Die Experimentelle Chemotherapie der Spirillosen : (Syphilis, Ruckfallfieber, Huhnerspirillose, Frambosie)

Paul Ehrlich; Sahachiro Hata

Julius Springer, 1910

[A foundational work in Chemotherapy] Near fine. Bound in publisher's green cloth.  Good binding and cover. Small bump on front corner. 5 photographic plates with multiple subjects; 3 folding tables. viii, 164, [4] pages, including 2 ad leaves at end.  Clean, unmarked pages. "Ehrlich conceived the idea of creating a 'magic bullet' drug to kill living organisms… Ehrlich carried out 605 experiments before reaching the one compound. .the famous arsenic-based '606,' the magic bullet, later named Salvarsan and first used to treat human syphilis in 1911." Heirs of Hippocrates 2159; Garrison-Morton 2403. Norman 686.