Serums, vaccines and toxines in treatment and diagnosis / by Wm. Cecil Bosanquet ... and John W.H. Eyre.

  • Bosanquet, W. Cecil (William Cecil), 1866-1941.
Date:
1910
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    antibacterial or bactericidal, instead of antitoxic. Thus, if an animal is injected with cholera-vibrios until it is very- resistant to these germs, and then a little of its blood-serum is added to a culture of these organisms, the latter are found to undergo degeneration, and finally to be completely dis- Fowl's corpuscles Normal rabbit's serum Fowl's corpuscles i^s^r-t^.-^ No solution of corpuscles Solution of corpuscles Fig. 1-—Action of hemolytic serum. integrated; but no quantity of this serum will neutralise a lethal dose of the poison of the cholera-germ. On the other hand, an antitoxic serum has no effect in preventing the growth of the appropriate organism ; for instance, diph- therial antitoxine is a very favourable culture-medium for the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus. The process of destruction of bacteria by an antibacterial serum is called bacteriolysis and the property resides not only in the blood-serum but