Immunity in infective diseases

IMMUNITY IN UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS 11 Infective diseases of the unicellular organisms.—Intracellular digestion in the Protozoa.—Amoebo-diastase.—Part played by digestion in the d...

IMMUNITY IN MULTICELLULAR PLANTS 29 Infective diseases of plants.—Plasmodia of the Myxomycetes and their chemiotaxis.—Adaptation of the plasmodia to poisons.—Pathogenic action o...

PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON IMMUNITY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM 40 Examples of natural immunity among the Invertebrates.—Immunity against micro-organisms and insusceptibility to microbial...

RESORPTION OF THE FORMED ELEMENTS 67 Digestion in the tissues.—Resorption of cells in the Invertebrata.—Resorption of red corpuscles by the phagocytes of the Vertebrata.—Phagocy...

RESORPTION OF ALBUMINOID FLUIDS 106 Resorption of albuminoid substances.—The precipitins of blood serum which appear as a result of the absorption of serums and of milk.—Absorpt...

NATURAL IMMUNITY AGAINST PATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS 128 Natural immunity and the composition of the body fluids.—Cultivation of the bacteria of influenza and pleuro-pneumonia in...

THE MECHANISM OF NATURAL IMMUNITY AGAINST MICRO-ORGANISMS 175 The destruction of micro-organisms in natural immunity is an act of resorption.—Part played by inflammation in natu...

SURVEY OF THE FACTS BEARING ON ACQUIRED IMMUNITY AGAINST MICRO-ORGANISMS 207 The discovery of attenuated viruses and its application to vaccination against infective diseases.—V...

THE MECHANISM OF ACQUIRED IMMUNITY AGAINST MICRO-ORGANISMS 250 Cytases and fixatives.—Only the latter are augmented in the immunised organism.—Properties of the fixatives.—Diffe...

RAPID AND TEMPORARY IMMUNITY AGAINST MICRO-ORGANISMS, CONFERRED BY SPECIFIC AND NORMAL SERUMS, OR BY OTHER SUBSTANCES, OR BY MICRO-ORGANISMS OTHER THAN THOSE AGAINST WHICH IT IS...

NATURAL IMMUNITY AGAINST TOXINS 325 Examples of natural immunity against toxins.—Immunity of spiders and scorpions against tetanus toxin.—Immunity of the scorpion against its ow...

ARTIFICIAL IMMUNITY AGAINST TOXINS 342 Adaptation to poisons.—Artificial immunity against bacterial and vegetable toxins and against snake venom.—Principal methods of immunisati...

IMMUNITY OF THE SKIN AND MUCOUS MEMBRANES 403 Protective function of the skin.—Exfoliation of the epidermis as a means of ridding the animal of micro-organisms.—Localisation and...

IMMUNITY ACQUIRED BY NATURAL MEANS 433 Immunity acquired after recovery from infective diseases.—Immunity acquired in malaria.—Humoral properties of convalescents from typhoid f...

PROTECTIVE VACCINATIONS 454 Vaccinations against, I. Small-pox.—II. Sheep-pox.—III. Rabies.—IV. Rinderpest.—V. Anthrax.—VI. Symptomatic Anthrax.—VII. Swine Erysipelas.—VIII. Ple...

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF IMMUNITY 505 Methods used by savage races for vaccination against snake venom and against bovine pleuropneumonia.—Variolisation and vaccina...

SUMMARY 544 Means of defence of the animal against infective agents.—Absorption of micro-organisms.—Phagocytes, and their function in inflammation.—The action of phagocytes in t...

Infective diseases of unicellular organisms.—Intracellular digestion in the Protozoa.—Amoebo-diastase.—Part played by digestion in the defence of the Protozoa against infective...

Infective diseases of plants.—Plasmodia of the Myxomycetes and their chemiotaxis.—Adaptation of the plasmodia to poisons.—Pathogenic action of _Sclerotinia_ upon Phanerogams.—Th...

Examples of natural immunity among the Invertebrates.—Immunity against micro-organisms and insusceptibility to microbial poisons are two distinct properties.—The refractory orga...

Digestion in the tissues.—Resorption of cells in the Invertebrata.—Resorption of red corpuscles by the phagocytes of the Vertebrata.—Phagocytes.—Various categories of these cell...

Resorption of albuminoid substances.—The precipitins of blood serum which appear as a result of the absorption of serums and of milk.—Absorption of gelatine.—Leucocytic origin o...

Natural immunity and the composition of the body fluids.—Cultivation of the bacteria of influenza and pleuro-pneumonia in the fluids of refractory animals.—Resistance of _Daphni...

The destruction of micro-organisms in natural immunity is an act of resorption.—Part played by inflammation in natural immunity.—Importance of microphages in immunity against mi...

either spermatozoa or the nuclei of the red corpuscles of birds. And yet these elements are completely dissolved in the phagocytic contents. Does this difference depend on the f...

The discovery of attenuated viruses and its application to vaccination against infective diseases.—Vaccination by microbial products.—Vaccination with serums.—The acquired immun...

Cytases and fixatives.—Only the latter are augmented in the immunised organism.—Properties of the fixatives.—Difference between them and the agglutinative substances.—The part p...

micro-organisms matters go on in much the same way. These organisms, seized at the seat of inoculation by the phagocytes, are transported by these cells, in their peregrination...

RAPID AND TEMPORARY IMMUNITY AGAINST MICRO-ORGANISMS, CONFERRED BY SPECIFIC AND NORMAL SERUMS, OR BY OTHER SUBSTANCES, OR BY MICRO-ORGANISMS OTHER THAN THOSE AGAINST WHICH IT IS...

Examples of natural immunity against toxins.—Immunity of spiders and scorpions against tetanus toxin.—Immunity of the scorpion against its own poison.—Antivenomous property of t...

Adaptation to poisons.—Artificial immunity against bacterial and vegetable toxins and against snake venom.—Principal methods of immunisation.—Immunisation by toxins and toxoids....

Protective function of the skin.—Exfoliation of the epidermis as a means of ridding the animal of micro-organisms.—Localisation and arrest of micro-organisms in the dermis.—Inte...

this parasite and transform them into an innocuous detritus. Sometimes, however, a number of these fine spores manage to perforate the cutaneous investment of the small crustace...

Immunity acquired after recovery from infective diseases.—Immunity acquired in malaria.—Humoral properties of convalescents from typhoid fever.—Preventive power of the blood of...

over with the blood plasma of the same species, whilst in the experiments on antitoxic immunity it is generally injected with the serum of a different species, it is easy to und...

Vaccinations against I. Small-pox.—II. Sheep-pox.—III. Rabies.—IV. Rinderpest.—V. Anthrax.—VI. Symptomatic Anthrax.—VII. Swine Erysipelas.—VIII. Pleuropneumonia in the Bovidae.—...

Methods used by savage races for vaccination against snake venom and against bovine pleuropneumonia.—Variolisation and vaccination against small-pox.—Discovery of the attenuatio...

Means of defence of the animal against infective agents.—Absorption of micro-organisms.—Phagocytes, and their function in inflammation.—The action of phagocytes in the absorptio...

It would clearly be wrong to take one’s stand, in a purely scientific question, on a national point of view. But it is a still greater mistake to look at matters, in the investi...