Chapter 107: Dashang Medicine
Tang Shaoyi, who called Wang Yi, is now a long-sleeved and good dancing character among foreigners. However, following his master Zhao Liewen every day, coupled with the influence of Wang Minyun's old conspirators, I am afraid it is difficult to be classified as a good citizen of An.
"German scientists visit the Wèn group?" Wang Yi was a little puzzled, he didn't remember such a thing.
"Chairman, wasn't you invited before?"
"I invited?"
"Yes, it's Farben Industries in Germany." Tang Shaoyi said with a smile.
Farben Industries, the German Bayer, currently produces coal tar derivatives, or more precisely, the production of dyes as the company's main business. The founders were Friedrich Bayer and Johann Friedrich Westcott. After their deaths, Friedrich Bayer's son-in-law Karl Lempf took over the helm of the company, and the company was moved to the town of Elberfeld.
In 1881, a year after Bayer's death, the company sold its shares publicly for the first time due to the decline in sales of its products, and officially changed its name to "Farben Industries" (formerly Friedrich 61 Bayer AG), or Dyestuff Industries. The company hired a number of university-educated researchers to develop new dyes, and although Lempf paid a high price for them, almost none of them brought new products to the company. At this time, they received an invitation letter from Dashang Coal Chemical, hoping that they could come to Dashang to visit Wèn. Although he didn't know the specific intentions of Dashang, Carl still accepted the invitation very happily, after all, Dashang Coal Chemical now has a great reputation.
"You tell me that Bayer is not finished!" Wang Yiqi said. "Isn't it nonsense to call a German scientist to visit the WÈN group?"
Tang Shaoyi didn't care, and still said with a hippie smile: "Chairman, what do you think, if we say that it is Bayer's visit to the WÈN group." What kind of momentum this has, no one at Bayer knows. If we call them a group of German scientists, what do the British think, what do the Americans think, what do other countries think? ”
"You mean to make a name for ourselves in disguise?"
"Of course!"
"Then let's do it!" Wang Yi understood Tang Shaoyi's goods, and planned to advertise them in disguise.
"When will you meet you?"
"Tomorrow night."
When it comes to Bayer, Wang Yi first thinks of aspirin, and the second thing that comes to mind is ...... Heroin ...... Then, there are all kinds of items and instruments used in their oral systems.
Just two years ago, the various medicines that Wang Yi had brought with him from the afterlife gradually expired, and he suddenly found that the world had become extremely dangerous. So he began to recruit people from various countries to engage in the research and development of various after-market drugs, first of all, aspirin.
Nowadays, Western medicine uses compound drugs with antipyretic functions including: salicylic acid, quinine, and antipyrine. Although these three are effective and widely used, they have significant side effects.
Wang Yi has a lot of information about pharmaceutical technology in his hands, and he himself is a medical background, although he did not graduate from a professional pharmaceutical university, but there is a wide correlation between the two. Therefore, compared with other industries, Wang Yi has a unique advantage in the pharmaceutical field.
In about eight months, acetylsalicylic acid, or aspirin, was developed and can be produced on a small scale. Wang Yi didn't change the name of the trade for it, mainly because he was used to it.
After aspirin, Wang Yi began to produce antibiotics, the most representative of which is penicillin. However, due to equipment and technology reasons, Dashang Pharmaceutical is currently unable to produce semi-synthetic penicillin, and can only produce natural penicillin.
The first batch of penicillin was produced just three months ago, and its potency completely shocked all the relevant researchers in Dashang Pharmaceutical, who affectionately called penicillin the golden medicine. This is the core secret of Dashang Pharmaceutical, which has reached the top secret level.
Although penicillin has been produced, because of the small production and some small defects in the process, it has not been sold to the public for the time being.
In contrast to Dashang Pharmaceutical, Wang Yi also established a Dashang vaccine company. At that time, many of the technologies in it were only possible in the next decade of this era. For example, solid medium, striping, separation, purebred, and so on. Today, the company has been able to produce cholera vaccines, swine erysipelas, anthrax, and rabies vaccines. Serum anti-drug therapy is now being used to develop and produce a diphtheria-pertussis vaccine for future generations.
