bullyxtreme Chapter 966 Getting to Know Professor Norman
Chapter 966 Getting to Know Professor Norman
The next morning, Zhang Yunhe arrived at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Prince Avenue Hospital.
He was standing outside the ward, leaning against the wall, when he overheard Professor Norman exclaiming, "Oh my God, what happened yesterday? How could you recover so much overnight?"
Leon smiled and said, "Perhaps God is still looking out for me, letting me live again!"
The young doctor exclaimed in astonishment, "This is impossible! Your condition was already very bad when we came to check on you yesterday. There's no way it could be reversed..."
Leon said, “But the fact is that I have really improved a lot. Yesterday I still had a high fever and was on oxygen. I was delirious and unable to speak. But now my fever has gone down, I don’t need oxygen anymore, and I can sit and talk to you. I feel great now, better than ever before, even better than before I got sick!”
Professor Norman frowned, deep in thought. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he asked, "Mr. Leon, did you take any other drugs?"
Leon nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, Professor Norman, a friend of mine gave me a medicine called penicillin when he came to see me yesterday, so you see, I'm much better now!"
“Penicillin? Oh my God, where did your friend get this drug? You know, I’ve been wanting to give you penicillin, but our hospital can’t get it because it can only be produced in a laboratory, so it’s very rare and expensive. Even if we could get it, most people couldn’t afford it!” Leon’s attending physician said excitedly.
Leon shook his head and said, "This friend is someone I just met..."
Zhang Yunhe, who was outside the door, immediately walked into the ward and greeted him: "Hello, Mr. Leon, good morning, how are you feeling today?"
When Leon saw Zhang Yunhe come in and greet him, he immediately got up excitedly: "Oh my friend, you've finally come! Yesterday, after you gave me the medicine, my fever started to subside slowly an hour later. An hour later, my breathing returned to normal, and my breathing became much smoother. In the afternoon, I felt very hungry, so I ate two pieces of bread, three slices of ham, and a glass of milk!"
“It seems you’re recovering quite well.” Zhang Yunhe walked to the bedside to observe Leon, then turned to face the doctors and greeted them: “Gentlemen, good morning. My name is Zhang Yunhe, and I am Chinese. I’m the one who provided Leon with the penicillin!”
“Mr. Zhang, hello, I am Professor Norman.” Norman extended his hand to Zhang Yunhe.
After shaking hands, Professor Norman said, "Mr. Zhang, we are very grateful for your help when Mr. Leon was critically ill. Are you a doctor?"
“Oh, no, but I respect the medical profession!” Zhang Yunhe said.
Professor Norman said, "While I am grateful to you, I do not approve of your actions. You are not a professional doctor, and even if you have penicillin, you should not prescribe it to Mr. Leon without authorization. As far as I know, penicillin is not absolutely safe to use; a small percentage of people will have an allergic reaction to it!"
Zhang Yunhe sincerely replied, "Yes, Professor Norman, you are right. Depending on individual constitution and drug purity, a very small percentage of patients may experience allergic reactions after using penicillin. But rest assured, the purity of my penicillin is very high, reaching 99%, and patients generally will not experience allergic reactions due to purity issues."
"The real allergic reactions are due to individual constitutions, and we have conducted clinical trials. Most allergic reactions are pseudo-allergies, not true allergies. Moreover, the incidence of true allergies is only 0.001%, which is almost negligible!"
Norman was quite shocked and surprised by these words, and couldn't help but ask, "Which pharmaceutical company do you work for?"
"Professor Norman, I am from Hong Kong Pharmaceutical Company. Our company can now carry out industrial-scale production of penicillin, and the output will continue to increase in the future!"
After Zhang Yunhe finished speaking, he took out a box of penicillin and handed it over: "Look, this is penicillin produced by our pharmaceutical company. Although we are currently resisting the Japanese invasion and blockade, it has not affected our production and life!"
"Gang Gang? Oh my God, weren't you surrounded? How did you manage to get the medicine out?" Professor Norman asked in surprise.
Zhang Yunhe said with a smile, "Of course we have our own ways to get the medicine out."
"Hey, gentlemen, shouldn't you treat me first? Mr. Zhang, your medicine is so effective, please continue to give me the medicine. Please rest assured, as long as I recover, I will definitely keep my promise and become your pharmaceutical sales agent in Germany!" Leon immediately stopped the two men as they talked without asking any questions.
Zhang Yunhe turned his head and smiled, "Alright, Mr. Leon, it seems you're quite impatient! Then please have the doctors and nurses here administer your medication; after all, they're more professional than me."
He then turned to Norman and said, “Professor, yesterday I considered Mr. Leon’s critical condition, so I doubled his medication dosage. One bottle contains 400,000 units, and I used two bottles. I suggest that for the next two days, he continue to receive 800,000 units daily, as a single dose. If his lung infection is completely under control in the next three days, then he can return to the normal dosage. The total medication period will be six days!”
"We all know that during treatment, the bacteria in a patient's body will continuously evolve and produce drug-resistant antibodies. If the pathogenic bacteria are not eradicated in one go and the treatment is not thorough, once the bacteria in the patient's body evolve drug-resistant antibodies, the therapeutic effect of the drug will become less and less effective. Therefore, I suggest that treatment should be thorough, but medication should not be overused, otherwise it will cause other unpredictable side effects on the patient's body."
“Mr. Zhang, you are right, I agree!” Norman agreed with Zhang Yunhe’s suggestion and immediately handed the penicillin to the nurse next to him, saying, “Give Mr. Leon 80 units today and tomorrow. This medicine is a dry powder and needs to be mixed with normal saline for intravenous drip at a rate of 60 times per minute! The subsequent treatment will be adjusted according to Mr. Leon’s recovery.”
“Yes, Professor!” the German replied, taking the medicine box and beginning to prepare the medication.
The subsequent treatment went exactly as expected, and since people in this era had basically never used antibiotics, the bacteria had no drug resistance, so Leon's recovery speed after using penicillin was simply astonishing.
After three days of medication, with 80 units per day, the bacteria causing the lung infection were basically completely cleared. To be on the safe side, Dr. Norman continued the medication for Leon for another two days, returning the dosage to normal levels.