, and he visited the United States twice before and after. Dickens both argued that copyright should be protected, but was instead listed as an unwelcome figure in the government and the publishing world.

Native American writers are no exception in this regard.

Although they seem to be protected by copyright law, don't forget, like Mark? Writers like Twain. The works were also popular in Europe, but they also did not receive a penny. What's more, the British even pirated their books and sold them to the United States, causing them even more losses!

That's why in this letter, Conan Doyle's tone is so weird.

Sherlock Holmes, as the hottest novel in Britain at the moment, has long been pirated in the United States, and the sales are very objective, which Conan Doyle certainly knows. Therefore, he was also very worried about this, worried that John's carefully planned genuine books should lose too much due to high prices and other reasons......

It is for this reason that John never considered publishing after obtaining the rights to Sherlock Holmes.

But it wasn't too long ago that things changed. The Americans finally passed the International Copyright Act, which began to fully protect the copyrights of writers and publishers, except for books published outside the United States by U.S. citizens.

Of course, all of this is driven by profits.

Originally, American pirates were concentrated in New York and Boston, and everyone had a tacit understanding that after you pirated a book, other publishers would not interfere, and everyone had their own territory. But with the sale of a Chicago company, everything was different - Chicagoans simply disregarded the so-called rules of trade, and simply put together a whole set of European classics and sold them to American families who wanted a little intellectual and social status for 10 cents each!

Hundreds of famous books have instantly collapsed the American piracy market!

The price war began, publishers began to frantically launch all kinds of libraries, and the original tacit understanding collapsed in an instant. Soon, established publishers who couldn't survive began to turn the finger in favor of copyright protection. Because they found that their solid roots made it easy for them to connect with European writers, and if they had copyright protection, they were far more advantageous than the Chicago turtles.

And the joining of the Eastern Printers' Union completely added the last weight.

The large Eastern American Printers' Union has long been an opponent of international copyright law on the grounds that jobs are guaranteed. But as unruly pirates entered the market, and a large number of cheap women and children began to attack jobs, piracy was no longer protected by printers' union members.

Writers, publishers and printers have finally come together because of their interests.

The final passage of the "International Copyright Act" gave Huntelaar Publishing House the confidence to publish "Sherlock Holmes", and with the fame of drug detectives in Europe, the United States, which closely followed the trend in the United States, was naturally worth John's expectations. I can't say that Huntelaar Publishing can also follow the fire of Sherlock Holmes!

And......

Sherlock Holmes's North American copyright may have been a chicken rib before, but after the introduction of the American copyright law, it has become an inexhaustible gold mine...... (To be continued.) )