Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

✍ Scribed by Rosen, William

• Book ID: 109474900
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

**The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.
** As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics. By 1955, the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and microbes had been transformed, trivializing once-deadly infections.
William Rosen captures this revolution with all its false starts, lucky surprises, and eccentric characters. He explains why, given the complex nature of bacteria--and their ability to rapidly evolve into new forms--the only way to locate and test potential antibiotic strains is by large-scale, systematic, trial-and-error experimentation. Organizing that research needs large, well-funded organizations and businesses, and so our...