Physicians are interested in the bill primarily because it includes the salvarsan situation.
I placed the patient on mercurials and at last give him three salvarsan injections three weeks apart.
To date, after three salvarsan treatments intravenously there have been two negatives.
I gave mercurials and potassium iodid for seven months, and salvarsan once.
Certainly the patentees of salvarsan have already reaped their harvest--and a pretty rich one.
The fact is that the salvarsan one can obtain today costs $4.
These results have been obtained in cases in whichSalvarsan and kindred preparations have been employed without the slightest benefit.
Clinically we were unable to detect any influence of either or both these compounds on syphilitic lesions, although each of them was of the variety which heals in a week or ten days under salvarsan treatment.
He says it is from Salvarsan as it is exactly like what he was injected with!
The opinion expressed by the patient that he was getting rid of the Salvarsan which had been injected into his blood to cure his disease is, of course, his own only.
When Paul Ehrlich, in 1910, announced his discovery of salvarsan for the treatment of syphilis, the clergy again were horror-struck that man should interfere with a visitation of the Lord.
When the physician administers quinine for malaria, or salvarsan for syphilis, he effects cures for these diseases by using agents to which the clergy strenuously objected when they were first introduced.
It is interesting to note that pyramidon in the form of Midol is put on the American market by the General Drug Company, which also acts as a distributor of salvarsan (“606”).
Strong, of the Bureau of Science, made the very important discovery that salvarsan is an absolute specific for it.
Soon after this use forsalvarsan was discovered, I caused a liberal supply of it to be sent to the Bontoc Hospital.
Arsenic may be given in full doses either by the mouth or by subcutaneous injection; the intravenous administration of neo-salvarsan may be tried.
But though mercury is efficient, it is slow, and the greater rapidity of action of salvarsan and its power to control infectious lesions give it a unique place.
Mental strain, a powerful influence in many diseases, is a factor in syphilis also, and the state of mind of the patient has often almost as much to do with the success of his treatment as has salvarsan or mercury.
To make the giving of salvarsan safe, the judgment, experience, and training of the specialist are not too much to ask.
Certainly, so far as recognizable dangerous sores are concerned, periodic examination, with salvarsan whenever necessary, would seem to dispose of much of the difficulty.
Salvarsan can be given to even very small babies, and mercury also is employed with excellent results.
There are even good reasons for believing that the patient who is insufficiently treated with salvarsan is at times worse off than the patient who, unable to afford the drug at all, has had to depend for his cure entirely on mercury.
At the present time the use of both mercury and salvarsan in the treatment of the disease is the most widely accepted practice, and seems to offer the greatest assurance of cure.
I always recall with a shock the utterance of a university professor in the days when salvarsan was expected to cure syphilis at a single dose.
The intervals of rest between courses of salvarsan and mercury are short.
The dangers of salvarsan are easily exaggerated, and some people have a foolish fear of it.
It is one of the wonders of medicine to see a sickly runt of a child at fifteen or sixteen develop in a few months into a very presentable young man or girl under the influence of salvarsan and mercury.
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