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

By Thomas Hager

Categories: Health, Fitness & Dieting, History

The story of Gerhard Domagk and the discovery of the sulfa drugs, the first antibiotics, at Bayer in the 1930s, and how they changed medicine.

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• Shane Parrish: “There is a definite divide in human history between those who came before antibiotics and vaccines, and those who came after. Life was far more precarious before we understood bacteria and viruses, with people dying from what we now consider minor irritations.”