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For more information, additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneer's website, www.noonans.co.uk Kounitzky, Franz (Austrian, 1880-1928); b. Vienna GERMANY , Paul Ehrlich und Sahatchiro Hata, die Eroberung der Syphilis [Paul Ehrlich and Sahatchiro Hata, the Conquest of Syphilis], c . 1912, a bronze medal by F. Kounitzky, Ehrlich and Hata poring over a test-tube, rev . Hercules wrestles with the Hydra, 66mm, 119.63g (BDM VII, 514; Wurzb. 1823; cf . Höhn 103, 567; cf . Peus e13, 222; cf . DNW M7, 2652). Extremely fine, rare £80-£100 --- Provenance: Bt Simmons September 2002. Dr Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), from Strehlen, Upper Silesia (now renamed Ehrlichstadt in his honour), shared the Nobel Prize in 1908. One of the main founders of chemotherapy, he worked with Sahatchiro Hata (1873-1938) to develop a cure for syphilis in the first decade of the 20th century