Word: salvarsan
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...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...
Sirs: In common doubtless with many other of his former students I appreciated your record of Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party (TIME, April 14), but your otherwise excellent account was marred by one misleading statement, that which classed his European prototypes as follows: "Paul Ehrlich (discoverer of salvarsan); Koch (discoverer of the bacilli of anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera): Pasteur (vaccines)." If I may be forgiven a seeming irreverence, this is much as though you had classified the founders of a great religion somewhat as follows...
...Welch tradition, to teach Greek and Latin instead of studying medicine. He realized his mistake after a year, went back to Yale, then to the College of Physicians & Surgeons (Manhattan), then to Strassburg, Leipzig, Vienna, Berlin. Breslau, where he rubbed elbows with mountainous medical names: Paul Ehrlich (discoverer of salvarsan); Koch (discoverer of the bacilli of anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera); Pasteur (vaccines...