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THIS book gives an account of those “reactions” employed in the diagnosis of disease which are based upon alterations in the body-fluids resulting from the action of micro-organisms or from the introduction of foreign proteins, and of the treatment of morbid conditions with serums, bacterial vaccines, etc. These reactions and treatment may be classed under the term “immunology,” since they are based upon processes which commonly result in the living body in a state of immunity or resistance t& the material—micro—organism or protein-which produces them. This material is named the antigen, and the substances which are the outcome of its action are known as anti-bodies.
Applied Immunology: The Practical Application of Sera and Bacterins Prophylactically, Diagnostically, and Therapeutically.
By Prof. B. A. Thomas Dr. R. H. Ivy. Pp. xv + 359. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1915.) Price 16s. net.
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HEWLETT, R. Applied Immunology: The Practical Application of Sera and Bacterins Prophylactically, Diagnostically, and Therapeutically . Nature 98, 88 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098088a0
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