2. The Making of a Medical Researcher

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. PART ONE Emil von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. The Making of a Medical Researcher 17
7. 3. From Bonn to Berlin, from Disinfection to Immunology 41
8. 4. From Immunization to Serum Therapy 99
9. 5. Marburg, Further Diphtheria and Tetanus Research, the Nobel Prize 197
10. 6. Cradle Songs and Guilty Milk: Behring's Tuberculosis Research 258
11. 7. Behring's Last Years: Blood Studies, Hypersensitivity, Diphtheria Immunization, and Tetanus 319
12. 8. At Behring's Mausoleum: The Vagaries of Reputation and Reasons for Remembrance 388
13. PART TWO Selected Writings of Behring on Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Serum Therapy
14. Introduction to the Selected Writings 433
15. 1. On Iodoform and Acetylene 439
16. 2. On the Cause of the Immunity of Rats against Anthrax 442
17. 3. On the Formation of Diphtheria Immunity and Tetanus Immunity in Animals 450
18. 4. Investigations of the Formation of Diphtheria Immunity in Animals 454
19. 5. On Immunizing and Healing Experimental Animals with Diphtheria 460
20. 6. The Tetanus Healing Serum and the Determination of Its Healing Value 488
21. 7. On Healing Mice Sick with Tetanus 495
22. 8. On the Treatment of Children Sick with Diphtheria with the "Diphtheria Healing Serum" 497
23. 9. The Determination of the Value of the Diphtheria-Healing Serum 503
24. 10. Serum Therapy in Medical Science and the Art of Healing 509
25. 11. Combating Tuberculosis 518
26. 12. Tasks and Achievements of My New Diphtheria Protection Drug 534
27. 13. Etiology, Prognosis and Therapy of Tetanus 539
28. Bibliography of Emil von Behring's Scientific Works 551
29. General Bibliography 563
30. Index 575