| 1. | He now had salvarsan for treating syphilitic ulcers and framboesia.
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| 2. | The drug was given the commercial name Salvarsan.
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| 3. | It was called Salvarsan 606 because it was the 606th drug that Ehrlich tried.
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| 4. | Manufactured by Hoechst AG, Salvarsan became the most widely prescribed drug in the world.
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| 5. | The first effective treatment for syphilis was Salvarsan, developed in 1910 by Paul Ehrlich.
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| 6. | Salvarsan required improvement as to side effects and solubility and was replaced in 1911 with Neosalvarsan.
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| 7. | Both salvarsan and neosalvarsan were developed in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich in Frankfurt, Germany.
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| 8. | This substance, first called " 606 ", is now known as Arsphenamine or Salvarsan.
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| 9. | The first effective treatment for a sexually transmitted disease was salvarsan, a treatment for syphilis.
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| 10. | Salvarsan proved to be amazingly effective, particularly when compared with the conventional therapy of mercury salts.
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