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Thomas Boggs sent this kit to his colleague and former teacher, the surgeon William Halsted, who remained at his post in Baltimore. Halsted took a keen interest in the Hopkins unit’s surgical work in France and corresponded with several of them,…

Salvarsan, also known as 606, was a synthetic drug developed by the scientist Paul Ehrlich in 1909 to treat syphilis. It was a path-breaking development that revolutionized the American medical profession’s ability to treat the disease. When World…