Olga Metchnikoff

• Acoelomata, development of, 73
• Albaran, Dr., 231
• Alexander I., Tsar of Russia, 26
• Alexander II., 28;
  • assassination of, 101, 104, 218
• Alexis Michailovitch, Tsar, sends Spatar on mission to China, 24;
  • death of, 25
• Alhambra, the, 124
• Amour (Amur) river, Spatar’s exploration of, 24
• Anisoplia austriaca, experiments on, 111
• Annales de l’Institut Pasteur, 1915, 249-50 n.
• Anthrax vaccine experiment, unfortunate result of, 133-4
• Anthropoid apes, Metchnikoff’s desire to experiment with, 140, 189;
  • syphilis experiments with, 190, 191;
  • infantile cholera experiments with, 207, 220;
  • typhoid fever experiments with, 207
• Antitoxins, Metchnikoff’s experiments with, 162
• Arbeiten des zool. Inst. zu Wien, publication of Metchnikoff’s “Untersuchung Über die intracellulÄre Verdauung bei wirbellosen Tieren,” 119 n.
• Arterio-sclerosis, 189, 206
• Ascidia, Metchnikoff’s difference with Kovalevsky re, 62, 73
• Asiatic cholera, 220
• Astrakhan steppes, 84, 85
• Austria, declaration of war on Serbia, 1914, 240

• Baer, Prof., and Baer Prize, 58
• Bakounine, 52, 56
• Bardach, Dr., 127, 133
• Bassarab, Constantine, 24
• Baumgarten, Prof., hostile criticism of phagocyte theory, 126, 129;
  • criticism refuted, 148
• Behring, theory of immunity, 148;
  • discovery of antitoxins, 149, 150
• BÉkÉtoff, Prof., 40, 58
• Bell, the, 29
• Berlin Congress, 1890, 148-9
• Berthelot, M., pupil and collaborator of Metchnikoff, 197, 221
• Besredka, Dr., researches, 161-2, 207-8
• Birsch, 169 n.
• Bobrinsky, Count, 111, 112
• Bogomoloff, 29
• Bombyx mori (moth of the silk-worm), Metchnikoff’s experiments with, 238-9, 251
• Bordet, M. I., important researches and experiments, 165
• Borrel, M., 162
• Brockhaus and Effrone, EncyclopÆdia quoted, 207, 220-21
• Inflammation, Metchnikoff’s lectures on, 152-3
• Intestinal flora, problem of, 196-8, 206;
  • further researches, 220, 235, 280;
  • experiments with rats, 221, 222
• Intracellular digestion, Metchnikoff’s studies of, 57, 105, 107, 110, 116, 170, 277, 278

• JaurÈs, assassination of, 240
• Jelly-fish, Metchnikoff’s monograph on embryology of, 126
• Jenner and method of antivariolic vaccination, 168
• Journal de Moscou, Elie Metchnikoff’s first publication in, 33
• Jupille, M., 155

• Kalmuk steppes, Metchnikoff’s journey to, 82-3;
  • description of, 215-16;
  • Metchnikoff’s anthropological work among natives of, 84-5;
  • liability of natives to tuberculosis, 210-11;
  • Pasteur Institute expedition to, 212;
  • description of, 215-17
• Keferstein, Prof., 54
• Kent, Saville, discoveries of Protospongia, 110
• Kharkoff, 1, 16, 20;
  • LycÉe, progress in, 28;
  • University, ancient methods in, 31-2, 37, 40
• Kherson, peasants’ grievances and vexatious conduct in, 113, 114
• Kirghiz steppes, endemic plague in, 211;
  • Russian plague mission to, 211, 215, 218;
  • description of, 214
• Kleinenberg, Prof., encouragement of Metchnikoff, 118, 119
• Kleps, 169 n.
• Koch, Prof., 265;
  • attitude to Metchnikoff’s theory, 133, 149
• KÖlliker, Prof., 37
• Kovalevsky, Alexander, friendship with Metchnikoff, 49, 58;
  • work of, 51, 52, 61, 62, 72, 73, 108;
  • divides Baer Prize with Metchnikoff, 58
• Kriloff, 26
• KÜhne, 128, 142, 148, 150-53, 158-66, 183, 208-9,
• controversies and attacks on, 131, 133, 142, 147-9;

difficulties over Russian estate management, 112-14;

life at Messina, 115-19;

again returns to Russia, 119;

journey through Spain to Tangiers, 123-4;

life at Tangiers and Villefranche, 125-6;

describes work at Bacteriological Institute, Odessa, 127-8;

describes first meeting with Pasteur, 132;

Pasteur’s offer, 132;

visit to Berlin and reception by German scientists, 133;

work and influence at Pasteur Institute, 135-146;

M. Roux’s appreciations of, 138-9, 150, 159;

other appreciations, 141, 165;

life at SÈvres and Paris, 144-5;

visit to England, 149;

triumph at London Congress, 150;

interest in Pfeiffer’s phenomenon, 158-60;

theory and studies of natural death, 192-5, 230-35, 237-8, 252;

receives Nobel Prize, 199;

journey to Sweden and Russia, 199-200;

visit to TolstoÏ, 200-205;

expedition to Kalmuk steppes, 210 seq.;

unpleasant incident of lacto-bacilli fabrication, 225-7;

kindness to friends, 227-8;

descriptions of his own symptoms, etc., 229-36, 250-51, 263-5;

holidays at St. LÉger-en-Yvelines, 228, 237-9, 251;

effect of war on, 239-46, 261;

preface to Founders of Modern Medicine quoted, 247-8;

plans a work on sexual questions, 249, 252, 260;

jubilee celebrations, 249-50;

last illness, 254-73;

last days at Pasteur Institute, 256-73;

death, 273;

synopsis of work and achievements, 276-81

Metchnikoff, Madame, meeting with Metchnikoff, 87,

• parents and family, 87-8, 94,
• marriage, 89, 90,
• relations between husband and wife, 90211
• Poland, Revolution in, 1830, 26
• Polypi, 72
• Popular Star, 29
• Preyer, theory of fatigue and sleep, 194
• Protospongia, discovery of, by Saville Kent, 110
• Pushkin, 2, 26

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