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CHAPTER XIII 



PROTEIN FEVER 



The production of acute, intermittent, remittent, and continued 

 fevers by the injection of foreign proteins; fever results from the 

 parenteral digestion of proteins; the sources of fever in the paren- 

 teral digestion of proteins; fever per se is a beneficent process . . 373 



CHAPTER XIV 



SPECIFIC FERMENTS or THE CANCER CELL 



Extra- and intracellular ferments; a ferment developed in animals 

 by injections of cancer protein; the nature and action of this ferment 416 



CHAPTER XV 



THE PHENOMENA OF INFECTION 



How bacteria grow; how bacteria cause disease; the phenomena 

 of the period of incubation; the phenomena of t^ie active period of 

 the infectious diseases; the germicidal properties of the blood; the 

 phenomena of tubercular infection; the tuberculin test; vaccines and 

 sensitization; sensitization and idiosyncrasies to food and medicine . 436 



