Announced New York, Apr. 13.
'A five-day treatment for syphilis which renders the disease not com-Imunieable and after which the patient Fequires no further attention was described at a meeting of 200 Amer can Public Health officials at the [Mount Sinai Hospital here today.
An. arsenic compound, arsenoxide, is injected in the veins, eliminating the, syphilis germs from the blood, it wad understood.
More than 85 per cent. of syphilis patients treated by the revolutionary cure have been completely cured within five days and. the majority fof others were healed after later treatments of the same compound.
'The new treatment was hailed' by Public Health doctors as the most Important development in medicine singe the discovery of salvarsan—United Press.
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