Salvarsan „made in England”?

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...

Solu-Salvarsan: TOXICOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTIC TESTS MADE ON BEHALF OF THE THERAPEUTIC TRIALS COMMITTEE OF THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL.

SOLU-SALVARSAN was submitted to the Therapeutic Trials Committee in I933 for investigation prior to application being made for a licence to import it into Great Britain. It is not on sale in this country but is used in other parts of the Empire and in various European and South American countries, where the following account of an investigation of its properties which has been carried out in Lo...

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...