Poisonous Proteins : the Herter Lectures for 1916 Given in the University And Bellevue Medical School, New York
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Nothing more dangerous to the in- fected individual could happen than the sud- den cleavage of all the bacteria in his body. 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 para...sitism has developed coatings of fats and waxes which protect it against the action of secretions of body cells quite as efficiently 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 imanune to the action of body cell secretions. Occasionally bacteria per- sist in the body for long periods after recovery 90 POISONOUS PEOTEIKS from the disease and when these are trans- ferred to new hosts they show that they have lost nothing in virulence.
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