FAMOUS DOCTOR DEAD.
Discoverer of Diphtheria Anti-toxin. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November 4, 12.35 p.m.) PARIS, November 3. The death is announced of Dr Pierre Paul Roux, the bacteriologist who discovered the diphtheria antitoxin. Dr Pierre Paul Emile Roux was director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He recently made the statement that Western Europe and America were no longer threatened by epidemics and plagues. The fight against these epidemics had been among the chief labours of Dr Roux and his associates. Dr Roux assisted Pasteur in many of his researches and he was widely known for his work with diphtheria serum. Pasteur’s assistant and successor was born at Confolens, Charente, in 1853. He was educated at the School of Medicine at Clermont-Ferraud and at the University of Paris. He had been connected with the Pasteur Institute since 1878 and had been director there since 1904. He was elected to the Academy of Medicine in 1895, the Academy of Science in 1899, and in 1903 received the Osiris Prize of £SOOO for the institute.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 911, 4 November 1933, Page 11
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