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Rent The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Published: Aug 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Medical - Physicians
Retail Price: $15.00
Pages: 352
Synopsis
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In' The Demon Under the Microscope,' Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic 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 its real effects are even more far reaching. Sulfa changed