The first miracle drugs : how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine / John E. Lesch.
- Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Format/Description:
- Book
x, 364 p. : ill., ports. ; cm. - Online:
- Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005036136.html - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Sulfonamides -- Therapeutic use -- History.
Antibacterial agents -- History. - Medical subjects:
- Sulfonamides -- history.
Bacterial Infections -- drug therapy.
History, 20th Century.
Sulfonamides -- therapeutic use. - 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. - Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Contributor:
- Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780195187755 (cloth : alk. paper)
019518775X (cloth : alk. paper) - OCLC:
- 84149600
- Web link:
- The Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund Home Page
