SAVING HEARTS AND KILLING RATS

<p><strong>It started in February 1933 when a Wisconsin farmer brought a dead cow and a bucket of cow's blood to the lab of a young University of Wisconsin biochemist named Karl Paul Link. The farmer's cows were dying mysteriously. Their blood would not clot. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Over the next two decades Link and his team solved the mystery and in doing so developed a powerful rodenticide and life-saving human anticoagulant called warfarin which was famously administered to President Dwight Eisenhower after a heart attack. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong>At the center of the story is Karl Paul Link - brilliant outspoken controversial humorous - a colorful anti-authoritarian who twice received the Lasker Award an honor for medical investigators second only to the Nobel Prize.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong> This biography traces Link's life from humble Indiana beginnings to the labs and lecture halls where he made his name - and 20th-century medical history. </strong></p><p> </p>