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From the beams of dried herbs and alcohol elixirs to high -tech drugs and multi -million businesses - such a way was made by medicines that we take every day.

Scientific journalist Thomas Heger decided to figure out what brilliant discoveries and random finds gave us painkillers, contraceptives and antibiotics. This book is a biography of the ten most important drugs that have changed medicine. Among them, you will not find “the greatest hits”, for example, penicillin or aspirin, because a lot has already been written about them. Instead, the author will introduce you to the amazing stories of less known, but no less significant drugs, and show their dual nature.

You will visit the office of the medieval alchemist and chemical laboratory, learn that you tried to treat heroin, and also look In the future of drugs and realize how random coincidences can change the lives of entire generations.