Salvarsan

[ sal-ver-san ]

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand of arsphenamine.

Example Sentences

“The book fixes attention on the conditions these women faced — injected with the arsenic compound salvarsan, offered anti-hemorrhagic agents made from corpses, left to die of infection,” our reviewer, BK Fischer, writes.

From New York Times

The book fixes attention on the conditions these women faced — injected with the arsenic compound salvarsan, offered anti-hemorrhagic agents made from corpses, left to die of infection.

From New York Times

Bacterial resistance to Salvarsan started to emerge about halfway through that period, despite the drug’s limited use by comparison with modern antibiotics.

From Nature

Salvarsan was one such drug, from a group of compounds known as arsphenamines.

From Nature

“Or salvarsan,” the major interrupted quietly.

From Literature