Chapter 217: Isoniazid

"I heard that the envoy is Ito, why didn't he come?" , Li Hui's question made the two of them a little surprised, but they didn't have time to care whether Li Hui had seen Ito Hirofumi's photo or speculated only based on the age and figure of the two, so they could only answer honestly, "Ito-kun is an envoy with illness, and I don't want my condition to suddenly worsen and can't come, so I ask Party Leader Li to forgive me." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Hui didn't receive the report from the guest house, so he immediately guessed that the Japanese mission didn't say anything, and couldn't help frowning slightly, "I need to see a doctor if I'm sick!" Why didn't you say it to the people at the guest house? ”

"Ito-kun has an incurable disease, tuberculosis." , Sheng Haizhou replied with some embarrassment.

"Tuberculosis?" , This made Li Hui a little surprised, Ito Hirobumi had never had this disease in history, and after asking, he learned that it was the blow of the Jianghua Bay naval defeat that was too big and his body was weak after falling ill, and he was infected with this disease again, and he couldn't help but sigh again about the butterfly effect......

"What stage has it been?" , Li Hui immediately asked, this is not only to show concern for Ito Hirobumi, but also because tuberculosis is an infectious disease, if it is in the stage of strong contagion, he has to notify the guest house to do a good job of epidemic prevention.

Sheng Haizhou replied honestly, "I have a fever, night sweats, coughing up blood, and my body is very weak, but there are also factors of fatigue from the journey, so I should be able to meet you tomorrow." ”

"It's the time when it's the most contagious, and you didn't even say it, do you know that this disease is contagious? What if someone at the guest house is infected by Ito because they have not done a good job of epidemic prevention? Li Hui was angry, pointed at Sheng Haizhou and scolded, although his heart was like an iron stone, if there was really no way, he could bear the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of millions or even more people, but the death that could have been avoided, even one would make him feel sad.

However, Katsu Haizhou and Fukushima Yasumasa were confused, and Li Hui realized that tuberculosis may not have been found to be contagious (in fact, the contagiousness of tuberculosis was already known in ancient China, but its transmission route was not discovered until 1897, and it was impossible to prevent it effectively). Fortunately, he is not out of the way to explain this common-sense error.

"It seems that I overestimated the level of medicine in the West, and I always thought that they had discovered it." , Li Hui was glad again that he did not pretend to be a foreigner, and now, he only needs to throw a copy of the just-published "A Brief History of Momen" to the two of them, and hand them a thin copy of the "Datong Party Party Program".

"Since we want to talk about peace, we must have at least the most basic understanding between each other, you should take a look at this first, and after you have a certain understanding of our Datong Party, it is more appropriate for us to talk again tomorrow." , Li Hui smiled again and said to the two, "Just let the doctor diagnose and treat Ito, we now have a special drug for tuberculosis, although it cannot be said that it can be cured 100%, but according to the results of the clinical trials that have been completed so far, the cure rate is at least more than 80%, and it is not impossible to ...... more than 90%."

"There is such a miracle medicine?" , Sheng Haizhou and Fukushima Yasuma glanced at each other, and what they saw were shocked and incredulous expressions, tuberculosis is one of the most life-threatening diseases in the world today, known as the "white plague", Li Hui actually said that there is a special medicine with a cure rate of up to eighty or ninety? How is this possible?

However, now that he has asked for help, it is really difficult to refuse Li Hui's kindness, and there is also the idea of "a dead horse as a live horse doctor", Ito Hirobumi finally agreed to the Datong Party to send a doctor to treat him after learning about this. Of course, this is also because he now knows that tuberculosis is transmitted through droplets, and he is in the most contagious stage, so it is impossible to interview Li Hui to complete the original mission, so he can only entrust everything to Sheng Haizhou and Fukushima Yasumasa......

To Ito's relief, but it also affected his confidence, the doctor's prescription was only one seemingly inconspicuous pill, called "antituberculosis pill", which can be taken orally, without more advanced injections and infusions, and it is not the kind of Western medicine tablet with clear ingredients. But after he took it, the effect of the medicine was immediate, and within a few days, Ito Hirofumi's condition improved significantly, which made him, who has always admired the West, start to re-examine the value of historical legacies like traditional Chinese medicine, but he never thought that this pill was just a mask method deliberately made by Li Hui, and the ingredient that really cured tuberculosis was actually a chemical synthetic drug - isoniazid......

As a college student majoring in biochemistry and pharmacy, Li Hui had thought about making some modern drugs as early as the beginning of the crossing, but there were no conditions for industrial production at that time, and it was not until the completion of the Laizhou Pharmaceutical Factory a month ago that Li Hui began to try to take out the precious knowledge in his memory to benefit the people.

Penicillin was the first to come to mind, but because it involves the breeding of strains, it takes a long time to study slowly, and it is impossible to produce results quickly, so although the project was first established because of the low threshold of the fermenter, it is still very early to succeed.

In contrast, although the production of isoniazid, a chemical synthetic drug, requires higher equipment conditions, because the upstream chemical raw materials can be directly produced by the system (isoniazid itself cannot be produced, because it is ahead of the times and is not on the science and technology tree. Therefore, it greatly saves time, but realizes industrial production faster than penicillin, and the so-called clinical trial is just a process.

Although the scope of application is far less widespread than penicillin, and it can only treat one disease, the significance of isoniazid appearing half a century earlier is not much smaller than that of penicillin (only the drug itself, not counting the inspiration of penicillin for drug development). Because the disease it can cure is tuberculosis that everyone has to say!

According to the prevalence rate of non-governmental sample surveys, the number of tuberculosis patients in China alone will not be less than 10 million, and considering that tuberculosis patients are extremely difficult to recover, the vast majority of these people will inevitably die, which is almost the same as the number of people killed in the First World War.

Moreover, for those poor families, getting tuberculosis is actually more terrible than dying directly, because contracting tuberculosis means losing the ability to work, if it is a young and strong labor force in the family, the cut off of economic resources can directly destroy a family, and if a young person dies early, it may cut off the hope of a family.

Therefore, Li Hui can save not only many patients now and in the next half century, but also their families, and the number of people saved is only tens of millions...... (To be continued.) )