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FOUR years ago Prof. Behring published his remarkable paper βOn the mechanism of immunity agains experimental diphtheria in animals.β In this memoir the author stated that it was possible to immunise animal; against the diphtheria bacillus by the injection of culture attenuated by heat or the addition of 1 in 500 tri chloride of iodine to the cultivating medium. The same result could be obtained by the inoculation of the pleura exudation of animals dead of experimental diphtheria or by the injection of chemical compounds, such a trichloride of iodine, after inoculation of virulent diphtheria-bacilli.
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RUFFER, M. The Treatment of Diphtheria by Anti-Toxic Serum. Nature 51, 16β18 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051016a0
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