The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
In the history of medicine, sulfa was just a short blip: The antibiotic achieved wide distribution in the mid-1930s; a decade later, it had all but disappeared. But during its short lifetime, this miracle drug saved millions of lives; helped shape the course of WWII; and set the stage for the...
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In the history of medicine, sulfa was just a short blip: The antibiotic achieved wide distribution in the mid-1930s; a decade later, it had all but disappeared. But during its short lifetime, this miracle drug saved millions of lives; helped shape the course of WWII; and set the stage for the transformation of pharmaceutical research and medical practice. Thomas Hager's The Demon Under the Microscope is a fast-paced, fact-filled chronicle of a drug that changed the world by changing microscopic bacteria.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400103065 (1400103061)
Publish date: November 16th 2006
Publisher: Tantor Media
Minutes: 352
Edition language: English
Even as late as the 1930s, an infection was a likely death sentence. Even a small wound on a finger or toe could be deadly, for if it became septic, doctors could do nothing except hope that the patient could fight off the infection. Antibiotics were only a wistful dream of a universal panacea. Afte...
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