Word: varsenobenzol
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...soldiers who contracted venereal disease were court-martialed, deprived of pay; 2) all men far from prophylactic stations were given kits, and tubes of Metchnikoff's paste for prevention of syphilis; 3) all men who contracted syphilis were given injections of a new French arsenic preparation (no-varsenobenzol) based on Paul Ehrlich's 606. The older drug had been difficult to give, painful to take, but novarsenobenzol (neoarsphenamine) was so great an improvement that some doctors could make 100 injections an hour...
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