Arsenic
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 13 May 2003
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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

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Josh Geller — 13 May 2003, 00:39
  follows, by subject match 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.













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