Methylene Blue

 

               Heinrich Caro, a German chemist, first synthesized Methylene Blue in 1876. 

In 1876, while experimenting with a new intermediate product, he succeeded in synthesizing a pure blue dye for cotton, methylene blue. A year later, BASF was awarded Germany’s first patent for a coal tar dye for methylene blue.

                                  Methylene Blue was the First Patent In Dye For BASF 

Methylene blue revealed its medical talent in 1886 when the budding doctor Paul Ehrlich noticed a curious phenomenon during his experiments: methylene blue, a dye recently synthesized by BASF, turned live neurons blue – and had the same effect on plasmodium (the parasite that causes malaria) in human blood. Ehrlich concluded that the dye might be used for selective targeting of malaria in the human body. A few years later, he tested methylene blue as a remedy to treat swamp fever – with success. For the first time ever, Ehrlich cured an infectious disease with a synthetic substance.

                                                  Methylene Blue: Worlds First Synthetic Drug

Then and Now 

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Dye To Medicine 

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