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Preventive Medicine and Bacteriology

Immunology: This course is designed to amplify the introduction to immunology
given in the regular course in Bacteriology during the first year. During
the third and fourth years the student has become acquainted with clinical
medicine. It is desirable to review the factors concerned with resistance to infection
and the scientific background for the treatment of infectious diseases. By

means of conferences and laboratory assignments the student is given an opportunity
to perform and observe some of the characteristic phenomena in test tube
and in the experimental animal. Special attention is given to those biologic
reactions which are of value in the diagnosis or treatment of disease such as the
Wassermann reaction, the Kahn reaction, agglutination technique, standardization
of anti-toxic sera, etc. 3 afternoons weekly for one trimester; given in first
and second trimester. Limited to two students of the fourth year.

Dr. Maxcy.