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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 /

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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 o...

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Main Author: Hager, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harmony Books, [2006]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Domagk, Gerhard, > 1895-1964.
Sulfonamides > Therapeutic use > History.
Antibacterial agents > History.
Bacterial diseases > Chemotherapy.
Medical scientists > Germany > Biography.
Physicians > Germany > Biography.
History, 20th Century > Germany.
Sulfonamides > history > Germany.
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