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THE annual report for 1932 of the South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, by the director, Sir Spencer Lister, recently received, gives an account of the. work, research and routine, conducted during the year. A quantitative study of the blood-complement in man has been commenced, and in pulmonary tuberculosis and leprosy a considerable proportion of the cases tested showed very small amounts or no complement in the blood. An investigation of South African strains of rabies virus was begun, and nearly every case of human rabies investigated was found to have been caused by the bite of the yellow mongoose or genet cat, and not by a dog bite. Antivenomous serum of exceptional potency for the treatment of snake-bite has been prepared by the use of massive doses of venom modified and rendered atoxic by means of formalin, with subsequent concentration of the serum so obtained.
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Medical Research in South Africa. Nature 132, 963 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132963d0
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