So far, none of the above drugs Wang Yi has been exported to the outside world, and the reason is very simple, buying drugs is far more difficult than he originally thought.
Take, for example, the U.S. market.
It is a trade association of American doctors, called the American Medical Association. In the entire medical industry in the United States, this association is in power, and in the eyes of Wang Yi, a pharmaceutical company, it seems more appropriate for this group of people to be called evil associations. If Wang Yi were to sell aspirin in the United States, no matter how effective his drug would be, the side effects would be small. If Wang Yi can't give enough benefits to the American Medical Association, but sells it in the U.S. market without their consent, it is guaranteed that within half a year, aspirin will become a banned drug, and doctors in the United States will not prescribe this drug to patients.
Then there is the production of counterfeit and shoddy drugs, don't look at Wang Yi's own drugs, they are not his own inventions, but in this way he knows the danger of copycats. It is likely that Bayer would not have been able to become the Bayer of future generations without aspirin. Wang Yi also understands that he has applied for a US patent, but it is impossible to say that there are no counterfeit and shoddy products. Bayer encountered such a situation back then, and because of the cumbersome legal process in the United States, even the patent was about to expire after a lawsuit. Later, they simply abandoned the investigation of the counterfeiting dens and directly began to file lawsuits against pharmacies that sold counterfeit aspirin. In this way, the agent bought 60 boxes of aspirin at pharmacies across the United States, of which 16 boxes were fake, and the counterfeit rate was 27%. But even with such a tragic figure, Bayer was still overjoyed, which shows that counterfeit drugs were rampant at that time.
If you can pass these two levels, then the last point, which is also the point that determines the final success or failure of your company, is when the drug patent right is about to expire after the end of all kinds of messy lawsuits. If your drug hasn't been able to make a deep enough impression on the majority of consumers. And when other pharmaceutical companies are copying your products one after another. You are likely to find that your invention is in vain and that you are just making a wedding dress for someone else.
That's how tragedy happened!
Medicine has nothing to do with money, it has to do with advertising and public awareness, and the latter two are the real sources of money.
Now the medical school finally has its first affiliated hospital, which is mainly based on traditional Chinese medicine and supplemented by Western medicine. However, under normal circumstances, unless it is a traumatic patient or an acute patient, all surgeries need to wait for Wang Yi's personal approval before they can be performed.
Of course, compared with Wang Yidang's era, Western medicine has been substantially improved, not only with X-ray machines, but also with some basic drugs. However, compared with later generations, electrocardiogram, CT, b-ultrasound, and nuclear magnetic resonance, even if the Dashang Industrial Laboratory has begun to develop, if there are samples that can come out later, Wang Yi will be satisfied.
There wasn't much to talk about the meeting with Bayer. Dashang Coal Chemical signed certain joint development agreements with it for coal tar derivatives, and Dashang Silver Furnace also brought money to Bayer, and at the same time purchased a 25% stake in Bayer. Karl Lempf was very satisfied, and of course, he paid the price for the formulation and production of many of the company's dyes. In this regard, Wang Hand does not have a lot of information, and the agreement between the two parties can be regarded as making up for the gaps in some areas of big business.
Bayer was joined by a German named Robert Koch.
Koch, born in 1843. In 1866 he graduated from the University of Göttingen in Germany with a doctorate in medicine and in 1869 passed the examination for the magistrate. After his marriage in 1870, Koch went to Wolstein, a small village in East Prussia, to work as a surgeon, where he established a rudimentary chamber where he worked for many years on pathogenic microorganisms. Koch began his research on anthrax without scientific equipment, access to libraries, or contact with other researchers. His real room was in his home, and his scientific equipment, except for the microscope given to him by his wife, was something he managed to solve himself. In 1876 he went to Breslau for three days to prove that Bacillus anthracis was the cause of anthrax in a public performance, and reported that the life history of the anthrax bacterium was a cycle of bacilli-spores-bacilli, and that the spores could be left for a long time without dying. He believed that every disease has a certain pathogenic bacteria, which corrected the view that all bacteria were one species, and thus gave rise to the study of the origin of diseases. In 1880 he began working for the German Health Agency.
