noun

• A synthetic organic arsenic compound formerly used to treat syphilis and other diseases.

  ‘In 1910, with his Japanese colleague Sahachiro Hata, he developed arsphenamine, a synthetic preparation containing arsenic, which sold under the name of Salvarsan.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He also discovered a treatment for syphilis using arsphenamine in 1910.’
  • ‘Two month courses of intravenous arsphenamine would then be alternated with intramuscular Bismuth.’
  • ‘So powerful is arsphenamine that doctors can give it only in single doses extending over a period of 18 months.’
  • ‘More recently silver arsphenamine has been used in topical astringent preparations.’