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.

The first synthetic antibiotic, 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 medic...

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Main Author: Hager, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Three Rivers Press, c2006.
Edition:1st pbk. ed.
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