A chemical compound formerly used as a treatment for gout and related conditions.
From atopy + -an chemical suffix, or possibly related to atopy and a Greek root. An obsolete pharmaceutical term from early 20th-century medicine.
Many old drug names disappear from use when better treatments are discovered—atophan is a ghost of medical history, replaced by more effective therapies.
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