18/19: P. Ehrlich

• Before Paul Ehrlich


  Syphilis, a deadly sexually transmitted disease had no cure and death was slow and painful.
• Paul Ehrlich's discovery

  • Paul Ehrlich, a student of Koch, produced the drug Salvarsan 606 to treat syphilis.
  • This was the first of what came to be known as silver bullets, drugs designed to target specific germs.
• Paul Ehrlich laid the foundations for... (after)

  The discovery of silver bullets marked the birth of the modern pharmaceutical industry.