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...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...
Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only-that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is arsphenamine, the drug salvarsan ("606") which Germany's Paul Ehrlich concocted 30 years ago. Mercury and bismuth compounds are also useful. But all these drugs must be injected regularly over a long period (18 months to two years) and many patients heartily dislike injections and monotonous visits to the doctor. When their gross symptoms disappear, they often abandon treatment forthwith, still harboring the pale lurking...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman; TIME...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman; TIME...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman; TIME...