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LIFE OF ELIE METCHNIKOFF 



influence, with Bogomolofi, 29, 

 with TchelkofE, 32-3, 42, with 

 Kovalevsky, 48 seq., with Cien- 

 kovsky, 59-60, with Kleinenberg, 

 Virohow, and others, 118-19, with 

 Pasteur, 132 seq., various, 56, 

 58-9, 63, 65, 93, 137; adopts 

 atheism and shows continued 

 interest in natuial histoiy, 29-30 ; 

 love of music, 31, 34, 54-5, 93; 

 plans a scientific career, 31 ; early 

 publications, 33, 41 ; devotion to 

 his mother, 35, 93-4 ; early love 

 affairs, 35-6 ; abortive journey to 

 Wiirzburg, 37-9; at Kharkoft 

 University, 40-42; an early con- 

 troversy with Kuhne, 41 ; in- 

 fluenced by Darwin, 41, 60 ; early 

 researches and privations in Heli- 

 goland, 43-5 ; letters to his mother 

 quoted, 44-6, 65-9 ; at Giessen 

 Congress, 45 ; work and relations 

 with Leuckart, 45-8 ; eyesight 

 troubles, 46, 62, 82-3, 105 ; visit 

 to Geneva, 46-8 ; researches, 

 Mediterranean, 48-63, 56-7, 61 

 seq., in the Crimea, 59-60, at 

 Spezzia, etc., 70-73, anthropo- 

 logical among Kalmuks, 84-6, in 

 intracellular digestion and Ephe- 

 meridse,. 105-11, 116, in infectious 

 diseases, 128, in tuberculosis and 

 phagocytosis, 133 ; at Pasteur 

 Institute, 135-6, in cholera, 154- 

 157, in immunity, 168-80, in 

 senile atrophies and intestinal flora, 

 182-9, 191, 196-8, 206-8, 220 seq., 

 in syphilis, 189-91, in infantfle 

 cholera and typhoid, 207-8, 220, 

 in tuberculosis and plague among 

 Kalmuks, 210-19 ; silk - worm 

 moth, 238-9, 251 ; contribution to 

 foundation of comparative em- 

 bryology, 61, 56 ; studies in 

 Germany and opinion of German 

 scientists, 54-6, 67 ; illnesses, 55- 

 56, 65, 104, 181, 217. 222, 229 seq., 

 249 ; return to Russia and Odessa 

 University appoiatment, 58-60 ; 

 appointed Zoology Professor at 

 Petersburg, 61 ; interest in edu- 

 cational questions, 63, 100 ; life 

 at Petersburg, 63-4, 71 seq. ; 

 engagement and first marriage, 

 66-70 ; reappointed to Odessa 

 University and difficulties of 

 appointment, 73, 75, 78, 98 seq. ; 

 his philosophical theory and its 



evolution, 74-7, 184-9, 191-5, 209, 

 222-4, 228-9, 281-3 ; visit to and 

 fife at Madeira, 75-7 ; death of first 

 wife, 79 ; attempts suicide, 80-81 ; 

 MUe. Fedorovitch's description of, 

 83; journey to Astrakhan steppes, 

 82-3; studies of childhood, 86; 

 meeting with family of second 

 wife and growing intimacy, 86-8, 

 94 , Setch6nofi's description of, 

 88 ; harmony of second marriage, 

 89-95 ; character and disposition, 

 96-8, 143-5 ; views of women's 

 scientific capacity, 103 ; inocu- 

 lates himself with relapsing fever, 

 104 ; and the phagocyte theory, 

 first statement of, 110, describes 

 first inception of, 116-17, pro- 

 gress in, 117-22, 126, 128, 142, 

 148, 160-53, 168-66, 183, 208-9, 

 controversies and attacks on, 

 131, 133, 142, 147-9; difficulties 

 over Russian estate manage- 

 ment, 112-14; life at Messina, 

 116-19 ; again returns to Russia, 

 119 ; journey through Spain to 

 Tangiers, 123-4 ; life at Tangiers 

 and ViUefranche, 125-6 ; describes 

 work at Bacteriological Institute, 

 Odessa, 127-8 ; describes first 

 meeting with Pasteur, 132 ; 

 Pasteur's ofier, 132 ; visit to 

 Berhn and reception by German 

 scientists, 133 ; work and in- 

 fluence at Pasteur Institute, 135- 

 146 ; M. Roux's appreciations of, 

 138-9, 150, 159 ; other apprecia- 

 tions, 141, 165 ; life at Sevres and 

 Paris, 144-5 ; visit to England, 

 149 ; triumph at London Con- 

 gress, 150 ; interest in Pfeifier's 

 phenomenon, 158-60 ; theory and 

 studies of natural death, 192-6, 

 230-35,237-8,252; receives Nobel 

 Prize, 199 ; journey to Sweden 

 and Russia, 199-200 ; visit to 

 Tolstoi, 200-205; expedition to 

 Kabnuk steppes, 210 seq. ; un- 

 pleasant incident of lacto-bacilli 

 fabrication, 225-7 ; kindness to 

 friends, 227-8 ; descriptions of 

 his own symptoms, etc., 229-36, 

 260-51, 263-6; holidays at St. 

 Liger - en - Yvelines, 228, 237-9, 

 251 ; effect of war on, 239-46, 261 ; 

 preface to Founders of Modem 

 Medicine quoted, 247-8 ; plans 

 a work on sexual questions, 249, 



