Serum therapy in the form in which it finds application in the treatment of diphtheria patients is an antitoxic or detoxicating curative method. It is based on the view, held by Löffler in Germany and by Roux in France, that the parasites causing diphtheria, the Löffler diphtheria bacilli, do not themselves cause diphtheria, but that they produce poisons which cause the disease to develop. With...

Traditionally in UK medical schools, teaching of therapeutics and prescribing has been weak. Almost 40% UK medical schools do not teach therapeutics at all. Of the others, the majority do not teach therapeutics per se, but have a “vertical strand” running through the clinical course. The EQUIP survey carried out in 19 UK hospitals on behalf of the GMC (and which, inexplicably, remains unpublish...