To the treatment of syphilis with Russian bismuth preparations

Abstract

In recent years, a huge number of different bismuth preparations have been introduced into syphilis therapy under different names. Here we find aqueous solutions of bismuth salts (sigmuth. nadisan), oily suspensions of soluble bismuth compounds (trepol), oily suspensions of insoluble bismuth compounds (quinby, bismogenol, milanol), preparations with bismuth in colloidal state (neotrepol, bisdiasparol), mixed bismuth preparations (spirobismol, casbis), etc. Most of these preparations contain BIO, in a number of them chlorine, iodine and sulfur are introduced into the salt molecule. The content of metallic bismuth in the preparations ranges from 5 to 96%.