Emil Adolf von Behring (March 15, 1854 - March 31, 1917) was a German immunologist and physiologist. He was a military doctor and then became Professor of Hygienics within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Marburg. In 1890 he discovered a diphtheria antitoxin. He demonstrated that the injection of toxins was able to be transmitted to another animal by injections of a treated animal's blood serum and used as a means of effecting a cure.

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Emil von Behring, German Immunologist

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