Urea stibamine for kala-azar
Urea estibamina contra el kala-azar
- Date
- 1920-1922 · confidence high
- Place
- Campbell Medical School, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India
- Credited to
- Upendranath Brahmachari
- People
- 👤 Upendranath Brahmachari1873–1946
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Organic antimony compound far more effective and less toxic than tartar emetic, which reduced kala-azar mortality from 90-95% to around 10%. It saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Assam and Bengal.
What it led to
- control of the kala-azar epidemic in Assam
- modern antimonial drugs