Abstract
The authors reported here a case, 6year old female, of very serious, malignant diphtheria, attacked after a latent period of as many as 11days and considered a case of mixed infection by diphtheria bacilli and hemolytic streptococci. They treated her using antitoxic serum, Ilotycin, a great deal of vitamin B1, C, cortisone etc. After 40days she was completely recovered with no seguela. They also investigated recent methods of treating diphtheria with a consideration of the literature concerned.
