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Salvarsan Pharm.|ˈsælvəsæn|
Also salvarsan.
[a. G. salvarsan, f. L. salv-āre to save + G. ars-enik arsenic n.1 + -an -an.]
A former proprietary name for arsphenamine. Now chiefly Hist.
1910Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 23 Aug. 987/2 Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning, Höchst-on-the-Main, Germany. Filed Feb. 23, 1909. Salvarsan. 1910N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 1137/1 Ehrlich followed up the arsenic compounds, and after many, many trials, changes, and improvements, placed, carefully and well prepared, dioxydiamidoarsenobenzol or ‘salvarsan’, to give it its trade name, before the profession. 1911Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Jan. 100/1 The remedy has rapidly undergone improvements and successively become ‘606 ideal’, ‘606 hyperideal’, and now ‘Salvarsan’. 1913A. B. Reeve Poisoned Pen iii. 91 In these tubes I have the now famous salvarsan. 1913Times 9 Aug. 3/1 The spirillum of relapsing fever, cultures of which after treatment with salvarsan were no longer capable of infecting mice. 1927Glasgow Herald 29 Dec. 4/1 Setting right a joint by manipulation is different from killing a spirochaete with salvarsan. 1937M. Covarrubias Island of Bali (1972) x. 352 But the reluctance of the Balinese to undertake foreign treatment, the forbidding cost of Salvarsan, and the natural promiscuity do not help the situation. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) ii. 24 At the hospital they were giving everbody shots of salvarsan for syphilis—only it was called ‘bad blood’ then. 1973Sci. Amer. Sept. 106/3 In 1907 Paul Ehrlich of Germany, after long travail, succeeded in synthesizing Salvarsan, an arsenic compound that would kill Treponema pallidum, the microorganism that causes syphilis. |