# Arsenic *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 13 May 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nigel Price *13 May 2003, 00:13* 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"? Nigel --- ### Josh Geller *13 May 2003, 00:39 · follows Nigel Price* > 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. . ---