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The Influence of Emulsions of Olive Oil upon the Biological Actions of Alkaloids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. Norman Myers
G. Norman Myers
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From the Pharmacological Laboratory, Cambridge
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IN 1932 and 1934, Myers showed that lethal doses of certain bacterial toxins when mixed with emulsions of olive oil, in a fine state of division, and injected subcutaneously into animals failed to produce their lethal effects. Similar results were obtained by Walsh & Frazer (1934). Cataphoresis experiments have shown that oil globules in emulsions of oil in water type carry a negative charge. On this basis it was assumed that an adsorption phenomenon might be the explanation of the failure of the bacterial toxins to produce their lethal effects when mixed with emulsions of oil in water type and injected into animals.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 39 , Issue 6 , November 1939 , pp. 705 - 715
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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