Word: salvarsan
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), German, director of the Royal Institute for Experimental Therapeutics, Frankfort, discoverer of salvarsan and neosalvarsan, antisyphilitic compounds...
...drug was discovered by Dr. Walter A. Jacobs and Dr. Michael Heidelberger, of the Rockefeller Institute, in 1915, after 63 distinct combinations had been found failures. It is somewhat similar in structure to arsphenamine (neo-salvarsan), the best specific for syphillis yet found, which was devised by Ehrlich, of Germany, and Hata, of Japan, after several hundred fruitless trials. Studies of the action of tryparsamide on animals were made by Dr. Wade H. Brown and Dr. Louise Pearce, of the Institute staff, and in 1920 Dr. Pearce went to the Belgian Congo, where she used it extensively in the treatment...
...Sahachiro Hata, professor of medicine in Keio University and co-discoverer with Ehrlich of salvarsan...