ON NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL IMMUNITY.
ON NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL IMMUNITY.
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关于自然和人工免疫。
DOI:
10.1126/science.ns-20.516.356
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发表时间:
1892
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
O. Loew
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作者:
O. Loew
SINCE the beginning of the extensive bacteriological investigations of Pasteur, about twenty years ago, the new-born science of bacteriology has developed to gigantic proportionst and, although this science is still in its youth and capable of an immense extension, it has become of an extraordinary importance and of universal interest. No other 9cience can boast of such rapid development. Many investigators. botanists, hygienists. physicians, and chemists, haye contributed their share to raise the science to an imposing fi~ ure. We name here abo\? e all: C. Nilgeli. R. Koch, Rudolf Emlnerich~ Hans Buchner, M. Nencki" the Italians Tittoni and Cattani, the Americans Billin~ s and Dixon. the Japanese Kitasato and Tsuboi, the Englishman Hankin, and the Gertnans Hiip~, Scholl, and Baumgarten. It was Koch who invented excellent methods of isolating different bacteria~ pecie8 and made us acquainted witb the bacillus of tuberculosis and the comma-bacillus; Kitasato isolated for the first time the bacillus of influenza and of tetanus (lockjaw); Nencki, Krieger, Hftppe, and Scholl isolated poisonous albuminous products of different bacteria species. But it was essentially Professor Rudolf Emmerich of Munich, l who8e e," erlasting merit it is to have taken the first successfuI steps for solving the mystery of naturaland artificial immunity. We know now that nine-tenths of all diseases of man and animals are due to certain bacteria species that either by the lungs or by the stomach enter the body, multiply in the blood, and yield poisonous secretions that finally attack the nervous system and kill the body if no po\verful reaction sets in that kills the bacteria'while their poisonous secretions are expelled by the body by oxidation or by the excreta.Now, this reaction against bacterial evil-doings is the most interesting and marvellous process in the science of bacteriology and medicine, a process that was surrounded by a deep uly8tery, and the more interesting as it became evident that an animal having passed through a certain infectious disease, had acquired a certain resistance for a cflrtain period against the same cause of disease. Experimentt; of Pasteur had shown this to be the case in various diseases. This resistance gained by passing through an infectious disease is known by the name of artificial immunity.