Miracle Cure Quotes

“Until the first antibiotics, medicine remained the oldest art. It had yet to become, in Thomas’s words, the “youngest science.”
― William Rosen, Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

“Perversely, the greatest triumph in medical history—the germ theory of disease—destroyed the ideal of heroic medicine, replacing it with a kind of therapeutic fatalism.* As physicians were taught the bacterial causes of diseases, they also learned that there was little if nothing to do once a patient acquired one.”
― William Rosen, Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine