Lilly as insulin manufacturer
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History of gene cloning
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Development of the biotech industry
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Recombinant monoclonal antibodies
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Chapter 10: From Blue Death to Beta Blockers: The Library of Epidemiological Medicine
John Snow biography
Hempel, Sandra. The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera. Oakland: University of California Press, 2007.
Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
Cholera background and history
Gordis, Leon. Epidemiology, Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2008.
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Polio and sugar story
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Framingham heart study
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Hypertension history
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History of hydrochlorothiazide
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James Black biography and beta blocker
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Cushman and Ondetti
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Cholesterol and heart disease
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Joseph Goldstein and Michael Brown familial hypercholesterolemia
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History of statins
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Chapter 11: The Pill: Drug Hunters Striking Gold Outside of Big Pharma
History of the pill: hormones and ovulation history
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Russell Marker biography
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Marker degradation
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Syntex
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Gregory Pincus
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Baron de Hirsch Fund
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Margaret Sanger
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Katharine Dexter McCormick
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John Rock
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Chapter 12: Mystery Cures: Discovering Drugs through Blind Luck
James Lind and scurvy
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Conclusion: The Future of the Drug Hunter: The Chevy Volt and the Lone Ranger
Chevy Volt history
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Viagra—sildenafil
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Cialis—tadalafil
Rotella, D. P. “Phosphodiesteras 5 Inhibitors: Current Status and Potential Applications.” Nature Review Drug Discovery 1 (2002): 674–82.
NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals story
Grady, Dennis. “New Antibiotic Stirs Hope Against Resistant Bacteria.” New York Times, January 7, 2015.
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Index
1893 World’s Exposition in Chicago, 117
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, 100
606. See Salvarsan
Abbott Laboratories, 133, 142
abscess, 46
ACE, 186–88
acetylsalicylic acid. See aspirin
Act Up, 106
actinomycin, 138
adrenaline, 184–86
adrenaline receptors, 92, 93, 185
adulterants, 109
Advil, 73
Aetios of Amida, 221
agar plates, 128, 132
Age of Chemistry, 152
Age of Dirt, 140, 142, 163, 193
Age of Genetic Medicine, 193
Age of Industrial Formulation, 58
Age of Plants, 31, 38, 43, 55, 152, 163, 193, 227
Age of Synthetic Chemistry, 72, 93, 163, 193
AIDS, 106, 135, 139, 143, 252
albuterol, 93
alchemy, 20, 33, 44, 58
alcohol, 3, 19, 20, 34, 38, 104, 109
alpha receptors, 185
ALS, 227
Alzheimer’s, 9
American Birth Control League, 206
American Cyanamid. See Cyanamid
American Home Products, 56–57, 106
American Lawyer, 108
American Medical Association (AMA), 102
American Psychiatric Association, 233
Amgen, 167
amino acids, 164
amputation, 46
analogs (chemical), 141, 241
anesthetics, 11–12, 44, 47–49, 123, 155, 227
gaseous surgical anesthetics, 227
angina, 44–45, 184
angiotensin converting enzyme. See ACE
animal testing, 69, 86, 100
Anson, Commodore George, 228
anthrax, 127
antibiotics, 12, 98, 138–43, 218, 247, 251–52
antibiotic drugs held in reserve, 141
antibiotics discovery programs, 12, 142
broad-spectrum antibiotics, 98
economics of antibiotics, 127, 251–52
marginalized antibiotic research, 142
narrow-spectrum antibiotics, 98
antibiotic-resistant bacteria, 141–142
MRSA, 141
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 141
Staphylococcus aureus, 141
antibodies, 91, 167, 169, 177–78,
antidepressants, 58, 110, 239–41
antidotes, 103, 122
anti-flatulents, 45
antifungals, 5, 149, 247, 252
antigens, 91
antihelminthic, 4
antihistamine, 234
anti-hypertensives, 182–86, 189, 235
antipsychotics, 110, 237–40
Anti-spitting laws, 135
anti-tuberculin drugs, 139
aphrodisiacs, 39, 147–48
apothecaries, 32, 37, 44, 51–53, 64, 68, 119
American, 44
Engel-Apotheke, 21
in Romeo and Juliet, 51
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, 51
arms race between diseases and cures, 24, 140
arsenic, 87–88, 97
arsphenamine. See Salvarsan
Arthur Eichengrün. See Bayer Company
artificial hibernation, 234
ascorbic acid. See vitamin C
aspirin, 26, 61f, 67–75, 88, 93, 98, 150, 199, 207, 210, 236
false history of Aspirin, 74–75
asthma, 93, 185
atherosclerosis, 180
athlete’s foot, 5, 7, 167, 250
atoxyl, 87
autopsies, 81
Aventis, 142
Ayerst Pharmaceuticals, 5
aztreonam, 212–13
bacitracin, 140
bacteria, 81, 84, 86, 97–99, 127–43, 162–66, 176, 252
/> E. coli, 141, 162, 166
M. smegmatis, 137
spirochete bacterium, 87
Staphylococcus aureus, 127, 141
Steptomyces griseus, 138
streptococci bacteria, 99
Streptomycetes, 137
tuberculosis bacterium (M. tuberculosis), 134–38
Vibrio cholera, 177
Banting and Best, 145f, 153–61, 169
black eye, 157
dogs, 155–57
industrial-scale run, 161
Thompson, Leonard, first patient for insulin, 159–60
Banting, Frederick. See Banting and Best
Baron de Hirsch Agricultural College, 204
Baron de Hirsch Fund, 203
Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. See Dinesen, Isak
Bayer Company, 22, 63, 66–75, 98–99
Duisberg, Carl, 66–75
Hoffman, Felix, 69, 73–75
Bayer AG, 98
Béchamp, Antoine, 87
Beecham, plc, 105
benzene, 12, 63
benzodiazepines, 109
Librium, 109, 258
Valium, 258
benzylpenicillin. See penicillin
Berg, Paul, 162
beriberi, 231
Best, Charles. See Banting and Best
beta blockers, 163, 166
beta receptors, 185, 247
Beyer, Karl, 182
Bigelow, Henry, 48
Big Pharma, 4, 6, 7, 14, 26, 55, 68, 105, 106, 112, 133, 141, 164, 167, 183, 193, 218, 233, 238, 248, 251–52
Abbott Laboratories, 133, 142
American Home Products, 56–57, 106
avoiding psychiatric drugs, 233
Bayer Company, 22, 63, 66–75, 98–99
Beecham, plc, 105
Biogen, 167
birth of Big Pharma, 55
Bristol Myers, 55, 133, 190
career move to FDA, 112
Cyanamid, 39–40, 56, 63, 105, 112
E. R. Squibb and Sons, 55–56, 58, 67, 70, 133, 142, 164–66, 186–90, 212
Eli Lilly, 133, 142, 150–53, 157–61, 164–66
G. D. Searle, 218–20
giving up on antibiotics, 141
GlaxoSmithKline, 105
Hoechst AG, 64, 88
Lilly (company), 70, 133, 142, 150–52, 157–61, 164–66, 248
Merck (company), 4, 21, 63, 133, 138, 180–82
Novartis, 4, 8, 63, 237
Parke Davis, 133
penicillin club of Big Pharma, 133
Roche, 63
Schering, 133
SmithKline, 105, 236–37
Upjohn, 133
Wyeth, 26, 108, 142
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