AND ITS RELATION TO ANIMAL LIFE 65 



On pages 374, 375, he quotes 

 " Dr. H. B. Carpenter, in 1853, had come to 

 the conclusion ... If decomposing matters 

 be abnormally introduced from without, or be 

 generated in abnormal amount within the 

 body, or if the process of elimination be ob- 

 structed, an accumulation of matters takes 

 place in the blood, and this, by producing 

 the pabulum requisite for the development of 

 the poison, supplies the very condition neces- 

 sary for its morbific activity. ... In hot climates 

 where the activity of the respiratory process 

 is reduced by the high temperature, long 

 marches are noticed as causing special liability 

 to zymotic infection." 



On page 376 he says 



" Famine produces an accumulation of 

 waste products in the blood, and is likewise 

 noted as highly favourable to the development 

 of fatal fevers." 



On page 380 he says 



" There can be no question at all that the 

 very small differences in the blood quality are 

 sufficient to determine infection or immunity." 



On page 395 



" The serum of animals which took anthrax 



