Word: neostibosan
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...Asia, equatorial Africa, northeast coast of South America, and up to the Caribbean islands), 189,000,000 people have filariasis, which causes swelling in the lymphoid tissues. About 20,000,000 people have oncocerciasis, which causes blindness when the worms get into the eyes. A new antimony compound called Neostibosan has proved effective against filariasis, and another new drug, hetrazan, against oncocerciasis...
...Neostibosan, an antimony compound, seems to have cured eleven out of 33 Puerto Rican filariasis patients. Drs. Harry Rose and James T. Culbertson of Columbia University, who have given the treatments since last April, believe that the drug may eventually cure some of their other patients. (The disease sometimes results in the monstrous swellings of elephantiasis.) This is good news for U.S. troops in the Southwest Pacific area...
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