Arsenical Chemotherapeutic Drugs. XV. : Studies on Arsenical Compounds as Anthelmintics.

Arsenical polyneuropathy due to caustic arsenical paste.

Arsenical Neuritis

use of impure acids containing arsenic used for the manufacture of glucose and " invert" sugar. The number of cases amounted to over 6,000 and of deaths to at least 70. Many deaths returned as due to, "alcoholic neuritis" "alcoholism," "locomotor ataxy," &c., were probably caused by arsenical poisoning. Since the exposure of the cause of the outbreak and discontinuance of the use of impure acid...

Uncoupling agents: arsenical analogues of pyrophosphate and their compounds.

Arsenate does this because the enzyme accepts it as orthophosphate, but the first product breaks down because of the instability of esters and anhydrides of arsenate (cf. Braunstein, 1931). This use of arsenate is limited because most of the biochemical reactions that liberate orthophosphate, in contrast with those that liberate pyrophosphate, are not freely reversible. Arsenical analogues of p...

Arsenical Compounds in Ayurveda Medicine: a Prospective Analysis

Haritala (Orpiment), Manashila (Realgar) and Gouripasana (White arsenic) are the three commonly used Arsenicals in Ayurveda and other codified traditional medicine of India for wide range diseases after Sodhana (Purification) and Marana (Calcification). Gouripasana (White arsenic) is now accepted in western medicine as first line chemotherapeutic agent against certain hematopoietic cancer. Mall...

Arsenical Compounds in the Treatment of Blackhead in Turkeys

The natural form of blackhead, although very fatal to young turkeys, is favorably influenced by treatment with certain of the newer arsenical compounds. Neoarsphenamine injected intravenously in toxic doses has a somewhat favorable effect on the course of the spontaneous disease and evidently lowers the mortality. Its instability, its pronounced toxicity for young turkeys, as well as the diffic...