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DR. F. P. F. RANSOM, who died on February 23 at the age of eighty-seven years, studied pharmacology as a young man in Halle and Marburg with von Behring and H. H. Meyer. They studied immunity, and the pharmacology of tetanus toxin and diphtheria toxin. They obtained evidence that these toxins passed-from the periphery to the central nervous system in the trunks of nerves. Ransom also showed that the toxic effects of saponins were largely due to their affinity for cholesterol, and made an active cell-free cholera toxin.
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Dr. F. P. F. Ransom. Nature 139, 618 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139618b0
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