The so-called A1 drug is a variant of sulfonamides. As a broad-spectrum antibacterial drug, sulfonamide drugs have many advantages, but there is one disadvantage that is also very obvious, that is, it is very easy to develop resistance. In the early years, when Scrooge "invented" this drug, the products that were pushed out, their current efficacy is not much worse than that of the early ones. Fortunately, there are also a lot of other sulfonamide-based compounds, most of which also have good antimicrobial effects. Of course, due to the difference in chemistry and ingredients, the effect and adverse reactions of drugs will also be different, which requires a large number of experiments to obtain various data.

Most of the drugs sent here have been tested on animals. This means that these drugs already have the characteristics of obvious efficacy and low adverse reactions, at least in mice used for preliminary experiments and pigs used for further experiments. Scrooge knew from the knowledge of later generations that among all kinds of animals, except for those of the primates, the animal that is genetically closest to humans is almost a pig. Considering the number of primates, the difficulties of breeding, and the most fundamental problem that this entailed, the high cost, Scrooge chose to use pigs as an experimental species for further screening.

Scrooge owns the largest pig farm in the United States, and it is much cheaper to experiment with pigs produced from 163 pig farms. And, there are some other benefits to doing so. First of all, this is equivalent to the development of drugs suitable for human beings at the same time, but also in the development of drugs that can be used for pigs, many in the third stage, that is, the human trial stage was rejected and eliminated drugs turned into livestock drugs, of course, there are also patients and sick pigs are using drugs, there are many such drugs, but when they are on the market, for different treatment objects, each took a different name.

Moreover, pigs, which are laboratory animals, can be recycled after the experiment compared to mice. After the experiment, the pigs are full of treasures, the bristles can be used as brushes, the pig skin can be used as various leather goods, and the use of pork is naturally not to mention. So the use of pigs as test specimens in the test was hardly a loss to MacDonald. This alone can save MacDonald a lot of costs.

After these two steps, in general, the probability of these drugs being dangerous is greatly reduced. As far as the A1 drug used now is concerned, because it is a sulfonamide drug, the efficacy may not be particularly good, at least compared to the C-class drug that the company is still secretly developing and testing, its efficacy will be much worse. However, years of experience in the development of sulfonamides also ensure that the drug is not too dangerous. Unlike class C drugs, there can be very fatal allergic reactions.

Now this patient is the first patient in the hospital, and of course it is necessary to ensure his safety as much as possible, which is the first step to open up the market in China. Therefore, Dr. McMillan chose to use the safer type A1 medication.

Perhaps because Western medicine is less used in the East, the resistance of the bacteria here is not obvious. The A1 drug had a very good effect on that patient, and the patient himself was in good health, so after only five or six days, the patient could be discharged home.

This case is very convincing, and Shi Scrooge is willing to pay for publicity, so some newspapers in Hangzhou are full of reports such as "Hua Tuo's miraculous skills have reappeared" and "incurable diseases are instantly cured". Although these reports did not immediately improve the business of Salvation Hospital, at least the reputation of Salvation Hospital, at least in the field of surgery, spread.

Mr. McMillan opened a column in Hangzhou to popularize the causes, symptoms, harms, and treatment methods of a series of common diseases, such as smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough, meningitis, poliomyelitis, schistosomiasis, and so on. These texts were first written in English by Mr. McMillan, and then translated into Chinese by Zhou Shuren.

Although the knowledge advertised in this is really difficult for most readers, especially those who have only received a traditional Chinese education, it is really difficult for them to understand that even if they look at the pictures accompanying the newspapers, it is difficult for them to explain the causes of a disease and give a treatment plan without starting from the five elements of yin and yang.

But this kind of propaganda is still very useful, and that is that some people in Hangzhou know that there are some diseases, especially those for which Chinese medicine has almost no solution, and now at least some people claim to be treatable.

