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By contrast, all the protagonists of diphtheria antitoxin serum insisted that it was a therapeutic treatment.
Second, at the end of the nineteenth century, diphtheria was one of the most widespread infectious diseases.
According to this model, the cost of diphtheria treatment was conceived as a risk that burdened neither the individual, nor the larger collective group.
As with the diphtheria antitoxin production, standards and quality control were organized labinternally without state interference.
The relationship between a "donation" or "contribution" and the provision of diphtheria antitoxin serum was a direct one and was usually stipulated in a contract.
There is a striking contrast between this hasty launching of tuberculin and the careful launching of the diphtheria antitoxin three years later.
The high levels of susceptibility to tetanus and diphtheria have two main causes.
Total antibody against diphtheria was determined by passive haemagglutination.
