Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Mats Norrman ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
>>Even a person living as late as Alexander Glazunow is reported to have had
>>Syphilis, though the treatment methods were better in his time and he was
>>cured.
>
>And Frederick Delius died from it (in 1934).  Were there any permanent
>cures prior to antibiotics?

Yes.  The arsenike-derivate dioxidiamino-arsenobensen-dihydroklorid,
which was abbreviated to "Salvarsan", and used in different refinements
(Neo-Salvarsan 1-X) from the invention of it in 1909 until Penicillin in
the 1940ies.

Mats Norrman
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