1855 United States Tycoon

Although Morgan wanted to cheat Joshua, with the support of Scrooge's information, Joshua quickly discovered the danger and withdrew all the money from the stock market before the end of the month and turned to short. And Joshua has always been curious about what kind of "good news" will come out at the beginning of the month that will cause the stock market to crash.

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"Have we verified all the experiments?" Dr. Poole asked.

"Yes, Doctor, there is nothing wrong with the experiment itself." John replied.

"The experiment itself has no problem, the derivation process has almost no loopholes, and the chain of evidence constituted by each experiment is also very detailed. Although there is no way to see this new microorganism called a'virus', this new species exists. The evidence is very clear. This is a groundbreaking, groundbreaking, extremely important, high-quality, discussion-worthy and forward-looking paper like his last paper." Dr. Poole said he could All the beautiful words that come to mind are used in this new paper by Scrooge. Although he missed celebrating his wife’s birthday because of this paper, and was exiled to the balcony to spend most of the night with the owl, but he seemed to have no intention of angering this paper at all.

"Ah, Doctor. It made you miss your wife's birthday, don't you hate it at all?" John asked jokingly.

"Ah, of course not. You have to know that science is eternal. Compared with eternal science, individuals and even the entire human race are very small. We are just passing passengers in this world, just like Jurassic Like those huge lizards, many years later, our existence can only be shown by fossils. At that time, what is the meaning of a little bit of a person? At that time, human beings may be finished, and the earth belongs to New, maybe there are three intelligent lives in the body. I was banished to...what's that? It's not worth mentioning." Dr. Poole realized that he had accidentally missed it. Quickly use other topics to divert John's attention.

"But I am really dissatisfied with the author of this paper, very dissatisfied!" Dr. Poole shook his head exaggeratedly, "If he appears in front of me, he must be scolded!"

"Why?" John's attention was diverted, without noticing, um, maybe deliberately pretending not to notice the "exiled to..." thing Dr. Poole mentioned.

"Because you look at his paper, you see, he can actually start from such the most conventional experiment, keenly discover the problem, and grasp the key to the problem, make scientifically bold hypotheses, and then use conformity The rigorous chain of experimental evidence of the scientific spirit proves it. How valuable is such a research intuition! John, you and I are both engaged in science, can we still know? On the talents in this area, we both He is far behind him. Look at the phenomenon he initially researched. Have we all encountered it? This damn guy! His talent in this area is even comparable to Darwin and even Sir Newton! I am not jealous of him. But this guy actually squandered the gift God gave him so much. With such talent, he puts his mind on earning his damn money! What's the use of money? Is it enough to spend? Is it money? Can it be eternal? Isn’t it possible to wait until the time when the Trisolaran ruled the earth that I mentioned earlier, his fossils can still take money to do business with the Trisolaran? He is simply wasting his life! This damn it Playboy!" Dr. Poole said bitterly.

"Doc, then we have a special number for this paper like the previous one?" John asked.

"Of course, because it is too important."

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Having just finished today's fourth operation, Dr. Schweitzer came out of the operating room exhausted. The patient just now is an appendicitis patient. Appendicitis used to be a big problem, and most patients will die from infection after surgery. But this is not a big problem now. Just make an opening in the stomach, then cut off the inflamed appendix, clean up the abdominal cavity, suture it, and use heroin for pain relief, and use a lot of sulfa to prevent infection. enough. Since Mr. Scrooge McDonald discovered the dangers of bacterial infections, and took out a good centralized disinfection method and sulfa, a weapon against bacteria, the chance of postoperative infections has been much smaller. As a surgeon, Schweitzer does not need to sigh. Own work is useless most of the time.

Back in Own's office, Dr. Schweitzer fell into the high-back chair and closed his eyes. He is really tired. He has been busy for four consecutive operations for the entire twelve hours from last night to today. Sometimes, the job of a surgeon is really not done by humans.

