Emil adolf von behring biography of barack biden

He was widely known as a "saviour of children", as diphtheria used to be a major cause of child death. His father was a schoolmaster; the family had 13 children. Between and , Behring studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Akademie in Berlin , an academy for military doctors, since his family could not afford the university. Due to his work on Neurotomia opticociliaris or optociliary neurotomy , Behring became a doctor from the institute and later was able to pass his exam for licensed work in his area of Marburg.

His potential was becoming well known to many. This led to his commanded return to Prussia to study with Robert Koch. For each semester of education, he owed one year of service as a military surgeon. This accumulated to two years, from to as he served under the Second Hussar regiment. He learned under some of the great ophthalmologists such as Carl Ernst Schweigger and Wilhelm Uhthoff, leading to his interest in the subject and his writing his doctoral dissertation on it.

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They had injected diphtheria and tetanus toxins into guinea-pigs , goats and horses; when these animals developed immunity, they derived antitoxins now known to contain antibodies from their serum. This process would be called serum therapy by him at the time as he described it as a way to induce permanent immunity or "to stimulate the body's internal disinfection".

In he started the first human trials of the diphtheria antitoxin, but they were unsuccessful. Successful treatment started in , after the production and quantification of antitoxin had been optimized. In he became Professor of Hygienics within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Marburg , a position held for the rest of his life. He and the pharmacologist Hans Horst Meyer had their laboratories in the same building, and Behring stimulated Meyer's interest in the mode of action of tetanus toxin.