Chapter 16: A Good Opportunity
"Whoa!"
"Whoa!"
In the quiet office, only the sound of Bergman turning the pages of a book was heard.
From John? Since Huntelaar left the hospital, Bergman has not stepped out of his office door, and has been looking through the documents in his hand. Of course, he didn't read it from beginning to end in one go, but found out the parts he was interested in from the table of contents and chewed them little by little.
The more he watched, the more amazed and chaotic his heart became.
In Bergman's eyes, this untitled material is like a textbook, covering almost every aspect of surgery, except for certain diseases that surgeons don't know much about. It's just that if you study the contents carefully, the professor of surgery at the University of Berlin is a little at a loss.
To give a simple example, such as the suture of the surgical incision, John gives four suture methods in this document, which are used for the suture of different tissue parts, and even the knotting of the final suture has several ways to be suitable for different situations. It's not like Bergman hasn't seen these things, and his long career as a surgeon has given him his own opinions on many things, but Bergman has never seen anyone who would summarize these things so meticulously, so clearly, and so organized!
And......
There is a lot of content in this book that Bergman has never touched before!
Taking a deep breath, Bergman flipped to the "Trauma" page and began to read it again with full attention. Line by line entered Bergman's eyes, and he once again felt the weight of this information: there are four ways to classify trauma, how the tissue reacts after injury, how it heals, what adverse consequences may occur, etc., are all written in detail in this information. How surgeons diagnose, how to deal with it, and even what to do in the future. It's all recorded in it, and the content is so detailed that Burgman is a little incredulous......
"Huh? Trimming necrotic tissue? Repeated saline rinsing? ”
When he saw the section "The Handling of Open Trauma", Bergman's heart was suddenly shocked!
The so-called open trauma refers to the wound with a cut in the skin, such as a cut, stab wound, etc., which is also a relatively common surgical trauma in daily life. Especially in times of war, this is the case with most of the wounded soldiers.
All surgeons know how dangerous this trauma can be.
Especially on the battlefield, the cultivation and fertilization of the land is full of bacteria, and the wounds of the soldiers are inevitably contaminated. So ever since the theory of bacteriology began to be established and physicians discovered that disinfection was effective, the search for antiseptic solutions and surgical dressings has never stopped. It's just a pity that doctors have never been able to find a truly and absolutely effective method.
Infection, suppuration. There always seems to be someone who can't avoid it.
But when he saw this part of John's writing, Bergman suddenly discovered something he had never thought of: excising the inactivated and necrotic tissues, removing hematomas, blood clots, and foreign bodies, and then rinsing them thoroughly with clean and sterile saline!
John's early development from World War I to 1888 made Bergman wonder why he had never thought of getting rid of them.
At this moment, Bergman suddenly understood the meaning of John's previous words, and finally knew why he was so confident in his information, and insisted that Bergman implement it at Charlotte Hospital. And the effects of these measures have been documented......
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After lunch, John left the material to Professor Bergman.
This information is actually the Heinz Surgery given to Thomas and theirs. The content is exactly the same, and it is not easy for Professor Bergman to read it. The two made an appointment to discuss it next Monday, but John was not going to be idle at home during this time, and the two companies under his name would definitely go to take a look.
The R&D building of Heinz Pharmaceutical will be completed next month.
The completion here does not mean that the house is completed, but that it is completely completed. This includes the renovation, including all the equipment and instruments purchased, and of course the full set of scientific staff for the building. Although John was not in Berlin, no one dared to neglect this matter, and it was carried on under the supervision of Mr. Brister. And every month he gave John a report.
Two weeks after arriving in Berlin, John really should have gone to see it.
However, as soon as he thought about it on the way, when John took the car back to the Brister house, he saw two people who he had not seen for a long time - Adolf, the head of research and development at Heinz Pharmaceuticals? Hoffman, and Mr. Nicklaus, General Manager. The two men were also not invited to yesterday's meeting, and John had planned to meet them at the company for the next two days......
After greetings, John said with a smile: "I'm sorry, you two, I was going to go to the company tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to have a look, but I didn't expect you to come first." ”
"That's what we're supposed to do."
Hoffman smiled and immediately said very respectfully.
