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Constantine's proposal was something that Dean Philip could not refuse. It must be said that for doctors, corpses are really tempting.

Because of professional habits and driven by curiosity, before the Renaissance, countless doctors were tried by the church and burned to death for their "bad habits" of dissecting corpses.

Now Constantine agreed to help contact the Athens Prison and provide the bodies of prisoners in the Athens City Hospital, which made Philip very excited.

Looking at Philip sitting in the office chair, lost in thought, Constantine was not in a hurry to urge him.

After a long time, Phillip finally responded.

"Your Excellency, Duke, can you tell me the source of your medicine? You said it has the effect of treating malaria. Can you tell me how you learned about it?" Philip asked.

Seeing that Philip's attitude had relaxed, Constantine naturally wanted to strike while the iron was hot.

It’s just that Constantine couldn’t say that artemisinin was a specific drug for treating malaria from later generations.

In order to increase the persuasiveness, I can only fabricate a plausible and possible story.

"It's like this. I heard a sailor who was engaged in the Eastern Sea Route say before that Chinese doctors once used an herbal medicine to treat malaria, which was very effective."

This is actually a statement compiled by Constantine based on the story that the bark of the cinchona tree in America was seen by missionaries as a cure for malaria.

But after hearing this statement, Philip finally became less resistant than before.

Thinking of the origin of quinine, Philip also felt that it was not entirely impossible that the green liquid in Constantine's hand could cure malaria.

In Philip's eyes, this story finally made Constantine's behavior less absurd.

"I can help you verify the effect of this herb, but you must help our hospital obtain the corpses of prisoners from the Athens Prison."

"I know the governor of the Athenian prison, that's no problem," Constantine readily agreed.

Philip took the glass bottle from Constantine, looked at the green liquid in it, opened it and smelled it, the strong smell of alcohol made him frown.

"You used ethanol to extract some kind of herbal medicine. This glass bottle is a mixture of medicine and ethanol, right?"

As expected of a professional, even after just one glance, Phillip had already guessed everything.

Immediately afterwards, Constantine stated his operating experience to Philip.

Of course, the key artemisia annua was replaced with some kind of herbal medicine.

Although this Philip did not look like a greedy and cunning man, Constantine did not want to conduct a philosophical experiment on whether money or morality was more reliable.

Seeing this, Philip felt even more confident. Although Constantine's experimental request was a bit abrupt, at least it did not violate scientific common sense.

"In this way, we will heat it. The boiling point of ethanol is low. When heated, it will evaporate, and the herbal ingredients in it will precipitate, and then we can get the medicine you mentioned. Is this idea okay?" Philip asked.

"No problem, that's the idea." Constantine nodded in agreement.

"So what is the dose for a single patient and what are the side effects after taking it? Regarding these key issues, does your Excellency the Duke have any suggestions? Did the Oriental sailor say anything?" Philip asked with a serious face.

"As far as I know, this herb does not have any serious side effects. It may cause mild nausea, vomiting and diarrhea," Constantine recalled recalling the information about artemisinin in his mind.

"As for the dosage issue, I don't know that, otherwise I wouldn't have come to you for testing."

Based on Constantine's answer, Philip pondered for a long time and said: "If the experiment goes well, the whole process of the experiment will be divided into three steps. In the first step, eight patients with mild malaria will undergo a control experiment, two will take quinine, and two will take... For experimental drugs, four people will conduct controlled observations and do not take any drugs for the time being. If there is no effect, the subsequent experiments will not need to be carried out, how about that?"

The first step of the experiment is just to observe whether the drug has any effect. For the safety of the patients, only malaria patients with mild symptoms can be used.

Constantine agreed to the experimental method, and Dean Philip selected several doctors as assistants to prepare for the experiment.

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Constantine, who returned to Tatoy Palace to wait for news of the experiment, saw the Capetian steward coming to inform him of the news.

"Your Excellency, during your absence, Little Costebrow from Alfa Bank came and sent a check." As he spoke, Capet handed a check in front of Constantine.

When I saw the figure of 500,000 pounds on the check, I sighed, the richest people are still bankers.

"Did he ask for anything?" Constantine asked.

"No, I just said that I support your African adventure, and then left. I also said that I would come back to visit His Excellency the Duke another day," Butler Capet said with a confused look.

Hearing this, Constantine admired the talkative people of the Costebrow family for their extraordinary courage. He gave such a huge sum of 500,000 pounds as he asked without even asking for it, and he was not afraid of wasting money.

"I understand, is there anything else?"

"His Majesty the King and Queen are waiting for you in the living room now," Butler Capet said.

After hearing the news, Constantine came to the living room of Tatoy Palace and saw Queen Olga and King George sitting on the sofa chatting.

"How was the hunting yesterday? Did you catch any prey?" Queen Olga asked Constantine with concern.

"Of course, everyone has a great time catching a red fox."

"That's really good news," Olga said after hearing this.

After saying that, he glanced at his husband George and nodded towards him.

"Constantine, you have completed your studies at the Athens Military Academy. I have discussed with your mother and plan to let you go to Heidelberg or Leipzig University in Germany to study political science and command as an army officer. You know, the Germans The school is pretty good, especially their Army officer education.”

King George I observed Constantine's reaction and felt reassured when he saw that he made no objection.

"And..." After saying this, he pondered for a long time.

Seeing her husband's hesitation, it seemed that there was still some hesitation, but Constantine's mother, Queen Olga, took over and continued: "You are almost an adult, Constantine, it is time to think about your marriage. event."

"You should know very well that the Greek people have high hopes for you. As the crown prince of Greece, you will become the king of the Greeks in the future. You are not an ordinary person, so your marriage will receive special attention."

Constantine was very surprised when he heard this. He did not expect that the queen and the king were already considering his marriage.

European royal families have the habit of intermarrying with each other. Almost all royal families in various countries are related, and political marriages are prevalent.

The marriage of royal family members is not only a personal matter, it is also closely related to the national interests. This determines that the national interests must be considered behind the marriage of royal family members.