It is so hard to write a review on such a dense book this far removed from having read it but I have been woefully tardy in my review writing so bear with me… Doctor’s weren’t alone in benefiting from the people-getting-better phenomenon, or, as it is formally known, ‘self limited disease.’ It may be hard to believe that less than one hundred years ago a simple bacterial infection would realistically kill you. Modern medicine the way we know it really began in earnest in […]
Learning a lot about my own personal Kryptonite
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine by William Rosen
