Arsenic

Nigel Price13 May 2003, 00:13original

In response to my query about the medicinal use of arsenic, Josh Geller wrote...

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The use of arsenic to cure syphillis was discovered by Dr. Paul Ehrlich I think around 1900 or maybe a little before. The treatment remained the standard treatment until the invention of penicillin.

Thanks, Josh! I thought I remembered something like that, but didn't know where to check it out. So...Do we know if arsenic would also be effective against "Yaws"? Nigel

Josh Geller13 May 2003, 00:39original

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On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 17:13, Nigel Price wrote: In response to my query about the medicinal use of arsenic, Josh Geller wrote...

The use of arsenic to cure syphillis was discovered by Dr. Paul Ehrlich I think around 1900 or maybe a little before. The treatment remained the standard treatment until the invention of penicillin.

Thanks, Josh! I thought I remembered something like that, but didn't know where to check it out.

So...Do we know if arsenic would also be effective against "Yaws"?

I believe so. The organism is the same, or very similar. .

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