anti diphtheric

serum, occurring in the form of yellowish flakes or a whitish powder, having a potency of 4000 units per gram; dose: prophylactic 1000 units; curative 10,000 units, s. antitetan'icum (U.S.), anti tetanic serum, tetanus antitoxin; a fluid separated from the coagulated blood of a horse or other large domestic animal immunized through repeated injections of tetanus toxin; it should have a potency of not le than 100 units per mil; dose: prophylactic 1500 units; curative 10,000 units, s. antitetan'icum purifica'tum (U.S.), purified anti tetanic serum, tetanus antitoxin globulins, anti tetanic globulins; a solution in physiological salt solution of the antitoxin-bearing globulins extracted from the blood serum of an animal immunized against tetanus; its potency is 100 units per mil; dose: prophylactic 1500 units; curative 10,000 units, s. antitetan'icum sic'- cum tetanus antitoxin; yellowish or orange flakes or a yellowish white powder obtained by evaporating the anti tetanic or the purified anti tetanic serum; its potency is 1000 units per gram; dose: prophylactic 1500 units; curative 10,000 units. ^. lactis, whey, the thin fluid which separates when milk is coagulated, specific s., a s. containing a large number of amboceptors which have a special affinity for a given bacterium or the red cells of one animal in particular, and which serve to bind the complements in either specific or normal serum to these cellular elements and so to effect their destruction.