Li Yu got on Yu Xunling's carriage, which contained photographic equipment. It seemed that Yu Xunling came to Li Yu immediately after taking the photo.
No wonder De Ling was not with Ci Xi in Xiyuan today.
Li Yu asked in the car: "How is it? Is De Ling's condition serious now?"
Yu Xunling sighed: "I don't know the specifics. I'm a girl who usually cries so hard at the slightest pain, but this time she was in so much pain that she couldn't cry. She was very anxious. But the more this happened, the more frustrated she became. People are worried.”
Yu Geng had been an ambassador for seven years and had rich experience in communicating with foreigners. Therefore, the Yu family lived near Dongjiao Min Lane to facilitate handling of affairs.
The two got off the carriage. Yu Xunling had no time to pack up the equipment and immediately ran into the west wing, "De Ling, are you feeling better?"
De Ling was holding an opium pipe in bed at the moment, puffing away smoke while feeling psychedelic, but he had no symptoms of pain.
But Li Yu knew very well that it was the nerve-paralysis effect caused by the opioid component contained in opium.
This is clearly a method of killing eight hundred enemies and inflicting one thousand six hundred losses on oneself!
Even in the era when Li Yu lived, only very professional doctors could control the dosage of regular anesthetics.
Yu Xunling snatched the opium gun from De Ling's hand and shouted loudly towards the main room: "Father! Mother! Didn't I tell you that De Ling can't be allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore!"
Yu Geng and Mrs. Yu walked in after hearing the noise. Mrs. Yu wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said: "She was in so much pain during the day that she wanted to bang her head against the wall! How can a mother-in-law see this in her eyes and let her twitch?" After taking two puffs, at least it won’t hurt that much.”
Yu Xunling was heartbroken: "Mom, you have stayed abroad for so many years. Don't you know what smoke is? This thing, this thing can kill people!"
Mrs. Yu burst into tears and said, "I don't want to do it for you, but what can I do? I've searched all over the capital and still can't cure it."
On the bed, De Ling covered her head with one hand, and weakly stretched out her other hand to Yu Xunling: "Brother, give it to me, let me take two more puffs, my head hurts too much right now!"
Yu Xunling's hand holding the pipe couldn't help but tremble, and he didn't want to give it to her. De Ling grabbed the pipe and said, "Give it to me quickly."
Yu Xunling still didn't let go. After pulling a few times, Deling suddenly became impatient and shouted: "Give it to me! Do you want to see me die of pain?"
Yu Xunling was so frightened by her sudden sound that she let go of her hand. De Ling snatched the pipe and immediately put it to his mouth and started to smoke.
Yu Xunling wanted to take it back again, but seeing how comfortable De Ling looked at this moment, he couldn't bear it.
He sighed sadly, turned and walked out of the door.
Li Yu glanced at Yu Geng and Mrs. Yu. They had no intention of snatching her. He knew that it would be impossible for him to prevent her from smoking, so he also walked out of the room.
Yu Xunling slumped on a chair in the corridor and said to Li Yu: "As you can see, apart from seeing me snatching her cigarette, the girl doesn't see her father, mother or you at all."
Li Yu couldn't imagine how De Ling, who was enjoying the beautiful spring in France, would become like this when he came back. He asked, "When did De Ling start?"
Yu Xunling said: "About ten days ago, at that time she often went in and out of Xiyuan to accompany Lafayette. Then she started to have a headache for some reason."
"What did the doctor say?" Li Yu asked again.
Yu Xunling said helplessly: "The doctor told me everything, and I took dozens of medicines, but they didn't work at all."
Li Yu could roughly guess that it might be caused by the pressure of the environment in the palace. Headache is a pain that is difficult to explain. Even in the 21st century, it is difficult to say the cause. The only option is to alleviate it as much as possible, and it is best to maintain mental relaxation.
The most famous person with headaches in history is probably Cao Cao.
Back then, Cao Cao took power after annihilating Yuan Shao and holding the emperor hostage to order the princes, but it was also at this time that he began to suffer from severe headaches.
Anyone who has read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" knows that Cao Cao couldn't bear the headache, so he invited the miracle doctor Hua Tuo. Hua Tuo said that he should first drink Ma Fei San, then chop open his head with a sharp ax and take out the "wind saliva" so that he could get rid of it. The root of the disease.
But Cao Cao was so suspicious that Hua Tuo wanted to take this opportunity to kill him, so he imprisoned Hua Tuo in prison, and Hua Tuo died in prison.
The story of Cao Cao has a lot of romance elements. According to the Three Kingdoms, it seems that Cao Cao suffered from a brain tumor, and many people later inferred this.
But anyone who knows a little about surgery knows that it was basically impossible to perform craniotomy in that era. Even if it was done, postoperative treatment and infection problems would be difficult to solve.
