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requiring fixation by their affinities, the nutritive equilibrium 

 will be modified; and when the proportion of "micelles" so 

 affected among the "micelles" composing the plasma of the 

 cell, will have passed beyond certain limits, the cell itself will 

 become diseased and may die. 



These are the general ideas which have guided us in the 

 following study of pathological states. 



In Part II the secondary consequences in the organism of 

 the conditions of immunity and anaphylaxis, which result 

 from recovery in infectious disease, or from an habitual or 

 periodical digestion of antigens are discussed. 



The study of these questions has led to the conclusion that 

 all the chronic morbid states with their periods of acute crises 

 alternating with longer or shorter remissions, originate from 

 antigens, and are determined by the state of immunity- 

 anaphylaxis of the organism. The necessary experimental 

 confirmation of this hypothesis has shown in reality that the 

 anti-anaphylactic treatment is of unquestionable efficacy 

 in all those chronic diseases in which we have been able to 

 apply it up to date (except organic mental diseases) and a 

 long series of observations corroborates this. 



We have obtained these results by non-specific antigens 

 and in order to explain the curative action of these antigens, 

 we have been obliged to assume the direct and predominating 

 intervention of the nervous centers. 



The work is concluded by a general theory of immunity, 

 anaphylaxis, and anti-anaphylaxis, based on the structure, 

 properties and function of the organism, and of the structural 

 and functional units composing it. 



J. DANYSZ. 



