Life saving drugs : the elusive magic bullet /: the elusive magic bullet. (©2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Mann.
• Other Names: Mann, J
• Contents: Fighting Bacteria -- The Black Death -- Miasmata, Animalcules and Malaria -- Antiseptics -- From Dyes to Sulfonamides: The First Antibacterials -- Penicillins: Early Ideas of Antibiosis -- Penicillins: Fleming's Serendipitous Discovery -- Chain and Florey and the Penicillin Production Line -- Semi-Synthetic Penicillins and the Growing Problem of Resistance -- The Mould that Grew on Sewage: Evolution of the Cephalosporins -- The Mode of Action of the Penicillins and Cephalosporins -- The White Plague and its Treatment -- More 'Treasures' from the Streptomyces -- The Rise of the 'Superbugs' -- Antiviral Treatments -- Introduction: What is a Virus? -- Antibodies: Nature's Magic Bullets -- Smallpox -- Rabies -- Polio -- Gene Technology -- Coughs and Colds and Influenza -- Influenza: The Disease -- Influenza: The Treatments -- The Common Cold -- Herpes: Colds Sores and Chicken Pox -- Aids: History of the Disease -- Aids: Prevention and Treatment -- Haemorrhagic Fever Viruses -- Cancer: The Disease and its Treatment -- Cancer Chemotherapy -- From Poison Gas to Platinum Drugs -- Beating Leukaemia -- Other Anti-metabolites -- Periwinkles, Mayapples and Yew Trees: Anti-Cancer Drugs from Plants -- Microorganisms also Produce Anti-Tumour Agents -- Anti-Tumour Drugs from the Sea -- Turning off Hormonal Influences -- Breast Cancer -- Prostate Cancer -- Biological Warfare Against Cancer Cells -- Prevention is Better Than Cure -- Magic Bullets: Still Elusive After all These Years.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
• Publication Date: 2004
• Copyright Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages), illustrations, portraits
• Subjects: 615.109; EDUCATION / Higher; Pharmacology -- History; Drugs -- History; Drugs -- Research -- History; Chemistry; MEDICAL -- Drug Guides; MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Pharmacology; MEDICAL -- Pharmacology; MEDICAL -- Pharmacy; Science; Drugs; Drugs -- Research; Pharmacology; SCIENCE / Chemistry / General; Chemistry; History of science; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847551221
• Related ISBNs: 184755122X; 0854046348; 9780854046348
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.