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Antitoxine Serum and its global adoption in 1894
Special correspondence from Philadelphia outlines rapid city by city plant installations for antitoxine production. It explains germ theory, bacterial cultivation, and how antitoxine serum from immunized horses provides immunity and cures when used early, noting observed declines in diphtheria mortality and a 30 percent average death rate reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
France
Austria-Hungary
United States
Europe
Boards of Health
Paris
Pasteur Laboratory
Schwapp
Pasteur
Tyndall
British Association
Huxley
Lister, Koch
Koch
Berlin
Bretonneau
Trousseau
Bagola
Siena
Klebs
Loeffler
Behring
Geo. D. Curr
M. D