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mental importance in its contradiction of the regularly progressive 

 quantitative relations which strict adherence to the "amboceptor" 

 idea would seem to impose. 



The quantitative relations here outlined have been diagrammat- 

 ically represented by Noguchi as follows: 



- Complement 

 Purple - Amboceptor 

 R&tl 



f unit of Atnboceptor 

 used in eacft tn'ffinrtous 



fractions of~a comp/ement 



Si 



NOGUCHI 's DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE QUANTITATIVE EELATIONS BETWEEN ANTI- 

 GEN, AMBOCEPTOR AND COMPLEMENT. 



v(Taken from Noguchi, " Serum Diagnosis of Syphilis," Lippincott, Philadelphia, 



1910.) 



The essential point of difference between the opinions of Ehrlich 

 and Bordet concerning the processes of hemolysis and bacteriolysis 

 lies, as we have seen, in the conception of the union of alexin or com- 

 plement with amboceptor or sensitizer. Although Ehrlich and his 

 followers admit that the union of complement with amboceptor does 

 not usually occur unless the amboceptor has previously united with 

 the antigen, they still maintain that this may occasionally take place 



