. Medical diagnosis for the student and practitioner. Fig. 475- -Record curve of patient with large furuncle on back of neck.(Courtesy of F. M. Houghton.) free from serious faults, especially as regards the preparation and, moreespecially, the use of vaccines, but the procedure may yet prove to be thekey to a larger knowledge and more accurate diagnosis, prognosis and medical progress seems to partake of the nature of a persistently length-ening ascending Collecting blood for serum. Metchnikoff described phagocytosis; Denys and Leclef, the increasedactivity of the phagocyt
. Medical diagnosis for the student and practitioner. Fig. 475- -Record curve of patient with large furuncle on back of neck.(Courtesy of F. M. Houghton.) free from serious faults, especially as regards the preparation and, moreespecially, the use of vaccines, but the procedure may yet prove to be thekey to a larger knowledge and more accurate diagnosis, prognosis and medical progress seems to partake of the nature of a persistently length-ening ascending Collecting blood for serum. Metchnikoff described phagocytosis; Denys and Leclef, the increasedactivity of the phagocytes in the presence of blood serum. Leishman de-veloped a method for measuring phagocytic activity and Wright and Doug-las formulated a new application of the doctrine of phagocytosis which isof sufficient scientific and historic interest to justify the retention of its * For the illustrations, with one exception, the author is indebted to the courtesyofDr. E. C. L. Miller. INFECTION AND IMMUNITY 995 description in this edition even though it has already fallen into disuse bothon the diagnostic and therapeutic side. These experimenters have found that the blood contains a limited amount of certain bodies necessary to prepare germs for destruction by the phagocytes of the body. It appears that if white blood corpuscles are thoroughly and repeatedly washed in normal salt solution until every trace of blood plasma is removed and then brought into contact with certain germ
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