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4. The Demon Under the Microscope: Subject Files and Research Materials. 1931-2005.

Series 4 is divided into several subseries including Scientific Topics, People, Institutions, and Gerhard Domagk - Personal and Family. A wide range of assorted research materials collected by Tom Hager while researching The Demon Under the Microscope can also be found in this series.


8 Boxes

4.001.
Scientific Topics: E-P. 1933-1938. 17 Folders
1.1.
Erysipelas.
1.2.
Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act of 1938.
1.3.
Germany - General Information.
1.4.
Gorgon's Blood (Greek mythology).
1.5.
Hospitals - History.
1.6.
Nuremberg Trials - Medical Testing in Concentration Camps.
1.7.
Paris Exhibition - Bibliography.
1.8.
Penicillin.
1.9.
Pharmaceutical Industry - History.
1.10.
Prontosil - Bibliography. 1938.
1.11.
Prontosil - Clinical Research. German Language. 1933.
1.12.
Prontosil - Clinical Research. German Language. 1934-1935.
1.13.
Prontosil - General Information.
1.14.
Prontosil - Marketing.
1.15.
Prontosil - Patents.
1.16.
Prontosil - Protocols and Conference Minutes from the Winthrop Chemical Company. 1936-1937.
1.17.
Puerperal Fever.

4.002.
Scientific Topics: S-W. 1936-2005. 18 Folders
2.1.
Science and Medicine - Background and General Information.
2.2.
Streptococcal Disease.
2.3.
Sulfanilamide - Elixir Sulfanilamide and the Massengill Company.
2.4.
Sulfanilamide - General Information.
2.5.
Sulfanilamide - News Articles. 1936.
2.6.
Sulfanilamide - News Articles. 1937.
2.7.
Sulfanilamide - News Articles. 1939.
2.8.
Sulfanilamide - News Articles. 1940.
2.9.
Sulfanilamide - News Articles. 1945.
2.10.
Sulfanilamide - News Articles. 1994-2005.
2.11.
Sulfanilamide - Patents.
2.12.
Sulfanilamide - Review Articles.
2.13.
Sulfanilamide - The Second Generation of Sulfa Drugs.
2.14.
Sulfapyridine (M&B 693).
2.15.
Uliron.
2.16.
World War I.
2.17.
World War II.
2.18.
Wound Infection.

4.003.
People: B-K. 1931-1943. 18 Folders
3.1.
Bovet, Daniel - General.
3.2.
Bovet, Daniel - Manuscripts. French Language.
3.3.
Bovet, Daniel - Manuscripts. Translated.
3.4.
Churchill, Winston.
3.5.
Colebrook, Leonard.
3.6.
Colebrook, Leonard - Biography.
3.7.
Colebrook, Leonard - Laboratory Book and Notes.
3.8.
Colebrook, Leonard: "Treatment of Human Puerperal Infections, and of Experimental Infections in Mice, With Prontosil." The Lancet. 1936.
3.9.
Dale, Henry.
3.10.
Duisberg, Carl.
3.11.
Ehrlich, Paul.
3.12.
Fourneau, Ernest.
3.13.
Gelmo, Paul.
3.14.
Heidelberger, Charles.
3.15.
Hörlein, Heinrich.
3.16.
Klarer, Josef.
3.17.
Klarer, Josef - Research Reports. German Language and Translated. 1931-1943.
3.18.
Koch, Robert.

4.004.
People: L-W. 1932-1953. 13 Folders
4.1.
Lancefield, Rebecca Craighill.
4.2.
Lipes, Wheeler.
4.3.
Long, Perrin H.
4.4.
Mietzsch, Fritz: "Chemie und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Sulfonamide." Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung Des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. German Language. 1953.
4.5.
Mietzsch, Fritz - Research Reports. German Language. 1932-1935.
4.6.
Pasteur, Louis.
4.7.
Perkin, William Henry.
4.8.
Roehl, Wilhelm.
4.9.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
4.10.
Tréfouël, Jacques - Scientific Papers. French Language.
4.11.
van Leeuwenhoek, Antony.
4.12.
von Behring, Emil.
4.13.
Wright, Almroth.

