Tag: Syphilis
Paul Ehrlich, Discoverer of a Drug to Battle Syphilis
Paul Ehrlich performed pioneering research work in chemistry, medicine, physiology, histology, bacteriology, hematology and oncology and became the founder of immunology and pharmacology and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
August 20, 1915: Paul Ehrlich, who cured syphilis and fathered the fields of chemotherapy...
Paul Ehrlich, who cured syphilis and fathered the fields of chemotherapy and hematology, died in Germany on this date in 1915. His first major accomplishment, while recuperating from tuberculosis in Egypt, was the development...