Blood Immunity and Blood Relationship : A Demonstration of Certain Blood-Relationships Amongst Animals by Means of the Precipitin Test for Blood (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. Relating to Antibodies in General Other than the Preciptins: 1. Ehrlich's theory regarding the formation of antibodies, together with a brief consideration of toxins and antioxins; 2. Ferments and antiferments; 3. The cytoxins of blood serum; 4. The action of different sera upon the blood corpuscles of certain animals in vitro and in corpore; 5. Agglutins and anti-agglutins, etc.; Part II. The Preciptins: 1. Methods; 2. The nature of preciptin reactions; 3. Observations upon preciptins and preciptable substances in corpore; 4. The specificity of preciptins; 5. Isopreciptins, antipreciptins, normal preciptins, autopreciptins; 6. Qualitative tests with preciptins, including summary of literature and personal results; 7. Quantitative tests with preciptins for mammalian and avian bloods G. H. F. Nuttall and T. S. P. Strangeways; 8. Blood-relationship amongst the lower vertebrata and arthropoda, etc. as indicated by 2500 tests with precipitating antisera G. S. Graham-Smith; 9. On the practical application of the preciptin reactions in legal medicine, etc.; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Appendix; Index to authors; Index to subjects.