This book was absolutely fascinating and for those who have always wondered why there isn't a tablet for this or that clearly explains the answer.
The Drug Hunters gives the pre-history, history and future diagnosis of where our medications came from and were developed. This is the story of how and why the tablets we take from Aspirin to the birth control pill came into being and the stories behind them.
I had several surprises such as there has only been medication for schizophrenia and depression for the last sixty years. Before that it was either Freud and discussion about your childhood or an asylum. No wonder literature of the Victorian era is full of wives locked in the attic.
I have little medical training and yet this book was easy to understand so I can highly recommend it.