Moreover, Cao Cao was about 45 years old when he had a headache, more than 20 years before his death. At that time, a brain tumor patient could not live for such a long time.
So what Cao Cao actually got was a migraine.
Of course, migraine is also very troublesome. Until the 21st century, it cannot be said that it can be completely cured, only the symptoms can be relieved.
At least it's not a life-threatening disease.
Li Yu is not a doctor, but he guesses that De Ling may have suffered from a migraine.
When he was at a loss, Yugeng came over with a leaflet and handed it to Yuxunling, "Go and get some medicine for your sister."
Yu Xunling said dejectedly: "I have tried so many prescriptions but they don't work, so what is this?"
Yu Geng sighed: "It's an advertisement for smoking cessation medicine."
"Smoking cessation medicine?" Yu Xunling took the flyer, "Are you in charge?"
"Who knows, let's try it." Yu Geng really had no choice.
If Yu Deling continues like this, her life will definitely be ruined, and she will never be able to become Cixi's female official.
"Show me." Li Yu said.
He took over this early leaflet from a hundred years ago, and his eyes twitched, why is it Watsons again!
But this time it's not a bar or a soda, but an advertisement for Watsons Pharmacy.
The content of the flyer is indeed introducing something called "Quit Smoking Powder".
I have to say that Watsons was really a marketing genius in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China!
In fact, Watsons was not founded very early. They originally wanted to sell opium. However, by that time, the opium market in the late Qing Dynasty was already a blood-red Red Sea. Giants such as Yihe and Swire had almost monopolized the entire opium market in the Qing Dynasty. market.
So Watson did not take the usual path: If opium could not be sold, he sold smoking cessation medicine! Anyway, if there is demand, there is a market!
To be honest, opium addiction is a problem that even modern medicine cannot solve. The anti-smoking drug 150 years ago can only be an IQ tax.
The main ingredients of the smoking cessation powder sold by Watsons Pharmacy are some cheap supplements, and even add the ash and tobacco left after opium burning. People at that time were superstitious and believed that eating the "ashes" of opium could cure smoking addiction.
However, the advertisement on the flyer is also really inspiring, and it even borrows the name of the Minister of Military and Aircraft Rong Lu Rong Zhongtang.
Now the top officials of the Qing court have long understood that opium is not a good thing, and they can earn a good reputation by advertising smoking cessation.
The leaflet swore: "We have selected a good medicine that is specially designed to combat opium, and it is a combination of medicines that eliminate phlegm, support vitality and strengthen the weak. After taking it, the craving for cigarettes will gradually decrease, gradually reduce to mild, then stop. Finally quit smoking. You can also strengthen your spleen and stomach, strengthen your spirit, and never have future troubles!"
Later, there was something Rong Lu said, saying that Yan Dao had purchased a lot of powder for quitting smoking, and the effect was very good, blah blah blah.
Yu Xunling now only has a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Now that he has just started to get addicted to cigarettes, he will use any method!
"Let's go!" Yu Xunling called Li Yu, "Let's go and see if it has such a good effect."
There was no use for Li Yu staying at Yu's house now, so he followed him to Watsons Pharmacy.
Yu Xunling came in and shouted: "Bring me a big pack of quit smoking powder!"
The store owner came over and asked carefully: "How long has the patient been addicted to smoking and what are his symptoms?"
Yu Xunling said: "It hasn't been long, but I have already begun to feel inseparable from heavy smoke."
The store owner looked at Yu Xunling and saw that he was dressed luxuriously, and then said: "We have two kinds of quit smoking essence powder in our pharmacy, one is ordinary and the other is high-end. Which one do you want?"
"Of course it needs to be high-end!" Yu Xunling said without hesitation.
The store owner said: "Good taste! Our high-end smoking cessation essence powder contains the latest foreign medicine, which is called the dream god Murphy. It can definitely cure the disease and help patients eliminate their addiction to smoking."
"Then what are you waiting for? Bring it to me!" Yu Xunling said impatiently.
"Wait a minute!" Li Yu heard a question from the shopkeeper's words, and asked, "Tell me again, what is the name of the dream god mentioned by foreign medicine?"
The store owner said: "Murphy."
Murphy? Murphy?
Take morphine!
Li Yu was shocked, what a black-hearted pharmacy! Pull people out of the wolf's den and send them back to the lions! ?
What a good calculation. What if I become addicted to morphine in the future? Will we introduce morphine powder again?
Li Yu pulled Yu Xunling to the side, "It's useless, don't believe it! The quit smoking powder they say is another kind of cigarette."
Yu Xunling was stunned: "Another kind of smoke?"
Li Yu nodded: "Although it is possible to quit opium, the Murphy they mentioned is also a cigarette and is even more harmful than opium."
Yu Xunling was shocked: "How do you know?"
