Some of you remember my mother, Grace Fulks Myers. She contracted diphtheria, known as “the Strangler,” in about 1916 or 1917 at age 5 or 6 years.
In 1890, Koch proteges Behring and Kitasato were able to demonstrate that they could prevent tetanus.
However, in 1890 in Germany was the first attempt to cure a disease with an antitoxin.
In 1894, Emile Roux of the Pasteur Institute summarized the experiments of the diphtheria antitoxin at the International Congress on Hygiene in Budapest with each delegate returning home with a bottle…
