Immune sera : hæmolysins, cytotoxins and precipitins / by A. Wassermann ; authorized translation by Charles Bolduan.

  • Wassermann, August, 1866-1925.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Immune sera : hæmolysins, cytotoxins and precipitins / by A. Wassermann ; authorized translation by Charles Bolduan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    During recent years that part of biology which concerns itself with the reactions resulting from the injection of organic constituents of one animal into the body of another has been worked up ex- perimentally with great enthusiasm. This field, which in the beginning seemed to possess only a purely scientific interest, has now yielded numer- ous analogies to the results obtained in the experi- mental study of natural and artificial immunity against infectious diseases. Furthermore, the re- sults of these investigations have been found ap- plicable to many clinical questions, as well as to certain other problems of every-day life. It is with pleasure, therefore, that I heed the request of one of the editors of these Clinical Lectures [von Bergman] to present these highly interesting results to the medical profession at large. It is not my purpose to give the details of the many, oft- times complicated experiments undertaken by vari- ous authors to support or refute different theories. The following sketch is intended rather to intro- duce my colleagues to the essentials of the subject. A. W.