Chapter 899: Miraculous Penicillin
The prisoner of war camp has been relatively normalized, under the premise of being familiar with the climate, water and soil, the sickness rate has been greatly reduced, the name of sulfonamide has begun to spread throughout the barracks, this kind of medicine that is only circulated among the high-level and wealthy classes in the West has been taken out casually by the northwest and given to them to use, which is a kind of luck, the day before because of bacterial infection, the high fever does not go away, but it is more simple than sulfonamide cured, quickly from a weak state, back to a normal state, not only can carry out some more heavy physical labor, There is not much difference from before, which makes many prisoners of war feel the miracle of medicine in the northwest, and they also have a sense of identity with this work.
The conditions in the whole desert area are somewhat harsh, in the north, the cold snap in Siberia often has a very direct impact here, the temperature quickly drops to more than ten degrees below zero, and the most important thing is that the flu that comes with the cold snap makes a large area of the prisoner of war camp sick.
Jerry was sick for the second time, the last time he got sick was a month ago, when he had a high fever, he almost felt that he was about to return to the arms of God, luck came, the Chinese came up with a very expensive, more expensive than gold medicine, directly and simply cured his illness, originally thought that it would take weeks, or even months to heal the disease, actually within a week.
But the good times didn't last long, this time the flu, Jerry still didn't get through it, his body was still a little weaker, and he still got sick and had a fever again.
After being physically cooled down, Jerry, who was rushed to the town, still remained conscious. He saw a man in a white lab coat and a mask. Came in with the case and seemed to flip through it casually. Then, what was said, it was all in Chinese, he couldn't understand it, he just understood one word B, and the others couldn't understand it, what was B, and whether he could live in the end.
Jerry felt a wave of fatigue hit him and became drowsy. In a drowsy state, a nurse was seen taking out a drip, then pumping a white powder into a bottle of liquid, and then starting an intravenous drip on him.
Jerry knew about intravenous drips and had even helped patients use them, but he didn't know until he knew that he was going to be better with tablets. It was a very precious sulfonamide, and even the small clinic in his hometown did not have much stock, and at that time, he used up at least 50 tablets of sulfonamide in a week. That's worth £50 in the UK.
But this time, it was also a fever. It's the same cold, and the other party didn't use sulfonamides. Why is sulfonamide not used, is it impossible to swallow. Sulfonamide is a tablet, his respiratory tract has been unable to swallow, but can be crushed and swallowed, not only for his respiratory tract, but also easy to heal, at most two or three days, can be cured, is the Chinese have lost patience, let him go with the flow.
The small clinic in his hometown, for patients who suffer from severe colds and fevers, will use some physical cooling, and by the way, inject normal saline with intravenous drip method, and then resign himself to fate, will he also suffer such a result?
Fatigue hits, Jerry falls asleep, and at this time, the doctor and nurse carefully observe the illness and then make a series of records. In the doctor's record, it is clearly written that this is a typical bacterial infection cold, named as type B bacterial infection influenza by the northwest, this kind of influenza infection is extremely infectious, concentrated living prisoners of war, is the place where the flu outbreak is concentrated, the prisoner of war camp can not be changed, it is naturally insufficient in this regard, can only be prevented and rescued as much as possible.
This time the flu outbreak was very sudden, with at least 30,000 infections in a short period of time, and more than 3,000 severe patients. When 1,000 units of penicillin and saline were injected into the bodies of these critically ill patients, almost most of the prisoners of war were quieted down and turned to safety.
To some extent, these penicillins are still experimental products, these British prisoners of war are mice, but in this era when bacteria are not resistant, the effect of this thing is surprisingly good, almost all of the prisoners of war infected with influenza B recovered within two days,
When Jerry woke up the next day, he felt comfortable all over his body, the swelling of the throat tube had disappeared without a trace, this speed was too fast, the speed of sulfonamide was excellent, but the throat would still be uncomfortable the next day, and it would be better on the third day, it would take several days to heal, he vaguely remembered the scene before going to bed yesterday, he was very sure that the doctor took out not a tablet, but an intravenous infusion, it seemed that before the intravenous infusion, some white powder was injected into the potion, What is that powder, is it a new drug, or is it a concentrated powder of sulfonamides?
