June 2001 Vol. 10, No. 06, pp 5960. Table of Contents TCAW Home Subscription Info Electronic Reader Service Contact Us Masthead Sitemap Chemistry Chronicles David M. Kiefer Miracle Medicines The advent of the sulfa drugs in the mid-1930s gave physicians a powerful weapon. Gerhard Domagk, sulfa drug pioneer. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE/J. F. LEHMANN In the United States in the early 1930s, about ...