The chemotherapy of phenanthridine compounds†
Read before the London Section on April 1, 1946.
Abstract
An account is given of the preparation of various phenanthridine compounds and of their use in chemotherapy. Several of the compounds are curative of bovine trypanosomiasis, an African disease transmitted by the tsetse fly, and promise to be of great value in the African colonics. The relation between chemical constitution and trypanocidal action in this series is discussed.