Title:
Miracle cure : the creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine
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Publication Date as Range:
2017
ISBN:
9780525428107
Physical Description:
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue: five and a half grams -- All the worse for the fishes -- Patience, skill, luck, and money -- Play with microbes -- The people's department -- To see the problem clearly -- Man of the soil -- Satans into seraphs -- The little stranger -- Disturbing proportions -- Epilogue : the adaptability of the chemist.
Abstract:
The fastest and most dramatic improvement in human wlefare can be dated to less than a century ago: march 11, 1940. That day, a woman named Anne Miller, about to die from a strep infection, was injected witht he world's entire supply of a new drug: penicillin. Her survival marked the beginning of the antibiotic revolution.
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