1894

Matas named Professor of Surgery at Tulane & addresses Postgraduate Medical School & Hospital in Chicago (Cohn, 242, 249-55). In January 1895 he finally marries his long-time love/housekeeper, Adrienne Goslee. Announcement of successful treatment of children with diphtheria antitoxin at Int. Conference of Hygiene and Demography in Budapest following Emile Roux and Louis Martin’s production of antitoxin using immune serum from horses (Hammonds, 88, 90-92 ). This leads to public subscription campaign in NYC by New York Herald to support antitoxin production and distribution (Hammonds, 93ff.; Liebenau, 50-53). H. K. Mulford (Phila) and Parke Davis (Detroit) begin private manufacture of diphtheria antitoxin in 1895 (Liebenau, 57-64).