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inadequate to deal with such cases and, since we have the power of resisting 

 and recovering from these diseases, there must be other mechanisms at the 

 disposal of the body for the neutralisation of these toxins. The protec- 

 tion of the body against destruction by bacterial toxins involves in fact 

 a whole series of chemical mechanisms, which we must regard as of equal 

 importance and as co-operating with the phagocytic mechanism. 



