Word: loevenhart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compounds were prepared under the direction of Professor A. B. Loevenhart of Wisconsin. He believes the conquest of African sleeping sickness would be equivalent to the discovery of a continent. But more than Africa is at stake. Before the War the tsetse fly was unknown in Arabia; in recent years it has turned up there. Also strange new diseases of camels have developed in Palestine, similar to sleeping sickness; caused by trypanosomes. Finally, laymen are startled when Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas tells them that: "In prehistoric times this fly lived in the Americas and fossils of some twenty-odd species have...
Drug. Sufferers from paresis resulting from syphilitic infection may be cured, said Professor A. S. Loevenhart of the University of Wisconsin. Using tryparsamide (an arsenical drug first compounded by the workers of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research and found to be effective in curing sleeping sickness), he restored to their right minds one-third of all the grey-faced, twitching paresis victims upon whom he experimented...
Tryparsamide, a new arsenic compound developed at the Rockefeller Institute, for the treatment of African sleeping sickness, has been used with considerable success as a remedy for paresis at the Wisconsin Psychiatric Hospital, Madison, by Dr. Arthur S. Loevenhart, professor of pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. W. F. Lorenz, chief of the Hospital...
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