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Antibiotic

The Hoechst Company began To Market The Salvarsan Compound

1910
Höchst, Frankfurt, Germany

The Hoechst company began to market the compound toward the end of 1910 under the name Salvarsan, now known as arsphenamine. The drug was used to treat syphilis in the first half of the 20th century.


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