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Excerpt from Blood Immunity and Blood Relationship: A Demonstration of Certain Blood-Relationships Amongst Animals by Means of the Precipitin Test for Blood
HE investigations recorded in this volume were carried out in the Pathological Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, chie?y during the year 1902.
My original intention was to publish a volume on the demonstration of certain blood-relationships amongst animals as indicated by tests made by myself with precipitating antisera upon 900 specimens of blood obtained from various sources, followed by a critical review of the literature on antibodies in blood.
Subsequently it was deemed advisable to add a section dealing with the practical applications of the precipitin test for blood in legal medicine, together with some investigations carried out at my sug gestion by Messrs G. S. Graham-smith and F. Sanger. The latter were published in the Journal of Hygiene, vol. III., 1903, but are added for the reason that they bear directly on the subjects treated in this volume. Finally two new sections were added dealing with further original researches conducted in this Laboratory. The latter are entitled The Results of 500 Quantitative precipitin-tests upon the Bloods of Primates, Insectivora, Carnivora, Ungulata, Cetacea, Marsupialia and Aves by myself and Mr T. S. P. Strangeways, and blood-relationship amongst the Lower Vertebrata and Arthropoda, etc. By Mr G. S. Graham-smith.
The results recorded in these papers should be of interest not only to zoologists, physiologists, and those engaged in practical medico-legal work, but also to those interested in the complex problems of immunity.
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