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Bacterial Virulence and Immunity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Arthur Eastwood
Arthur Eastwood
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(From the Pathological Laboratory of the Ministry of Health.)
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Bacteriologists are not in a position to disregard the limitations recognised by the physiologists. Precise data which are not available from experiments are far from sufficient to explain the properties of living matter; they must be supplemented by vaguer conceptions about the functions of a cell, its internal organisation and its susceptibility to stimulative or inhibitory agencies—conceptions which cannot yet be translated into recognised chemical substances and physical properties. One must therefore start by recognising that bacterial virulence, being dependent on vital processes, cannot be fully explained in chemico-physical terms.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , August 1927 , pp. 235 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

References

Page 239 note 1 Reports to the Ministry of Health, No. 13, 1922, No. 18, 1923; and personal communications.

Page 241 note 1 Zeitschr. f. Immunitätsforsch., Orig. 29, p. 24, 1920.

Page 241 note 2 Medical Research Council, Reports 91 (1925) and 103 (1926).

Page 242 note 1 Journ. Path, and Bact. 25, p. 505 (1922), and 28, p. 345 (1925).

Page 258 note 1 For the view that antibodies are internal secretions of the reticulo-endothelium which pass directly into the blood-stream the reader may be referred to Bieling, Zeitschr. f. Immunitätsforsch. Orig. 38, p. 193, 1923.

Page 258 note 2 J. Hygiene, 22, p. 355, 1924.

Page 263 note 1 Ministry of Health Reports on Public Health, etc. No. 22, 1923.