German salvarsan kit, c 1912.
Image number: 10321551
The kit was made by W Martindale but the actual drug was produced by Meister Lucius & Bruning (Hoechst am Main, Germany). Salvarsan, also known as an arsphenamine, is a synthetic, organic arsenic compound develped to treat syphilis by the German chemist Paul Ehrlich.
- Image number:
- 10321551
- Credit:
- Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library
- Date taken:
- 30 October 2003 04:27
- Image rights:
- Science Museum
