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II. The Treatment. ASSUMING now that the antitoxic serum is available, how is it to be used? It has been strongly recommended that it should be used not only as a curative or direct therapeutic agent, but that it should also be used as a prophylactic—that is, as a protective agent against possible infection, especially during those periods when diphtheria is rife. It is almost too soon to consider this prophylactic property of antitoxic serum, as for some time to come the energy of those engaged in the preparation and use of this serum must be directed towards obtaining a sufficient supply for the treatment of cases of developed diphtheria.
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The Antitoxic Serum Treatment of Diphtheria1. Nature 51, 425–427 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051425b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/051425b0