This section is from the book "Laboratory Manual Of Pharmacology", by A. D. Bush. Also available from Amazon: Laboratory manual of pharmacology.
This Serum represents a solution in normal saline of the diphtheria antitoxins derived from the blood plasma of a properly immunized horse.
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This Serum is used as a preventative or curative of diphtheria. Each mil of the Serum contains not less than 250 antitoxic units, a "unit" being the amount of antitoxin necessary to protect a 250 Gm. guinea pig against 100 times the fatal dose of toxin.
Dose: Prophylactic, 1000 units; curative, 10,000 units, repeated as may be necessary.
 
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