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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drugby: Thomas Hager  List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 615.2723 EAN: 9781400082148 ISBN: 1400082145 Label: Three Rivers Press Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: August 28, 2007 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Release Date: August 28, 2007 Studio: Three Rivers Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine. 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. A strange and colorful story, The Demon Under the Microscope illuminates the vivid characters, corporate strategy, individual idealism, careful planning, lucky breaks, cynicism, heroism, greed, hard work, and the central (though mistaken) idea that brought sulfa to the world. This is a fascinating scientific tale with all the excitement and intrigue of a great suspense novel. For thousands of years, humans had sought medicines with which they could defeat contagion, and they had slowly, painstakingly, won a few battles: some vaccines to ward off disease, a handful of antitoxins. A drug or two was available that could stop parasitic diseases once they hit, tropical maladies like malaria and sleeping sickness. But the great killers of Europe, North America, and most of Asia—pneumonia, plague, tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, meningitis—were caused not by parasites but by bacteria, much smaller, far different microorganisms. By 1931, nothing on earth could stop a bacterial infection once it started. . . . But all that was about to change. . . . —from The Demon Under the Microscope From the Hardcover edition. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Every Person In the Medical Field Should Read This Book.Thomas Hager's outstanding work telling the story of how a young German soldier in WW1 made a personal vow and a life work to find a cure for infectious wounds. He, and a team of chemists at Bayer, succeeded with the discovery that the chemical Sulfanilamide could cure bacterial infection. Subsequent research by the team at Bayer, as well as French and American researchers led to the development of chemical variations of pure Sulfa that could cure a wide range of diseases never before curable. An ... Read More Rating:  - A small section of medical historyFor most of human history, microbial infections meant deformity, long-term illness, and often death. Queen Victoria almost died because of a boil, FDR, Jr. of a sinus infection. Alchemists, midwives, and scientists have been trying to find ways of treating these illnesses. But finding something that could kill an infection without also killing the host is difficult. Even after discovering how infections were spread, it wasn't possible to stop an infection. Lister's solutions to sterilize operating ... Read More Rating: - Review for "Demon under The Microscope"A fascinating history of the discovery of the sulfa drugs. A bit of chemistry or science background makes the book all the more interesting. Rating: - FascinatingVery informative. An easy read. Once I started, I couldn't stop. Definitely an item to be in any medical history collection. Rating: - The Story of the Sulfa DrugsWithin the first fifty pages this book took it's place in my top ten non-fiction works. It includes history, science, biography and business wrapped together in a fast-paced and clear manner. It's a shock to see some of the often fatal diseases our grandparents faced that today have been all but forgotten. A world where a boil, insect bite, or cut finger could result in an ugly death. The author states that this is a book about "antibiotics," he includes the sulfa drugs to be part of this class, rather ... Read More 
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