Doctor Schweitzer fell asleep in the chair. After a while, a little nurse gently opened the door and walked in. She saw that Dr. Schweitzer fell asleep, and knew that he must have had several operations today, so she didn’t wake him up, but gently put a magazine on his office, and then gently helped him. He drew the curtains, and gently closed the door like a cat and walked out.

I don't know how long it took before Dr. Schweitzer finally woke up. He rubbed his eyes, stretched his waist, and then found that there was a new "Lancet" magazine on his desk.

"The new issue is coming out so fast." Doctor Schweitzer thought, reaching out and picking up the magazine. The magazine is very heavy and thick, almost as thick as several previous books. "Is there another long paper like "Research on the Causes of Some Infectious Diseases and the Effects of Certain Chemicals on Their Treatment"?" Dr. Schweitzer thought irresponsibly.

Open the magazine, the first paper is "The study of a certain new microorganism caused by yellow fever and experimental results, and its pathogenic mechanism, transmission mode, prevention and treatment methods", um it’s The author is... Mr. Scrooge McDonald!

Dr. Schweitzer immediately cheered up and read the paper seriously.

"No special bacteria were found in the blood of patients with yellow fever... I suspect it is some kind of toxin... The blood of patients with yellow fever was diluted with saline and filtered through a strainer, and then the filtered solution was injected into laboratory animals. , The experimental animals showed symptoms of yellow fever... and the intensity of the symptoms was not significantly different from the previous control group... This toxin must be able to reproduce by itself, and it must be a microorganism smaller than known bacteria that can pass through the strainer. , I named it'virus'... I tried to cultivate it with agar... There is no doubt that any inanimate nutrients can not make it multiply, which shows that it is definitely not a bacteria... So I thought that since the patient The blood contains this'virus', so whether mosquitoes that feed on blood will be the killer of this virus, so I designed such an experiment...Facts have proved that mosquitoes do have the ability to transmit this'virus' , Because avoiding mosquito bites is the key to avoiding the dangerous yellow fever... For this reason, I made this suggestion... Just like bacteria attack not only animals, but also plants, I guess there may be some special There are viruses that attack plants..."

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"Viruses that specifically attack plants? Tobacco mosaic disease is always undetectable. Is it this?" An expert from the Royal Academy of Sciences who specializes in tobacco cultivation suddenly thought of this question. "Well, maybe I can also verify it by the above method."

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The groundbreaking, breakthrough, extremely important, high-quality, and forward-looking paper published by "The Lancet" immediately caused a big discussion in the European scientific community. After the radio, the news was transmitted back to United States almost immediately.

At this time, the United States is always discriminated against by Europeans as semi-barbarians, but in this era, what can show the degree of own civilization better than the emergence of great scientists? Scrooge's widely praised paper also made countless United States people feel bright. So soon, a lot of media came to interview Scrooge on this complicated scientific issue.

The next day, a talk show about the virus, a microorganism, appeared in the radio program:

"Hello listeners, this is the Discovery Channel. I am your old friend Bill. In today's program, we are fortunate to have invited Mr. Scrooge McDonald, the most famous contemporary scientist from United States. He will tell us Explain what the virus is and how it was discovered. Mr. MacDonald, welcome, thank you for taking the time to participate in our program."

"Mr. Bill, it is my honor. I am also a loyal listener of Discovery Channel."

"Mr. MacDonald, can you tell me when did you start to think that there is another microorganism different from bacteria in this world? Is there any difference between this microorganism called a virus and the bacteria we have seen in the microscope before? ?"

"Ah, it starts with the disaster my company had in Panama. At that time, I signed a labor contract with a labor service company established by the Japanese government at the time, and hired a group of Japanese workers to dig the Panama Canal. Unfortunately, a terrible infectious disease—yellow fever hit these workers and tens of thousands of workers fell ill. At that time, I rushed to Panama with some brave doctors—here, I want to ask The brave medical staff pay tribute to them because they have been helping the patients to fight against death at the risk of catching the disease. In the process, I discovered that the various methods that we have worked in the past did not seem to have any effect on yellow fever. ..."

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