"Because, because I have seen it in Western universities." Li Yu said.
Of course Yu Xunling believed in Li Yu, but the little hope he finally found was once again disillusioned, and he said painfully: "What should we do? We can't let De Ling really become a smoker! When I was a child, I saw what happened to people who smoked heavily. , what a rotten person!”
Yu Xunling shuddered when he thought about it. Although their family was not short of money, the harm of opium to the body was really unacceptable.
Li Yu suddenly had an idea, morphine?
Although this substance is a banned drug, it is actually used as an ingredient in many anesthetics in the 21st century. However, the dosage is very particular, a dedicated anesthesiologist is responsible for it, and it does have analgesic effect.
Li Yu had always followed the Yu family's thinking. When he heard about opium, he panicked and thought about how to quit opium. But in fact, the real source came from De Ling's headache!
If we can effectively and scientifically eliminate De Ling's headaches, everything will be solved!
Li Yu is familiar with the analgesic drug because it is so common: isn’t it the same name as penicillin and one of the three famous classic drugs in the history of medicine in the world? Aspirin!
It just so happens that aspirin was introduced to the world by Bayer just three years ago.
Li Yu suddenly understood and said to Yu Xunling: "Save money, I have a solution!"
From the moment she found Li Yu, Yu Xunling had been waiting for Li Yu's words, and he finally came!
"any solution?"
"Let's go to Tongren Hospital first." Li Yu said.
"Tongren Hospital? We have already asked them and they don't have any good methods for quitting smoking." Yu Xunling said.
"It's not about asking them to quit smoking. Anyway, ask them first."
Tongren Hospital is one of the only two Western medicine hospitals in Beijing, and its scale is larger than the other Daoji Hospital.
What Li Yu wanted to ask was whether there was any aspirin.
But they asked all the doctors and they didn't even know there was such a thing.
One doctor even said directly: "I don't believe in this magical drug in the world. Pain is a chronic disease of mankind."
It’s no wonder that Bayer is not yet a pharmaceutical giant and has not entered the Chinese market. But when Bayer enters China in 30 years, the grass on the grave will be high!
Li Yu said: "You go back to your father immediately and take telegrams for Shanghai, the concessions in Hong Kong and Tianjin, and by the way, Wuhan too. Anyway, send telegrams wherever you can! Ask the local hospital if they have aspirin. If there is any western medicine, no matter what the price, I will definitely buy it!"
"Ashenlin?"
Li Yu also made a mistake while he was busy. He found paper and pen from the front desk of the hospital, wrote down the name "Aspirin", and then said to Yu Xunling: "It doesn't matter without delay! Immediately! This is a life-saving medicine!"
Yu Xunling took the paper and said, "I understand!" But he calmed down and said, "The telegram... may not be sent today."
Li Yu said: "Why? If you delay for a day, your craving for cigarettes will get worse!"
Yu Xunling said helplessly: "I know, but the telegraph office in Beijing is under the control of the Prime Minister's Yamen, and it usually sends official letters. Even if you send private letters, you have to make money, and it will be scheduled until tomorrow at the earliest."
I go!
Li Yu's mind flashed again, and he thought that when he was in England, Lord Kelvin had used his great dignity to promise Li Yu that he could use the telegraph machine of The Times newspaper, which came in handy today!
"Come with me!"
The newspaper office is not far away, also in Dongjiaomin Lane, and the Beijing branch of The Times is under the management of Pu Lande, an old acquaintance.
Li Yu hurriedly found him.
When Pu Lande saw Li Yu, he said, "Mr. Li Yu, have you finished writing the manuscript so quickly?"
Li Yu got straight to the point and said: "Journalist, I have written the manuscript, but I have to give it to you tomorrow. I have something to do today and I need to use your telegraph machine."
"Telegraph?" Purland recalled what Kelvin had said to him from the headquarters before, and smiled, "Okay, you seem to be in a hurry."
Li Yu didn't have time to say more to him, "I'm really anxious. I will write you a few more high-quality manuscripts afterwards. They must be cutting-edge science."
Puland said happily: "This is the best!"
He also gained motivation and personally took the two of them to the telegraph room, "Tell me, what do you want to send?"
At this time, telegraph lines had spread all over major cities. Puland personally struck the telegraph machine and sent it to Shanghai, Tianjin, Hong Kong, Wuhan, Dalian and other places.
The Times has reporters all over the place. They move very quickly and it doesn't take long for the news to come back.
After sending the telegram, Purland stood up and said, "I have asked them to reply quickly. It will probably take a few hours."
The two of them were afraid of missing the news, so they didn't go anywhere and waited at the newspaper office.
Puland said: "To be honest, I have never heard of aspirin. Is it really so magical?"
Li Yu nodded: "Yes, I also hope that it can enter the Chinese market as soon as possible. More than one person needs it."
