Chapter 78 - 70: Handing in the Paper_2
After the cotton cooled, he rinsed it again with water and let it dry, finally obtaining a De-fat cotton ball.
A De-fat cotton ball absorbed liquid more easily than ordinary cotton. It was odorless, tasteless, unblemished, white, and elastic, and not prone to bacterial growth, making it very suitable for sanitary cotton balls—for things like alcohol disinfection and so on.
At the same time, degreasing cotton was also very suitable for... cough, use as menstrual cloths.
If this news were to spread now, Li Ang definitely didn’t want to be known by the somewhat strange reputation of "Gynecology Saint" before getting into the Academic Palace. At least, he’d wait until after he was admitted.
Inside the Academic Palace, there was a patent office where Doctors and students could register their inventions and creations.
If merchants from Yu Country wanted to produce these, it was one thing for local small merchants to secretly manufacture them on their own. However, large merchants undertaking mass production had to pay a very small portion of the patent fees. Accumulating over time, many Academic Palace Doctors and Instructors had amassed small fortunes of tens of thousands of strings of coins.
Naturally, they didn’t need to bend their backs for Five Baskets of Rice or go help nobles and the wealthy build houses using Telekinesis and talismanic magic.
Additionally, the public was more likely to accept and adopt inventions originating from the Academic Palace, which further benefited their large-scale promotion.
Should I register the patent anonymously when the time comes? It’d be really strange to end up with a nickname like the gynecology guardian...
Li Ang suddenly recalled, Speaking of which, aren’t the drawings of my forceps still with Senior Brother Cheng?