Sherman, Irwin W., <br/><br/>
Drugs that changed the world :  how therapeutic agents shaped our lives / 
Irwin W. Sherman. 
 - xi, 197 pages :  illustrations (some color) ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Malaria and antimalarials -- The painkiller, aspirin -- Ether, chloroform, cocaine, morphine, heroin and anesthesia -- The pill -- Diabetes and insulin -- Smallpox and vaccination -- Vaccines to combat infectious diseases -- The great pox syphilis and salvarsan -- Prontosil, pyrimethamine, and penicillin -- AIDS, HIV and antiretrovirals -- Organ transplantation and cyclosporine -- Malaria, madness and chlorpromazine. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781498796491 (hardback : alk. paper) 1498796494 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781138575776 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016022679 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pharmacology--History.<br/>Social change--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RM300  / .S53 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>615.1 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>QV 11.1