On the heritability of isoagglutination properties of blood and the forensic value of isogemagglutination in establishing paternity

The issue of blood isoagglutination, i.e. gluing of erythrocytes of an animal of a given species by the serum of another animal of the same species, and the pattern of this phenomenon in the modern literature is very well developed in view of the great interest which the study of this phenomenon represents for various fields of science: biology, anthropology, the study of heredity, internal and forensic medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology. The isoagglutination characteristic has gained especially great practical importance in the latest times due to the fact that, as the practice of blood transfusion has shown, without prior establishment of the affiliation of the giving and receiving blood (donor and recipient) to one or another isoagglutination group the application of this therapeutic method cannot take place.