William? Henry? Welch!

If you look at it alone, the name is very common, and in any book or letter, John will not have any special impression.

But if you associate him with Baltimore and with Hopkins......

"Haha!"

Just like the first time he met Liszt, or the first time he saw Koch, John couldn't help but get excited!

The first president of the Hopkins University School of Medicine, one of the most important medical schools in the history of medical education in the United States, was the professor of pathology, William Hopkins. Henry? Mr. Welch, while he and Professor of Surgery William? Halstead, professor of surgery William? Osler, three Williams, with another professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Howard? Kelly, together make up the founding four of the Hopkins University School of Medicine!

And it was from the founding of the Hopkins University School of Medicine that American medical education began its century-long glory!

For the Big Four, John is familiar with Halstead and Osler, one of them is a surgeon, and the other is known by Americans as the originator of modern medical education, but the words of the other two are not particularly familiar to John because of their professional relationship, but at this time, after reading the letter on the letter, the memory in his mind suddenly emerged.

Placing the letter on the table, John's thoughts drifted away.

No matter what he thought, John never imagined that Welch would write to him and invite him to Baltimore to be the director of surgery at the soon-to-be-built Hopkins Hospital!

This unexpected invitation was so sudden!

John, of course, knew very well why Welch knew himself and dared to invite a stranger to Hopkins because of a series of papers he had published last year. Needless to say, the importance of surgical sterilization techniques and local anesthesia is well understood by any physician who cares about surgery, and appendectomy is not too pioneering.

One person stands at the forefront of these three areas. Serving as the head of surgery at a hospital under construction is naturally more than enough.

Merely......

"It's a pity!"

After staring at the letter on the table for a long time, John shook his head regretfully.

If he hadn't built a hospital in New York and had bigger plans for the future, I'm afraid he would have accepted the invitation without hesitation. After all, the historical place of the Hopkins School of Medicine is there, and it should be a very pleasant thing to work with Osler and others.

But if after all, it's if. Now he can't choose Baltimore.

After a long silence, John took out a pen and paper and began to write a reply to Welch. In any case, the other party is a famous figure in history after all, and John is also full of curiosity and anticipation for the Hopkins University School of Medicine, which was established seven years later. You know, it was the emergence of the Hopkins University School of Medicine that changed medical education in the United States, and the early graduates of this medical school were so good that they spread the Hopkins heritage and German ideas throughout the United States......

For those graduates, John has long been looking forward to it.

So even for the first batch of Hopkins MDs that came only a decade later. John also had to think over the letter he wrote, and wrote very politely: "Professor Welch, it is a great pleasure to hear from you, and it is all the more honourable for me to invite me to join the great ...... of Hopkins University."

……

In mid-to-late March 1886, spring finally arrived in Berlin.

This high-latitude city is finally starting to shake off the cold and usher in a warm spring, and for John? Mr. Huntelaar. The most gratifying thing is that his grandfather, old Huntelaar, finally no longer has to brave the cold to run around every day. In this backward era, cold is a great enemy for the elderly who are nearly seventy years old. It's fine in the house, and it's definitely a sinful thing to run around in a carriage.

So, by contrast, the publication of a paper on aspirin in the German Medical Journal and the beginning of a paper on sulfonamides by Professor Wolfgang were secondary to Johann.

From the moment he took out those medicines, John had already anticipated the arrival of this day.

Aspirin is now Charlotte's most procured drug. The purchase price of three marks per bottle and the price of five marks could not resist the enthusiasm of the doctors and the needs of the patients, and almost every week Nicklaus had a cart of aspirin brought over. And as far as John knew, there were at least four physicians in Charlotte Hospital who were accumulating information on the treatment of rheumatism or antipyretic analgesia, and were ready to follow in Professor Wolfgang's footsteps. Write a paper about it.

And the good news is that there is no aspirin abuse at Charlotte Hospital.

Maybe it's because the price of aspirin is really high, and ordinary patients should be careful with their use, or maybe it's because John's repeated emphasis has made doctors have a sense of caution......

The increasing sales volume day by day made Nicklaus and Huntelaar Sr. smile, and also made Mr. Brister reaffirm how right he was to take a stake in Heinz Pharmaceuticals!

Charlotte Hospital alone wouldn't have done that much, but the hundreds of aspirin samples Nicklaus had sent out before were finally starting to receive feedback. Hundreds of German physicians either wrote letters or sent telegrams, strongly asking Heinz Pharmaceutical to provide more experimental aspirin, or simply asking for the purchase of this new drug with excellent results, and doctors in Britain, France, Austria and other countries also had sporadic replies, especially to Nicklaus's excitement, the Royal Society Hospital and the Vienna General Hospital also sent telegrams that needed more aspirin!

More and more doctors are beginning to pay attention to this small pill with a strange name.

As for the three sulfonamide drugs that have just appeared, they have swept the entire Charlotte Hospital like a storm!

As Aina recovered and was discharged from the hospital, the internal medicine physicians began to surround Professor Wolfgang for sulfadiazine and sulfasalazine, because there were many meningitis, pneumonia and enteritis in the internal medicine ward of Charlotte Hospital, and these two miracle drugs were the hope of being able to treat them!

John's home camp surgery received a large number of drug samples for the first time.

Routinely used before and after surgery to prevent infection, sulfonamides quickly became one of the daily drugs used by surgeons, and he was much more generous to his dear colleagues, at least for a short time, and there was no intention of asking for money at all......

……

"In a month at most, we can accumulate a sufficient number of cases."

In the office of the professor of internal medicine, Thomas said with a happy face: "When the time comes, I can write two papers, which can not only help your company promote this new product, but also increase the visibility of hospital surgery......

As word spreads that Charlotte Hospital can treat right lower quadrant pain, and more surgeons can perform appendectomy, Charlotte Hospital Surgery now performs several acute appendicitis surgeries a week. Therefore, it is definitely not difficult to reach the number of at least 20 cases in John.

From the very beginning, trials of sulfonamides have been carried out both medically and surgically.

Of course, internal medicine trials are aimed at "serious diseases" such as meningitis or pneumonia, but for surgical patients, whether sulfonamides can reduce the incidence of infection, or allow patients to be cured of postoperative infection, has become the only criterion. Perhaps John ran out of good luck ahead of time, with postoperative infection rates among appendectomy patients on the rise in the last month or two, and with more critically ill patients admitted to the hospital and cases of failed surgeries every week, the emergence of sulfonamides is undoubtedly a timely rain, giving surgeons hope that surgery will be safer.

At the request of Associate Professor Huntelaar, the surgeons have been collecting all the numbers.

In the spring of 1886 in Berlin, the idea of medicine began to take root and flourish in the hearts of many physicians...... (To be continued......)