1949 I am from the future

【314】News

Amsterdam Avenue, Upper Manhattan, New York.

Duroc International Trading Company located here is a small importer and exporter.

Since this morning, the boss Duroc has been very busy. The door of the manager's office where he usually stays connected to the staff hall outside has been open all the time. Duroc couldn't be idle at all, and ran out whenever he was free, urging the employees to count the inventory again and again.

"Billy, go check again to see how much streptomycin and isoniazid are left? Tell the warehouse that a box will not be released without my signature!"

"Erwin, check the list of goods released in the past few days to see how many goods we have shipped?"

"Miss Sterling, inform Mr. Stafford of Citibank to collect the book funds of Duroc International Trade and prepare 20 US dollars for me. I will order new goods from Hong Kong this afternoon!"

Mr. Duroc's round bald forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat. He kept giving orders, and kept wiping the sweat with a brown linen handkerchief in his left hand.The right hand waved in the air, as if this could make the work in the hands of the employees faster.

Duroc returned to his desk, sat down on a cheap white pine chair, and happily watched the tense work of the employees in the hall through the open door of the manager's room.

Duroc's happy life has begun since he started the pharmaceutical trade with Hong Kong's Starlight Company. The first batch of penicillin worth 12 US dollars was sold out before it arrived due to its price advantage.Such a brilliant record made Duroc decide to take a gamble, and ordered three batches of Bayer penicillin in a row, plus the first batch of [-] US dollars, the total reached [-] US dollars, which was already all that Duroc could call at that time. cash out.

Because Duroc International Trading Company has a good reputation in the eastern United States for a long time, and the price of penicillin he sells is so cheap, which makes those sales companies that have business dealings with Duroc International Trading quickly sell his The first three orders sold out.

Seeing that the first three orders were quickly booked out, when the fourth order began to accept sales reservations from various small clinics and family doctors dotted around the eastern states of the United States, the first batch of [-] US dollars orders finally drifted on the sea Arrived almost three weeks later.

Duroc was already a little timid at this time, if the goods he bought had quality problems, it would be over.But the following sales feedback made him overjoyed - no doctor complained about the quality of these German products!All the doctors who used this Bayer penicillin said it was the best quality penicillin they had ever used!

The next rhythm is a round of more turbulent orders!Under the turbulent tide of happy money, the only thing that worries him a lot at this time is that batches of his own goods are still floating at sea, and he can't spend more cash to stock up the goods.At this moment, Xingguangxing notified all the companies that had business dealings with them, saying that they had a new drug, a special drug against tuberculosis - streptomycin, and its matching oral drug - isoniazid .

In view of Xingguangxing's good reputation and excellent drug quality, Duroc contacted Xingguangxing, hoping to buy a batch of streptomycin, but after inquiring, he found out that the price of this drug was ten times that of penicillin. Ten packs of streptomycin cost $150!Isoniazid also costs $80 a bottle.Duroc cautiously notified the Starlight Company to take a small amount of five dozen streptomycin, totaling $9000.Due to the shortage of items, Duroc told Starlight that this batch of goods should not be shipped by sea, but sent by air, plus the air freight of 9400 US dollars, it is only 1 US dollars, plus [-] bottles of isoniazid, that is more than [-] dollars.

The advantage of this is that after a week, Duroc will be able to get this so-called special drug against tuberculosis to bluff and deceive. Even if the effect of the drug is not as good as the starlight company boasted, at least for those who are allergic to penicillin or have been cured by penicillin. For tuberculosis patients who have been sentenced to death, it is a life-saving straw.Duroc is very aware of the feelings of these dying people. As long as there is a glimmer of hope for survival, let alone medicines made in China, even if it is chicken feces and cat urine provided by witches and gods, they will buy them at a high price and eat them without hesitation.

When Duroc received the streptomycin labeled as produced by Puhai Pharmaceutical Company, and looked at these industrially produced medicinal vials sealed with aluminum foil, Duroc felt relieved. At least these Chinese did not use damn paper bags or Packaged in wax-sealed wooden bottles, this kind of industrialized packaging looks very deceiving.

Each box of streptomycin injection dry powder also contains detailed instructions for use in Chinese and English, including pharmacological instructions that are rarely marked in medicines these days, and detailed side effects instructions, etc. In short, everything is clearly marked , This superficial article is better than the American drug company, and no one can see a single loophole.Duroc was very satisfied with this, he knew that even if the medicine had no effect, with this majestic packaging, all of this batch of medicine could be sold, if it didn't work, at worst, he wouldn't be able to take it next time.

Therefore, Duroc tentatively introduced these new drugs to the local market in New York. The price was set at 400 US dollars per box, and an average bottle cost 40 US dollars!If a tuberculosis patient is injected continuously for a month, it will cost 1200 US dollars, which is equivalent to the full salary of a low-income ordinary worker with a daily salary of 40 US dollars in an American factory at this time without eating, drinking, or resting for a month!But that's not expensive, and certainly not cheap, for a drug that claims to save lives.

