The first miracle drugs : how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine / John E. Lesch.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

x, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-348) and index.

Beginnings -- A system of invention -- Prontosil -- Into the maelstrom -- Accommodation and survival -- Pathways of recognition -- M&B 693 -- Acclaim and expansion -- At war -- Trial by fire -- A mechanism revealed -- The sulfa drugs and twentieth-century medicine.