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From Aspirin to Viagra, insulin to penicillin, and vaccines to vitamin supplements, drugs have become part of our everyday lives. This staggering global industry wasn't born overnight; advancements in pharmaceutical science have been happening for a long while, over the course of decades and even centuries.
This book tells the history of ten prominent substances and how they came to be common household names. It shows how the creation of such influential drugs often began with the right person at the exactly right—or wrong!— time. The chapters tell the stories of geniuses and charlatans; scholars and amateurs; advances won through hard work or pure luck; and ultimately, the handful of resounding successes that revolutionized a global industry.
Beyond the pioneers of the most famous drugs in our culture, the book analyzes how our perspective on medical treatment has shifted over the decades. Modern standards for testing and administering substances have created a new set of advantages, setbacks, and stigmas, all of which are discussed herein.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Dedication
About the Author
Preface
1. Aspirin
Story 1.1: The curious reverend and the bark of the willow
Story 1.2: The three fathers and the two miracle drugs
Story 1.3: The industrialist and his business
Story 1.4: The great German patriot and the Great Phenol Plot
Story 1.5: The man from New Zealand and marketing magic
Story 1.6: The country doctor and medicinal gum
Concluding remarks
2. Quinine
Story 2.1: The Countess of Chinchón and the Jesuit Bark
Story 2.2: The successful charlatan and the miracle medicine
Story 2.3: The two friends and the yellow cinchona
Story 2.4: The unlucky adventurer and the alpacas
Story 2.5: The two opposing scientists and the mosquitoes with spotted wings
Concluding remarks
3. Vitamin C
Story 3.1: The famous admiral and scurvy
Story 3.2: The ship's doctor and Murphy's Law
Story 3.3: The snob and the 7,000 cannons
Story 3.4: The Norwegian hygienist and guinea pigs
Story 3.5: The Hungarian politician and Hungarian paprika
Story 3.6: The hardworking chemist and the role of wine flies
Concluding remarks
4. Insulin
Story 4.1: The bold experimenter and sweet urine
Story 4.2: The military doctor in Barbados and various diets
Story 4.3: Two diabetologists, starvation, and Elizabeth the Iconic
Story 4.4: The vivid scientist from Mauritius and the elixir of youth
Story 4.5: The aspiring amateur and the elixir of life
Story 4.6: The strong-minded scientist and her four hands
Concluding remarks
5. Penicillin
Story 5.1: The doctor with stained hands and the magic bullet
Story 5.2: The rejected Nobel Prize and saving young Hildegard
Story 5.3:The Scottish bacteriologist and his return from vacation
Story 5.4: Three Englishmen and the benefits of America
Story 5.5: Stubborn Andy and the need for meat
Story 5.6: The renowned health professional and ethical blindness
Concluding remarks
6. The Pill
Story 6.1: Madame Restell and Fifth Avenue abortions
Story 6.2: The revolutionary and birth control
Story 6.3: The controversial biologist and his controversial experiments
Story 6.4: The Catholic gynecologist and his futile hope
Story 6.5: The three brilliant chemists
Concluding remarks
7. Chlorpromazine
Story 7.1: The enlightened doctor and freeing the insane
Story 7.2: Many attempts and difficult beginnings for treatment
Story 7.3: A French thinker and his lytic cocktail
Story 7.4: A professor, his assistant, and psychiatric penicillin
Story 7.5: Psychoanalysis and the need to know foreign languages
Concludingremarks
8. Prozac
Story 8.1: Two psychiatrists, a singing cyclist and dancing patients
Story 8.2: Three chemists and three neurotransmitters
Story 8.3: The role of the medicine box
Story 8.4: How we forgot to grieve
Concluding remarks
9. Viagra
Story 9.1: The autodidact of Delft and the penis's status in history
Story 9.2: The son of a Russian vodka maker and elixirs of youth
Story 9.3: The biggest charlatan and the deepest desires of men
Story 9.4: A urologist drops his pants and what men are willing to endure
Story 9.5: The big medicine producer and the farmer's beautiful daughter
Concluding remarks
10. Vaccines
Story 10.1: A beautiful aristocrat and the Ottoman method
Story 10.2: A wise farmer, a famous doctor and how vaccination got its name
Story 10.3: A sick slave and the chain transfer of vaccines across the Atlantic
Story 10.4: Two greats and only one Nobel Prize
Story 10.5: "Sir Almost Wright" and military brains
Story 10.6: The Righteous Among the Nations and lice feeders
Story 10.7: The Somali cook and a huge victory
Story 10.8: A gastroenterologist and one of the worst hoaxes in medicine
Concluding remarks
11. Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
