Identifier: menaroundkaiserm00wilerich (find matches)
Title: Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Biography Germany -- Politics and government 1888-1918 Germany -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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as to drive through Paul Ehrlich-strasse in Frankfort-on-the-Main to reach theRoyal Institute for Experimental Therapeutics,where the discoverer of 606 has his workshop.His great contemporary, Professor Behring, dis-coverer of the diphtheria anti-toxin, has beensimilarly distinguished by the placing of his statueon one of the bridges spanning the Spree in Berlin.The world at large knows Professor Ehrlich bestthrough the syphilis specific which he discovered in1909, but before that he had already accomplishedimmensely important results in the science ofimmunity and the treatment of sleeping sickness.The Kaiser decorated him in 1903 with the Prussiangold medal for science. Oxford, Gottingen andChicago, a couple of years later, awarded himhonorary degrees for eminent attainments. Ehrlichs latest discovery was named 606,because it was the six hundred and sixth atoxylderivative with which he experimented before reach-ing his goal. In the mystifying lingo of the labora- 25^ >, 3 9 J :t J
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/W /^ ^^*^ PAUL EHRLICH tory, the drug is called dioxydiamido-arsenobenzol.In commerce the remedy is known as Salvarsan. Thepresent status of 606 is hard to define. Themedical universe is not united in its view of the realvalue of the drug. Many physicians swear by it ;others swear at it. Before announcing its discovery,Ehrlich accumulated records of 10,000 cases, all ofwhich, except a minor percentage, were definitelycured within a miraculously quick period. Heattributed the few failures to the fact that he couldnot at first be sure how large a dose could be safelyadministered to a human being. 606 is not thecure-all hailed so rapturously by the sufferingsection of an ignorant public four years ago, but itis admittedly a remarkable specific, and invaluablein the treatment of the malady at which it is aimed.It is undeniably efficacious. Whether it curespermanently can only be determined by years ofminute observation. Argument over its merits ordemerits has grown materially less acrimo

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