164 ANTI-ANAPHYLACTIC TREATMENT OF DISEASES 



Simply because they either digest and completely destroy 

 these bacilli, or they attack them not at all, in short, because 

 these bacilli or their secretions do not penetrate into the 

 blood as incompletely digested albumins or colloids. 



Pathogenic bacteria differ from those which are not patho- 

 genic principally because the first can live and multiply in 

 blood and living tissue, while the others are destroyed by 

 phagocytes or by proteolysis before having had the time to 

 multiply; yet both the first and the second will by their 

 albumins cause anaphylactic states. 



Bacteria of the intestinal flora are thus not pathogenic, 

 properly speaking, because they cannot multiply in the 

 blood or in the tissues, but their albumins may penetrate into 

 the blood through a congestion of the intestinal mucosa and 

 cause an anaphylactic state in the same way as any other 

 heterologous albumin. 



From the whole of these conjectures and of the precise 

 facts determined experimentally, one may therefore conclude 

 that: 



1. Chronic disturbances of nutrition which manifest 

 themselves by different symptoms according to the affected 

 organs or tissues, have for their common cause a state of 

 anaphylaxis. 



2. This state of anaphylaxis arises from the introduction 

 into the blood of bacterial or of alimentary albuminoid 

 substances. 



3. The resulting illnesses may successfully be treated by 

 antigens taken from the normal intestinal flora. This treat- 

 ment is neither anti-infectious nor antibacterial but solely 

 anti-anaphylactic. 



Inspired by these considerations we undertook at random 

 a series of attempts at anti-anaphylactic treatment, at first 

 of some dermatoses, and later of all kinds of other chronic 

 affections. 



I. CASE REPORTS. 



A . Dermatoses . Observation 1 . Indeterminate Dermatitis. 

 M. F. W., aged forty-five years. For four years oozing 

 red plaques varying in size from a pea to a fifty-cent piece 



