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Elie Metchnikoff [1845-1916] Russian
Rank: 102
Scientist, Zoologist


Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian zoologist best known for his pioneering research in immunology.
In particular, he is credited with the discovery of phagocytes in 1882. This discovery turned out to be the major defence mechanism in innate immunity.


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The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
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It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in schools or troops where everyone lives the same life, disease does not strike everyone indifferently.
102
Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.
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The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
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The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.
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Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
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Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if the lower animals, with very simple organizations, showed pathological phenomena, and if so, infection, cure and immunity could be observed among them.
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Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.
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In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
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Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.
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It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.
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