Infection, Immunity and Serum Therapy in Relation to the Infectious Diseases which Attack Man: With Considerations of the Allied Subjects of Agglutination, Precipitation, Hemolysis, Etc |
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acid acquired immunity action agglutinating power agglutination agglutinins agglutinogen amboceptors amount animal anthrax anti antibacterial antibodies antitoxic antitoxin bacillus bacteria bactericidal bactericidal power bactericidal serums bacterium blood body bouillon cause cavity cell receptors ceptors chemical cholera cocci complement constituents contain corpuscles cultivated culture cytase cytotoxins dilution diphtheria Diplococcus disease doses Ehrlich endotoxin epidemic erythrocytes experiments fatal ferment filtrates fluid formation glands guinea-pig haptophore hemolysin hemolytic immune serum importance infection inoculation instances intestines killed latter lesions leucocytes lymph Metchnikoff micro-organisms microbes mixed molecule natural immunity neutralization normal serum obtained occur opsonins organisms parasites pathogenic patient peritoneal Pfeiffer phagocytic phagocytosis plague pneumococcus precipitate precipitin present produced protective quantity rabbits reaction resistance result scarlet fever serum side-chain smallpox soluble toxin solution specific spores stances staphylococcus strains streptococcus subcutaneous substances susceptible tain temperature tetanus theory tion toxic toxoids tubercle tuberculin tuberculosis typhoid bacillus units vaccination vibrio virulence virus
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Page 533 - The spread of yellow fever can be most effectually controlled by measures directed to the destruction of mosquitoes and the protection of the sick against the bites of these insects.
Page 532 - ... 8. Yellow fever is not conveyed by fomites, and hence disinfection of articles of clothing, bedding, or merchandise, supposedly contaminated by contact with those sick with this disease, is unnecessary. 9. A house may be said to be infected with yellow fever only when there are present within its walls contaminated mosquitoes capable of conveying the parasite of this disease.
Page 532 - ... 5. Yellow fever can also be experimentally produced by the subcutaneous injection of blood taken from the general circulation during the first and second days of this disease. 6. An attack of yellow fever, produced by the bite of the mosquito, confers immunity against the subsequent injection of the blood of an individual suffering from the non-experimental form of this disease.
Page 438 - Maragliauo publishes the following conclusions. «-^ ^^ ^ -.s possibie to produce a specific (serum) therapy for tuberculosis; 2, that it is possible to immunize- the animal organism against tuberculosis as is done in other infectious diseases, and that there is good reason for hope for an antituberculosis vaccination for man.
Page 567 - Looked at from the point of view of the bacterium, as well as from that of the animal host, according to the hypothesis advanced, the struggle between the bacteria and the body cells in infections may be conceived as an immunizing contest in which each participant is stimulated by its opponent to the production of cytotoxins hostile to the other, and thereby endeavors to make itself immune against its antagonist-
Page 77 - Serum, expressed in antitoxic units, the name and percentage by volume of the antiseptic used for the preservation of the liquid (if such be used), the date when the Antidiphtheric Serum was last tested, and the date beyond which it will not have the strength indicated on the label or statement.
Page 560 - ... and kept at 37° C. This demonstration shows that it is not difficult to obtain the virus of measles unmixed with other microbes and in such form that it may be studied by various methods.
Page 497 - — an acute endemic, noncontagious, but probably infectious, febrile disease, characterized clinically by a continuous moderately high fever, severe arthritic 'and muscular pains, and a profuse petechial or purpural eruption in the skin, appearing first on the ankles, wrists, and forehead, but rapidly spreading to all parts of the...
Page 361 - ... that streptococci occur with relatively greater frequency in the more severe and protracted cases of scarlet fever in which there also may develop local complications and clinical signs of general infection, such as joint inflammations...
Page 115 - Graphic representation of receptors of the second order and of some substance uniting with one of them, c, cell receptor of the second order ; d, toxophore or zymophorous group of the receptor ; e, haptophore of the receptor ; /, food substance or product of bacterial disintegration uniting with the haptophore of the cell receptor. From Ehriich'e "Sehlussbetrachtungen," Nothnagel's System of Medicine, TOI.