User:CBrown405/Emil von Behring

Early Studies to add to the article
Due to his work on Neurotomia opticociliaris (or optociliary neurotomy), Behring became a doctor from the institute and later was able to pass his exam to for licenced work in his area of Marsburg. In 1878, his service required him to be sent to Poland where he focused on septic diseases. His potential was becoming well known to many and this lead to his commanded return to the Prussia to study with Robert Koch. He was employed by the military as he received his grants and money from the Prussian army. For each semester of education, he owed 1 year of service as a military surgeon. This accumulated to 2 years, from 1881-1883 as he served under the Second Hussar regiment.

Main Accomplishments to add to the article
He was one of many that had such a major impact on the amount of information the world knows about immunity today and how far the studies have come today. After seeing Emile Roux and Alexander Yersin discover the concept of a toxin and its interaction when it is injected into the body, Behring and his understudies Kitasato and Wernicke sterilized tetanus and diphtheria to a point where they would not cause any illness. This in return lead to the discovery of antitoxins which the body makes as a defense mechanism against the pathogens. This process would be called serum therapy by him at the time as he described it as a way to induce permanent immunity or "to stimulate the body's internal disinfection". His work with diphtheria has come to bring him most of his fame and acknowledgment as this was a major medical crisis at the time, especially for his focus on helping children that were sick with the illness. His extensive work on helping children impacted by the disease gave him many titles, one of which was at one point had been the "Savior of Children".

A lesser known part of his studies was his research in ophthalmology and how he furthered the understanding of eye and its diseases. He wrote a paper during his time at Wicherkiewiz's hospital in Poznan from 1881-1883 on a eye tumor case that sadly ended up with the patient dying from the leukemia he was diagnosed with but it did allow for much needed research on treatments for the eye and what the preferred pathways for surgery would be.