CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 



PAGE 



PREFACE Vll 



I INTRODUCTION 1 



II SHOCK, AN INDICATION OF TISSUE DAMAGE 13 



III THE RELEASE OF CYTOST FROM CELLS 47 



IV THE PHYSIOLOGY OF CYTOST ACTION 74 

 V FURTHER EXPERIMENTS WITH CYTOST 94 



VI THE ACTION OF CYTOST ON SINGLE CELLS 117 



VII NATURAL RESISTANCE AND FATIGUE 139 



VIII INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING NATURAL RE- 

 SISTANCE 167 



IX THE BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF ANI- 

 MALS 193 



X RELATION OF CYTOST TO BACTERIAL INFEC- 

 TION 2 1 2 



XI INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING THE NATURE 



OF CYTOST 230 



XII CYTOST IN THE PLANT WORLD 244 



XIII CYTOST IN MEDICINE 257 



XIV CONCLUSIONS 271 



APPENDIX: SOME REPRESENTATIVE EXPERI- 

 MENTS 287 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 295 



INDEX 307 



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