1. He now had salvarsan for treating syphilitic ulcers and framboesia. 2. The drug was given the commercial name Salvarsan . 3. It was called Salvarsan 606 because it was the 606th drug that Ehrlich tried. 4. Manufactured by Hoechst AG, Salvarsan became the most widely prescribed drug in the world. 5. The first effective treatment for syphilis was Salvarsan , developed in 1910 by Paul Ehrlich. 6. Salvarsan required improvement as to side effects and solubility and was replaced in 1911 with Neosalvarsan.7. Both salvarsan and neosalvarsan were developed in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich in Frankfurt, Germany. 8. This substance, first called " 606 ", is now known as Arsphenamine or Salvarsan . 9. The first effective treatment for a sexually transmitted disease was salvarsan , a treatment for syphilis. 10. Salvarsan proved to be amazingly effective, particularly when compared with the conventional therapy of mercury salts.
