How Much Is a Miracle

Dramatizes the ambition of a pharmacist's apprentice, Eli Lilly, of making "buying a miracle" possible. Follows his career through the Civil War as a pharmacist-soldier, then his turning to the manufacture of drugs as his life's work. Presents historical background, such as medicine shows and patent medicines of the post war era, to the field of pharmacology and some of the modern development of medicine, such as insulin, polio vaccine, and antibiotics.