| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 429 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Agents of infection -- Out of darkness -- From quinine to sulphonamides (by way of serendipity) -- Wonder drugs -- The taming of tuberculosis and leprosy -- The golden years of pills and profits -- Progress against parasites -- The poor relations : fungi and viruses -- The spectre at the feast |
| Summary |
Between 1935 and 1944 the field of microbiology, and by implication medicine as a whole, underwent dramatic advancement. The discovery of the extraordinary antibacterial properties of sulphonamides, penicillin, and streptomycin triggered a frantic hunt for more antimicrobial drugs that was to yield an abundant harvest in a very short space of time. By the early 1960s more than 50 antibacterial agents were available to the prescribing physician and, largely by a process of chemicalmodification of existing compounds, that number has more than tripled today. We have become so used to the ready av |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anti-infective agents -- History -- 20th century
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Anti-Infective Agents -- history
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History, 20th Century
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MEDICAL -- Drug Guides.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Pharmacology.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacy.
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Anti-infective agents
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Antibiotikum
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Antimikrobieller Wirkstoff
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191560071 |
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0191560073 |
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1283582503 |
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9781283582506 |
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