Laboratory, main laboratory.
In the room, Pandora finished washing many test tubes and placed them on the test tube rack, her eyes shining with pride. Stretch out a finger and point at the test tube.
"Ita!" one!
"Tork!" Two!
"Sarah!" Three!
"Spar!" Four!
"Wah..." When Pandora just counted to the fifth one, she blinked and felt that the test tube wall seemed to be dirty and had not been cleaned. She reached out and carefully took it out of the test tube rack. She pursed her lips in displeasure and prepared to clean it again. Again.
At this moment, with a "bang", the door of the laboratory was knocked open, and Richard stumbled in with an extremely pale face.
"Wow!"
The glass tube in her hand was crushed directly. Pandora turned around and looked at Richard in surprise.
At this time, Richard wore a thick mask and covered his mouth and nose tightly. He didn't say much at all. He just said briefly to Pandora: "Pandora, you go to the courtyard and wait for me. Come in after I tell you to come in."
"scare?"
"Hurry up." Richard breathed heavily and rapidly under his hands, and finally took a deep breath and said, "Be obedient—"
Pandora frowned, her eyes flickered, and finally listened to Richard's words and stepped out into the courtyard.
Richard immediately closed the door of the laboratory, sealed and sealed all doors, windows, entrances and exits, sealing the entire laboratory.
After doing all this, he took off his mask and started breathing heavily.
There was nothing he could do about it, so he couldn't help but be careless. Generally speaking, the infectivity of pneumonia is very weak, but in the current world, some people are beginning to use it as a weapon. Who knows if there are any mutations? He didn't want Pandora to give it a try.
It is true that Pandora relies on the strong body of the dragon family, even if she is infected, there is a high chance of being immune, but it is better not to take risks if you can.
Thinking like this, Richard calmed down and fully felt his body's condition, and found that the typical symptoms of pneumonia, such as cough, fever, difficulty breathing, and chest pain, were all present, and they were getting worse. The most serious thing is fatigue, which is a common symptom of pneumonia patients, with a probability of more than 90%, and even if it is cured, it will last for a long time.
At this time, Richard felt that his whole body was as heavy as lead. It was difficult to move his fingers, and he really wanted to fall to the ground and sleep.
But he knew very well in his heart that he must not do this. If he fell asleep now, he might never wake up. We must find a way to get rid of pneumonia.
To solve pneumonia, we must find out what is going on.
His pneumonia was caused by mushroom spores. According to research on modern earth, although it is relatively rare, there are still related cases.
In fact, the one most similar to his current situation should be mushroom lungs.
Mushroom lung is a lung disease that is extremely common among harvesters during the mushroom harvesting period on modern Earth. The mechanism is that a large number of fungal spores invade the respiratory system and cause a series of pathologies. The incubation period of this disease varies. If it is long, it can be extended to three months. If it is short, it can occur in 30 minutes.
Once an attack occurs, symptoms such as severe cough, sputum, chest pain, chest tightness, and difficulty breathing will occur, as well as systemic and digestive tract symptoms such as headache, dizziness, palpitation, muscle aches, fever, nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite.
Compared with mushroom lung, the difference is that mushroom lung is an allergic reaction and will return to normal after being out of contact; while mushroom lung is a more severe form of pneumonia and will only get worse without effective targeted treatment.
How to treat it
Richard glanced at the many wooden shelves in the laboratory and looked at the many materials on the wooden shelves, his eyes flashing.
For diseases caused by germs, the most effective treatment is of course antibiotics. This is basically common sense to all modern people on earth.
On the modern earth, because antibacterial drugs are used so widely and even abused, superbugs with extremely strong drug resistance have emerged.
In the current wizarding world similar to the Middle Ages, there is no such concern - all germs have not withstood the test of antibacterial drugs. Compared with their companions of germs on the modern earth, they are considered novices among novices.
If germs invade the human body, they are equivalent to robbers swaggering into an undefended village. Antibacterial drugs are used to treat germs. They are a time-tested and ever-expanding warrior. On the way back, when I was bored, I killed a group of thieves who looked like thieves. I had never used antibacterial drugs before. In the world of , the effect of using antibacterial drugs for the first time has a 120% bonus.
One question now is, where to get antibacterial drugs
The preparation of antibacterial drugs is both simple and difficult.
To put it simply, as common sense is known to everyone on the modern planet, the most commonly used antibiotic is penicillin.
Difficult point, how was penicillin obtained in the first place
To start from the beginning, we have to push the time to... July, the summer of 1928 on modern Earth. Fleming, a careless British scientist, grew large quantities of Staphylococcus aureus in the laboratory in order to write a paper on Staphylococcus aureus.
During the cultivation process, Fleming forgot about the cultivation and went to the countryside for vacation without even closing the lid of the petri dish. It wasn’t until I returned from vacation in September that I thought about cultivating. When I returned to the laboratory, I saw a piece of mold growing in the corner of the petri dish, and the Staphylococcus aureus near the mold died completely.
Fleming may have been careless, but his acumen was not bad. He immediately conducted many experiments and research, and finally determined that the mold growing in the petri dish could secrete special substances that could kill a variety of pathogenic bacteria. He was extremely excited and named the mold "Penicillium" and the secreted substance "penicillin" while writing and publishing a paper.
By the time the paper was published in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, it was already February 13, 1929.
Is this the end of the story
Obviously not, the development of penicillin has just begun.
It is true that Fleming was extremely lucky to discover Penicillium, which had existed in nature for a long time. However, how to purify it was a problem and it could not be used for clinical treatment at all.
It was not until 1938 that a team led by Chan, Florey and Heatley of the University of Oxford in the UK successfully refined penicillin - 10 years after the discovery of penicillin and 9 years after the paper was published.
After extraction, the story is still not over because the original Penicillium produced too little penicillin.
The Fleming Laboratory used the propagation of the first penicillin seedling to achieve a penicillin yield of only 4 units per milliliter, or even lower. If it was produced continuously for a month, it could barely supply one patient.
After many efforts, the American research team designed a corn steep liquor culture medium, which increased the production of penicillin tenfold to 40 units per milliliter, which was still not accessible to ordinary people.
Later, researcher Mary Hunter discovered a moldy cantaloupe covered in penicillium at a market in Peoria, Illinois, USA. She used this cantaloupe to screen and cultivate for many times, and finally the yield of penicillin reached 250 units per milliliter. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have used ultraviolet light to irradiate strains of bacteria to mutate them and increase the yield to 2,500 units per milliliter.
2500 units per milliliter! This is already considered the limit of an era.
And how many units of penicillin do a person need for normal treatment
According to modern treatment methods on Earth, even a common infection requires the injection of 9.6 million units of penicillin a day.
9.6 million!
9,600,000, compared to 2,500!
3840 times!
It is entirely conceivable how big the gap is.
In fact, it was not until a long time after the discovery of Penicillium that penicillin was commercially produced and used on a large scale after countless strain improvements increased the production of penicillin to 50,000 units per milliliter. Before commercial production and large-scale use, penicillin was more expensive than gold. It’s really no joke.
This is the problem!
Richard narrowed his eyes.
If he wanted to treat himself with penicillin, even if he was extremely lucky and could get the natural Penicillium vaccine instantly, he would have to wait at least a month before trying to treat himself. To be more realistic, it might take a year to obtain a sufficient amount of penicillin.
The body should be cool by then.
Well, it's quite cold.