Medical term:
salvarsan
Sal·var·san
(sal'var-san),Historic proprietary name for arsphenamine.
[L. salvare, to preserve, + sanitas, health]
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salvarsan
(săl′vər-săn′)n.
The drug arsphenamine.
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Pros It was the first effective therapy for syphilis
Cons Toxicity, difficult to administer, long-term therapy required. It was superseded by penicillin in 1943
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Salvarsan
Medical history An antisyphilitic arsenical compound synthesized by Paul Ehrlich. See Magic bullet.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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