Emil von Behring : infectious disease, immunology, serum therapy / Derek S. Linton.
Pubblicazione:
Philadelphia : American philosophical society, 2005.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 580 p. ; 26 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Pt. 1. Emil von Behring: infectious disease, immunology, serum therapy: 1. Introduction 2. The making of a medical researcher 3. From Bonn to Berlin, from disinfection to immunology 4. From immunization to serum therapy 5. Marburg, further diphtheria and tetanus research, the Nobel Prize 6. Cradle songs and guilty milk: Behring's tubercolosis research 7. Behring's las years: blood studies, hypersensitivity diphtheria immunization and tetanus 8. At Behring's mausoleum: the vagaries of reputation and reasons for remebrance. Pt. 2. Selected writings of Behring on infectious disease, immunology and serum therapy: Introduction to the selected writings. 1. On iodoform and acetylene 2. On the cause of the immunity of rats against anthrax 3. On the formation of diphtheria immunity and tetanus immunity in animals 4. Investigations of the formation of diphtheria immunity in animals 5. On immunizing and healing experimental animals with diphtheria 6. The tetanus healing serum and the determination of its healing value 7. On healing mice sick with tetanus 8. On the treatment of children sick with diphtheria with the diphtheria healing serum 9. The determination of the value of the diphtheria healing serum 10. Serum therapy in medical science and the art of healing 11. Combating tubercolosis 12. Tasks and achievements of my new diphtheria protection drug 13. Etiology, prognosis and therapy of tetanus. Bibliography of Emil von Behring's scientific works. General bibliography. Index
