books44 Chapter 334 The Spirit of the People of Changguo
Chapter 334 The Spirit of the People of Changguo
Song Tingnan rolled her eyes. She hated people who kept her in suspense and only told her half of what they wanted to say. She said irritably, "Senior, Uncle, I'm not a chemistry or biology researcher. When I see a rotten orange, all I think about is throwing it away. Please, just tell me already."
Du Hongxue shrugged, looking disgusted. "A college student, my foot? You have no depth at all. That's why he's an academician. Why don't you do research with a brain like yours?"
What's wrong with college students? Can they learn all kinds of knowledge? Song Tingnan pretended to hit someone, and Du Hongxue continued: "Academician Wang You immediately thought of the penicillin research process. He wondered if antibiotics could be extracted from these green mold spots?"
Without hesitation, he took a few rotten oranges as treasures, gently scraped the mold off the mold spots, and placed them in different containers. After the mold grew into long and short green mold, he took a little and smeared it on a glass slide, then observed it under a microscope.
However, the owner of Bingkang Pharmaceutical Factory wouldn't stand for it. He ran the factory to make money, not to conduct research, and in a fit of anger, he fired Wang You. Tingnan, don't you think this owner is short-sighted? If it were me, I'd sell everything I own to support him!
“That’s right, this is scientific research, I believe you! Senior, you’re so righteous! It’s just that I haven’t met you yet.” Du Hongxue indeed has sound values, and his whole family deeply respects intellectuals and is very patriotic.
"That boss had a lot of substandard medicines that he wanted to sell on the market, but Wang You stopped him. This made the boss earn a lot less money, and he had wanted to get rid of Wang You for a long time."
"Yes, researchers have to be rigorous. Their products must pass strict evaluation before they can be released to the market, especially pharmaceuticals. How can they allow substandard products to pass off as genuine ones?"
"Exactly, that greedy, dog-like boss. Wang You didn't take anything; he just moved the mold culture dishes to the borrowed lab and continued his research on antibiotics."
Song Tingnan asked eagerly, "When did he succeed? How long has it been?"
"One day in 1947, Wang You discovered under a microscope that the staphylococci that were originally growing vigorously around the mold had been killed! Wang You believed that he had cultivated a new type of antibiotic."
Coincidentally, a few days earlier, the window frame in the laboratory had fallen apart, and a carpenter he knew came to help nail it back on. Wang You noticed a boil on the carpenter's face, red and swollen. He quickly took out some mold, diluted it in a solution, dipped a cotton ball in it, and applied it to the boil.
He also asked the carpenter to take a small bottle of the solution home and apply it a few more times. The next day, the boils on the carpenter's face were no longer red and swollen.
Success! Wang You named the antibiotic he cultivated from rotten oranges "Orangemycin" and wrote a paper titled "Antibiotic Orangemycin," which was published in the American journal *Science*. American media reported that the new drug "Orangemycin," developed by the Chinese chemist Wang You, was as effective as penicillin. Wang You thus became the founder of antibiotic research in my country.
"That's fantastic! It really boosts the morale of the Chinese people! Senior, how did you know all this so clearly?" Song Tingnan was deeply moved.
"Hehehe, this is the pride of us Shanghainese. Few people don't know this. That boss was so angry he was about to vomit blood. What a great opportunity, and he just pushed it away himself."
"Hmm, such an opportunity for both fame and fortune shows that he's not fortunate enough to handle it. Senior, could you introduce me to Academician Wang You?"
"That's impossible, I haven't even seen it myself, but..."