Recognition of amyloid by the Loeschke reaction with white body extract. Steinert (Klin. Woch., 1928, No. 6)

Steinert was convinced that the named reaction not only reveals amyloid degeneration, as such, but also indicates sensitization of the organism to the leukocyte protein and thus the danger of later development of amyloid. Its positive result obliges, in light chronic suppurations with good general condition of patients, to long-term and possibly non-stop removal of pus.