Word: sobisminol
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...injections to prostitutes for five years, obtained 95% protection. For the past ten years, fierce Dr. Paul John Hanzlik and his co-workers at Stanford University have been working to put bismuth into practical anti-syphilis pills. Recently they settled on a soluble sodium bismuthate compound which they called "sobisminol." Last week in the American Journal of Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Venereal Diseases they were able to publish an impressive summary of results...
...most patients, two capsules of sobisminol taken with a glass of water three times a day for several weeks healed the surface disturbances and freed them of spirochetes. It also passed into the blood stream and attacked the spirochetes in the blood and tissues. Sobisminol also works as a prophylactic. Taken daily for at least three weeks, it protects against syphilitic infection after the first week. But Dr. Hanzlik does not promise complete cures on the basis of sobisminol alone. He and other investigators believe its role for the present is to shorten and minimize the course of injections...
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