Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

part in the phenomena of immunity, as by their means the organisms are

taken up more actively by the phagocytic cells, and thereafter may undergo rapid disintegration.

The opsonic action of the serum has been employed by Sir A. Wright and his co-workers to control the treatment of bacterial infections by vaccines; that is, by injections of varying amounts of a dead culture of ...