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stretching out of the pseudopods then begins anew, provided the 

 narcosis has not been too deep or too prolonged. 



B 



Fig. 62. 

 Amoeba Umax. A In normal state. B Narcotized by ether. 



In the face of all this evidence there can be indeed no further 

 barrier to the assumption that the symptoms in narcosis are a 

 result of a suppression of the oxydative processes. Neverthe- 

 less, I would not at present venture to maintain that the entrance 

 of the narcotic into living substance produces no alterations what- 

 ever, except just this oxydative suppression. For the present 

 it seems to me that the possibility is in no way precluded that 



