310 Kansas Academy of Science. 



(c) If we can convert the opsonin carrier and the morbid product 

 stored in the cells of our patient into an inert (or, better, into a 

 nutrient) albumin of higher or lower nitrogen content, while pass- 

 ing the inoculation into the patient's system, we shall thus fortify 

 him, in the simple resulting reaction or catalytic transformation, 

 against negative phases of development; and we shall thus make 

 the dread tuberculosis bacillus the friend, rather than the deadly 

 foe, of its host. 



(d) We have already shown that by starting with the nonani- 

 mal product, sarcosin, we are able, by the introduction of the 

 cyanamide of lime (nitrogen-of-the-air product), to change the sar- 

 cosin into kreatin — the veritable muscle, or flesh, tissue cells. 



V. EXPERIMENTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES. 



Let US now try to show what we may further hope for in these 

 directions, by the detailing of a few things that the writer has been 

 learning in this domain through analytic work that has covered a 

 period of several years. For details as to methods of separation 

 and chemical determination of the albumins of sputa and lungular 

 lesions herein tabulated, and for bibliographical references and a 

 sample sterilization, the writer has followed the methods used as 

 set forth in the article, "Egg Albumin and Kindred Nitrogenous 

 Compounds," thesis, by Dr. S. J. Sammis, of the University of Il- 

 linois (1901-'02), on file in the library of that institution. He has 

 also used further data since compiled by Doctor Sammis, in his 

 albumin studies made under the auspices of the National Bureau 

 of Animal Industry; the said studies being embodied in his article, 

 "Cheese and Milk Products" — an article prepared by Doctor Sam- 

 mis while he was located in the chemical laboratory at Madison, 

 Wis. Sundry further addenda and. variations, hereafter given, are 

 the work of the present writer. 



In our experiments we have used: (a) the internal sputa products 

 of properly collected samples by well-known and reputable scien- 

 tists; (b) those from cultures on rabbits, guinea pigs and oats 

 treated by the writer; and (c) those that have been submitted by 

 others that have been professionally interested. ( The cultures on 

 animals and those taken from human tissues have been properly 

 sealed, hermetically, by the various bacteriologists and physicians 

 that have so kindly assisted us in this tedious work. By conse- 

 quence, these cultures, each with its own sample history attached, 

 are guarded against the chance of serious error.) 



For aid rendered in this important work thanks are due to Dr. P. 

 Anderson, of California; to Prof. James Kinkead and Doctors Hags- 



