CHAPTER XLIV. 1886

John has a very special affection for the University of Berlin and Charlotte Hospital.

A few years ago, when Johann left the North American continent for Europe, choosing a country and university to study at, he didn't hesitate to settle on the universities of Germany and Berlin. Because in this era, the center of medical education in the world is in Europe, and the center of medical education in Europe has moved from France to Germany, among which the University of Berlin is one of the leaders.

So no matter what you think about, Johan's choice of the University of Berlin is the best outcome.

Even though he is a traverser, if he wants to take out the knowledge in his mind, John still needs many necessary conditions, such as the necessary learning process, such as perfect research equipment and equipment, and enough high-level subordinates!

These necessary conditions can only be met if you come to Germany.

Unlike inventing things such as batteries and light bulbs, since John chose to become a physician again, he must go through the motions strictly, otherwise he will be able to throw out a bunch of medical theories that European bulls can't understand in the future after two years of medical school in North America, and everyone knows that there must be a problem. Medicine is, after all, a systematic science, and it's not as simple as inventing something like a light bulb that can fool the past.

Moreover, the most advanced educational concepts, the best talents, this era is only available in Europe.

In addition to being a physician, John will inevitably have to intervene in medical education in the future, and if he needs to "learn" advanced educational concepts such as clinical or practical rooms, he will have to come to Europe. For example, the Hopkins University School of Medicine, which was established a few years later, almost copied the German education model, thus opening the way for medical education in the United States to take off. In addition, medical research, including pharmaceutical-related chemistry, is also recruiting more people to Germany. If he had stayed in North America, he would not have even been able to recruit enough chemists, at least not in recent years, otherwise Heinz would have been based in New York instead of Berlin......

In a word, the reason why I stayed at the University of Berlin in the first place and chose to stay at Charlotte Hospital for two years after graduation. John had a strong purpose.

But nearly four years later, John has developed feelings for the school and Charlotte Hospital.

For any ordinary person, getting along for a long time will produce a certain feeling, not to mention that John has a great respect for the University of Berlin and Charlotte Hospital, even if he has a knowledge system that is more than 100 years ahead in his mind, it still can't erase the contribution made by this university and this hospital in history!

So before leaving Europe, John wanted to leave as much as he could.

In addition to world-leading surgical sterilization concepts and local anesthesia techniques, John also left behind the groundbreaking appendectomy technique and, of course, the planned modified Bi 1 and Bi 2 surgeries. With this trip to Vienna. John had good reason to leave the two modified procedures to the Charlotte Hospital Surgeon, which is why he asked that Mr. Hunt be joined in addition to Thomas.

Bergman, of course, understood this, so he agreed without hesitation.

So in the early summer of 1886, John stayed in Berlin honestly, and devoted his main energy and time back to the surgical building of Charlotte Hospital, which seemed to fall silent again......

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Just as John was leading Thomas and Hunter and others to make preparations for the modified surgeries of Bi 1 and Bi 2. His grandfather, Huntelaar Sr., was not idle, and Mr. Brister went to Heinz almost every day for a spin.

This company has only been born for half a year. There are so many surprises for them.

Sure enough, as Hoffman assured, only half a month after lidocaine was put into production, another local anesthetic drug, procaine, was successfully developed by chemists to produce on a large scale, and because the technology is more mature and the cost is lower, the ex-factory price of procaine is only 12 marks, which is exactly one-third cheaper than 18 marks of lidocaine!

As soon as the news broke. Orders poured in.

In John's original plan, he did not plan to make money in the first six months after the new product was launched, and basically gave it to doctors in various countries for trial, but in fact, only a month after aspirin and sulfonamides were on the market, they began to receive surprising large orders. In particular, in Germany, where the base camp is located, many university hospitals have almost just completed the trial and immediately began to buy these expensive new drugs in large quantities. Not to mention the fact that John published the preparation process of the real yàn room in the magazine, and the two local anesthetic drugs that have already begun to be popularized in university hospitals.

So at the end of June 1886, the elder Huntelaar was shocked to find that the monthly sales of Heinz Pharmaceutical Company exceeded 500,000 marks!

70,000 vials of aspirin, more than 10,000 vials of sulfonamides and nearly 5,000 vials of local anesthetics!

The ex-factory price of aspirin is 3 marks, the ex-factory price of a bottle of sulfonamide and lidocaine is as high as 18 marks, plus 12 marks of procaine, the high price made Heinz Pharmaceutical Company achieve an overall profit in June! Even though it now has to feed nearly 500 chemists and workers, and has to bear tens of thousands of marks a month in research and development, as well as all sorts of other costs, it was still profitable at the end of June - even if the final figure was just over 1,000 marks!

"God!"

When they saw this number, the eyes of old Huntelaar and Brister almost popped out!

No one thought that the profit of Heinz Pharmaceutical Company would come so early, only two months slower than Heinz Medical Device Company, you know, although Heinz Medical Device Company was built much earlier, but because the scale of production continues to expand, the number of people is also increasing, and the surgical instruments are not without competitors, so it was not until April that it turned a profit and began to enter the channel of making money.

Heinz Pharmaceutical's cousin, which made Brister secretly frightened, also made old Huntelaar finally make up his mind......

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1886 was a relatively quiet year at the end of the turbulent 19th century.

The British are still enjoying the fruits of their pioneering progress for hundreds of years and gradually falling behind in the new industrial revolution, the Germans are forging ahead and beginning to move towards an era of glory and ruin, while the Americans who will dominate the next century are still ignorant, looking at Europe while developing their own industries.

But for medicine, 1886 was an absolutely special year!

In this year, a group of surgeons centered on the Charlotte Hospital of the University of Berlin in Germany began to perfect the rigorous surgical disinfection technique, they began to use local anesthetics for local infiltration anesthesia and neuraxial anesthesia, and then began to use standardized operations to complete abdominal surgery......

In this day and age, surgeons are trying to open all the cavities and gaps in the human body, but the backward knowledge and technology make these attempts dangerous, and only abdominal surgery starting from the surgical building of Charlotte Hospital is relatively safe, thus becoming a beacon for surgeons to move forward!

Outside of the surgical field, there are even more striking discoveries.

Aspirin, the medicine of the century, finally stepped onto the stage of history with the same name, and the three sulfonamides appeared in front of the world fifty years in advance, sounding the clarion call for human beings to take the initiative to fight bacteria!

Although in this era, it takes at least ten days to cross the Atlantic, the rudimentary telephone has just entered people's lives, and the cable telegraph is expensive and not everyone can afford it, but whether it is surgical sterilization, local anesthesia or appendectomy and other surgical techniques, or the latest drugs such as aspirin, sulfonamide or lidocaine, they have slowly but surely spread to all corners of the world!

Along with them, there is also the name of a person.

John. Huntelaar!

In 1886, many people began to marvel at this name, but I am afraid that no one could imagine what this name meant for the entire history of medicine, and no one could imagine what the year 1886 meant for the entire history of medicine...... (To be continued......)