The first miracle drugs : how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine

The first miracle drugs : how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine /

Show other versions (1)

In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines were not penicillin and antibiotics, but sulfonamides, or sulfa drugs. The sulfa dr...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Lesch, John E., 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects:
Sulfonamides > Therapeutic use > History.
Antibacterial agents > History.
Sulfonamides > history
Bacterial Infections > drug therapy
History, 20th Century
Sulfonamides > therapeutic use
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

Similar Items