different between salvarsan vs arsphenamine

English

salvarsan (countable and uncountable, plural salvarsans)

(medicine) The organoarsenic compound arsphenamine, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and the first effective antibiotic developed against any bacterial illness.

From arsenic + phen- + amine.

arsphenamine (countable and uncountable, plural arsphenamines)

(pharmacology, organic chemistry) A phenolic amine derivative of arsenic that was used to treat syphilis (under the trade name of Salvarsan).
- 2001: The 606th compound was one that contained arsenic and was called arsphenamine. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 9)

Send