Chapter 539 538 [The Power of Sulfonamide]
"Century God Medicine Comes Out, Great Discovery of Eastern Wizards"
"A Panacea for All Diseases, Bringing Good News to the Citizens of London"
Earl Russell, who was seriously ill, was saved by sulfanilamide
"The discovery of sulfa drugs is undoubtedly one of the greatest medical achievements in the past century"
"The dying septicemia patient miraculously ushered in a new life"
Sulfonamide - the killer of meningitis! "
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London citizens have the habit of reading newspapers, and even many homeless people have to pick up newspapers to read. When people wake up early in the morning, they immediately see overwhelming information about sulfonamides. The article also lists a lot of sulfa drugs that can cure diseases.
In particular, Earl Russell's pneumonia was cured within three hours by sulfanilamide. This is not a fabricated story. Russell mentioned it in his own article, which makes people have to believe it.
As a result, various patients voluntarily asked doctors to prescribe sulfa drugs. Many doctors were stunned, because they didn't have this medicine at hand. Fortunately, Ornis sent a large number of salesmen to the hospital to promote it.
In just a few days, a large number of patients cured by sulfonamide emerged.
Especially meningitis, pneumonia and septicemia. Currently there is no specific medicine for these diseases, and it is very difficult to treat them. But sulfanilamide filled the void, and both doctors and patients rejoiced.
Ornish specially hired more than a dozen reporters, went to major hospitals in London to interview doctors and patients, and then listed the recovery cases as news reports.
In just half a month, £10,000 was spent on publicity, which is a huge sum of money!
But the publicity effect was very good. Not only the major hospitals in London took the initiative to purchase sulfa, but even other parts of the UK also sent orders. The family doctors of many nobles and wealthy businessmen must bring sulfa drugs when they go out. It is even heard that the old king who has been ill all year round is also taking sulfa drugs.
For a time, sulfanilamide became synonymous with elixir in the UK.
With the existing production capacity of the pharmaceutical factory, the supply of sulfa drugs will soon exceed the demand. Ornis hastily expanded the production scale, and at the same time doubled the price of sulfonamides. Anyway, no matter how expensive it is, people will buy it.
As for the problem that the poor can't afford medicine, it's none of Ornish's business. The poor die when they die.
Sulfa drugs can sell so well, thanks to the environmental pollution in London. At this time, London's toxic sewage and toxic gases were discharged everywhere without any treatment, and the air was filled with various stench and sulfur smell.
It is difficult for workers who have been engaged in toxic factory production for many years to live beyond the age of 40. Even white-collar workers who sit in the office are very prone to respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, lung cancer, and influenza. If you don’t cough twice when you go out, you are ashamed to call yourself a noble London citizen.
What is the smog in Beijing in future generations?
London is the most authentic smog city, number one in the world, don't compete with it!
This situation continued until the 1950s, when the streets of London were completely invisible in broad daylight, and more than 4,000 people died in just four days. In the next two months, more than 8,000 people died of respiratory diseases.
So Sulfonamide is the good news for the people of London, because too many people are infected with pneumonia, and Sulfonamide is a specific medicine for treating pneumonia.
The more factories and pollution there are in London, the better the sulfa drugs will sell!
Many wealthy aristocrats and businessmen even took sulfanilamide as a health product, and took a few tablets at home when they had nothing to do.
The result can be imagined...
The biggest side effect of sulfonamides is that they are difficult to decompose. After taking the medicine, you must drink water and urinate constantly to get rid of the remaining medicine in the body. But no one is clear about this situation, including researchers, pharmaceutical companies and doctors, and it is naturally impossible to remind patients to pay attention.
As a result, fools who have been taking sulfanilamide for a long time often feel so painful when they pee that they doubt their lives. The easy ones are just low back pain and cock pain, and the severe ones directly urinate blood, block the urinary tract, or even be unable to urinate.
It was not until more than half a year after the birth of sulfanilamide that people realized that it had strong side effects. If this situation is put in a few decades, the pharmaceutical factory will probably go bankrupt, but there is no such problem now.
The law does not stipulate that pharmaceutical companies must disclose side effects. As for the side effects of the hell, is it called a drug without side effects?
As long as it doesn't kill anyone, it doesn't matter.
This is the golden age of capitalists. In order to make money, it doesn't matter how many people die, let alone just can't pee.
Not only was Ornis not criticized by public opinion, but after solving the problem of side effects, he received unanimous praise from all walks of life. He often followed Prince Albert in and out of high society, and became a great businessman with great fame. It is said that he took the opportunity to hook up with several noble ladies.
There's no way, Ornis is too handsome, a standard super old boy. He didn't even have to take the initiative to make a move, there were noble ladies who came to reciprocate, and I heard that there were even two countesses who were jealous of him.
Due to its excellent bactericidal effect, sulfanilamide soon spread from the UK to the whole of Europe. So much so that even the distant United States, Japan and China knew that the antibacterial medicine was born in the United Kingdom, and they sent overseas orders one after another.
And those major developed countries, except the Soviet Union, were all patented by Zhou Hexuan for sulfa drugs. For this reason, Zhou Hexuan sent people to buy real estate in 16 countries around the world. For example, he has a small villa in the suburbs of Tokyo.
Perhaps, only Germany, Italy, and Japan after the outbreak of war can unscrupulously copy sulfa drugs.
Well, Big Brother USSR was an exception. Like China, people don't understand what the Paris Convention is, and they don't recognize your international patents.
In 1933 alone, sulfanil's net profit was as high as 300,000 pounds ($1.3 million). This is just the beginning. With the expansion of drug production and sales, next year's net profit can easily exceed 500,000 pounds, and perhaps 600,000 or 700,000 pounds is entirely possible.
The pharmaceutical industry, no matter in what era, is a huge profit.
Not only was Ornis so happy that he couldn't find North, Prince Albert also smiled crookedly. He just invested a small amount of money casually, and now he has thousands of times the profit return. This kind of business is faster than stealing money.
Prince Albert no longer has self-confidence, no sense of presence, he is still a prince.
In order to protect his own interests, Albert took the initiative to stand up as the umbrella of the pharmaceutical factory and let those capitalists who dared to covet sulfa get out. This is equivalent to issuing a royal certification to Sulfonamide, which has an inviolable sacred status.
With the expansion of the pharmaceutical company's profits, Prince Albert even publicly stated: "Sulfa is the pride of Britain, the strongest weapon for mankind to defeat diseases, and the greatest discovery in the medical field!"
I heard that Prince Albert also took the initiative to write letters to famous scholars and major medical institutions, hoping to nominate Zhou Hexuan and Aldridge, the two discoverers of sulfonamide, as candidates for the Nobel Prize in Medicine next year.