It was reasonable to expect that the effect of the use of the antitoxine remedy upon the diphtheria death rate in a city would first be seen in Paris, for the remedy has been administered in the ...

Read before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, February 18, 1895. Select the format you want to export the citation of this publication.

It had been over 30 years since the last case of diphtheria was seen in Guinea ... are admitted to the hospital and treated with an antitoxin, as appropriate. The only sure way this outbreak ...

Later Dr. Theobald Smith, of the Rockefeller Institute, found that if a little diphtheria toxin were added to antitoxin the mixture would immunize animals against the disease. At once Dr. William ...

In 1925, Seppala was part of the nearly 700-mile relay of mushers and dog teams to get diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, during a deadly outbreak of the disease. (AP Photo, File) Thanks to ...