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  2. Arsphenamine - Wikipedia

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    Arsphenamine, also known as Salvarsan or compound 606, is an antibiotic drug that was introduced at the beginning of the 1910s as the first effective treatment for the deadly infectious diseases syphilis, relapsing fever, and African trypanosomiasis. [2] [3] This organoarsenic compound was the first modern antimicrobial agent. [4]

  3. Neosalvarsan - Wikipedia

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    Both Salvarsan and Neosalvarsan were developed in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich in Frankfurt, Germany. Their discoveries were the result of the first organized team effort to optimize the biological activity of a lead compound through systematic chemical modifications. [1] This scheme is the basis for most modern pharmaceutical research.

  4. Sahachiro Hata - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, Hata's and Ehrlich's work represents a turning point for experimental and therapeutic pharmacology and paved the way for the development of antibiotics decades later. [4] Salvarsan was established as the standard treatment for syphilis until it was replaced by the antibiotic penicillin after World War II, which has fewer adverse side ...

  5. Paul Ehrlich - Wikipedia

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    This was the first agent with a specific therapeutic effect to be created on the basis of theoretical considerations. Salvarsan proved to be amazingly effective, particularly when compared with the conventional therapy of mercury salts. Manufactured by Hoechst AG, Salvarsan became the most widely prescribed drug in the world.

  6. File:Salvarsan treatment kit for syphilis, Germany, 1909-1912 ...

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    Salvarsan was a synthetic drug produced to treat the STI syphilis. The drug was developed by Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), a German medical scientist, and his team in 1909 after three years of research. Ehrlich coined the phrase ‘magic bullet’ to describe this new wonder drug.

  7. Arsenic biochemistry - Wikipedia

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    The organoarsenic compound Salvarsan was the first synthetic chemotherapeutic agent, discovered by Paul Ehrlich. [21] The treatment, however, led to many problems causing long lasting health complications. [22] Around 1943 it was finally superseded by penicillin.

  8. 2 NWTC students found a new antibiotic in soil at Pamperin ...

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    Half of the antibiotics typically used today were found between 1950 and 1960, which was considered the golden age of antibiotic discovery. The last class of antibiotics used as treatment was ...

  9. List of drugs by year of discovery - Wikipedia

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    In 1907 Alfred Bertheim synthesized Arsphenamine, the first man-made antibiotic. In 1927 Erik Rotheim patented the first aerosol spray can. In 1933 Robert Pauli Scherer created a method to develop softgels. William Roberts studies about penicillin were continued by Alexander Fleming, who in 1928 concluded that penicillin had an antibiotic ...