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stretching out of the pseudopods then begins anew, provided the 

 narcosis has not been too deep or too prolonged. 



3 



Fig. 62. 

 Amoeba limax. A— In nonnal state. B— Narcotized by ether. 



In the face of all this evidence there can be indeed no further 

 barrier to the assumption that the symptoms in narcosis are a 

 result of a suppression of the oxydative processes. Neverthe- 

 less, I would not at present venture to maintain that the entrance 

 of the narcotic into living substance produces no alterations what- 

 ever, except just this oxydative suppression. For the present 

 it seems to me that the possibility is in no way precluded that 



