CHAPTER VI

NATURAL IMMUNITY AGAINST PATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS 128

Natural immunity and the composition of the body

fluids.—Cultivation of the bacteria of influenza and

pleuro-pneumonia in the fluids of refractory animals.—Resistance

of _Daphniae_ to the Blastomycetes.—Examples of natural immunity

in Insects and Mollusca.—Immunity of Fishes against the anthrax

bacillus.—Immunity of frogs against anthrax, Ernst’s bacillus,

the bacillus of mouse septicaemia, and the cholera

vibrio.—Natural immunity in the cayman.—Immunity of the fowl and

pigeon against anthrax and human tuberculosis.—Immunity of the

dog and rat against the anthrax bacillus.—Immunity of Mammals

against anthrax vaccines.—Immunity of the guinea-pig against

spirilla, vibrios, and streptococci.—Natural immunity against

anaerobic bacilli.—Fate of Blastomycetes and _Trypanosomata_ in

the refractory organism.

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