The Standardization of Tetanus Antitoxin: An American Unit Established Under Authority of the Act of July 1, 1902 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Rosenau, M. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331573912 ISBN 13: 9781331573913

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Standardization of Tetanus Antitoxin: An American Unit Established Under Authority of the Act of July 1, 1902 There are now four methods of measuring the strength of tetanus antitoxin: (1) The German method described by Behring, (2) the French method of Roux, (3) the Italian method after Tizzoni, and (4) the American method described in this bulletin. The European standards are admitted to be unsatisfactory and, for the most part, not accurate; further, they are complicated and difficult to carry out. The American method adopted officially under the law of July 1, 1902, for this country is the result of several years, work upon this subject in the Hygienic Laboratory and it is believed will commend itself for its simplicity, directness, and accuracy. The standard toxines and antitoxins are preserved under special precautions to prevent deterioration and are tested against each other reciprocally, so that the least alteration in either may be detected. While the unit is based upon the neutralizing value of an arbitrary quantity of antitoxic serum, the antitoxin is not issued to other laboratories for the purposes of test, as is the case with diphtheria. A stable precipitated tetanus toxine, the test dose of which has been carefully determined, is given out. All the tetanus antitoxic serums for use in man upon the American market are now measured against this same standard toxine and have therefore precisely comparable strengths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperf

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331573912
• ISBN 13: 9781331573913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66