This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

LESTER HOLLANDER, M.D.; RAYMOND J. GREB, Ph.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1936;33(6):1012-1017.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In an effort to evaluate the phytopharmacologic test which Macht and Pels¹ described as a diagnostic measure in cases of pemphigus, we undertook several experiments. (Macht² has been reporting on the test for the past ten years and found it of diagnostic value in cases of pernicious anemia.) The test is based on a comparison of the amount of growth of roots of Lupinus albus Hartwegii seedlings grown in a plant nutrient solution (Shive³) to which 1 per cent of blood serum of a patient has been added with the amount of growth of similar seedlings in plant nutrient solution which contains 1 per cent of blood serum from normal subjects. The amount of growth retardation is taken to indicate the toxicity present in the patient's serum.

METHOD

The method used by Pels and Macht, as reported in 1931, is as follows: 1. Seeds of Lupinus . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PITTSBURGH

From the Pittsburgh Skin and Cancer Foundation.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati     What's this?