XX LIFE OF ELIE METCHNIKOFF 



CHAPTER XXXIII 



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Unpleasant incidents — The fabrication of lacto-bacilli — St. 

 L^ger-en-Yvelines — Return to Paris — First cardiac attack 

 — Evolution of the death instinct — Notes on his symptoms 225 



CHAPTER XXXIV 



1914. Return to St. L^ger-en- Yvelines — Norka — Studies on the 



death of the silk-worm moth — War declared — Mobilisation 237 



CHAPTER XXXV 



1916. Return to Paris — The deserted I nstitute — Memoir on th e 

 Founders of Modem Medicine — Metchnikoflf's Jubilee — 

 Last holidays at Norka . . . . .244 



CHAPTER XXXVI 



1916. Bronchial cold — Aggravated cardiac symptoms — Farewell 

 to Sfevres — Return to the Institute — Protracted sufferings 

 — Intellectual preoccupations — Observations on his own 

 condition — The end — Cremation . . .254 



EPILOGUE. . . . . . .276 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX . . .286 



INDEX . . . . . . .291 



