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EARLY in the present year a paper on this subject, by Drs. C. J Martin and Cherry, appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society (vol. lxiii. p. 420). A short summary of their experiments and conclusions was given in these columns. A supplementary paper has just been published by Dr. Martin (Proc. Roy. Soc., vol. lxiv. 88), in which further experiments on this most important subject are detailed. They confirm the conclusions previously arrived at, that the antagonism between the toxins and anti-toxins is a directly chemical one, and is not, as Calmette and others state, due to an interaction solely produced by the agency of the cells of the organism into which these substances enter.
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H., W. The Relation of the Toxin and Anti-Toxin of Snake Venom. Nature 59, 186–187 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059186a0
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