Abstract
IN NATURE of Nov. 5, Mr. Perkins makes a valuable contribution to the study of chemical manifestations associated with sex, but he gives an erroneous impression of Dr. Manoilow's work on sex-identification by blood-tests in two respects. (As I am in possession of a recent review of this work by Manoilow himself, which it is hoped to publish soon, I am able to correct these wrong impressions.) In the first place, the workers mentioned by Perkins are mostly disciples, who have merely either applied Manoilow's technique to some additional organisms, or have attempted to reduce the complicated reaction evolved by Manoilow to a simpler one. In the second place, Manoilow worked for some years on the serum of “cows and oxen, horses, cocks and hens,” as well as man, before he published (Wratchebnaia Gazeta (Medical Journal), 15, 21–22; 1923) the earlier accounts of his work on the identification of sex in man and other animals by a biological reaction of the blood.
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