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Emil von Behring Nobel Lecture . Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1901. Serum Therapy in Therapeutics and Medical Science. Serum therapy in the form in which it finds application in the treatment of diphtheria patients is an antitoxic or detoxicating curative method.
May 20, 2024 · Behring found that the same was true for diphtheria and this led to the development of a diphtheria antitoxin for human patients, in collaboration with Paul Ehrlich. This treatment was first used in 1891 and subsequently caused a dramatic fall in mortality due to diphtheria.Behring's success brought him many prizes, including the first Nobel ...
Gift of Dr. R. B. Montgomery / National Museum of American History Emil von Behring (in dark jacket) won a 1901 Nobel Prize for using animal antibodies to create medicines that treated diphtheria ...
Emil Adolf von Behring and serum therapy for diphtheria. Emil Adolf von Behring and serum therapy for diphtheria. Acta Paediatr. 2006 Mar;95 (3):258-9. doi: 10.1080/08035250600580586.
Feb 28, 2017 · 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 on passive immunization with specific antisera.
Feb 1, 2002 · The first Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology was awarded to Emil von Behring (Fig. 1) in 1901 “for his work on serum therapy and especially for its use against diphtheria, with which he opened up a new path in the field of medical science and gave the physician a powerful weapon with which to combat disease and death” 〚1〛.
Apr 28, 2022 · March 15, 1854: Diphtheria’s Foe. “After a number of failures, von Behring, working with Japanese colleague Shibasaburo Kitasato, found that by treating diphtheria-infected guinea pigs with iodine trichloride, some of the animals built up a resistance to the disease. He also found that treating an infected animal with serum taken from a ...
