Behring
EMIL ADOLPH VON, a German bacteriologist, born at Hansdorf, Prussia, in 1854. He studied medicine in Berlin and for a time served as army surgeon. In 1890 he became assistant to Koch in the Institution for Infectious Diseases. He carried on studies in disinfectants and bacterial toxins. These led to the production of diphtheria antitoxin. In 1894 Behring became professor of hygiene at the Halle University, but in the following year was given charge of the Institute for Hygienic Research at Marburg University. He received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1901. In his later years he devoted much attention to tuberculosis and developed an antitoxin which rendered cattle immune. Following this he developed a method of inoculation against diphtheria. He wrote several volumes on medical subjects. He died in 1917. BEIRA (bā-ē-ra'), a province of Portugal, between Spain and the Atlantic, and bounded by the Douro on the N., and by the Tagus and Estremadura on the S. Area, 9,208 square miles. Pop. about 1,700,000. Chief town, Coimbra (pop. about 20,000). It is mountainous and well watered, and productive of wine and olives.
BEIRUT BEIRUT. See BEYRUT.