The Demon Under the Microscope
Thomas Hager
Crown
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In<i> The Demon Under the Microscope</i>, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.<br><br>Sulfa saved millions of lives--among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.--but its real effects are even more far reaching. Sulfa changed the way new drugs were developed, approved, and sold; transformed the way doctors treated patients; and ushered in the era of modern medicine. The very concept that chemicals created in a lab could cure disease revolutionized medicine, taking it from the treatment of symptoms and discomfort to the eradication of the root cause of illness. <br><br>A strange and colorful story,<i> The Demon Under the Microscope</i> illuminates the vivid characters, corporate strategy, individual...</br></br></br></br>