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hypersusceptibility wliicli certain persons show toward iodoform can 

 be passively transferred in the individual's serum to guinea-pigs, 

 and Klausner could demonstrate that this was possible even after 

 an interval of fifteen months from the time of the last iodoform 

 intoxication. 



I myself, while suffering from a trichinous infection, developed 

 a curious type of dyspnea, which continued for a number of months, 

 and which I am now strongly tempted to look upon as an anaphyl- 

 actic reaction due to the absorption of trichinous albumins. 



Evidently this is a most interesting chapter in our modern immu- 

 nity work, and one which is destined to assume an important 

 position in clinical medicine. 



