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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma. As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than...
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New York
Viking
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Five and a half grams
- One. All the worse for the fishes
- Two. Patience, skill, luck, and money
- Three. Play with microbes
- Four. The people's department
- Five. To see the problem clearly
- Six. Man of the soil
- Seven. Satans into seraphs
- Eight. The little stranger
- Nine. Disturbing proportions
- Epilogue: the adaptability of the chemist.