POST-SALVARSAN JAUNDICE.

Salvarsan Poisoning

a spectacular nature as to impress one with its specificity, but in very few cases indeed could such a belief be continued for any length of time. I have noticed that in the majority of cases, either repeated and refractory recurrences have followed, dashing to the ground the fervent hopes of the most optimistic experimenter, or such disastrous consequences have resulted which might well make t...

Coincidental obstructive and post-hepatitic cholestatic jaundice.

Introduction Obstructive jaundice due to carcinoma of the pancreas is uncommon in patients under the age of 40, where jaundice is usually a sequel to viral hepatitis, drug ingestion, alcohol or gallstone disease. The appearance of extra-hepatic obstruction due to carcinoma during the cholestatic phase of viral hepatitis is unusual.

A Salvarsan Series

Salvarsan – the First Chemotherapeutic Compound

Early History If defined as the use of a specific compound discovered as the result of a systematic search for a cure for a specific disease, then chemotherapy is less than a century old. The first example was the introduction in 1910 by Paul Ehrlich of an organoarsenic compound he named Salvarsan, which provided the first real cure for the extremely unpleasant disease syphilis (caused by the p...

Post-halothane jaundice in relation to previous administration of halothane.

The time interval since previous anaesthesia was compared in a surgical population in South Wales and in patients who developed jaundice after halothane. There was a significant difference in the pattern of time interval since previous general anaesthetics in the surgical population and in those patients who developed jaundice after halothane. In the group who developed jaundice there was an "e...