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Apr 10, 2017 · Emil von Behring (1854–1917) discovered passive immunization as an effective treatment for diphtheria and tetanus. Moreover, he brought this discovery from bench to bedside, and his serum ...
- Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
- Kaufmann@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
- 2017
Dec 3, 2001 · The Development of the Diphtheria-Therapeutic-Serum. Behring, who in the early 1890s became an assistant at the Institute for Infectious Diseases, headed by Robert Koch, started his studies with experiments on the development of a therapeutic serum. In 1890, together with his university friend Erich Wernicke, he had managed to develop the first ...
May 11, 2018 · Emil Adolph von Behring. The German hygienist and physician Emil Adolph von Behring (1854-1917) is famous for his discovery of antitoxins and his pioneering work in the treatment of diphtheria and certain other diseases. Emil Adolph von Behring was born on March 15, 1854, at Forsthausen, West Prussia.
Feb 28, 2017 · Personal name as subject. Emil von Behring. A century ago, Emil von Behring passed away. He was the first to be honored by the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1901 for the successful therapy of diphtheria and tetanus, which he had developed from the bench to the bed. He also contributed to the foundation of immunology, since his therapy was based ….
- Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
- 2017
the bloodstream. In the following year, Kitasato isolated the tetanus bacillus at Robert Koch's laboratory in Berlin.2 Shortly after, von Beh ring and Kitasato combined their studies of the diphtheria and tetanus bacilli, respectively, with the aim of developing serological treatment for these diseases to replace the use of disinfectants. In ...
Feb 28, 2017 · During the Franco-Prussian War (1870 to 1871) and the American Civil War (1861 to 1865), 350 tetanus cases with 90% mortality and 505 cases with 89% mortality were recorded, respectively. A cure for diphtheria, known at the time as the “strangling angel” of children, raised much higher attention as one of the most threatening killers ...
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Emil von Behring is remembered for his discovery of tetanus and diphtheria antitoxins, for which he was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physiology-Medicine in 1901. Trained as a military physician at Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelms Institute, Behring earned his MD in 1878 after serving for several years in the Prussian military.
