X SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR 



CHAPTER yAGB 



XXV. Carriers of Disease .... . 339 



The Entrance of Parasites — Man as a Carrier of Disease 

 — House Flies and Disease. 



XXVI. Immunity and Curative Inoculations . . 346 



Inoculation of Smallpox — Antitoxins — The Wonderful 

 Properties of Blood — Germ-killing Poisons in the 

 Blood — Opsonins or Sauce for Germs. 



XXVII. The Strange Story of Animal Life in New 



Zealand 357 



Strange Birds — Destroyed by Europeans — Introduced 

 Animals. 



XXVIII. The Effacement of Nature by Man . . 365 



Disappearance of Great Animals — Man's Reckless 

 Greed — Hope in Irrigation. 



XXIX. The Extinction of the Bison and of Whales yj^ 



Drowning in a Dead Whale's Heart — The Value of 

 Whalebone — No more Turtle Soup. 



XXX. More about Whales 380 



The Shape of Whales — Enormous Pressure of Gas in 

 the Blood— The Killer and the Narwhal— Fossil 

 Whales. 



XXXI. Misconceptions about Science . . . .388 



What Science does not explain — Darwin's Theory is 

 adequate — The Aquosity of Water — Need for Inter- 

 preters of Science — The Exploded Ghost called 

 "Caloric" — Nightmares Destroyed by Science — 

 When did the Soul arrive ?— The Great Silence. 



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