The first miracle drugs : how the sulfa drugs transformed medicine /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.