Word: salvarsan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quickly nurse and doctor gave the other three patients intravenous injections of epinephrin as an antidote, but they had already turned pale, were staggering and clutching their throats. Two died, and one lay dangerously ill. They had all been given large doses of powerful arsphenamine (salvarsan, or 606, best treatment for early stages of syphilis) instead of the weaker derivative, neoarsphenamine, which contains less arsenic...
...notable drugs may poison the marrow in the bones, decrease the production of white blood cells, may cause death, and should be taken as medicine only with specific instructions from a well-informed doctor, said Dr. Roy Rack-ford Kracke, Atlanta blood specialist: amidopyrine, dinitrophenol, novaldin, antipyrine, sulfanilamide, sedormid, salvarsan...
...habitual users permanently hard of hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin, sodium salicylate), tobacco, alcohol, opium, arsenic (salvarsan), lead, mercury, phosphorus, oil of chenopodium, aniline dyes, insulin...
...pharmacologists can ascertain, Prontosil does not attack the streptococci and staphylococci directly in the way that salvarsan ("606") inactivates the spirochete of syphilis. In some undeciphered manner Prontosil* stimulates the production of white blood corpuscles, guardians and scavengers of the blood stream, retards the growth of cocci...
...Germany discovered the specific cause of infection. One year later August von Wassermann of Germany devised his Famed blood test for diagnosing the disease. In 1910 Biochemist Paul Ehrlich, once more of Germany, after 605 laboratory experiments, finally hit upon a positive ure for syphilis. Popularly called 606 or Salvarsan, this Ehrlich remedy was technically a compound of arsenic known as arsphenamine. With the cause & cure well in hand, world medicine was fully equipped to move forcefully against one of the worst scourges of the human race...