Arsenic

Nigel Price · 13 May 2003, 00:13 · from urth-v0305.mbox · original

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From: "Nigel Price" <nigel.aprice at virgin.net>
Subject: (urth) Arsenic
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 01:13:19 +0100
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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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