It's not that hard to open a hospital in another world, right?

Chapter 257 To get two Nobel Prizes to complete the task? !

What?
To make vitamin C?
Gretel was dumbfounded.

How difficult is it to determine that scurvy is due to a lack of vitamin C, and to work it out?Simply put, this achievement deserves two Nobel Prizes.

In 1937, Hungarian biochemist Szent-Gyorgyi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on vitamin C and oxidation reactions in the human body.

In the same year, British scientist Haworth won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the chemical structure of vitamin C and artificially producing vitamin C.

Archmage Carlisle, you think highly of me T_T If I had the ability to make vitamin C with my bare hands, I wouldn't have spent more than ten years in my previous life, and I would be just a deputy chief physician!

My highest degree is only a master's degree!
I am in the direction of clinical medicine, not pharmacy!

In other words, what is the path of industrial production of vitamin C... This is not forgotten, this is not learned at all...

Depressed, Gretel went down Igor Peak.Thinking of having to win two Nobel Prizes to complete the task, he was so weak that he didn't even want to enter the laboratory.In other words, a problem that can be solved with one lemon a day, but he has to make a potion to solve the problem, is this really good?
It's so annoying... Do you want to write a paper on the conclusion of the treatment with lemon juice, throw it to the alchemy workshop, and let them think of ways to make medicine...

Gretel was upset, so he cast a spell to summon a mount, and walked on the horse.The horses summoned by magic are smarter than the horses that exist in nature. Even if the owner does not control it, it will not run around in fright or step on people.Gretel rode the horse in a daze, and the horse walked around casually. Before he knew it, a fishy smell came over his face.

Gretel came back to his senses, and when he looked up, he realized that he had walked to the port area.It’s all here, let’s go to the treatment center——Thinking like this, Gretel turned the horse’s head around, da da da da, and soon went around to the treatment center of the God of Nature Church.

"Brother Matthew!"

"Hey, little Gretel, why do you come here when you have time?"

Pastor Matthew turned his head from the alchemy table and greeted happily.Gretel was a little embarrassed: During this period of time, he really didn't go to the treatment center very much. He was either busy with electrolysis or bacterial culture every day.

After the plague was discovered, people from the religious order were brought to help for a while, treating patients, cultivating, staining, and microscopic examination.It seems that the council hasn't counted the treatment cost for them... I'm really sorry for them...

"Brother Matthew, I'm sorry, I was too busy a while ago." He walked up to the alchemy table: "Brother Matthew, what are you doing?"

"I'm making colchicum pills... Don't say it, the colchicum medicine you made is really effective. Last time, those gouty guys took the medicine for a few days. Oh, they are quite proud, honestly, two months Just eat and drink, and then come here to buy medicine, and then start tormenting again in two months!"

Colchicine Tablets!
Gretel's eyes lit up.He seemed to grasp an idea, but he didn't seem to grasp it.But now is not the time to be distracted, Gretel rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to help:

"Brother Matthew, let me help you do it together!"

Weigh, add alcohol, shake, filter, and let stand.The alcohol was evaporated to obtain a crude colchicine extract.The content has been calculated last time, so there is no need to calculate it this time. In short, 20 grams of colchicum powder is used to make 12 tablets.Gretel was nimble and did it very smoothly. While doing it, he also told Pastor Matthew:
"Brother Matthew, remember to tell the patient that this medicine can only be taken 1 to 2 tablets per hour, and no more than 24 tablets per day, that is, 12 hours. If you take too much, you will be poisoned! Really, colchicum is poisonous!"

"I know! You told me that last time!" Pastor Matthew laughed. "Really, it can be used by cutting a little colchicum powder and kneading a little starch. You have to make a big deal like this!"

Gretel was stunned on the spot.

Yes, that's right.You can eat medicinal plants directly—or the powder and juice of medicinal plants. Why do you need to make extracts?Why industrial production?Why, chemical synthesis?

Why, countless researchers in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, and biomedicine have to go through this path despite all kinds of difficulties and dangers, causing all kinds of troubles for themselves?

Not only for monopoly, not only for technical barriers.More importantly, the medication is safe!
For example, the dosage of colchicine is 1 to 2 mg every 0.5 to 1 hours for adults, and no more than 6 mg per day.Too little and no effect, too much and poisoning.So, how to ensure the accuracy of dosage?
Control the origin of colchicum?This year's year, sunshine, precipitation, fertilizer, is the colchicum growing well?Only the bulb, no leaves, or only certain parts of the bulb?

Such a control method may be accurate to 0.1 gram, or 0.01 gram.However, if you want to be accurate to milligrams or even micrograms, and if you want to make the dosage of each medication stable and uniform, you can't do it!

And what about the medicine with a smaller dosage?For example, when fentanyl is used for anesthesia induction, the dosage is 0.05~0.1 mg...

Not to mention, the extracts of medicinal plants contain too many impurities.The simplest example, the active ingredient of aspirin, salicylic acid, is known to be found in boiling water from willow bark.But how many ingredients are there in willow bark tea?
Amino acids, sugars, organic acids, glycosides, phenols...

Dozens of them are rare.I want to extract salicylic acid from it and get rid of ineffective and harmful ingredients, hey, I will cry you to death.

This is why, after the emergence of modern chemistry, there is modern anesthesia medicine.If it was in ancient times, it would be a life gamble to use all kinds of herbs such as Tianxianzi, datura, belladonna, etc., to mix and refine them and pour them into patients.If the composition of the raw materials fluctuates slightly, the anesthesia will be overdose, and the patient will not be able to wake up...

Only relying on chemistry, only relying on chemical extraction and refining, can the drug content be determined, and only chemical synthesis can make drugs with high purity, uniform and stable properties, and become a reliable helper for doctors!

These principles have been learned before...

"Brother Matthew, thank you." Gretel thanked him sincerely.Before Pastor Matthew could ask, Gretel had rushed out of the treatment room like a whirlwind, and summoned his mount again.He rode his horse around the street twice and stopped in front of a fruit stand:
"What's the price of this orange? Where's the lemon?—I want it all, and deliver it for me!"

A cart of citrus, a basket of lemons, a cart of cabbage, and seven or eight kinds of vegetables were dragged into Gretel's villa one after another.The cook wiped her hands on her apron in surprise:
"Mr. Nordmark, are you... are you going to have a banquet?"

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