However, it took some time to make wine from sugarcane bagasse, so they sent people on land to buy some small winery's clay pots and transported them back for distillation and purification directly.
The reason why Yu Xiaotian is so anxious to purify alcohol is not to supply it to his subordinates for drinking, nor to sell it for money, but for medical purposes.
In the past, sea wolf's medical staff, including medical staff, used spirits instead of medical alcohol to treat wounds. However, the alcohol content of spirits did not reach the purity of medical alcohol, and the disinfection effect was not good. On the contrary, it might even cause injuries.
To cause infection, alcohol cotton balls and disinfectant bandages sometimes require medical alcohol.
Therefore, if you want to obtain medical alcohol, you have to find a way to purify the alcohol yourself and then supply it to medical clinics.
In addition, in order to process Artemisia annua, which can treat malaria, soaking it in water is too inefficient and it is not easy to extract most of its effective ingredients. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian discussed with Dr. Liu and decided to use alcohol to soak Artemisia annua.
Extract usable ingredients from it.
However, relying solely on spirits not only contains many impurities but also has the disadvantage of insufficient alcohol content. It is best to use pure alcohol for leaching.
Therefore, it became necessary to establish an alcohol preparation workshop. Fortunately, this kind of thing is not technically difficult. It just uses glass tubes as condensers to replace the original condensation pipes, so Yu Xiaotian immediately sent people to do it.
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Fortunately, the glass factory has now set up a branch in Tamsui. There is no need to go to Nanyue Island anymore. This kind of thing can be solved locally, and the glass factory here has learned from the experience of the Nanyue Island Glass Factory.
After that, many detours were avoided, the production equipment was more complete, and the output was larger. If soda ash had not become a production bottleneck in the glass factory, he would now produce hundreds or thousands of tons of glass every year, and there should be no trace of it.
question.
Except that it took some time to blow the glass condenser, other things could be solved by foundries and carpenters, so an alcohol preparation workshop was quickly established and put into production.
After the first batch of alcohol was prepared, in order to obtain pure alcohol with higher purity, Yu Xiaotian asked the people in the workshop to continue working, and at the same time ordered two more sets of rectifiers to directly form a continuous distillation operation. In this way, it was
The alcohol coming out of the terminal cannot reach 100% pure alcohol, but at least it is no problem to get more than 95% pure alcohol.
After the pure alcohol was prepared, it was immediately transported to the medical center for storage. Part of it was blended with distilled water into medical alcohol, and the other part was used to soak Artemisia annua for use.
As for how long it should be soaked to extract the ingredients in Artemisia annua that are effective in treating malaria, no one knows. They can only figure it out step by step, but this is Dr. Liu's business.
In addition, Yu Xiaotian also found a way to come up with some alcohol meters. The principle of the alcohol meter is actually very simple. It uses the principle of different specific gravity of alcohol and water. A lead pendant is added under a hollow glass tube, and then a scale is made on it.
The purer the alcohol content, the more the alcohol meter will sink. The lower the alcohol content, the less the alcohol meter will sink. In this way, the alcohol content can be measured.
And after pure alcohol was prepared, Yu Xiaotian was finally able to let the glass factory trial-produce an alcohol thermometer.
Alcohol thermometers are familiar to future generations. They are just a glass tube with a small hole in the middle. There is a small hollow bag underneath to store alcohol. It relies on the principle of thermal expansion and contraction of alcohol to measure the temperature.
That’s all.
This is indeed a bit difficult to make, and Yu Xiaotian doesn't know how to do it, but he can leave professional work to professional craftsmen. Now the glass craftsmen in the glass factory are quite skilled in making this thing.
It's not difficult.
As for how to determine the temperature, it's even simpler. The altitude of freshwater is very low, almost at sea level, and the air pressure is almost the standard atmospheric pressure.
Sea Wolf has now formed a routine of transporting ice north every winter. Ice cellars are excavated everywhere to store ice. The ice can be accessed at any time. Although the cost is high, it solves the problem of using ice.
After the alcohol thermometer is ready, place it in a container mixed with ice and water. At this time, the alcohol column indicates zero. After marking it, put the thermometer into boiling water. The highest point of the alcohol column rises.
, which is the boiling point of 100 degrees, mark it out, and then divide it into equal parts according to 100 degrees to make a usable thermometer.
This thing is very useful and can be used in many places, especially in medicine, so it takes a little effort to make it. In addition to meeting your own needs, this thing can also be used as an export product in the future.
products to earn money for Sea Wolf.
During these days, in Xiaotian's busy schedule, he would take some time to visit the malaria-stricken boy in the hospital as a guinea pig to observe the progress of his condition.
