TY - BOOK AU - Sherman,Irwin W. TI - Drugs that changed the world: how therapeutic agents shaped our lives SN - 9781498796491 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - RM300 .S53 2017 U1 - 615.1 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Pharmacology KW - History KW - Social change N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -