Abstract
At the meeting of this Society on February 18, I reported the results of my preliminary attempts to prove the specificity of complement deviation in tuberculosis with Besredka's tuberculin, in some cases giving positive Wassermann reaction at the same time.
In this paper I would like to present the results of my experiment proving the possibility of independent existence of the two reactions in the same animal.
I produced an experimental orchitis in a series of rabbits, and on March 3d selected amongst them the animals giving positive W.R. All the animals were tested for Tb.R. but it was invariably negative.
When, however, infected with tuberculosis, part of these animals developed Tb.R. For a time both reactions were existing until W. R. disappeared in some animals spontaneously, in others, as shown on the table under the influence of salvarsan administered intravenously (0.04 gram per kilo), the Tb.R. persisting. The table on page 181 is the protocol of the experiment.
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