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Evening Star, Issue 18094, 9 October 1922, Page 6

The medical world this year commemorates the centenary of Bretonneau’s discovery of diphtheria. The dread malady winch at various limes has broken out in deadly epidemics; costing thousands of young lives, is not really ,po modern, of course, as the anniversary suggests. It was known to the ancients as the “Egyptian Evil,” and appeared _in frequent epidemics, both in the British Isles and on the Continent, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But it was Pierre Bretonneau, of Tours, who first identified the symptoms in _ a collective diagnosis and defined the disease in the celebrated treatise hud in 1821-22 before the French Academy of Medicine. ■ The famous Tours doctor gave the diseaso_the name, of Greek derivation, by which it is now known in medical text books throughput the world.