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power, chief among which at present stands 

 phagocytosis. 



It is our task to advance by a more accurate 

 and more extensive study of all the haptines 

 and their actions, and in the first place we must 

 gain a knowledge of the influences exerted upon 

 the causes of infection by the distribution and 

 action of dissolved substances whose action is 

 cytotropic, so that we may obtain a nearer 

 insight into the manifold secondary phenomena 

 which arise from them. 



