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Arsenic-containing medicines are primarily employed in the management of which disease?

1. Jaundice
2. Typhoid fever
3. Syphilis
4. Cholera

Correct answer: Syphilis

Solution

Organoarsenic compounds such as Salvarsan (arsphenamine) were the classic chemotherapeutic agents used to treat syphilis. Hence arsenic-containing medicines are primarily associated with syphilis.

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