After being thoroughly taken by Dr. Mutter, I went on a medical history kick.  Next stop: antibiotics. The title of this book is a little misleading.  While there is, indeed, a German doctor Gerhard Domagk that Hager returns to throughout the narrative, this is actually the story of the many doctors, labs, marketers, wars, countries, and strokes of luck that led to the discovery of the first antibiotic, sulfa, and how that changed the world–and the world of medicine. Starting in the trenches of WWI, Hager details the devastation […]