Salvation Mercy Hospital, Cleveland Workers District.

Salvation Hospital is very different from what it used to be. A devout believer of the Baptist Church, and a kind church member, the rich man Mr. Scrooge MacDonald showed great kindness and donated a large sum of money to this charity hospital through the church. As a result, the hospital, which was originally shrunk in an old warehouse, completely changed its appearance.

The old warehouse has been bulldozed, and many shacks around the hospital have also been included in the scope of the hospital. In just a few months, a brand new hospital appeared before people's eyes. This is a magnificent hospital, and even the hospitals in the rich area may not be better than this one. At least, that's how it looks from the outside. (How about the hospital in the rich area, the poor have never seen it.)

It is. It was the first standardized hospital in the entire United States and the second such hospital in the world. Its start was less than a month after the "Scrooge Albert" hospital was attached to the University of Cambridge. Later, Americans tend to use this hospital to show off their moral superiority: "Look, the first standardized hospital of the British is only for the nobles and rich people, only us, the first such hospital in the United States Just build it in the slums, and serve the poor at a very low price." As soon as Scrooge completed the concept of the standardized hospital, he sent it back to Cleveland so that his brother Card Rolle is busy building such a hospital.

The hospital has a tall white wall that separates it from the messy workers' quarters around it. Only on the front, you can see the scene inside through the wrought iron carved gate.

Facing the gate is a fountain. Behind the fountain is a statue of Hippocrates carved from pure white marble on a black marble base. On the black marble base, there is a gilded flower body The following inscription was inscribed:

"I will do my best to take medical measures that I think are beneficial to the patient, and will never cause pain or harm to the patient. I will not give poison to anyone, nor will I authorize anyone to use poison...I will keep the patient's secret, practice medicine cleanly, and never do anything that endangers life, if you break this oath, heaven and man will die together!"

Behind the statue is the outpatient department of the hospital. This is a small two-story building. The front and back of the small building are full of various flowers and plants, which is pleasing to the eye. Now, if a traveler walks into the outpatient building of this hospital, he will feel very familiar, because it is completely arranged according to the hospital of later generations. In the lobby of the entrance is the medical guidance desk, where a female nurse in a white nurse uniform recommends the department you should choose. Then there is the registration office where you queue up for registration. On both sides of the hall and the second floor, there are various departments including internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, facial features, and dermatology.

On the left side of the outpatient building, there is another small building, which is the treatment center of the hospital, where the emergency room, operating room, and intensive care unit are all located. Behind the small building is a one-story house surrounded by a high wall. Because the wall is so high, people cannot see the house inside except for the small door in the wall. Two guards stood at the small gate, and there was a sign: "Isolation and Treatment Area for Dangerous Infectious Diseases".

On the right side of the outpatient clinic, there is a bungalow with a sign and a disinfection area, where all kinds of items in the hospital are disinfected. Behind it is the pharmacy warehouse. Behind all of this are a garden and a small building standing in the garden. There is the inpatient department.

The medical staff of the hospital has also changed. In the original "Salvation" hospital, there were only a few Mongolian doctors who had no medical license at all. Now, these people have lost their qualifications to continue practicing medicine here. Some of them have left, and some have stayed to help the new doctors who are qualified to practice medicine.

The original dean stayed, but he is no longer the dean now. Mr. Scrooge McDonald personally served as the dean of the hospital, but he did not participate in the management of specific things. Things were in charge of a doctor from Prussia named Joseph Mengele. This is a doctor with a wealth of medical experience and an extremely amiable smile, and he also has a doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Munich. He presided over the work of the hospital as the vice president, while his friend Dr. Albert Heim was in charge of the medical business. If a traveler came here to see a doctor, he would be scared to death by these two names. However, what they do is not much different from their descendants with the same name and surname. The original Dean Hirschfeld is now sent to supervise the study of those little nurses.

In the original era, the world's first nursing school, founded by the great goddess of the lamp, Ms. Nightingale, would not be established until 1860. But in this time and space, when Scrooge visited the UK, he also took the time to visit this great woman and proposed to her to build a nursing school to change the chaotic status quo of the nursing industry at that time, and to better serve patients. relieve pain. And donated a huge sum of about ten thousand pounds to this end. Therefore, at the end of 1958, this school, which should have appeared in 1860, appeared ahead of schedule. Of course, at least for now, this school cannot provide qualified nurses for hospitals, because the trainees have just started their studies and are far from graduating.

