Pill Peddlers: essays on the history of the pharmaceutical industry

Alamein; the case corresponds in neither age nor wound with Wainwright's example. The book has many irritating errors and a poor index. For example, the first child cured by penicillin broth is "a 3-year-old baby" on p. 42 but was clearly three weeks old, as witnessed by the illustrations, and Wainwright's own article; Rollin and Hotchkiss (neither appears in the index) was really Rollin D. Hotchkiss; "Erlich" should be "Ehrlich". I found this an interesting but, because of some discrepancies, an irritating book.