Aiven was holding a handwritten letter sent by Duncan Douglas, the president of the Royal Medical Society, and was initially a bit surprised.
If what he had invented was merely a method or medication for treating common diseases, it absolutely would not warrant such a prominent person eagerly sending a handwritten letter.
But when such a method or medication brings great convenience to maritime affairs, or more precisely, can create enormous wealth more efficiently, the significance is entirely different.
All the experience Aiven derived from books of a past life had him underestimate the value of the few methods he provided for preventing and treating scurvy!
He did not know, whether in his past life or this, that before the pathogenic theory of scurvy was discovered, every ocean exploration voyage had to endure unimaginable non-combat attrition due to this dreadful disease.
