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Dangers of Impure Antitoxine in Diphtheria Treatment

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 12, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 46.

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Dangers of Impure Antitoxine in Diphtheria Treatment

By L. A. S.

The necessity for great care in the use of antitoxine for the treatment of diphtheria is shown by the report of the death of eleven children in St. Louis, Mo., from tetanus, or “lockjaw,” as it is commonly called, as the direct result of having been inoculated with this preparation. The pure antitoxine is harmless; but in this case it was impure and contained the germs which speedily brought on the fatal malady. L. A. S.