Emil Adolf von Behring

Emil von Behring: the founder of Diphtheria Antitoxin and serum therapy, a German medical officer. On March 15, 1854, he was born in Prussia in Germany. His father is a village teacher and in his family, there are a total of 13 children. The family couldn’t afford to let him go to college, and in 1874, he entered the army medical school in Berlin. In 1878 he obtained a medical degree. In 1880 went through the national examination. In 1888 served as a army medical college lecturer. He worked very hard, and arrived at 4 o’clock every day in the morning, and when other colleagues began in the laboratory, he had completed half of the daily work. He remained very high work efficiency, which laid the foundation for his success. In 1889, he became the assistant of the famous doctor Robert Koch, and was appointed professor of infectious diseases in 1894.

From 1889 to 1894, Behring’s main job was to study the diphtheria. At that time, there were more than 50000 children died of diphtheria a year in Europe. At the beginning, he thought it could prevent human from infecting with the use of argon and mercury, but he failed. During the experiment, he found that the mice had never been infected with anthrax, and the rat serum can destroy anthrax bacillus. He put diphtheria bacilli into the guinea pig (a mouse), finding some of the survivors injected diphtheria can be avoided becoming a diphtheria. He called the serum substances as "anti toxin", and the method to heal other animals with animal serum as serum treatment. In 1891 Christmas day, he first successfully used sheep serum to cure a diphtheria child in Berlin Hospital, which contributed an important step toward the human conquest of diphtheria. In 1892 he collaborated with Frankfurt Chemical and Pharmaceutical company. In 1894 he produced sold diphtheria vaccine.

In 1901, he received the first Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

In 1907, he studied the study of tuberculosis, but unfortunately he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 50 years old. For the convenience of work, in 1914, he established a well-equipped laboratory in Marburg, and has been living there to death.

Behring has received many honors. In 1893 he became a professor. 1895 he obtained detention French officer medal, and was awarded the honorary member of Italy, Turkey, Hungary, Russia and France association a few years later. In 1903 he entered parliament and got married in 1896. He had 7 children. In May, 1916 retired and on March 31, 1917, died in maldives.

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