Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck.
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Michael Mosley tells the story of the creation of our most useful and valuable drugs.