“…Loeschke (1927) originally suggested that amyloid substance might represent tissue deposits of antigenantibody complexes, and Strukov, Serov, and Pavlikhina (1963) have offered evidence which seems to show that autoantibodies to the deposits develop during the course of human and animal amyloidosis. The idea that amyloid substance could be at least partly constructed immunologically may be considered to gain moment from demonstrations by the fluorescent antibody technique of the presence in, or binding by, amyloid of C'3 complement (Kochem, 1966;Lachmann, Muller-Eberhard, Kunkel, and Paronetto, 1962;Letterer, Caesar, and Vogt, 1960;Muller-Eberhard and Dalmasso, 1965;Nowoslawski and Brzosko, 1965;Vogt and Kochem, 1960).…”