immune body

He discovered the specific bacteria-dissolving immune bodies in cholera and typhus.

The body reacts to the entry of any foreign materials (antigens) by developing substances called immune bodies.

Immune bodies which destroy microorganisms are called antibodies and those which destroy toxins produced by microorganisms are called antitoxins.

A post of Physiological Chemist was created during his tenure and Sir Percival Hartley was appointed in 1909, who worked on the fractionation of immune bodies in the rinderpest serum.