Bücher von Elie Metchnikoff

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Frontmatter -- Préface à la première édition -- Préface à la seconde édition -- Première partie DÉSHARMONIES DE LA. NATURE HUMAINE -- CHAPITRE PREMIER Introduction -- CHAPITRE II Harmonies et disharmonies chez les êtres inférieurs à V homme -- CHAPITRE III Origine simienne de l'homme -- CHAPITRE IV Désharmonies dans l'organisation de l'appareil digestif de l'homme -- CHAPITRE V Désharmonies dans l'organisation et le fonctionnement de l'appareil de la reproduction. Désharmonies de l'instinct familial et de l'instinct social -- CHAPITRE VI Désharmonies de l'instinct de la conservation -- Deuxième partie TENTATIVES POUR ATTÉNUER LE MAL RÉSULTANT DES DÉSHARMONIES DE LA NATURE HUMAINE (RELIGIONS ET SYSTÈMES PHILOSOPHIQUES) -- CHAPITRE VII Tentatives des religions pour combattre les disharmonies de la nature humaine -- CHAPITRE VIII Tentatives des systèmes philosophiques pour combattre les désharmonies de la nature humaine -- Troisième partie CE QUE PEUT FAIRE LA SCIENCE POUR PALLIER AUX DÉSHARMONIES DE LA NATURE HUMAINE -- CHAPITRE IX Ce que peut faire la science contre les maladies -- CHAPITRE X Introduction à l'étude scientifique de la vieillesse -- CHAPITRE XI Introduction à l'étude scientifique de la mort -- CHAPITRE XII Résumé et conclusions -- TABLE DES MATIÈRES

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Here Metchnikoff formulates an optimistic view of man's relationship to disease, old age, and death based on his discovery of "phagocytes", the chief function of which is to devour intruding microbes. The scientific importance of this work was so great that it was spoken of in England as the most valuable production since Darwin's Origin of Species. Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) was Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute, and a Nobel Prize winner for medicine. Metchnikoff was born in Russia and lived in Paris from 1888, where many of his works were originally published in French. He worked in the fields of embryology, comparative anatomy, pathology, bacteriology and immunology."An extremely interesting and typical book ... With a distinguished frankness, M. Metchnikoff defines his attitude to our universal prepossessions. It is his theory that the infirmities of age are to be overcome. If there be ground for this conception, humanity is to be profoundly changed and what we call life now, will be the childhood and youth of that longer and larger life." - H. G. Wells, in London Speaker"Undoubtedly a great book (in some quarters it has been hailed as the greatest since Darwin's famous message to the world) and should be read by all intelligent men and women." - The Nation"A book to be set side by side with Huxley's Essays, whose spirit it carries a step further on the long road towards its goal." - Mail and Express

Professor Metchnikoff expounds his main thesis that human life is not only unnaturally short but unnaturally burdened with physical and mental disabilities. He analyzes the causes of these disharmonies and explains his reasons for hoping that they may be counteracted by a rational hygiene. Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) was Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute, and a Nobel Prize winner for medicine. Metchnikoff was born in Russia and lived in Paris from 1888, where many of his works were originally published in French. He worked in the fields of embryology, comparative anatomy, pathology, bacteriology and immunology.