Discoloured Cholesterol and Wassermann Antigen
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solid rectangles were yellow and in the debris were found yellow cylinders much smaller than the rectangles. The smell was suggestivje of bile salts. The fortifying effect of the sample on Jhe alcoholic heart extract, in the Wassermann reaction, was appreciably reduced. For the removal of the colour and smell the sample was submitted to four processes : (i) one gramme was subjected to negative pressure in a desiccator?the smell was removed but the
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