Ms. Nightingale sent the tutorials compiled based on her various nursing experiences to Scrooge by mail. So these things have become textbooks for nurses to learn as soon as possible.

The "Salvation" hospital has a good environment, high-level medical staff, and various magical medicines behind it, so the medical effect of this hospital is quite excellent. Needless to say, the poor workers around, even some rich people are willing to come here to see a doctor if they get sick. Of course, rich people have to pay for medical treatment.

Along with the hospital's rise to fame, Scrooge's reputation in Cleveland has begun to border on that of a saint. When he went to the church every week to pretend to pray, almost everyone who passed by him would say: "May God bless you, Mr. MacDonald." Neighbors also called him "Mr. MacDonald" instead of "Scrooge". As for his father, Old Joseph, he was naturally promoted to "Old Mr. MacDonald". Some people even say that more than 1,800 years ago, a Joseph carpenter raised a saint; and today's Joseph cobbler, although a little worse, also raised a saint.

However, the construction of this hospital was not dedicated to gaining fame. This hospital has a great mission, which is to test drugs for the McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company.

At the end of July, after Scrooge returned to the United States, within a month, McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company completed the development of two new drugs. These two drugs are famous in later generations, they are diacetylmorphine (heroin) and methamphetamine (ice). In the original history, the chemist Werther first synthesized heroin in 1874, and it was only used as an anesthetic for surgery at first. Afterward, in the 1990s, the Bayer company in Germany discovered that this thing is effective for almost any physical pain and discomfort. It has a strong relieving effect, so it will be marketed as a magic medicine that can cure all diseases, and it will make a fortune. (This is when Bayer has no patents on heroin at all. Now, Scrooge has a full set of patents on this thing)

When dealing with these two drugs, Scrooge adopted the same means as Bayer did back then.

First of all, in the stage of drug testing, heroin is a morphine product, and at that time, people's addiction to morphine was already very clear. Therefore, if you want this kind of thing to sell well, and finally buy a single drug that accounts for more than 5.5% of the total sales of all medicines in the world like in history, you must convince people that this thing is not addictive. At that time, Bayer's method was as follows: First, each pill was made very small, the total amount of heroin in it was strictly controlled, and the dosage was also marked very little. Secondly, some slow-release technologies are used to slow down the absorption of heroin in the drug by the human body. In this way, before heroin enters the brain, a lot of heroin is metabolized in the human body, and then in various experiments, the addictiveness is naturally not obvious. Of course, if someone insists on taking a lot of medicine, it's none of the business of McDonald Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.

According to experience of Bayer in another time and space, bribing doctors is very important for promoting drugs. Back then, to promote heroin, Bayer offered high rebates to every doctor who prescribed heroin produced by Bayer to patients, and the amount even reached two to three layers of the profit of selling this drug. (This trick was still used by GlaxoSmithKline not long ago.) For kickbacks, doctors frantically prescribe heroin to various patients. What? Have a cold? Easy! Let's get a box of heroin. What? Have a fever? All right, let's get a box of heroin. What child can't sleep well at night? It's okay, let's get a box... With this trick, the sales of heroin have almost increased exponentially. How could Scrooge not emulate such a successful experience?

In the "Salvation" hospital, the new drug "heroin" was tested on many patients. Most of these patients are poor, they do not have any basic medical knowledge, and they are easy to deceive. The results of human trials are natural: Heroin has a very good cough-relieving effect on coughs, has no obvious side effects, and is harmless. It is the safest and best of all cough medicines; The pain caused has miraculous curative effects, which is simply a miracle given to mankind by God. Even for healthy people, this drug has a great effect. For example, taking a little before exercise can also make breathing easier.

Of course, Scrooge understands that when advertising any drug, if it boasts that it has no side effects, it will often cause patients to worry a lot, so when the drug is ready to be officially launched on the market, Scrooge thinks about it. , read the various reports carefully again, and then crossed out the words "no side effects" in the column about side effects in the instruction manual prepared by the assistant, and then added such words after May have a small chance of causing mild constipation.

Thus, this terrible devil officially entered the market through the recommendation of the "Salvation" Hospital and began its history of harming mankind. O Hippocrates, standing silently on the marble pedestal in front of the Salvation Hospital, turns around and sees what is going on in this hospital! Those who swear to "give no poison to anyone, and authorize no one to use it" are administering terrible poisons to every sick person; A demon that devours countless lives. If you could look back, if you could shout, wouldn't you also shout to the sky: "Gods of Olympus, Zeus, father of the gods, where are your thunder and lightning now?!"