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The Demon Under The Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Do (origineel 2006; editie 2006)

door Thomas Hager

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Health & Fitness. History. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine.

The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. Sulfa saved millions of livesâ??among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.â??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 strate
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Titel:The Demon Under The Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Do
Auteurs:Thomas Hager
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The Demon under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug door Thomas Hager (2006)

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    Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation door Dan Fagin (sweetbug)
    sweetbug: The Demon Under the Microscope traces the history of the development of antibiotics. It tells the stories of many scientific discoveries and their connections to events in European history through WWII. Toms River is a more modern take on the same type of story, tracing the history of dye manufacturing and its connection to an epidemic of childhood cancer cases in a small town in New Jersey. Both are written as great stories, with lots of details on the lives of the people (doctors, patients, families and community members) involved.… (meer)
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fantastic, reads like a first rate thriller. all the triumphs and tragedies in finding and then losing such a wonderful tool ( )
  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |
This is NOT one doctor's heroic search. Who let some rando off the street subtitle their book like that? This is an interesting story written like a novel with multiple Point-of-View characters. Too long for me, but I can't really handle books over 200 pages anymore. ( )
  brutalstirfry | May 6, 2022 |
I can't remember how I came to add this to my TRL but I have a feeling it was a recommended read on StoryGraph. It turned out to be an excellent recommendation because it was SO. GOOD.

Now I know that non-fiction science books are quite a niche genre of books to be gaga over but this book is a prime example of why you should give it a try if you've never ventured down this road before. Hager delves into the fascinating world of antibacterials, medical patents, and drug regulation laws. He gives the complete history of wartime injuries and disease from gas gangrene to gonorrhea and how the medical community was at a loss as to treatment or cure. And then the Germans began work on an industrial level to develop a 'magic bullet' that would not only cure strep and staph but a whole host of other bacterial diseases which at the time were death sentences. The truly interesting bits were about how these medicines were researched and developed in one country (with patents for their production process in the case of Germany and France) and then further expanded upon and improved in other countries (Great Britain and the United States held patents on brand names instead of processes). He also goes into patent medicines which at the time (1920-1940s) were unregulated and basically a free-for-all to anyone who wanted to make a quick buck. FASCINATING STUFF, YA'LL.

Conclusion: If you like history and most especially medical history then this book needs to be added to your list toot sweet. ( )
  AliceaP | Jul 19, 2021 |
To refer to this book as "the development of antibiotics", or "the history of sulfa drugs" would be a disservice to the author. Those descriptions, while valid, sound dry and boring, which is the complete opposite of this book. The book jacket describes the book as reading like a novel, and that's a fairly accurate description. The improvement in our soldiers survival rates from battlefield injuries in WWII was dramatic, as was the tireless efforts of the researchers, and the pre-FDA U.S. drug industry. ( )
  rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |
Interesting read. The author does a good job of telling a detailed technical story. ( )
  yhgail | Feb 20, 2019 |
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Health & Fitness. History. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine.

The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. Sulfa saved millions of livesâ??among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.â??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 strate

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