The Toxins and Venoms and Their Antibodies

CONTENTS.

		Page
Introduction		iii
PART I.
GENERALITIES REGARDING TOXINS AND ANTITOXINS.
CHAPTER I.
Alkaloidal Toxins, Ptomaines, and Leucomaines.
Alkaloidal products of cellular life		1
Ptomaines		4
	Physiological action	5
	Extraction	5
	Classification, etc.	7
Leucomaines		10
	Xanthic leucomaines	12
	Creatinic leucomaines	13
	Neurinic leucomaines	13
	Indeterminate leucomaines	14
CHAPTER II.
Toxins and Antitoxins.
Toxins		15
	Action of pathogenic bacteria	16
	Action of toxins	17
	Nature of toxins	18
	Origin of toxins	20
	Autointoxications	21
	General mode of action	23
	Constitution of toxins; Ehrlich's theory	24
	Means of defense possessed by the organism against the action of toxins	28
	Pasteur's vaccination method	30
	Virus action	30
	Phagocytosis	32
Antitoxins		33
	Mode of action	35
	Formation; Ehrlich's theory	38
Serotherapy		41
PART II.
THE TOXINS PROPER.
CHAPTER III.
I. Vegetable and Animal Toxins.		42
	Abrin	42
	Ricin	44
	Robin	45
	Toxicity of the vegetable diastases	45
II. Toxins from Mushrooms		46
	Phalline	48
	Symptomatology	49
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