Before leaving the hotel, John's heart was held high.

Because he didn't want Anna to worry, John didn't ask Mr. Wolfler directly why he was looking for him, but only guessed that it might be because of allergies and other adverse reactions to sulfonamides, but on the carriage to the Vienna General Hospital, Wolfler gave a completely different answer, which made John's heart suddenly relaxed.

When he arrived at the hospital, John's first words when he saw Professor Bierrot were to smile bitterly: "Professor, you scared me, I thought there was something wrong with the sulfonamides!" ”

"Questions? What the problem?! ”

Bilrot, who was originally very happy to see John, was stunned when he heard this, and then his face immediately changed, and he stepped forward and grabbed John's arm: "Yes, there is a big problem, the sulfonamide drugs you brought me are too little!" ”

As he spoke, Professor Bierrot looked bitter.

During the ten days that John left Berlin for Vienna, Professor Bierrot tried to use sulfonamides in the hospital according to the instructions given by John. Of course, in addition to using it in surgery to prevent or treat postoperative infections, Bierrot also kept his agreement with John and sent more than a dozen bottles of sulfonamides to the internal medicine department for the treatment of corresponding meningitis, pneumonia and other diseases.

So at the same time that John arrived in Vienna, the entire Vienna General Hospital was in a sensation!

Almost as happened at the Charlotte Hospital of the University of Berlin, the sulfonamide drug pulled at least four patients back from the brink of death with astonishing speed and effect - for some special reason, Bierrot and the director of the Department of Internal Medicine applied the new drug to the five most critically ill patients - two surgical patients with severe infections, two meningitis and one case of pneumonia!

Although one person died after all, the condition of the other four people is getting better day by day, and there is obviously hope for recovery!

Now. The Vienna General Hospital is in a mess.

As one of the largest hospitals in Vienna and the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Vienna General Hospital had more than 60 physicians and more than 300 patients. So after seeing the miracle that happened to the four patients, all the doctors approached Professor Bierrot and asked for access to this miraculous sulfonamide drug. And those seriously ill patients and their families, regardless of whether their illness is suitable for sulfonamides or not, are all blocked at the door of the office of the professor of surgery, and they are all crying out in a gossipy......

"We need that magic drug!"

When lives were at stake, the power of the people was terrifying, and when Professor Bierrot said that he had only a small amount of medicine in his hands and had almost used all of it, his office was almost demolished by the families of the patients!

It was in this situation that Bierrot went to great lengths to persuade the besieged patient's family. Wolfler was sent to the hotel where John was staying every day, and every day he waited for Mr. Huntelaar to return. And Wolffler has been waiting for three full days until today......

After understanding the whole story, John was also helpless.

In fact, before leaving Berlin, something similar happened at Charlotte Hospital, but it was much easier. Because Heinz was based in Berlin and had already produced enough sulfonamides, a truckload of the medicine arrived at Charlotte Hospital almost the same day.

But for now......

He shook his head helplessly. John spread his hands and smiled bitterly, "Professor, I know very well what you are facing. But the truth is that I only have a few samples with me, and if I want more sulfonamides, I have to bring them in from Berlin......"

"Then hurry up and transfer the goods!"

With a vigorous wave of his hand, Bierrot said urgently: "I asked Wolfler to take you to send a telegram immediately, and ask them to send some medicine as much as possible...... Well, send six hundred ...... first No, a thousand bottles are good......"

"Professor!"

Hearing this, John had to interrupt Bierrot. He said with a solemn expression: "The retail price of sulfonamide drugs is twenty-five marks per bottle, and the price for the hospital will not be less than eighteen marks...... Are you sure you want a thousand bottles in one sitting? ”、

"Twenty-five marks?!"

After hearing this number, Bierrot's expression instantly froze!

Before John came to Vienna Hospital today, Bierrot had already roughly guessed that the price of sulfonamides would be very expensive, after all, the price of aspirin, the product of Heinz Pharmaceutical, was as high as seven marks. Even in Germany, it sells for five marks a bottle. As an antipyretic and analgesic drug, it can be much more expensive than drugs such as antipyretic ice. If it weren't for the good efficacy of aspirin and its negligible side effects, Professor Bierrot would not have considered using it at all, and even now he would only recommend it to patients who are better off financially.

But Bierrot never imagined that sulfonamides would be so expensive!

After seeing the other party's expression, the corners of John's mouth twitched slightly, and then he quickly looked at the other party calmly. Before leaving Berlin, he finally determined the retail price of the sulfonamide drug with the elder Huntelaar and several heads of the Heinz pharmaceutical company, which was much higher than the price he had told Professor Bergman at the beginning, and finally determined that it was 25 marks a bottle!

A bottle of new medicine is equivalent to a week's income for an ordinary person!

In terms of this price, even more than a hundred years later, I am afraid that it is a large number, let alone in Europe in 1886?

John was neutral on this outcome.

For the elder Huntelaar, Brister, and others at Heinz Pharmaceuticals, it is no surprise that sulfonamides are priced so high. After all, in this day and age, there is only one drug that can effectively fight bacteria! An aneurysm can cost more than $100, so is it expensive to sell a bottle of sulfonamide drugs that can cure those malignant diseases for 25 marks?

So on second thought, John made no objections.

He invested in the establishment of Heinz Pharmaceutical Company, and developed drugs such as aspirin and sulfonamides, never thought of benefiting the European and American people at a low price, but in order to quickly accumulate a large amount of money, and then develop and expand Heinz Pharmaceutical Company and Heinz Medical Device Company, recruit more scientists and researchers, and develop more future drugs and medical devices, so as to earn more money......

"It's too expensive......"

After a long silence, Bierrot sighed and whispered.

Even for ordinary people in Vienna, a bottle of medicine twenty-five marks is too high, but it is conceivable that for those people in small cities or villages, this new life-saving medicine is almost more expensive than gold, where can they afford it?

"Yes, it's expensive!"

Nodding, John said in a calm voice: "However, in order to develop a new drug, we have invested millions of marks in the funds, as well as huge manpower and material resources...... And you've seen it too, they really work, don't they? ”

"This ......"

After listening to John's words, Bierrot was speechless for a while.

Of course, he didn't know that John had just spent a few days researching this new drug and did some practical work. According to a professor of surgery at the Medical University of Vienna, it was certainly not easy to invent sulfonamides. You know, since Pasteur and Koch's bacterial theory was widely accepted, how many scientists and physicians have tried to find drugs to fight bacteria, and until now only Heinz Pharmaceutical has succeeded......

Well, these things are all false, and in Bierrot's opinion, there is only one reason that is sufficient: which businessman does not want to maximize profits?

And......

Thinking about the excellent effect of sulfonamides, and then thinking about the patients who were getting worse and worse, and who could only wait for death to come before, Bierrot could only take a deep breath in the end, nodded and said: "Okay, Mr. Huntelaar, I still insist on the previous request, please send a thousand bottles of sulfonamide medicine, and our Vienna General Hospital will pay for it according to the price you just said......"

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Sorry, it was broken yesterday.

After thinking about it, I would like to explain to you that I will probably be very busy throughout June, especially on weekends, there is almost no free time (running around with four or five-year-old children, and I am exhausted at the end of the day), so there will be fewer updates, and I am afraid that this month can only guarantee one more and strive for two more.

It's always updated after twelve o'clock, and people are really a little unbearable.

Old book friends who have read my previous books should know this, I am generally busier than usual on the weekends, and I am busy at work for three or four months a year, so there will be relatively few updates. However, in the case of a break like yesterday, if you don't come up to explain, you won't have a chance to turn on the computer at all.

I'm sorry, but forgive me. (To be continued......)