The Michael Heidelberger Papers

Title:

Letter from Michael Heidelberger to C. W. Shilling, United States Department of the Navy

Description:

Heidelberger spent six weeks in India in early 1952 as a delegate to the Indian Science Congress, held in Calcutta. While there he seized the opportunity to study the immunological properties of elephants, an idea first proposed, half jokingly, by Oswald Avery when he had become frustrated with the small amounts of antiserum produced by rabbits, the standard experimental animal in immunology. Heidelberger injected human gamma globulin into the ear vein of a work elephant, and found that the animal was indeed a good producer of antiserum to the gamma globulin.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (34,542 Bytes)

Date:

1952-02-11 (February 11, 1952)

Creator:

Heidelberger, Michael

Recipient:

Shilling, C. W.

United States Department of the Navy

Rights:

This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Immune Sera; gamma-Globulins

Exhibit Category:

Antigens and Antibodies: Heidelberger and The Rise of Quantitative Immunochemistry, 1928-1954

Relation:

Letter from M. V. Lakshminarayan Rao, Central Food Technological Research Institute (Mysore, India) to Michael Heidelberger (August 13, 1953)

[Michael Heidelberger with delegates at the Indian Science Congress in Calcutta, India] [January 1952]

Box Number: 3

Folder Number: 6

Unique Identifier:

DHBBJP

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Folder: MS C 245 (first finding aid)

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2006-06-12

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