Chapter 16 Miracle Medicine
Half a month later, Los Angeles City Hospital.

"This is a newly launched sulfa drug produced by Shennong Pharmaceutical Company. Although this company has never cooperated with our hospital before, they promote this as a groundbreaking drug, a miracle drug that can treat any disease. Well, they also showed me the relevant papers on the research of this drug, so I agreed to try it in the hospital first. You can also recommend it to patients and observe its efficacy before deciding whether to purchase it in large quantities." The dean, who looked like an old man, said seriously, but he was thinking about the five hundred dollars that Shennong Pharmaceutical Company gave him yesterday.

In the early stages of drug promotion, money is inevitably needed to pave the way, even if one has connections. However, as long as sulfa becomes famous, others will beg to buy it. If the production is not enough, the price may have to be increased, and the money earned from feeding the dogs can be doubled, which can be regarded as maintaining fairness and justice.

Rod is a doctor at Los Angeles City Hospital. He is mainly in charge of pediatrics. After listening to the dean's words in the morning, although he did not think that sulfonamide was as magical as it was hyped, for the sake of his job, he still decided to promote this new drug to his next patients.

"Doctor, my child has a fever and keeps coughing. Please take a look at him." A mother holding her child looked at Rhodes anxiously, and kept quickly describing the child's condition.

"Well, don't worry, put the child on the bed first and I'll check him." Rhodes comforted.

When the mother heard the doctor's words, she quickly put the child on the bed. Rhodes took out the thermometer and placed it under the boy's armpit, then gently placed his hand on the boy's forehead, then opened his eyelids and took a look.

"How old is the child? When did it start?" After finishing everything Rhodes did, he called the mother to the desk, took out a pen and paper, and took notes while asking.

"My child is 5 years old. He suddenly had a fever last night, and then started coughing non-stop this morning. I immediately brought him to the hospital. Doctor, please save him." After the mother finished speaking, she pleaded, saying that it is still very dangerous for children in this era to get sick, and a minor illness could take their lives.

"Okay, I get it. Please wait a moment and see how high the child's fever is, then I'll treat him." In fact, Rhodes didn't have a better solution. He could only prescribe some commonly used medicines and let them go back to try their luck. If the condition was too serious, he could only use bloodletting therapy.

A few minutes later, Rod took the thermometer off the child's body and took a closer look, finding that it was almost 40 degrees. Of course, the readings in America might be different, so let's not go into the details.

He was just about to use bloodletting therapy, then comfort the mother and let her take the little boy home and wait for a miracle to happen. At this moment, he remembered what the dean said in the morning, that the new drug sulfa produced by Shennong Company was very effective in treating fever and inflammation and could cure it 100%.

Thinking that the results would be similar anyway, Rod decided to give it a try. He took out a bottle from the drawer. There were nine pills in the bottle, which was exactly one course of treatment. He took out a pill and said to the mother, "This medicine costs three dollars a pill. Give your child one pill every morning, noon and evening. There are nine pills in this bottle. If the child's fever and cough improve after one day of taking the pills, take the pills for three consecutive days and then bring the child to the hospital for a follow-up examination. If it is still the same after one day, bring you to the hospital immediately and I will perform bloodletting on him. If you're fine, take this receipt to the side to pay the fee, and then come back to get the medicine."

The mother did not say anything else, but just remembered the doctor's instructions firmly. Probably at all times, patients and their families would unconditionally believe in and obey the doctor's words. Of course, some people in later generations would no longer believe in authority and did not know whose fault it was.

Although she thought the medicine was very expensive, the mother still paid the money and got the medicine for the sake of her child. Besides, no matter what era it is, medical treatment is very expensive and people can only endure it.

After returning home, the mother immediately gave the child medicine. By the evening, the child no longer coughed much. She touched the child's forehead again and it was no longer as hot as in the morning. She burst into tears of joy and her heart was finally at ease.

"It's a miracle drug, it really is a miracle drug. Could this Shennong Company really have been created by God? Otherwise, how could it produce such a miraculous drug?" The mother murmured in disbelief. She had attended a church school, so she recognized the drug manufacturing company that was prominently displayed in black capital letters on the bottle packaging of sulfa drugs.

As soon as her husband got off work, she couldn't wait to share this with him and decided to only buy products produced by Shennong Company in the future.

Three days later, Los Angeles City Hospital.

"Doctor, this medicine is really useful. My child felt much better after taking it on the first day. I followed your instructions and let my child take it for three days. The child is now completely cured. Look, my child is very lively and healthy now." The mother shouted excitedly to Rhodes, which immediately attracted many patients and their families around.

"You can buy the medicine produced by Shennong Company and try it. My child has used it, and his illness was cured in one day. This is the blessing bestowed upon us by the gods." When the mother saw the crowd gathering around her, she immediately recommended the medicine to everyone. When she mentioned the medicine from Shennong Company, her tone was full of pride and honor.

When the family members and patients heard what the mother said, they looked at the child in her arms. Sure enough, the child not only showed no signs of illness, but had a rosy complexion, and did not look like someone who had just given birth. The doctor did not object, and they all believed what she said.

"Shen Nong Yao, give me one."

"I want a dose of Shennong medicine, too, doctor."

