Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915 ... cells and chemicals are particularly sensitive to one another. Ehrlich was looking for a cure or treatment for "sleeping sickness," a disease caused by a microbe.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Paul Ehrlich ... with late-stage syphilis using salvarsan (as Ehrlich had named compound ...

A poster promoting early treatment for syphilis, showing cured and sick men ... But no. Turned out that Ehrlich had lied on the patent. Opa tried for months to make the drug from the patent, but at a ...