4.005.
Institutions. undated. 9 Folders
5.1.
Bayer Pharmaceutical Company - Archives.
5.2.
Bayer Pharmaceutical Company - General Information and Timelines.
5.3.
Bayer Pharmaceutical Company - Sales Figures.
5.4.
Bayer Pharmaceutical Company - World War II Crimes.
5.5.
I.G. Farben Chemical Company.
5.6.
Medical Research Council - Documents and Correspondence with Leonard Colebrook.
5.7.
Medical Research Council - World War II Wound Infection Reports.
5.8.
Pasteur Institute - Bibliographies and Background Information.
5.9.
Pasteur Institute - Documents. French Language.

4.006.
Gerhard Domagk - Personal and Family. 1931-1953. 14 Folders

Recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine, Gerhard Domagk (1895-1964) is credited with discovering the first sulfa drugs.

6.1.
Gerhard Domagk - Biographical.
6.2.
Gerhard Domagk: "Die experimentellen Grundlagen der Chemotherapie der bakteriellen Infektionen." Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung Des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. German Language. 1953.
6.3.
Gerhard Domagk - Journal Articles. German Language.
6.4.
Gerhard Domagk - Laboratory Journals. 1931.
6.5.
Gerhard Domagk - Laboratory Journals. 1932.
6.6.
Gerhard Domagk - Laboratory Journals. 1933.
6.7.
Gerhard Domagk - Laboratory Journals. 1934.
6.8.
Gerhard Domagk - Laboratory Journals. 1935.
6.9.
Gerhard Domagk - Memoir.
6.10.
Gerhard Domagk - Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.
6.11.
Gerhard Domagk - Research Materials. German Language. 1932.
6.12.
Gerhard Domagk - Research Materials. German Language. 1935.
6.13.
Gerhard Domagk: "Ein Beitrag zur Chemotherapie der bakteriellen Infectionen." [Scientific Paper on Prontosil and Related Materials] Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. German Language. 1935.
6.14.
Hildegarde Domagk.

4.007.
Assorted Research Materials re: The Demon Under the Microscope. 1936-2002. 9 Folders
7.1.
"Chemistry and Biomedicine in an Industrial Setting: The Invention of the Sulfa Drugs" by John E. Lesch. Chemical Sciences in the Modern World. 1993.
7.2.
Discoveries in Pharmacology, Volume 3: Pharmacological Methods, Receptors, and Chemotherapy by Robert Behnisch. Chapter 5: "From dyes to drugs.". 1986.
7.3.
"Discovery and Development of Anti-infectives at Bayer: A Personal View—Part 1. Antiparasites, Sulfonamides, and Antitubercular Drugs" by Axel A.H. Dalhoff.
7.4.
Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen: Chemiker und Biochemiker in der NS-Zeit (Translated as Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen: Chemists and Biochemists during the National Socialist Era) by Ute Deichmann. 2002.
7.5.
Gerhard Domagk: der erste Sieger über die Infektionskrankheiten (Translated as Gerhard Domagk: The First Man to Triumph Over Infectious Diseases) by Ekkehard Grundmann. German Language and Translations. 2001.
7.6.
Miscellaneous Documents re: The Demon Under the Microscope.
7.7.
"Our Historical Roots: Dr. Richard Drysdale Dakin, DSC, and His Solution" by Matthew W. King. Journal of Ostomy and Continence Nursing.
7.8.
"A Review of Recent Progress in the Chemotherapy of Septicæmia" by E.C. Dodds. The Practicioner. 1936.
7.9.
Various Notecards.

4.008.
Photographs. undated. 1 Folder
8.1.
Assorted Photographs.

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