Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02

Fritz Kreisler and other gentlemen
from Vienna, where this scientist was
for 10 years an assistant at the Patho-
logical Anatomical Institute of the
university. He was graduated there in
1891. His large eyes have the slightly
protruding look that suggests surprise,
or q childlike simplicity Of character.
His voice is low, although distinct. and
his words showed only a trace Of
accent.
Il wouldn't put it so strongly; other
methods are better" were his first words,
in reply to q question about the efficacy
of his work in determining the remote
parentage of the human race. What
have found seems to agree with the
view that the anthropoidS and the apes
are more closely related than are
anthropoids and monkeys or apes and
monkeys.
at suggests perhaps a common origin,
but I am not an authority on that, 50
must refrain from saying so. I have
not arrived at any conclusion. The
work is not concerned with the origin
Of man."
The doctor was just as cautious
about the larger significance Of his ex-
periments In diagnosis OF paternity and
identification Of blood stains. He &C
knowledged that the properties Of blood
cells are different in the ape and in
man and that this was not previously
known, so that 1t was impossible to tell
whether Q blood cell was that of an ape
or man.
Test Of Blood Explained.
TN the examination OF a blood stain
on a person or his clothing 1t may be
determined" said DR.. Landsteiner,
whether the blood is his or not This
may be of value when q man is sus-
pected of murder. An Italian, Leone
Lattes, has had the most experience
in this field. One uses the serum in
the blood stain and tries its action on
other bloods. If it be the blood of the
man on whom it is found, 1t will not
agglutinate in a test on his blood. II
1t does agglutinate, it IS the blood OF
another, but it is impossible TO deter
mine whose blood 1t is"
Working out the chemistry of i'm
mune reactions" was all that the doctor
could be persuaded to say when asked
to give some concrete account OF his
any detailed description of how he pro-
ceeded, saying only that the expert
mentS were in the realm Of chemistry
and could not be described except In
the most technical language.
He would not discuss the Nobel prize
or what he expected to do with the
money nor would he speak Of his private
life and his interests aside from scien-
tiflc research. Patiently but firmly he
declined to tell what he had succeeded
in doing and directed all inquiry on thi:
score to the Rockefeller Institutes state
ment about his WORT 1t reads, in part
Research in ImmunolOgg.
1.-THE studies of DR.. Landsteiner are
aNal1 To-. ~
field of immunology. This science is Of
comparatively recent development, start
ing with the successful immunizatior
against infectious diseases by Pasteur
and the discovery of toxins and anti
bodies and their action, in the COS of the
last century. One of the most remark
able and puzzling features of the immu-
nifty phenomena appeared to be thu
specific action of the antibodies on Ger.
tain substances which had been intro.
duced into the body by spontaneous in
lection or artifcially.
DIR. Landsteiner's work deals largely
with the calculation of the principles
underlying the specificity Of antibody
reactions and resulted in finding meth
DDS by which 1t may be correlated to thu
chemical structure of the substance in.
volved"
DR.. Landsteiner found that there wer,
definite individual differences in human
| blood and this led to safer methods il
selecting donors for blood TRANSMISSION
He infected monkeys with the virus o.
poliomyelitis paralysis due to infiam
nation and atrophy of the gray matte
of the spinal cord) and this led to tn
discovery that the serum of conva
lescents might be used for protecting
patients In incipient stages of the dis
| ease.
According to who's Who in Amer
lea, the winner of the Nobel priz.
married when he was IL years ole
That's wrong. He didn't marry until h
was 48. He has been called 1.-The great
est living immunologist."
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