Since then, Salvation Hospital has continued to admit more patients, most of whom are seriously ill and almost on the verge of death. So much so that Macmillan lamented that he seemed to have suddenly returned to the days of his father and even his grandfather decades ago. Because it was only in that era that the proportion of critically ill patients in hospitals was so high.

Of the patients admitted in the first month, only about half survived, and if this had happened in the afterlife, it is estimated that the Salvation Hospital would have been smashed to pieces by angry patients' families and others who made a living from it, and the desk of the director, Dr. McMillan, must have been piled up with court summonses.

However, in this day and age, they don't know how to worry about such problems. Because in this day and age, people are really used to seeing people who are sick and dying. Getting sick and then dying is the norm in this day and age, and no one makes a fuss, not even the family members of the patients. At the same time, people in this era have very low expectations for doctors, and they generally do not demand that doctors must be able to cure diseases. In addition, these patients who were sent to the Salvation Hospital, in fact, when they arrived, the family members were already prepared that they would die of illness in a short time. So when the patient dies, everyone thinks that the hospital can't blame the doctor, and once the patient is cured, they will think that the doctor in the hospital is really amazing.

In this way, the Salvation Hospital quickly became famous, at least, now in the city of Hangzhou, everyone knows that there is such a hospital, and they all know that although this hospital has a little more terrifying methods - often disemboweling people, but it is the most capable of treating some dangerous diseases that can kill people. Even some old Chinese medicine doctors sometimes mention this hospital to the patient's family: "The old man has tried his best, but this disease is really dangerous, and he may have to try his luck at the Salvation Hospital." ”

Of course, the best news for Salvation Hospital is that it makes them feel less hesitant to use those experimental drugs.

As Salvation Hospital began to gain a foothold, the enrollment of Salvation Medical College was also smoothly implemented.

The people who come to the Salvation Medical College to sign up for study can basically be divided into two categories, one is the people of the Salvation Society, the Restoration Society takes this opportunity to send these people over, and use this as a base to make relevant preparations before the uprising, and the other group is some students who want to study medicine abroad, for them, it is a good choice to study in the Salvation Medical College for a period of time, and then go to the United States or Europe or even Japan to study. And what is more beneficial to some of the secret activities behind the Salvation Medical College is that the Restoration Society, through Xu Xilin's connections, has made the Anhui New Army under construction use this place as one of its military doctor training sites. In this way, a lot of military-related things can be carried out.

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"Mr. Zhou, we will have a batch of important items delivered to the academy tonight." Dr. McMillan said to Zhou Shuren, "These things will be sent to the underground warehouse overnight. You know, for the sake of secrecy, we can't hire a general porter for the things that are moving. So I might have to trouble you and our other comrades to be porters together. ”

"What is it? Is it a weapon? Zhou Shuren's eyes widened suddenly.

"Zhou, you know discipline, there are some things I can't say." Dr. McMillan replied, "But even if it is, it doesn't mean anything. You get the idea. ”

"yes, I understand." Zhou Shuren sighed, he knew that the uprising was definitely not that early. In its original history, the Liberation Society hastily revolted in 1907, and as a result, almost all of its troops were wiped out. And one of the major reasons for this evil result is that there are informants. Today, the main leaders of the Restoration Society have received a certain degree of training in secrecy. In addition, a disciplinary system on confidentiality and crisis response measures have been initially established. In this, the most important thing is that in some important departments, a single-line contact method is adopted, and the information that can be understood by individuals in each link is relatively carefully regulated. In this way, even if one or two people fell into the hands of the Manchus for some reason, they would not be able to explain the entire Liberation Society in one go. In this way, the Liberation Council will have enough time to deal with these crises.

In addition, in the original history, the revolutionary parties, including the Liberation Society, were quite hasty in preparing for the revolution, and one of the reasons for this situation was of course the organizational ability of the revolutionary parties themselves, but on the other hand, there was another reason that could not be ignored. That is, their economy is completely dependent on donations from overseas, and the patience of these financiers has always been not very good. But today, the MacDonald consortium has no such problem. So, the real uprising is still early, and even if some guns are brought in now, the number will be very limited.