Abstract
TSCHISTOWITSCH was the first to observe that if a rabbit were subjected to repeated injections of serutn from an animal of a different species, it reacted to the introduction of the foreign proteid by forming and accumulating in its blood a substance which, when added to a solution of the particular serum injected, gave rise to a precipitate. These experiments at once aroused considerable interest, and were confirmed and extended by a number of observers on account of their importance in relation to the processes whereby the organism protects itself against the introduction of proteid poisons and micro-organisms by the formation of so-called anti-bodies.
Blood Immunity and Blood Relationship; a Demonstration of Certain Blood-relationships amongst Animals by Means of the Precipitin Test for Blood.
By George H. F. Nuttall Pp. 444. (Cambridge: University Press, 1904.)
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MARTIN, C. Blood Relationships . Nature 70, vi–xi (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070via0
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