Bibliograph

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

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-330) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The demon under the microscope

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

64067410

Responsibility statement

Thomas Hager

Sub title

from battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctor's heroic search for the world's first miracle drug

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

Table Of Contents

The Hunt -- The Right Side -- The Left Side

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