Doctor Liu insisted that the boy continue to take water soaked in Artemisia annua every day, and increased the dosage. In the first few days, the boy's condition did not improve much, but it did not worsen, and even relapsed a bit, but he never died, but then
After taking the medicine for a longer period of time, his condition began to gradually improve, the frequency of his tremors began to decrease, and his body temperature was not as high as when he first started getting sick.
This situation undoubtedly gave Yu Xiaotian and Dr. Liu a shot in the arm, and they were both very happy. This could conclusively prove that Artemisia annua did have the effect of curing malaria, which made everyone feel more confident and even more confident.
I firmly believe that what Yu Xiaotian said is right.
So they continued to use Artemisia annua to treat the boy, and at the same time, they also began to give other patients the medicinal solution soaked in this way.
Next, they found that other patients suffering from malaria had their malaria symptoms under control to varying degrees after taking the medicine made by this method, and the number of deaths began to decrease. Some people died after taking the medicine for a few days.
There has been a great improvement.
This made Dr. Liu extremely excited, including Yu Xiaotian, who was also very happy, so they stepped up the preparation of alcohol, and began to soak a large amount of Artemisia annua with alcohol, recording the soaking time in batches, and conducting experiments.
The soaked alcohol liquid was naturally evaporated to extract the remaining components. Finally, some extracts were obtained, and the extracts were directly given to patients in small amounts to observe the efficacy of the drug.
This is a long process, because the medicine extracted in this way is still very rough and contains many unused impurities, and the content of each batch of raw materials seems to be different.
At present, Yu Xiaotian and the others can only do this. If they want to further purify these extracts, they need to establish a complete chemical industry and medical chemical industry. Yu Xiaotian
Tian thought that he no longer had this ability and could only rely on future generations to gradually explore.
Moreover, Dr. Liu and the others also found that some raw materials are effective and some are simply ineffective due to different origins. This shows that the same Artemisia annua and Artemisia annua growing in specific areas contain ingredients that can treat malaria, but Artemisia annua in some places does not.
has such ingredients.
What’s more, the time of collection is different, and the amount of active ingredients contained is also different, so the curative effects of the prepared drugs are also very different. How can we determine specifically what season, where, and what kind of soil the Artemisia annua grows on has the ingredients to treat malaria?
Such things are not something Yu Xiaotian can do by himself.
Professionals should do things professionally. This is the principle that Yu Xiaotian has always adhered to, so let Dr. Liu and other doctors gradually explore it.
All in all, the young man gradually began to recover. The young man originally thought that he was bound to die, but unexpectedly he was saved. This time he was extremely grateful to Xiaotian. This was a blessing of survival.
, En Tong has been recreated.
After his parents learned the news, they burst into tears. If Yu Xiaotian had not had time to receive them, they had originally planned to go to Tamsui City to kowtow to Yu Xiaotian to thank him.
Hearing that Sea Wolf was still recruiting new recruits, his parents immediately decided to send the young man to Sea Wolf's new camp to serve as a soldier after he recovered from his illness. It was believed that his fate was given by Yu Xiaotian, so they decided
Let this young man repay Yu Xiaotian's kindness to them in this way.
After the final tense installation and inspection, several flying boats in the boathouse finally launched off the slipway into the Tamsui River.
The entire Boat House was buzzing with gongs and drums, firecrackers were blasting, and it was very lively. This was the first time a boat was launched in the Tamsui Boat House since its construction, so it was very important. Yu Xiaotian personally rushed to the Boat House to participate in the launch of the boats.
Launching ceremony.
Someone brought a lion dance team to perform in the boat house. Guo Fu even asked Yu Xiaotian to dot the lion's head in person and wake up the lion. The atmosphere was extremely lively.
Before a ship was launched in ancient times, it was customary to offer sacrifices to gods, especially Mazu Dragon King, in order to gain psychological comfort and protect the safety of the ship. Even when ships were launched in later generations, both China and foreign countries were accustomed to holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
For such activities, some Western countries even invite priests to pray for their ships.
In this regard, Chinese and foreign customs are similar, but the gods worshiped are different.
Therefore, after the ships in Sea Wolf's boathouse are built, there will be some celebrations, but in half of the cases they are not so grand, just because this is the first time that the seawolf's freshwater boathouse has built a boat and launched it, and this time it is all at once
Three boats were built and launched into the water together, so it was very grand.
Yu Xiaotian naturally has to participate in such an event, not to mention that he happens to be still here in Danshui Village right now, so there is no reason not to participate in such a celebration.