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...splinting. 4. Injecting iron & arsenic. 5. Herb packs...
...many reforms: 1) soldiers who contracted venereal disease were court-martialed, deprived of pay; 2) all men far from prophylactic stations were given kits, and tubes of Metchnikoff's paste for prevention of syphilis; 3) all men who contracted syphilis were given injections of a new French arsenic preparation (no-varsenobenzol) based on Paul Ehrlich's 606. The older drug had been difficult to give, painful to take, but novarsenobenzol (neoarsphenamine) was so great an improvement that some doctors could make 100 injections an hour...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...
...ordinary fluid, but a sugary solution of mapharsen, one of the earlier of the 950-odd arsenic compounds invented by Paul Ehrlich. While the drug gently seeped into the patient's veins (two drops every three seconds), young Dr. William Leifer explained to the visitors one of the most remarkable advances in the treatment of syphilis since Chemist Ehrlich discovered arsphenamine...
...slowly dripping its weaker relative, mapharsen, into the bloodstream for eight hours a day, Drs. Hyman and Leifer and the third associate, Dr. Louis Chargin, eliminate the "shock" of relatively large injections, build up blood tolerance to huge concentrations of the essential arsenic. During a five-day treatment, a patient absorbs about two and a half gallons of mapharsen solution...