Chapter 26: Lawsuit on the Body Seeking Collection and Recommendation

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  Inside the Royal Society of Medicine in London, it's usually deserted every Friday at 5 pm when some meetings attended by members of the medical society and the doctors' association are held. Even during meetings, not many people attend. This is because members of the Royal Society of Medicine and the doctors' association are all very busy and have no time to gather together to discuss things. But this regular meeting on Friday was exceptionally lively.

  Today, apart from the British medical authorities, there are also several French medical scientists and several members of the Royal Society, all of whom are authorities in their respective fields. However, the person presiding over the conference is still Lord Horder, President of the Royal Medical Society.

  Looking at the crowd whispering to each other, Lord Haw-Haw picked up a bell and rang it lightly several times, saying loudly: "Gentlemen! I suppose you have all heard that recently in Britain, an... an Oriental clown has appeared, who is so arrogant as to challenge the entire British medical community. A lowly yellow-skinned person dares to challenge our white medical community, thinking that by publishing some absurd articles on a few radical newspapers full of nonsense, they can force the gentlemen here to give in to him. This is an absolutely unforgivable mistake!"

  He began his opening speech, which was very brief but also very powerful. It seemed that he had indeed been provoked by the article published by Zhu Jishi. The people present applauded several times to show their appreciation. Lord He smiled and nodded in gratitude, continuing: "Now the Royal Medical Society has revoked the license of that clown, but this is still not enough to punish his evil deeds. I suggest filing a lawsuit with the London Court... he must pay for his crime of slandering the British medical community! Although this clown can no longer stand in Britain, it is not enough to just drive him out of Britain! We should let the court's judgment make him have no foothold in all of Europe! Let this despicable yellow-skinned person roll back to the East!"

  His words had barely fallen when the audience had not yet begun to applaud, and someone at the bottom shouted: "Lord Hawley! I don't understand why academic differences can be decided by a court trial? Is the court's judgment the truth of science?"

  The speaker was James Joule, a member of the Royal Society and the man who formulated Joule's law. Although he was a physicist, he decided to attend this meeting of the Royal Medical Society. The controversy between the Royal Medical Society and Jesse Boot had also caught his attention, and he knew about Jesse Boot's scientific achievements in blood types and transfusions. With just that achievement alone, Jesse Boot was already an outstanding scientist, even surpassing Lord Howard in academic status, barely qualifying him to be a member of the Royal Society! Even if his articles attacking the British medical community for ignoring "germ transmission" were a bit sharp-tongued, wasn't that just an academic dispute? How could it be decided by a court? And who didn't know that most of the articles in those radical newspapers weren't necessarily written by Jesse Boot? Those papers were originally illegal publications, and the authors' names were extremely casual, with no way to investigate.

  Several non-medical members of the Royal Society present seemed to hold similar views, Zhu's article did not step on their toes, and the behavior of the Royal Medical Society was indeed absurd, so these people looked at Lord H with suspicious eyes.

  The elderly medical authority nodded stiffly at Jiao Er and said loudly, "Mr. Jiao Er, thank you for your opinion. Here, I want to make a few explanations. Firstly, the reason we sued Jason Zhu is not because of the scientific theory he put forward, but because of his slander against British hospitals and doctors! Secondly, the bacterial pathogenesis theory he proposed has no basis at all, it's completely pseudoscience!

  "We therefore consider him a complete charlatan! This is also our reason for demanding that he be eliminated from the British medical community!"

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  Upon receiving the summons from the London County Court, Zhu Jishi let out a sigh of relief. Because he wasn't afraid to confront the British Royal Medical Association in court. This was exactly what he had been hoping for. What really made him worried was that the gentlemen within the Royal Medical Association would resort to some underhanded means to deal with him, such as assassination! Now that he had received the court summons, it meant that assassins were no longer a possibility.

  As for the trivial matter of having his medical license revoked, Zhu Jishi didn't even put it in his heart. In fact, regarding the matter of not having a medical license, Zhu Jishi was overjoyed, because if he couldn't become a doctor, he wouldn't have to go to that European hospital full of deadly bacteria to save the British working-class women anymore - actually, being a doctor there also had some danger, and if he contracted cholera, plague, or tuberculosis in that era, it would be a fatal illness! Relying solely on the two cephalosporin tablets he brought from the 21st century might not even save his life. Moreover, on his way to and from work, there were so many beggars and prostitutes who would harass him, and he had even encountered several instances of robbery! Fortunately, those robbers retreated after seeing Zhu Jishi's handgun, and no bloodshed occurred.

  During this period of "unemployment", Zhu Jishi was living a very carefree life, spending every day either in his small room trying to find ways to purify morphine, heroin and berberine, or with Meyer Brunswig researching how to use heroin, morphine hydrochloride and berbamine hydrochloride to prepare several effective Western medicines.

  Actually, it's not that difficult, H is originally a "panacea", and any Western medicine for treating symptoms can be added directly to it. Painkillers, cough medicines, asthma medications, and tuberculosis syrups can all be added. Of course, you can't add too much, first because it's easy to get addicted; secondly, H is quite troublesome to refine, and now it's not possible to produce industrially, only Zhu Jishi and Meyer Brunswijk can make small batches in the lab, if they put too much, the yield won't keep up; thirdly, H has a very strong effect, just a little bit will have a magical effect.

  In fact, for the first 20 years after heroin was introduced to the market by Bayer, no one realized that this drug would become a notorious poison later on, and there were not many cases of heroin addiction. Because heroin is not something that can make people addicted just by touching it, this drug is not so powerful, otherwise how could it have been sold as an uncontrolled legal medicine in Europe and America for more than 20 years? Heroin only makes people addicted when used excessively and over a long period of time, just like Henry, who now has to smoke a little bit of opium paste mixed with heroin every day. However, Zhu Ziyu also knew that once he let the "ferocious beast" of heroin out of its cage, it would ultimately harm countless people! So in the future Europe, there will definitely be tens of millions of Henrys who will make huge profits from buying and selling heroin!

  The H. Lowe pharmacy was officially opened at the end of 1842, with its main products being various "special medicines" containing morphine. The tannic acid series for treating intestinal infections and dysentery also appeared on the shelves of the pharmacy. In addition, opium produced by the East India Company was still sold as a medicine in H. Lowe's pharmacy. However, business at the pharmacy was not as good as expected, with daily sales of only around ten pounds, half of which came from the sale of opium.