The demon under the microscope : [from battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctor's heroic search for the world's first miracle drug] /

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. This is the history of the drug that shaped modern medicine. Sulfa saved millions of lives--among them thos...

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