The demon under the microscope : from battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctor's heroic search for the world's first miracle drug / Thomas Hager.
Hager, Thomas.
2006
RM666.S9 H34 2006 (Mapit)
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Title The demon under the microscope : from battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctor's heroic search for the world's first miracle drug / Thomas Hager.
Author Hager, Thomas.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 1400082137
9781400082131
Publication Details New York : Harmony Books, c2006.
Language English
Description viii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number RM666.S9 H34 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 615/.2723
Summary The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. It was sulfa, the first synthetic antibiotic. Science writer Hager chronicles the history of the drug that shaped modern medicine. Sulfa saved millions of lives--among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.--but even more, it changed the way new drugs were developed, approved, and sold; transformed the way doctors treated patients; and ushered in the era of modern medicine. The very concept that chemicals created in a lab could cure disease revolutionized medicine, taking it from the treatment of symptoms and discomfort to the eradication of the root cause of illness. This book illuminates the vivid characters, corporate strategy, individual idealism, careful planning, lucky breaks, cynicism, heroism, greed, hard work, and the central (though mistaken) idea that brought sulfa to the world.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-330) and index.
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