Chapter VII Pharmaceutical Companies
"Sir, are you sure you don't have a day off at home?"
After helping John tidy up the clothes on his body, Mr. Butler carefully persuaded: "Your face was not very good-looking last night, I personally suggested that you better rest at home today......"
But before the butler could finish speaking, John had already laughed and said, "I've rested, thank you, Mr. Elber, is the carriage ready?" ”
"I'm ready, I'm waiting for you right outside the door."
Shaking his head secretly, Hans said helplessly. In his opinion, little Huntelaar has been working too hard during this time, working in the hospital on weekdays, and going to the school's real room on weekends......
Mr. Butler really couldn't understand why he, the little master, was so busy with himself.
After finally reviewing his dress, John went out and got into the carriage. The coachman was one of John's regular hires, and the two were very familiar with each other, so they didn't even need to open their mouths to drive the carriage in the predetermined direction.
After the carriage started, John kept his eyes closed.
He was indeed quite tired last night, and even slept until ten o'clock this morning, which is indeed very rare for John, who usually goes to bed before nine o'clock. But thanks to the blessing of the 16-year-old body, after a long sleep, the body is fully recovered, and the spirit is not so tired.
The temporary hard work is definitely worth it.
Whoever is starting out will have to put a lot of effort and time into it, and even John can't avoid it. But once his prestige had been built up and he had a team under his command, he could easily come down. Just like yesterday, as long as Thomas can complete the appendectomy according to his philosophy and specifications, after several surgeries. In the future, there will be no need for John to interfere again, at most, it may be that he will pay attention to it again when he encounters a situation such as a posterior appendix.
To put it bluntly, John has positioned himself as an academic leader, and the general research can be started.
For ordinary physicians or medical scientists, it is enough to make one important discovery in a lifetime, and those who can have several or create a field are basically medical experts. It's just that because no research can be achieved overnight, these people often devote a lifetime of energy to a field, just like Liszt, who can leave a name in history because of his unremitting implementation of disinfection technology.
But for John, the knowledge in his head could guarantee that he would become a miracle in the history of medicine!
Any theory and technology that has been discovered in later generations can be "discovered" by John in a short period of time if conditions allow, which means that it is not cost-effective for him to invest too much time in any technology. Just like appendectomy, John standardizes surgical aseptic sterilization techniques. Isn't it enough to design practical surgical instruments, sort out a full set of anatomical and pathological theories of appendicitis, put forward the criteria for the diagnosis of McCephalic point tenderness, propose McClair's incision, and even completely demonstrate how standard appendectomy should be done?
The paper was published, several surgeries were completed, and the rest of the work was naturally left to Thomas.
In fact, John would have done so in the future. In the future, when there are enough people, they will even assign the research directly. As long as you transform the knowledge points in your mind into realistic research topics, you can simply hand them over to your subordinates to complete. If it is complicated or more important, do it yourself, and once it is completed, hand it over again and move on to other directions. It was only with such a mechanism that John was able to bring out as many theories and techniques as he could in just a few decades of his life.
So when Thomas completed an appendectomy on his own, John's tense feelings eased all at once, and last night he showed a look of tiredness that he usually didn't see. He was Thomas's assistant the whole time. Naturally, I understand that guy can basically take charge of this......
Now in the carriage, John had on his mind Mr. Brister's letter.
As John's closest collaborator in Berlin, the main reason why Brister wrote to him was naturally a matter of cooperation, but it was not about bicycles or Legos, but about another field that John was just about to start entering - the pharmaceutical field!
The causes, of course, are procaine and lidocaine. Two local anesthetics that will sell well all over the world for the next 100 years!
John has chosen to work with Baron Cole and is now building his own factory in the form of a guò acquisition, which will be ready for production in two months at the latest. It is expected that this surgical instrument manufacturing factory, in which John occupies more than 80% of the shares, will soon become a giant in the surgical field with a complete set of exquisite surgical instruments, and when Baron Cole's stainless steel factory is put into operation, this position will not be shaken in a short time!
