Ashutosh reviews Thomas Hager’s book ”The Demon Under The Microscope‘‘.
That era of sulfa drugs, and not the one of penicillin, was the first heroic age of antibiotics. Most of us, if asked to name the first wonder-drug antibiotic, would name penicillin. But long before penicillin, sulfa saved thousands of lives. Without sulfa around, Hoover’s son died. With sulfa, FDR’s son, and Winston Churchill, survived.
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