VI CONTENTS. 



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Origin of toxins 20 



Autointoxications 21 



General mode of action 23 



Constitution of toxins; Ehrlich's theory 24 



Means of defense possessed by the organism against 



the action of toxins 28 



Pasteur's vaccination method 30 



Virus action 30 



Phagocytosis 32 



Antitoxins 33 



Mode of action 35 



Formation ; Ehrlich's theory 38 



Serotherapy, , , , , , , , , , 41 



PART II. 



THE TOXINS PROPER. 

 CHAPTER III. 



I. Vegetable and Animal Toxins 4? 



Abrin 42 



Ricin 44 



Robin 45 



Toxicity of the vegetable diastases 45 



II. Toxins from Mushrooms 46 



Phalline 48 



Symptomatology 49 



Antidiastases 51 



III. Animal Toxins 53 



Peptotoxin 53 



Alime tary Intoxications 55 



Urinary toxins 57 



Variation of urinary toxicity 59 



Autointoxications (animal) 60 



Glandular secretions 62 



Suprarenal capsules , 63 