Because it may be Wang Yi's academic yearning, after receiving the letter of joining from Wang Yi to him, he still resigned from his good job at the German Health Agency and followed Bayer to Dashang, where he was having a pleasant conversation with Wang Yi in a corner of the dinner party.
Originally, Wang Yi also wanted to invite Louis Pasteur, a few French microbiologists and chemists respected by him, to the big businessmen, but because of the current Qing-French relations because of the problem of Annan, there are some mountains and rains that are about to come and the wind is full of buildings, so Wang Yi did not send an invitation.
"Your research has opened up new horizons for the entire medical community, and I have met many of your admirers in Germany." Koch laughed.
"It's over, I'm not as amazing as you say." Wang Yi said with a smile.
Everyone else in the party saw Wang Yi chatting with Koch, and everyone was curious about Koch's identity. Of course, he now has a new identity in Dashang, the deputy head of the microbiology and immunology department of Dashang, and the general person in charge is Wang Yi's student, Zhang Bingkun. In this era, if Wang Yi's own students are not up to the world's leading level, even if those students still have the face to survive, Wang Yi will not have the face to see people.
Of course, Wang Yi spent a lot of money to build this real room, on the one hand, to save people, and on the other hand, to kill people. Wang Yi would not have the slightest mercy for his enemies, and he did not mind causing a plague in the distant regions of Russia and Europe under unequal circumstances. However, for Japan, he still has to think about it, after all, it is a little close, and there are still personnel exchanges between the two sides. One bad is that the enemy loses 1,000 and the self loses 1,000. That's a tragedy!
"You're saying that the human body can be transfused?" Koch had clearly not thought of that possibility. "No, I've read the information that says that blood transfusions between different people are very likely to produce blood clotting."
Wang laughed, he liked to chat with the German in front of him, and said: "That's because blood is typed, and within our big business, we divide blood into type A, type B, type AB, and type O." In addition, there are more than 10 very rare blood group systems, such as Rh-negative blood group, MNSSU blood type, P blood type, ab blood type and D deficiency blood type. In the past, we believed that AB could receive blood transfusions from any blood type, so it was called a universal blood recipient. Type O can be exported to people of any blood type, so it is called a universal blood transfusion, but in fact, after my research over the years, the delivery between different blood types can generally only be delivered in small amounts, not large quantities. If you want a large amount of blood transfusion, it is better to have the same blood type. ”
"I see!" Koch nodded and said, "Then why does blood clotting occur between different blood types?" ”
"Because immunity is different between different blood types, when foreign blood enters the transfuser's body, the body's own immune system will think that it is an invasion of foreign substances, so an immune response will occur. This results in the phenomenon of condensation. ”
Koch suddenly found himself in a new world, completely different from the original world, he thought that his homeland was already the fastest developing country in the world, even if he took over the name of Spain, the United Kingdom, which claimed to be the empire on which the sun never sets, could not be compared with his own country. But in Dashang, the world's most important technologies seem to have been opened up for an era, or even more, and it is impossible to have such a profound experience without going deep into it.
After that, Kurt carried out a new systematic study in the real yàn room of Dashang, and after years of research, he became a top research expert in various allergies in immunology.
Wang began to control the world with drugs, both drugs and elixirs. It's his specialty, and he's going to make the most of it. Wang Yi doesn't think there's anything wrong with this, who calls himself a doctor and knows the human body best. There is only a thin line between killing people and saving people, the difference is only whether the syringe in his hand has been added with elixir, if there is life, if there is none, he will die! Even if there was no poison in the needle, it was just air.