DEFENSIVE FERMENTS OF THE ANIMAL ORGANISM
DEFENSIVE FERMENTS OF THE ANIMAL ORGANISM
against substances out of harmony with the body, the blood-plasma and the cells; their demonstration, and their diagnostic significance for testing the functions of different organs
BY
EMIL ABDERHALDEN
Director of the Physiological Institute of the University at Halle a/S.
With ii Text Figures and one Plate
THIRD ENLARGED EDITION
ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
J. O. GAVRONSKY, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., M.D., Halle a/S.
AND
W. F. LANCHESTER, M.A.
LONDON:
JOHN BALE, SONS & DANIELSSON, Ltd.
OXFORD HOUSE
83-91, GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, OXFORD STREET, W.
1914
All Rights Reserved
TO
MY FAITHFUL COLLABORATORS.
Contents.
PAGE - Means of defence of unicellular organisms against substances out of harmony with the cell
2 - Progressive decomposition of the units of nutrition
8, 32 - The co-operation of different unicellular organisms
10 - Division of labour in multicellular organisms
11 - The value of milk to the suckling
13–15 - The transformation of nutritive material into products in harmony with the body, plasma, and cells
16, 23 - The specific structure of each cellular species
17, 24 - The signification of digestion in cell-metabolism
16 - Observations, in the fields of physiology and pathology, suggesting a specific structure in different cellular species
16 - Hermaphroditismus verus
17 - Results of experiments on transplantation
18 - Cell-specific therapy
19 - Distinction between substances that are in, or out of, harmony with (a) the body; (b) the blood; and (c) the cells
22 - Demonstration of the probability of the existence of cell constituents, that are specific to the species and the organs
24 - Cell constituents specific to the species and to "function"
27 - Transformation of the units of a given cellular species into constituents of other cells
29 - The regulation of the harmony of the metabolic processes in the organism
31, 42 - Inter-relations of different cellular species
35 - The invasion of cells out of harmony with the body. Means of defence of the organism against such cellular species
42 - Means of defence of the animal organism against substances out of harmony with the blood plasma
45 - Preliminary study on the ferments normally contained in the blood
49 - Methods for the study of ferments
49 - The formation of defensive ferments
55 - 1. After introduction of albuminous substances out of harmony with the body and the plasma, and their initial stages of decomposition, with special reference to anaphylaxy
58 - 2. After introduction of carbohydrates out of harmony with the body and the plasma
72 - 3. After introduction of fats
80 - 4. After introduction of nucleo-proteids and nucleins
83 - A survey of the significance of defensive ferments
85 - Origin of defensive ferments
87 - Demonstration of substances that are in harmony with the body but not with the plasma
90 - Biological diagnosis of pregnancy
91 - Question of specificity of defensive ferments
96 - Sero-diagnosis of organic functions
106 - Doubt concerning the uniformity of the so-called proteolytic ferments
108 - Study of the correlations of particular organs
112 - Defensive ferments which appear in the constituents of the blood corpuscles
114 - The application of the methods in pathology
116, 133 - Their application in infectious diseases
116 - Methods
147 - 1. The dialysation process
147 - Testing of the dialysing tubes
156 - Preparation of the substrates (organs)
162 - Means of obtaining blood serum
173 - Performance of the experiment
176 - Sources of error in the dialysation process
189 - 2. The optical method
202 - The application of the optical method
203 - Preparation of peptones
204 - Standardization of the peptone
210 - Literature
215 - Personal researches
215–224,240 - Complete list of works of other authors
224 - Literature in connection with problems related to our subject
224 - Researches, published during the year 1912, and up to November 15, 1913, in which the dialysation process and the optical method have been made use of
227–240 - Personal researches during the years 1912–13
240–242
- Preface to the English Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Defensive Ferments of the Animal Organism
- Methods in Use
- Literature
- Appendix
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