ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



It gives me great pleasure to ackno\vledge my indebtedness and 

 gratitude: 



To Mr. George Bliuiienthal, President of the Board of Trustees 

 of The Motuit Sinai Hospital, Mr. George Bernheim, Chairman of 

 the Laboratory Committee, their Colleagues of the Board, and Dr. 

 Josepli Turner, Director of this Hospital, whose constant interest 

 and fidl support made this Avork possible. 



To Mrs. Kiut Simon, ^vhose help allowed the preparation of 

 antitoxic sera described in this monograph. 



To Mr. Eugene Meyer (Manhattan Research Foundation) , Alt- 

 man Foundation, Friedsam Foinidation, Mr. Louis Strasser, and 

 the Committee on Scientific Research of the American Medical 

 Association, Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, Chairman, for their generous 

 grants during the past years. 



To the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Dr. Ludwig Kast, Presi- 

 dent, AV'hose generous grants and continued interest permitted the 

 preparation of this monograph and the work on the pathogenesis 

 of the phenomenon under progress. 



To Mr. Eli Lilly for the support of the work on the chemical 

 aspects of the phenomenon under progress and Dr. G. H. A. 

 Clowes, Mr. W. A. Jamieson, and Dr. H. M. Po^vell of the Eli Lilly 

 Research Laboratories for help and interest. 



To the Blanche and Frank Wolf Foinidation for the support of 

 the ^vork mider progress on the relation of the phenomenon to neo- 

 plastic growth. 



To Dr. Alexis Carrel, Dr. f^manuel Libman, Members of the 

 clinical and laboratory staff of The Mount Sinai Hospital, in par- 

 ticidar, to Dr. George Baehr, Dr. A. A. Berg, Dr. L Friesner, Dr. 

 Robert T. Frank, Dr. Louis Gross, Dr. Paul Klemperer, Dr. B. S. 

 Oppenheimer, Dr. B. Schick and Dr. Harry Sobotka, for encoinage- 

 ment, help and cooperation. 



To Dr. G. W. McCoy, Director of the National Institute of 

 Health of Washington, D. C, Dr. Rigney D'Aunoy, professor of 

 pathology and bacteriology, of the Louisiana Medical School, and 

 W. Y. Hollingsworth, Smgeon, U. S. Public Health Service, whose 



