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Sidney Farber's Experiment

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Sidney Farber then heard about an experiment Paul Ehrlich was researching about. He did an experiment with cloth dyes. He noticed that the dyes stained only some parts of the cell. He thought that there must be some chemical poisons that can be directed for certain diseased cells. He also notices that some chemicals killed specific organisms. Enrich called each of these drugs “Magic Bullets.” He believed that every cancer has a “magic bullet” that would kill the disease without killing any healthy cells. To test his theory, he tested nitrogen mustard on a man with Lymphoma. When he finished the test, the nitrogen mustard killed the man’s cancerous cells. When people heard of his experiment, they immediately thought that Ehrlich hypothesis was

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