The new biological test for blood in relation to zoological classification

Abstract

In recent publications which have appeared in the ‘British Medical Journal’ and in the ‘Journal of Hygiene’ I have described the technical methods whereby the so-called specific anti-sera may be produced, and in the article in the latter journal, the reader will find the literature on the subject exhaustively treated. The anti-sera are produced briefly as follows: Assuming that we wish to obtain an anti-serum for human blood, we inject human blood intra-peritoneally into rabbits. After about five injections, given at intervals of three or more days, the rabbit is bled to death, and its bloodserum collected.