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Diddling with Diamox (acetazolamide): Mountains to Medicine

👁️ ➡️ 🧗‍♀️ ➡️ 🧠➡️ 🩸 Let’s talk about a drug you see prescribed for use in a few different scenarios: acetazolamide. Who made this and when? • Robin & Clapp at American Cyanamid • Attribution to them 1951 Why was it developed? • To treat glaucoma • First medically used in 1952 How does this drug treat glaucoma?