Abstract

Vienna, Nov. 18, 1894. To the Editor: —As the Behring remedy for diphtheria is causing a great commotion in medical circles throughout Europe, and probably also in the United States, it may be of interest to inform your readers of the status of the remedy on this side of the Atlantic, in so far as it is possible to get at the facts. I made daily visits until a few days ago, for three weeks at Professor Koch's barracks in Berlin where Dr. Kossel is conducting the treatment of diphtheria patients with Behring's blood serum, and am happy to be able to say that, in the main, the treatment of his cases has been followed by satisfactory results while the work there has aroused the interest of European physicians. Every day a number of different foreign physicians are to be met there who have come to investigate the progress of

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