Which is the drug based on arsenic compound, produced in 1910 which killed germs of syphilis?

Salvarson

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Streptomycin

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Penicillin

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Savlon

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Solution

The correct option is A
Salvarson

In 1910, Paul Ehrlich introduced the arsenic-based drug Salvarson as a remedy for syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease. But it also proved poisonous to the patients as well as it contained arsenic.

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