Sentences with phrase «curing syphilis»

In 1885 German biologist Paul Ehrlich (best known for curing syphilis) discovered that if he injected a dye into the abdomen of animals, he could color all their organs — all except the brain.

They were prohibited by government officials from receiving penicillin for 25 years after it was readily available and publically authorized to cure syphilis.

A single dose of benzathine penicillin, for instance, is still considered the best option to cure syphilis.

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During one of his famous staining experiments of the late 1800s — the kind that would eventually lead to a cure for syphilis and a Nobel Prize for Medicine — Paul Ehrlich stumbled on a conundrum that would haunt medicine down to the present day.

The name of Alexander Fleming became famous all over the world and will remain in history as the man who discovered the cure for diseases such as syphilis, pneumonia and meningitis.

At the same time, they were subjects of a hideous experiment to study syphilis to the end of its natural course, and the experiment continued well after a cure was developed.

When they disappear, thousands of syphilis victims think themselves cured, not realizing that instead of cure, this marks the end of the period when the best chance for it is possible.

Malaria fever therapy, popular from the 1920s until the adoption of penicillin as a cure for syphilis, was used on patients with an advanced form of the infection, based on the idea that infecting a patient with malaria would induce a fever that could somehow kill T. pallidum.

Although treatment for syphilis and other STDs is more accessible and effective than it was a century ago, bogus cures still abound, taking advantage of people's embarrassment over receiving treatment from a medical provider.

For centuries, syphilis had no effective cure.