Title: The miracle drugs /
Authors: Sokoloff, Boris,
Date: 1949
Publisher: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co.,
Physical description: 308 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC class: R
Contents: Two ideas: Pasteur vs. Ehrlich -- The "magic bullet" -- Sulfonamides rediscovered -- When dog eats dog -- Discovery of penicillin -- Penicillin: Cinderella of science -- Penicillin: an antimicrobial agent -- Penicillin vs. infectious diseases -- The story of Patulin-Clavacin -- Streptomycin and neomycin -- Actinomycin and streptothricin -- The story of tyrothricin -- Bacitracin-subtilin and polymyxin -- Aureomycin and chloromycetin -- The antibiotics and sulfonamides vs. infectious diseases -- Man against microbe.