"Bayer 205" in Kala-Azar
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a relationship between kala-azar and sleepingsickness, and it is natural that any drug which has given good results in cases of sleepingsickness should be tried in kala-azar. Probably the first occasion on which a trypanicidal drug was tried in kala-azar was about the year 1906 when two cases of kalaazar were treated by myself in the Ezra Hospital, Calcutta with a drug called ' arrhenal.' The reports of cures of sleeping-sickness by atoxyl had induced me to try to obtain a supply of the drug for trial in kala-azar, but the chemist to whom I applied informed me that none was available in Calcutta and he suggested arrhenal which was very nearly related to atoxyl. The patients who were treated with arrhenal were two brothers and the results obtained
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