Blood Immunity and Blood Relationship
A Demonstration of Certain Blood-Relationships amongst Animals by Means of the Precipitin Test for Blood

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. Relating to Antibodies in General Other than the Preciptins:
1. Ehrlich's theory regarding the formation of antibodies, together with a brief consideration of toxins and antioxins
2. Ferments and antiferments
3. The cytoxins of blood serum
4. The action of different sera upon the blood corpuscles of certain animals in vitro and in corpore
5. Agglutins and anti-agglutins, etc.
Part II. The Preciptins:
1. Methods
2. The nature of preciptin reactions
3. Observations upon preciptins and preciptable substances in corpore
4. The specificity of preciptins
5. Isopreciptins, antipreciptins, normal preciptins, autopreciptins
6. Qualitative tests with preciptins, including summary of literature and personal results
7. Quantitative tests with preciptins for mammalian and avian bloods G. H. F. Nuttall and T. S. P. Strangeways
8. Blood-relationship amongst the lower vertebrata and arthropoda, etc. as indicated by 2500 tests with precipitating antisera G. S. Graham-Smith
9. On the practical application of the preciptin reactions in legal medicine, etc.
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Appendix
Index to authors
Index to subjects.

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