But in the case of the pharmaceutical factory, John is not going to do it.
Surgical instruments need stainless steel, and the investment in the production of stainless steel is too huge, and there are too many things involved, so John does not have the confidence to do it on his own, but the pharmaceutical ......
It is a matter of course to acquire a wholly-owned chemical company and occupy all the shares!
As long as you think about the history of the multinational giants in later generations, and then think about the molecular formulas in his head, John certainly understands how to do the best way to maximize his own interests. And in the world of 1885, if a pharmaceutical factory were to be built, what better place to build than Germany?
John didn't think about re-establishing a pharmaceutical company after coming to New York, and he also asked the elder Huntelaar to help start the preliminary preparations, but if he took into account the conditions required for the development of new drugs, John finally gave up the plan to put the main body of the company in New York. Maybe he could move the company in 30 years, but now it's definitely a very wrong choice.
Without him, there is no talent.
In this era, the United States simply could not find a few chemical talents that John needed, which was already seen from the letter from the old Huntelaar, and the old man found a chemist who barely passed the test after several job advertisements, and New York City except for some simple small workshops, there were no chemical companies that could handle it at all, and the dye market was almost all controlled by German companies such as Bayer.
In fact, until World War I, there were only seven dye manufacturers in the United States, and the dye produced less than 10 percent of what Americans needed! Compared with the chemical giant Germany, whether it is talent or foundation, whether it is quantity or quality, the United States can only be regarded as a baby, and it cannot support the huge pharmaceutical company planned by John!
Don't think that once John has a molecular formula, he can kill all of them.
Even if John had a complete and clear memory of his previous life, he could only guarantee that some drugs could be made in the real room, but if you want to mass produce it, it is another concept, and what is needed is a mature and practical production process!
With the exception of a few products, the production of most drugs is unsolvable.
This is easy to understand, John is not a chemist after all, or even if he is a chemist, he is not necessarily proficient in the industrial production of chemical products, in fact, in this era of extremely backward conditions in all aspects, to want to mass produce a chemical synthesis product, it requires a large number of professionals to study for a long time. Just like the dye that the Germans swept the world, the Germans began to find ways to produce it on a large scale from the day the indigo was synthesized in the real yàn chamber, and it was not until 17 years later that the process was completed. There was also penicillin, which Fleming discovered in 1928, but was able to produce it in large quantities during World War II, after the Americans invested heavily in research......
So John could prepare lidocaine and procaine in the real yàn room, but he didn't have the confidence to supply them on a large scale.
In the few appendicitis surgeries that have just been performed, a considerable part of the charge of up to 500 marks is the cost of preparing local anesthetics, and if John wants to promote them to the world and replace gas anesthetics such as yimi in some surgeries, he will have to find a way to mass produce them.
Buying a German chemical company is a shortcut.
So John had to go to Mr. Brister again and ask him to help him find a suitable company to acquire in the local area, and prepare to set the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company in Berlin. As for New York, of course, it will also be established, but the main purpose is not to develop products, but to directly transfer German technology to supply the whole of America......
Yesterday's letter from Mr. Brister told John that he had found a suitable chemical company and needed him to meet its owner. And the meeting place was no stranger to John, the luxurious estate of his other partner, Baron Cole. The rare thing organized by Baron Cole today is not a ball, but a gathering of pure business friends, originally Baron Cole also sent an invitation to John, but he was not going to come, but he suddenly changed his mind after receiving the letter from Brister yesterday......
"Squeak!"
With a screeching sound, the speed of the carriage suddenly slowed down.
"Sir, we're almost there!"
Just as John woke up from his musings and looked up a little dazedly, the coachman turned his head respectfully and said.
"Oh?"
Although his mind was still on the question he had just thought about and had not turned back for a while, John had already subconsciously nodded and looked at the building not far away. The main building of Baron Cole's house is still two or three hundred meters away from the gate, and in the middle is a large green area and a circular stone path...... (To be continued......)