Chapter 13: The Poison Master Seeks Collection and Recommendation

  New book uploaded, seeking collection and recommendation

  Zhu Ji Shi was exhausted to death, really, it was for the sake of saving the pregnant women in London, England in 1842 that he died from exhaustion! Hmm, this statement sounds a bit strange, but it's true!

  The maternity ward and operating room of the Omen Hospital, which serves the lower working class in London, are really too dirty! No wonder women from high society with money and status wouldn't give birth in hospitals, but instead have highly skilled obstetricians come to their clean and tidy homes to deliver. Rather than going to this hospital that Zuo Ji calls a "maternity prison" in his heart... to be executed!

  Now, in order to achieve the grand goal of establishing himself in 19th-century Europe and making a fortune, Zhu Dajizheng had no choice but to lead Janet Lee, an elderly British midwife, as well as two bourgeois ladies, Annie Egerton and Jessica Ryan, who were taking turns serving as volunteer nurses on the obstetrics ward, to thoroughly clean the filthy delivery room and operating theater. As a result, "Lee Big Mama" and the two kind-hearted young ladies disappeared halfway through the task, leaving Zhu Dajizheng to grit his teeth and complete all the cleaning work by himself.

  "Miss Lee (a nearly forty-year-old spinster who is extremely fat), Miss Eiggat, Miss Rhein."

  Juzi Shi, drenched in sweat and with a serious expression, looked at the three newly arrived respected ladies, "I know you may not have heard of the 'germ theory of disease' - I will soon prove this theory through experiments. Before that, I require you to strictly enforce the hygiene and disinfection rules for the delivery room and surgery that I have established. Before each operation and childbirth, hands must be washed with 5% carbolic acid solution, all surgical instruments must be sterilized by high-temperature steam before use, and then repeatedly disinfected with iodine and alcohol."

  "Yes, sir." Mrs. Li nodded reluctantly, this Tartar's request had obviously increased her workload.

  "Really, doctor, can you bring the incidence of puerperal fever down to a minimum?" Annie Egerton, a blonde and attractive young woman with big eyes looked at Dr. Zhai. Having worked as a volunteer nurse in the hospital for several months, this young lady had developed a fear of childbirth, and was also somewhat afraid of marriage.

  "Try it and you'll know?" Zhu Jishi looked at the little girl, but in his mind, he was thinking of Isabel, the countess. It seemed like he hadn't seen her for several weeks already.

  "I hope it works, those dead mothers were really pitiful." Another slightly younger one, like a doll, Jessica Ryan's big eyes were also misty. "They had high fevers, chills, severe lower abdominal pain, struggled and cried out, finally leaving behind their beloved babies, tragically departing this world... What kind of terrible demon took their lives?"

  "Jessica, I'll soon let you see the true face of this demon, I guarantee it." Zhū Jìshì said with a smile to the little girl, his eyes filled with confidence.

  ……

  "Jason, want some morphine?"

  Taking a pound note from Zhu Jisheng's hand and hearing his request, Frank Hahn hesitated for a moment and asked: "What do you want morphine for?"

  "Do research."

  In the blink of an eye, Zhu Jishi had been working at Omen Hospital for over a month. Although he hadn't yet made the entire London medical community recognize him as the greatest medical genius of this era, he had already made Frank Hahn look at him in a new light. Because Omen Hospital had gone three weeks without a single case of puerperal fever - and those three weeks were exactly when Zhu Jishi took over the obstetrics department at Omen Hospital.

  What was even more unbelievable to Dr. Frank Hahn was that three days ago, Zhu Jishi had performed a cesarean section in the obstetrics operating room! At that time, after obtaining the consent of the difficult-to-deliver pregnant woman and her husband, Zhu Jishi tied the naked pregnant woman to the operating table like a butcher slaughtering a pig, and then tested the blood types of several people, including Dr. Hahn himself. As a result, 400CC of plasma was drawn from Zhu Jishi and the pregnant woman's husband and placed in a large glass test tube.

  After completing these preparations, Zhu Jishi then performed the operation in front of Hahn and two other doctors and a nurse, amidst the screams of the woman in labor. He cut open the woman's abdomen with a scalpel, took out the baby, and finally sewed up the woman's uterus and abdomen with needle and thread, also giving her a blood transfusion during the process...

  But this poor woman has not died yet! She is still lying in the maternity ward of Omen Hospital!

  "What's the study?" Frank Hahn handed over a pound of morphine alkaloid refined from superior opium produced by the East India Company, wrapped in kraft paper.

  "Pain reliever, I need a highly effective pain reliever." Zhu Jishi replied as he took over the opium. He planned to manufacture two types of pain relievers, one called "morphine hydrochloride", which would become the most important opioid analgesic in later times. Morphine had already been extracted in 1806, but it did not show better efficacy than opium when used. This was because the technology of European pharmacy at that time was very backward and could only extract alkaloids, without knowing how to further process and refine valuable alkaloids like morphine into higher-purity and more effective medicines.

  Another painkiller that Zhū Jìshì wanted to manufacture was even more famous! The scientific name of this painkiller is called diethyl morphine, and in history, this drug had a very famous name, called heroin! This heroin has not been invented yet, but Zhū Jìshì knew the method of extracting heroin, which is actually quite simple. By adding diethyl ether to morphine hydrochloride and heating it on a stove, you can synthesize diethyl morphine or heroin.

  So Zhu Jishi planned to apply for a patent for diacetylmorphine and morphine hydrochloride at the British Patent Office later, and then open a pharmacy after gaining some reputation - pharmacies in this era were all-in-one production, dispensing, and sales of medicines. Many famous pharmaceutical companies in later generations were just large pharmacies in 1842. So Zhu Jishi also planned to start his own wealth dream from a pharmacy.

  And yet, heroin, a substance that would later become notorious and feared after more than a hundred years, was actually an extremely effective raw material! In fact, in the nearly 30 years after heroin was introduced to the market by Bayer of Germany in 1898, this drug was considered by most doctors to be a high-quality, safe, and magically effective medicine. It could be used for coughing, pain relief, depression, bronchitis, asthma, and treatment of all other diseases! So this drug was once ubiquitous, from infants to adults to the elderly, everyone was a consumer of heroin. It was ingested in powder, mixture or tablet form, and even sanitary napkins used by women contained heroin components!

  Thus, after Zhu Zhiyi understood the attitude of various European countries towards opium in this era - at that time, opium was also ubiquitous in Europe, not only a necessary medicine in hospitals and pharmacies, but also a military supply for various national armies! Almost all European and American troops would distribute opium to officers and soldiers on schedule.

  It's really laughable and tearful, the Qing army was actually defeated by a pair of opium-smoking double guns! So Zhu Jishi naturally thought of extracting H, which is extremely easy to manufacture and has an effect dozens of times stronger than opium!

  He bought morphine base from Frank Hahn which was an important raw material for the manufacture of heroin hydrochloride.

  And another ingredient needed to make heroin, diethyl ether, was even easier to obtain. This chemical is actually a common flavoring agent used in cooking at the West Point, and Mrs. Dulan's kitchen has it, so Zhu Jishi plans to use tomorrow's rest day to extract heroin from Mrs. Dulan's house on Dover Street!

  Of course, dedicating heroin to the European people is only part of Zhu's plan to get rich by producing poison. If heroin has a good market reaction, he also plans to launch cocaine-like, cannabis-like and MPTP-like drugs...