CONTENTS 13 



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Hemolysis by Vegetable Poisons 220 



Hemolysis by Venoms 223 



Hemolysis in Disease 224 



Complement Fixation and Wassermann Reactions 229 



Cytolysis in General 233 



CHAPTER X 



Chkmical Means of Defensk Against Non-Antigenic Poisons .... 237 



Inorganc Poisons 240 



Organic Poisons 241 



CHAPTER XI 



I.NFLAMMATION 247 



Ameboid Motion and Phagocytosis 248 



C'hemotaxis 248 



Chemotaxis of Leucocytes 250 



Phagocytosis 255 



Theories of Chemotaxis and Phagocytosis 259 



Artificial Imitations of Ameboid Movement 260 



Relation of the Above Experiments to the Phenomena Exhibited by Leu- 

 cocytes in Inflammation 263 



Suppuration 267 



Composition of Pus 269 



Sputum 273 



CHAPTER XII 



The Chemistry of Growth and Repair 276 



Proliferation and Regeneration 276 



Chemical Basis of Growth and Repair 279 



Vitamines or Food Hormones and Deficiencv Diseases 280 



Beriberi • • • ' 283 



Keratomalacia or Xerophthalmia 284 



Nutritional Dropsy (War Dropsy or Famine Edema) 285 



Scurvy 286 



Pellagra 287 



Rickets 288 



CHAPTER XIII 



Distvrbance.s of Circulation and Diseases of the Blood 290 



The Composition of the Blood 290 



Hemorrhage 293 



Hemophilia 298 



Anemia and the Specific Anemias 301 



Secondary Anemias 301 



Chlorosis 303 



Pernicious Anemia 305 



Leukemia 309 



Hyperemia 312 



Active Hyperemia 312 



Passive Hyperemia 313 



Thrombosis 315 



Fibrin Formation 315 



The Formation of Thrombi 323 



Embolism 325 



Infarction 327 



