Metchnikoff

As Metchnikoff expected, the mesodermal cells surrounded the thorns, proving his theory.

In 1908, Metchnikoff won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering phagocytic cells and their role in the human immune system.

The cholera drink didn’t sicken Metchnikoff, so he let a volunteer from his lab repeat the test.

At the same time that Metchnikoff’s ideas about rebalancing the microbes in the gut were taking hold, a powerful current in medicine was running against them.

When the first volunteer didn’t contract cholera either, Metchnikoff didn’t hesitate to accept an offer from a second one.

According to Metchnikoff, this property of leukocytes resides entirely within themselves, depending upon their own vital activity.

Metchnikoff believed that the colorless corpuscles of the blood have somewhat the same function.

Consider man, as Metchnikoff describes him, with his overplus of sex energy.

Doctor Metchnikoff told me in Paris that America always kills its big men with routine.

Just had a letter from the great Metchnikoff—wants me to come over and work in the Pasteur!