Abstract

In a preliminary communication1 it has been reported that ethyl-alcohol extracts from blood serum of various animals contain a substance or substances which lake red blood corpuscles held in suspension in 0.8 per cent. NaCl solution. These hemolytically active extracts may be obtained from fresh serum, from dialysed serum, indeed from fresh serum which has been heated to any temperature up to 1000 C. The lysin is therefore chemically quite stable; it is not generated by decomposition processes which may occur in blood serum, nor is it a product of the enzymatic process which Hahn2 has recently shown occurs in blood of normal animals after withdrawal frou*

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