When the season in Berlin comes late autumn, the climate in New York is getting colder day by day.

When the weather is cold, there are more people who catch a cold, which is the same in all eras, so as the temperature drops day by day, some people who can't cope naturally begin to cough and sneeze.

In the 19th century, colds were a big deal.

More than 100 years later, many people know that there is no need to take medicine for the common cold, and it is natural to drink more water and rest more, which plays a role in the body's immunity. However, there are also some colds that will worsen if left untreated, and then they will spread into very difficult diseases, such as tracheitis, and then pneumonia. In this era, you have to go to the hospital, take a film, take a blood test or something, and then you should take medicine and take medicine, and you should hang water and water.

But what was immunity for people in the 19th century?

Without the strong physique fed with meat, eggs, poultry and milk after being rich, even ordinary people in several major Western powers are mostly malnourished, and their immunity is naturally not high, plus there is no medical knowledge and various medicines accumulated for hundreds of years, and the consequences of colds may also be very serious. When some people read historical biographies or novels, they often see that some people will die of illness due to a heavy rain or even across a wet meadow......

Of course, that was the old days.

Now, as the name of sulfonamide drugs is becoming more and more known, especially by doctors, pneumonia is no longer just a matter of staying up or fighting with substances containing a lot of alcohol or yapian, as before, but with a real drug that can treat them - sulfonamides from Heinz Pharmaceutical!

In fact, whether it is pneumonia, meningitis or diseases like otitis media, urethritis. Sulfonamides have become a life-saving drug!

Therefore, as the reputation of sulfonamides grew, more and more physicians recommended this expensive drug to their patients, and the name of Heinz General Hospital grew day by day. Heinz General Hospital has already made a name for itself because of the half-price drug policy shortly after its opening, and now as people associate more pharmaceutical companies with the same name as hospitals, more and more people come to the outpatient clinic day by day.

Daily outpatient volume in September. It has stabilized at nearly 300 people.

Not to mention a hospital that has just opened for less than a year, even a few other long-established hospitals in New York City, I am afraid that none of them have such an outpatient volume!

Of course, this can be done not only because of the reputation of sulfonamide drugs, but also because of many factors, such as the most sophisticated appendectomy technique in the United States and even the world, such as the team of physicians who have all returned from studying in Germany, such as the hospital environment that far exceeds other hospitals and clinics, and for example, William, who has just become the director of the internal medicine department of Heinz General Hospital? Mr. Osler. It has given the patients more confidence and praise, and the word of mouth has been playing day by day.

The only thing that makes people a little criticized is the charging standard of Heinz General Hospital.

The co-pay fee of fifty cents is really not low, more than most people can earn for half a day, and once the diagnosis requires sulfonamides or surgery, it is almost enough to declare that the patient has to have to bleed. A bottle of sulfonamide costs a few cents, and an appendectomy can cost more than a hundred dollars. Even the cost of hospitalization is several times higher than in other places, and it is impossible for the poor to afford it. It's just that the high fees naturally have their reasons. Heinz General Hospital's hardware facilities are almost comparable to a hotel, making people speechless, coupled with the uniform and clean dress of the doctors and nurses and the good service attitude, so that more and more high-income earners begin to favor Heinz General Hospital, because the charges of Heinz General Hospital are nothing compared to their income......

"As long as you can cure Stephen's disease, you can spend as much as you want!"

In the internal medicine ward of Heinz General Hospital. A middle-aged gentleman in his thirties said excitedly, "Mr. Osler, please give him that kind of ...... Uh, sulfonamides, you can use as much as you want, I can pay a hundred dollars in advance for Stephen's treatment! ”

"This ......"

Osler, who had just taken office not long ago, frowned. He shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Mr. Otto, I think I have already explained to you that the existing sulfonamides are not very effective in treating diphtheria, and my colleagues have also done corresponding experiments......"

"Huh?"

After listening to Professor Osler's explanation, the face of this Mr. Otto suddenly became gloomy like a rain cloud.

As a traditional businessman, he couldn't understand any experiments, or even the concept of diphtheria bacillus, he only knew that sulfonamides were now very famous and could treat many diseases that doctors were unable to do before, so he strongly asked to try it on his own children. But Mr. Osler was also very stubborn, insisting that what Stephen needed most at the moment was not sulfonamides, but a new drug that no one had ever used before!

Mr. Otto really couldn't understand this.

In his impression, it seems that he has seen a doctor who is reluctant to give medicine to a patient, including when he asked the doctor to go to his home to see a child, and the other party also proposed to try sulfonamide. It's just that there have been counterfeit drugs in the name of sulfonamides in New York recently, so Mr. Otto decided to bring the child to Heinz General Hospital. The name of this hospital is the same as that of Heinz Pharmaceutical, and many people already know that they have the same owner.

However, before the angry Mr. Otto could get angry, the experienced Professor Osler had already explained: "Mr. Otto, I understand your feelings very well, but as a physician, I must be responsible for my patients! In my opinion, the best way to do this is to use the antitoxin serum developed by my colleagues with sulfonamides...... Sir, Stephen's condition is progressing very fast and I highly recommend you to give this regimen a try! ”

"This ......"

After hearing Professor Osler's words, Mr. Otto's heart could not help but tremble.

Nineteenth-century diphtheria was so notorious that Mr. Otto, of course, knew the dangers of the disease, and he couldn't help but get tangled in his heart.

"Gotcha! Get! ”

Just then, there was a knock on the door of Professor Osler's office.

The expression on his face suddenly relaxed when he heard the knock on the door, and Osler hurriedly shouted, "Please come in!" ”

It was a young white man who came in, and Professor Osler was happy when he saw the other party, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Mr. Otto, please allow me to introduce to you, this is my colleague Mr. Ehrlich, he is the inventor of the diphtheria antitoxin serum......

"It was invented by Mr. Huntelaar, Professor Osler."

Before the professor of internal medicine could finish his introduction, Ehrlich interrupted him very rudely.

John was the first to come up with the theory of inventing a method for the manufacture of antitoxin serum, which he himself only realized and purified, which Ehrlich always cared about, and he was proud that he did not want to take the honor of others.

Of course, Osler was also very aware of this, and quickly nodded and smiled: "Hehe, I'm sorry, it's our dean, Mr. Huntelaar, who invented the antitoxin serum, but it was an experiment conducted by Ehrlich and purified it!" Mr. Otto, I'd like to ask Mr. Ehrlich to explain to you what it does, okay? ”

"This ......"

Looking at the sincere Osler and the calm Ehrlich, Mr. Otto hesitated again.

This time, however, he did not explicitly reject Mr. Osler, but looked at Mr. Ehrlich with a scrutinizing and questioning expression, trying to find something in the other person's face, so that he could have reason to accept or reject the new drug's attempt.

But......

At this time, Ehrlich's face was calm.

After countless animal experiments, Ehrlich is now confident in his purified antitoxin serum because it is very effective against diphtheria. And it was the results of these animal experiments, and the support of Mr. Huntelaar as far away as Europe, that gave him the confidence to experiment on patients!

"Hoo ......"

After exhaling heavily, Mr. Otto finally nodded and said, "Well, gentlemen, please explain this to me...... What is the use of new drugs......" (To be continued......