SALVARSAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 October 1913, Page 5

SALVARSAN.

DEATH OF AN ANTHRAX PATIENT. DUE TO THE DRUG. 'Times' — 'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Oct. 10, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. Oct. 9. At an inquest at Bradford on the body of a wool sorter, who had contracted anthrax and been given an injection of salvarsan, Professor Wiihelm Enrich, 'Bacteriologist to the Bradford Anthrax Investigation Board, gave evidence that death was due to salvarsan poisoning, consequent on the kidneys being unable to pass off the salvarsan after killing the anthrax baccili.

[At the International Medical Congress, held in London in August,last, Professor Paul Ehrlich Prize winner) described the .effects of his famous drug, salvarsan. In a disease which for years had been the, scoiurge of the tropics, single injections had cured 300 patients, and the samei results had been obtained in the case of recurring fevers and forms of malaria. The majority of the speakers testified to the efficiency of the salvarsan treatment for venereal diseases. Colonel Gibbard, referring to the introduction of the salvarsan treatment into the British Army, stated that its use annually saved the State the cost, of the hospital treatment for whole battalions of infantry.}