Before joining the army, Jerry was an apprentice in a clinic for 2 years, originally, after 7 years, he would have become a doctor, get a stable career, and make a fortune, but he could have enough status, but unfortunately this damn war, as a part of the unemployed, he was almost the first to be enlisted in the army, all the way down, he was captured in a daze, and then sent to the Far East, how long has it been now, he has been sick twice, God knows how much pain will be there next, or he will not be able to endure it.
Although Jerry is worried about the future, he is more interested in the white powder, why the effect is so good, if, if he can get these white powders, at least he can go back to become a famous doctor, if he can have this medicine, at least in the common disease of colds, he will have excellent results, just that, he can make a lot of money.
I have to say that the first appearance of penicillin is a perfect, fast and stable effect, a total of 30,000 people, more than 3,000 seriously ill patients of the large-scale flu, in the end there was not even a single death, the number of patients before is much smaller than now, but 11 died, many of them are because the effect of sulfonamide did not play quickly, in the process of fighting with bacteria, bacteria took the first step to take life.
Five days later, when the last critically ill patient left the hospital and was declared cured, the whole hospital was jubilant, and penicillin conquered everyone with its practical effect, including some doctors who were very superstitious about the efficacy of sulfonamides, and they began to face up to the drug that was taken out and used by the Northwest government, and the effect of this drug should be stronger than sulfonamides.
For the friendship hospital, the biggest gain is the more than 3,000 specimens observed in all directions. From the initial pre-illness blood draw, to the illness, after the illness, all the blood samples have been studied in an all-round way, all kinds of data have been recorded, handed over to the institute for further research, everything about penicillin will be gradually revealed in front of more and more specimens and records.
The doctor in charge, after comparing many specimens, also found that the dose of 1,000 units, to a certain extent, is slightly too much, under the condition of confirming safety, they began to gradually reduce the dose, a large number of patients, especially the same type of viral infection, a lot of research data can be obtained for the first time, researchers also boldly reduce the dose step by step, and finally reduced to 350 units, such a drug effect, can ensure that most ordinary patients, can be cured in the fastest time, Reduce the dosage, and some severe patients can also get a proper reduction, up to 2 times, and they can be cured.
Just the first time I entered the prisoner of war camp, I got a good practical research result, which is more or less, beyond everyone's expectations, from this day on, these people are rooted in the northwest, what is more than more experimenters and data, more excellent research places, penicillin is a drug, in the laboratory, just monotonous research, this is one aspect, and the effect on the human body, even after the effect on the human body, the mechanism of penicillin can be shown from another direction, The properties of penicillin were inferred and even had an impact on the production and manufacture of penicillin.
Next, the hospital got normal development, because of the pathological experiment of penicillin, so that the situation of prisoners of war, got the attention of the central government, at a higher level, the northwest began to pay attention to the situation of prisoners of war, in most cases, let them step by step, dispatch and work, not so direct pressure, and even in some more harsh climatic conditions, such as snowstorms and extremely low temperatures, you can choose to stop working, so that the body of the prisoners of war is guaranteed.
This kind of preferential treatment, compared with the previous situation and the consciousness of the prisoners of war themselves, is absolutely heaven and earth, including John, the British army also understood that their safety is guaranteed, as long as they work hard, after the end of the war, under the situation of the prisoners of war issue discussed, they will naturally be able to go back, but it promotes the continuation of the project, and all aspects of the indicators are better completed after resting.
Most of the prisoners of war, including the sick prisoners of war, did not realize how powerful the effect of penicillin was, nor did they realize that they had become guinea pigs, and the huge prisoner base and the changeable environment in winter made the cumulative use of penicillin as high as 450,000 in just a few months, which accounted for almost one-fifth of the total number of prisoners of war, not to mean that one-fifth were sick, and many of them were weak, even two, three, or four times, but because of the appearance of penicillin, The mortality rate has also been reduced to a negligible degree, and the breadth and effect of penicillin are far from being comparable to sulfonamides, and it has become a miracle medicine in friendship hospitals and prisoner of war camps.
The huge amount of use, hundreds of thousands of skin tests and uses, not only let doctors and researchers, see the broad effect of penicillin, especially a lot of pathological data of the human body, millions, in the hard work and relatively harsh environment of the experimenter, the broad research object, which is a great step forward for the study of penicillin, it took less than 2 months to complete the pathological test, and began to officially launch the finished product. (To be continued......)