Essays Tagged: "Dapsone"

Leprosy.

figurement (cosmetic and physical). Treatment options for this include several medications such as: Dapsone, Rifampin, Clofazimine, Ethionamide, etc... In the old days people were put in "leper coloni ... The only breakthrough in treating this disease medicinally was around the 1940's when they created Dapsone, but even then it took very long to treat it.

(1 pages) 17 0 0.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

leprosy

. A more advanced treatment came in 1908, when Gerhardt Domack, a German chemist, produced the drug Dapsone. Although the drug was originally considered too toxic to be administered to humans, a deriv ... was eventually tested, with great success, on leprosy patients in Carville, Louisiana (Skillicorn). Dapsone was able to prevent the bacillus from multiplying, although it would be years later, when th ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers