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ARRHENIUS (SVANTE) and MADSEN (TH.). On the molecular 

 weight of diphtheria toxin. 1902. * 



DREYER (GEORGES) and MADSEN (TH.). Studies on diphtheria 

 toxin. 1902. * 



MADSEN (TH.) and J0RGENSEN (AXEL). Typhoid and cholera 

 agglutinins. Their fate during active and passive immunisation. 



LEVIN (ERNST). Coli agglutinins. The ' course of their formation. 

 1902. * 



MADSEN (TH.). A formula indicating the mode of decrease of anti- 

 bodies in the organism. * 



DREYER (GEORGES). A new apparatus for rapid delivery of a 

 given quantity of fluid. * 



(The papers marked with asterisks are published in the present 

 volume.) 



As already stated, the Sero-therapeutical Department 

 soon proved too restricted to satisfy all the great de- 

 mands made upon it. This was felt on all sides, and if 

 the work has been kept going, up till now, with com- 

 paratively good results, under such conditions, it is due 

 partly to the readiness with which the Veterinary School 

 has supplied stabling, partly to the circumstance that 

 one can work under very bad conditions, when there 

 is a chance of their soon mending. 



In the spring of 1898 there was such a chance, when 

 a large number of leading doctors in the hospitals, at 

 the suggestion of Dr. 0. Bruun of Esbjerg, sent in a 

 request asking me to take steps to enable the Labora- 

 tory to distribute, regularly and uninterruptedly, all the 

 serum antidiphthericum required in this country. Of 

 course I at once sent on the request to the Ministry 

 of Education, asking them to take the matter in hand. 

 The question soon arose as to whether the Scro-lhera- 

 peulic Department should be extended while it remained 



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