Statistical studies in immunity : natural immunity and the capacity for acquiring immunity in the acute infectious diseases / by John Brownlee.

  • Brownlee, John, 1868-1927.
Date:
[1905]
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    of natural immunity in the sense in which this is exhibited by the fowl against the poison of tetanus, but on the other hand possesses a capacity for acquiring immunity of such amount as to render its defence against the disease practically absolute. It would probably be better to restrict the term natural immunity .to the former of these and to use some other term to describe the latter. To correlate these two properties with the two protective mechanisms which must be inferred to exist from a consideration of the statistics of the infectious diseases, is, of course, conjectural, but it seems more rational to infer that they are manifes- tations of the processes known experimentally to exist rather than to suggest other explanations. ■V