Treatments - magic bullet

• Ehrlich - magic bullet
• chemicals which could kill syphilis bacteria (STD)
• his team tried over 600 chemicals
• 606 worker - Salvarsan 606 (1st magic bullet)
• 1932 - Domagk


  red dye - Prontosil -

  • tried on mice with blood poisoning - It worked!
  • Tried on his daughter who had blood poisoning and was dying - It worked

  major companies wanted to know why (competition) --> 1931 electron microscope helped discover why
• 1931 - the electron microscope discovered that the prontosil stopped bacteria multiplying - the bodies immune system could then deal with it ( this lead to scientist looking for other drugs that worked the same way)
• 1938


  M&B693 - treated pneumonia - helped Winston Churchill