An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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BUCHNER, Hans Ernst August

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Ueber die bakterientödtende Wirkung des zellenfreien Blutserums.

Zbl. Bakt., 5, 817-23; 6, 1-11, 1889.

Following Nuttall’s work, Buchner discovered a substance in blood serum that was capable of destroying bacteria. He called the substance "alexin". He demonstrated that the bactericidal power of defibrinated blood was possessed by the cell-free serum, and was lost on heating the serum to 55°C for one hour.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, HEMATOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY