Poisonous Proteins the Herter Lectures for 1916 Given in the University And Bel
Poisonous Proteins the Herter Lectures for 1916 Given in the University And Bel
Victor C Victor Clarence Vaughan
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The poison liberated in this process would overwhelm him at once. This is a probable ex- planation of the fact, already referred to, that the case mortality in typhus fever is higher among the well nourished than among the less robust. Bacterial cells, as well as body cells, have means of protecting themselves. The tu- bercle bacillus through limitless generations of parasitism has developed coatings of fats and waxes which protect it against the action of secretions of body cells quite as effi...ciently as coats of mail protected our ancestors against the weapons of their time. Moreover, bacterial cells may develop increased resistance or be- come to some extent immune to the action of body cell secretions. Occasionally bacteria per- sist in the body for long periods after recovery 90 POISONOUS PKOTEINS from the disease and when these are trans- ferred to new hosts they show that they have lost nothing in virulence. Frequently, second- ary infections develop and decide the fate of the individual.
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