On the production of a specific gastrotoxic serum.—Preliminary communication.

Abstract

Within the last four or five years the study of cytotoxins has advanced rapidly, but this difficult subject is still involved in a vast amount of obscurity. Very few of the cytotoxins have been at all fully worked out, and, since it is becoming recognised that specificity is a term which should be applied to receptors and not to cells, the existence of many specific cytotoxins is doubted. The present research was, therefore, undertaken from two points of view: (1) To add, if possible, any facts to our knowledge of cytotoxic action, (2) To throw some light upon the pathology of human gastriculcer.