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

  • Lesch, John E., 1945-
Date:
2007
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Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Physical description

x, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

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

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    History of Medicine
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  • 019518775X