The crowd surrounded Dr. Rhodes and clamored for a bottle of sulfa pills. Dr. Rhodes was embarrassed, but he still wrote a bill for everyone and asked them to pay for the medicine. Although Rhodes knew that this was not a miracle drug and could not be effective for all diseases, he could not refuse the patient's request, right? At the same time, at the Charlotte Clinic.

"Doctor Charlotte, this is our Shennong Pharmaceutical Company's new product. It is a panacea that can treat many diseases, especially infections and inflammations. The efficacy is 100%. As long as your patients use it, it is guaranteed to cure the disease." A sulfa drug salesman from Shennong Company promoted it to Charlotte.
"What Shennong Pharmaceutical Company? I've never heard of it. There's no way there is such a magical medicine in the world. Stop your nonsense. I won't make fun of my patients. Get out of my clinic right now." Dr. Charlotte roared impatiently.

"Doctor Charlotte, don't worry. Our Shennong company's sulfa drugs have been tested in many hospitals, and the research results of this drug have been published in a medical journal. Here is the magazine, you can take a look. As for whether it has such a magical effect, you can try it first. Our company can give you ten bottles for trial. After the trial, if you feel satisfied with the effect, you can take this list and go to Shennong company to buy the medicine according to the address above, and settle the money for the medicine by the way. If it doesn't work, just pretend I haven't been here." The salesman said in a flat tone.

Hearing what he said, Dr. Charlotte calmed down, picked up the magazine and looked at it for a moment, then thought that she would not lose out this way, and was about to say something when she heard the salesman continue.

"Dr. Charlotte, this offer is already very good. Many clinics like yours have already agreed. If you refuse, you will regret it when other clinics use our company's magical medicine to attract all the patients and your clinic does not."

"Okay, then I'll try it. If it doesn't work, I hope you won't bother me again." Charlotte no longer hesitated and agreed.

The capable salesman smiled, took out 10 bottles of sulfa drugs from his handbag, placed them on the table in front of Charlotte, then handed him a list with an introduction to Shennong Company and the drugs, some contracts, a trial of 10 bottles, etc., then said goodbye and left. He had to hurry to the next clinic to sell the drugs. Every time a clinic took a list signed with their names to Shennong Company to purchase drugs, they would receive a commission, and it would be very considerable. Although the company had divided the areas for them, there would always be people who did not follow the rules, so he needed to race against time to grab customers.

A week later, in a clinic.

"Doctor, do you have any sulfa drugs from Shennong Company? Give me five bottles." A middle-aged man in a suit and carrying a briefcase said. It can be seen that he should have a good living condition.

Fair is a senior manager at a food processing factory. These days he has heard from many friends that a pharmaceutical company called Shennong has produced a miracle drug that can cure all diseases and it is sold out. He didn't believe it at first, but then his wife came home and told him that many housewives near where she lives talked about this, and many of their family members had used it and it was indeed effective, just as the rumors said.

So his wife discussed with him that they must keep some of this miracle medicine at home, and asked him to buy more and stockpile it, so that they would not have to worry about not having the miracle medicine when their family members get sick in the future. That’s why we saw him going to the clinic to buy medicine just now.

"What Shennong Company? I've never heard of sulfa. I don't have it here. Do you want other medicines? They are also very effective." The doctor was puzzled at first, and then enthusiastically introduced other medicines to him.

"You don't even know about Shennong Company's sulfa drugs, so there's no point in running this clinic." Fair interrupted the doctor impatiently, made a sarcastic remark and left immediately. He had to rush to the next store and didn't have time to listen to his nagging.

Half an hour later he finally bought five bottles of sulfa drugs at a clinic and passed by the clinic again on his way home.

"Hey, sir, did you buy that medicine? Can you take a look at it for me?" The doctor and owner of the clinic called him over and said in a respectful tone.

"Okay, I'll show you one." The man looked at the doctor. Now that he had bought sulfa, he was in a good mood and did not refuse. He took out a bottle from his briefcase and handed it to him.

The boss picked up the bottle of medicine, turned the bottle around, read the name of the medicine and the introduction to the symptoms and efficacy on it, and found that this was indeed a miracle drug (of course, this was an exaggerated propaganda that Zhang Feng asked the company to do, and he didn't know whether it was false or not). Then he wrote down the manufacturer and address of the medicine, returned the medicine to the man, and thanked him politely.

After returning to the clinic, he immediately closed the door and hung a sign on the door indicating that the clinic was temporarily closed. He then took a taxi to the pharmaceutical company to purchase a batch of drugs to try out.

It was another sunny afternoon, and Getari Garbo went to take a nap again. It was already December, and Getari Garbo was five months pregnant. She was even more sleepy. After just finishing lunch, she felt listless, yawning, and drowsy. Zhang Feng would never admit that this was due to his contribution last night.

At this time, Zhang Feng was still holding a newspaper and reading it slowly. He sat upright, looking down from the newspaper, and saw a small black head rising and falling between his legs, with black and shiny hair hanging down on the shoulders, and a disdainful face.

Half an hour later, Zhang Feng threw away the newspaper, picked up Qin Qingning, and walked quickly to her bedroom amid Qin Qingning's low exclamation. Then, he gently put her on the bed. In her blurred and anxious eyes, he quickly unbuttoned her clothes on her chest and kissed her.

The strong wind blows through the fallen leaves, the weak east wind withers the flowers.

(End of this chapter)