The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug-Fast Shipping

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In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hagerchronicles 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, changedlaws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. Sulfa savedmillions of lives—among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano RooseveltJr.—but its real effects are even more far reaching. Sulfa changed the way new drugswere developed, approved, and sold; transformed the way doctors treated patients;and ushered in the era of modern medicine. The very concept that chemicals createdin a lab could cure disease revolutionized medicine, taking it from the treatmentof symptoms and discomfort to the eradication of the root cause of illness.

A strangeand 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 sulfato the world. This is a fascinating scientific tale with all the excitement and intrigueof a great suspense novel.