Domagk Discovers That a Sulfonamide Can Save Lives
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Epidemics, Diseases, Chemistry, Chemists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
- Geographical Location: Germany
- Date: 1932-1935
Article abstract: Domagk developed the experimental procedures for testing the effectiveness of drugs and discovered that sulfonamides were effective in curing a large number of diseases caused by bacteria.
Summary of Event
Quinine was used to treat malaria for hundreds of years and had been purified by the French chemists Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou around 1820. Nevertheless, Paul Ehrlich is usually designated as the father of modern chemotherapy because he was responsible for discovering a number of useful drugs. Ehrlich was...
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