John is the big boss of Heinz Pharmaceuticals, accounting for ninety percent of the shares, if it was good that they were not notified before, now that they have begun to show up, how can there be any reason to wait for the big boss to pass? Not to mention......
"Sir, there is something important that I must tell you."
Mr. Nicklaus, who had always been more steady, frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Just a week ago, Count Gwenther of the German Army informed us that he wanted to discuss the purchase of medicines...... We thought you might be in Berlin soon, so we put the matter on hold and were ready to wait until you arrived......"
"Uh......"
After listening to Nicklaus's words, John twitched the corners of his mouth slightly.
In order to relax for a while, he did not inform Nicklaus that he had arrived in Berlin, but wrote a letter last month saying that he would be back in the near future, and now he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed after listening to Nicklaus's words.
But after thinking about it for a while, John waved his hand and smiled: "Mr. Nicklaus, hasn't the army already started purchasing our medicines?" Just continue the way you did before, and you don't have to wait for me to make a decision......"
"That's not going to work!"
Before John finished speaking, Mr. Nicklaus hurriedly shook his head and said, "Mr. Huntelaar, this time is different from before, in the past, the army asked for our medicine only for trial, but this time...... It is to be included in the list of standing materials, long-term procurement, you must make the decision! ”
"Standing supplies?"
Hearing this, John and Brister couldn't help but widen their eyes at the same time.
At this point, John finally remembered. At the beginning, the army really didn't buy it, but gave it away! 200,000 marks of sulfonamides and local anesthetics were sent to the warehouses of the German Army as trial supplies, and the Count of Gwenther had promised to purchase them in large quantities for a long time if the effect was really good.
For Heinz Pharmaceuticals, this is a real big customer!
Of course, Mr. Brister was also very aware of this, and his expression immediately became excited, and he nodded again and again: "Haha, this is a great thing, with the current scale of the German Army, this purchase volume must not be small......"
In 1888, the German Army had more than half a million people in peacetime!
In fact, by the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the German army had exceeded 400,000 men, and with the end of the war, the size of the army was not only reduced, but even expanded year by year. The year before last, the War Office increased the number of troops to 500,000 on the grounds of the expansion of the French Army, and the scale will be further expanded after the approval of the French army expansion plan next year......
How much medicine is needed for a huge army of five or six hundred thousand?
You know, in the past two decades, the German Army's military spending has more than doubled, and the military spending has properly exceeded 100 million US dollars, and even a small amount of money to purchase Heinz pharmaceutical drugs is probably enough to increase their sales by a large chunk. After all, the pricing of local anesthetics and sulfonamides is really high, and many people can't afford to use them at all, and with the increase in factory capacity, now Nicklaus is already thinking about price reductions.
But now, if not the poorly paid army is involved......
After John digested the news a little, Nicklaus nodded and said excitedly: "Therefore, we must be very cautious this time, because once the German Army really includes our products in the standing supplies and purchases them every year, the armies of all Europe are likely to follow up immediately, and when the time comes...... Mr. Huntelaar, I'm already worried about our capacity! ”
"Huh? Is it? ”
After opening his mouth in surprise, John immediately understood what Nicklaus meant.
After defeating the powerful France, the current German Army has faintly possessed the title of the world's first army, and many countries are learning from them openly and secretly. If the War Department starts procuring sulfonamides and local anesthetics, coupled with their excellent therapeutic effects, I am afraid that many countries that are still waiting and watching will immediately come to the door.
This is just like the marketing promotion of those pharmaceutical companies in the future, always focusing resources on those hospitals with great influence, as long as they are conquered, they can naturally influence a large number of hospitals and doctors. It's just that in this era, the German Army found Heinz Pharmaceutical on its own, and their influence would inadvertently bring benefits to John and them.
So with the current production capacity of Heinz Pharmaceutical, I'm afraid it's really worrying!
However, this kind of worry is probably the sweetest worry for the four people in the room, and Mr. Brister hurriedly said: "John, this is an absolutely good opportunity, I am afraid that you really need to come forward in person." And I suggest that we either continue to expand production capacity, or open branches in other countries, in short, we must start preparing for ......" (to be continued......