When present in the tonsils the bacilli also occurred in the adenoids of the same person. In the tonsillar crypts the diphtheria bacilli were usually more numerous than in the adenoids. Two of the 12 ...
For in 1883-84 Edwin Klebs and Friedrich August Johannes Löffler, scientists working in a happy Germany, discovered the bacillus which produces the diphtheria toxin (poison). And in 1894 Emil von ...