Identifier: appliedimmunolog00thom (find matches)
Title: Applied immunology : the practical application of sera and bacterins prophylactically, diagnostically, and therapeutically
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Benjamin Abraham, 1878- Ivy, Robert Henry, 1881-
Subjects: Serotherapy Immunity Immunization, Passive
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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SPECIFIC BACTERIAL REACTIONS 189 at 60° C. for an hour in a water-bath, preserved in0.5 per cent, phenol and standardized with the dark-field microscope, so that forty to one hundred deadtreponemata occupied the average field. To thispreparation Noguchi assigned the name luetin, andhas recommended it as a valuable diagnostic aid,superseding even the Wassermann reaction in certainforms of syphilis. The technic of the test consistsin sterilizing a small area of skin of both arms, usingalcoholic sublimate solution. Intradermically, in onearm, with a syringe having a very fine needle, 0.05 ofa cubic centimetre of a control suspension is injected;in the opposite arm a similar quantity of luetin. Normal or negative reactions consist of a smallerythematous and occasionally a papular formation,not attended with pain or itching sensation, occurringin 24 hours, and disappearing usually in 48 hours andalways in 72 hours, even if papular. No indurationresults, although yellowish pigmentation due

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