Memorable For Medicine
EPTEMBER, 1894, is a memorable date, not oniy in Roux’s personal history, but also in the history of medicine. It was at the Congress of Hygiene in Budapest in the autumn of that year that Roux announced the results he had obtained, in co-opera-tion with Louis Martin, in immunising by sérum or antitoxin, laboratory animals which, without this treatment, would have succumbed to diphtheria. Earlier in the same year, Roux had given his serum to 300 patients suffering from diphtheria in a hospital in Paris. Patients in another Parisian hospital were not thus treated and could therefore serve as control. The death-rate among them was 60 per cent. whereas it was only 24 per cent, among the patients given diphtheria antitoxin.- (New Zealand Red Cross Society Broadcast, 2Y A, February 17.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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134Memorable For Medicine New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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