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Cover image for book Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950

Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890-1950

By:C. Gradmann
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230202818
eText ISBN:9780230285590
Edition:0
Copyright:2010
Format:Page Fidelity

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Following the testing of therapeutic sera, the quantified evaluation of a pharmaceutical's efficacy became a key feature of medicine in the twentieth century. The case studies in this volume offer comparisons across Europe, from the diphtheria antitoxin in the late 1800s to the introduction of the Salk polio vaccine in the 1950s.