Soon, a local private clinic in New York came to the door. The doctor Pierre said that one of his patients accepted the possible side effects of this drug and was willing to try his luck with this drug.

Duroc hesitated. The patient of Dr. Pierre was only 12 years old. Due to his allergy to penicillin, the child was dying of tuberculosis. Duroc gave Dr. Pierre a thousand and one instructions and asked him to sign an exemption agreement , and asked the child's family members to also sign the agreement.

Even so, Duroc was still a little uneasy, but when he thought of the profit of this medicine, he no longer hesitated.This is just as Marx said, when capitalists face 100% profits, they will take risks...

When Dr. Pierre came to Mr. Schaffer's house with three boxes of streptomycin bought from Duroc International Trading, Mrs. Schaffer looked at him with big haggard eyes full of hope and said: " Doctor Pierre, have you got the medicine?"

"Yes, but before taking the medicine, please sign the waiver agreement with Mr. Schaffer. This medicine may cause some side effects. I think you should let you know first."

After hearing the news, Mr. Chevre, who walked into the living room from the study, took the instruction manual that Dr. Pierre took out from the streptomycin box, and read it carefully.

"Is this a Chinese medicine???!!! The instruction manual is very detailed? It may cause hearing loss, tinnitus, facial numbness... Has the Chinese ever used a precedent? What is the effect?"

Dr. Pierre hesitated and said: "It should be effective. I have read this explanation repeatedly. The pharmacology explanation is very thorough, and the principles and pathways of metabolism are clearly written. This should be written by a knowledgeable medical scientist with a conscience. Yes, it is said that the Chinese are already using this drug, and the effect is very good. I just don’t know if it will work for us Caucasians.”

Mr. Schaffer quickly accepted the waiver, took out a pen from his pocket, and immediately signed his name.

He turned his head to look at Mrs. Shaffer and said: "Lisa, I believe this will be useful. Chinese people can use it, and our children must also be able to use it! This manual is very well written, although I can't fully understand it. But I Believe me, this can save Mike!"

Mrs. Schaffer nodded anxiously and anxiously: "David, I am willing too. I can't watch my child go on like this. Mike is coughing up blood every day. Every time he coughs, it seems that he wants to choke his heart. It's like coughing up, my heart is about to break..."

Dr. Pierre put away the waiver agreement signed by the Schaeffers, put on a mask, and followed the Schaeffers to the children's ward downstairs.

Dr. Pierre opened the medicine box he carried with him, and while injecting the streptomycin dry powder bottle with distilled water dissolved powder, he patiently said to the paper-white, coughing and twitching child lying on the bed:

"Mike, bear with it, don't cough, I'm going to give you an injection, this is a new drug, he may save your life."

After the injection, Dr. Pierre handed over a bottle of isoniazid, a specific medicine produced in China, to the Schaeffers, told them the daily dosage, and left.

After a week of continuous injections of streptomycin and oral isoniazid, the emaciated child Mike was able to sit up in bed, and he no longer coughed, and even the occasional cough was no longer accompanied by bleeding.

Seeing the smiles of the Chevres, Dr. Pierre felt extremely relieved, and a great sense of accomplishment urged him.With the approval of the Schaefers, he wrote an article under his real name and sent it to the New York Times, entitled "Hope for Tuberculosis Patients."

"...Watching Mike recovering day by day, seeing the smiles reappearing on the faces of Mr. and Mrs. Sheffer, I feel that I have an obligation to tell everyone that from today onwards, the treatment of tuberculosis is no longer a problem ...American scientists discovered that streptomycin can kill tuberculosis bacteria in 1944, but the Chinese became the first in the world to achieve low-toxicity industrial production of streptomycin...We discovered the para-amino Salicylic acid can kill tuberculosis bacteria, but it can’t do anything about the strong irritation that this substance brings to the skin and respiratory tract, but the Chinese are the first to invent the anti-tuberculosis oral drug isoniazid... I have never seen the drug An anti-tuberculosis drug with such a fast effect, and the side effects are not serious in this patient. Compared with a saved life, the small side effects can really be ignored... As a doctor, I must say Salute to my colleagues in China, they have produced two amazing drugs, which will bring a new dawn of life to all tuberculosis patients in the world, and the combination of these two new drugs will surely save countless lives. For human beings, the significance is even greater than an anti-fascist world war! In the United States alone, this drug can treat 30 dying tuberculosis patients and save their lives every year, which is equivalent to the total number of American soldiers who died in World War II! ...Here, I would also like to thank Mr. Duroc for his keen eyesight and kindness. If it wasn't for his timely introduction, poor Mike might have..."