Pathogenesis of Salvarsan Fatalities

Salvarsan Poisoning

a spectacular nature as to impress one with its specificity, but in very few cases indeed could such a belief be continued for any length of time. I have noticed that in the majority of cases, either repeated and refractory recurrences have followed, dashing to the ground the fervent hopes of the most optimistic experimenter, or such disastrous consequences have resulted which might well make t...

A Salvarsan Series

Salvarsan – the First Chemotherapeutic Compound

Early History If defined as the use of a specific compound discovered as the result of a systematic search for a cure for a specific disease, then chemotherapy is less than a century old. The first example was the introduction in 1910 by Paul Ehrlich of an organoarsenic compound he named Salvarsan, which provided the first real cure for the extremely unpleasant disease syphilis (caused by the p...

The Treatment of Syphilis with Salvarsan

Among the various books dealing with Salvarsan this will naturally take a prominent place as it has received the benediction of Professor Ehrlich and may thus be regarded as being almost an official document. A large part of the book is devoted to a description of individual cases showing the great value of Salvarsan, especially in refractory cases of syphilis. The occurrence of relapses in a f...

A Case of Lymphadenoma Treated with Salvarsan

is so rare to get even temporary benefit from any medication cases of lymphadenoma when they are once fully established, that we have thought it worth while to put this case on record. The patient, J. L., was a bank clerk of 24 years of age. There was no point of importance in his family or previous history, except that three years before the onset his tonsils had been removed. ^ October 1909 t...