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It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.

Élie Metchnikoff

The duration of the life of men may be considerably increased. It would be true progress to go back to the simple dishes of our ancestors. … Progress would consist in simplifying many sides of the lives of civilised people.

Élie Metchnikoff

The sum of the very numerous facts established in the archives of science leaves no room to doubt the major part played by the phagocytic system, as the organism's main defence against the danger from infectious agents of all kinds, as well as their poisons.

Élie Metchnikoff

There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.

Élie Metchnikoff

Whenever the organism enjoys immunity, the introduction of infectious microbes is followed by the accumulation of mobile cells, of white corpuscles of the blood in particular which absorb the microbes and destroy them.

Élie Metchnikoff

Élie Metchnikoff

Élie Metchnikoff

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Born: May 15, 1845

Died: July 15, 1916 (aged 71)

Bio: Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian zoologist best known for his pioneering research in immunology.

Known for:

Prolongation of Life Optimistic Studies (1910)
Immunity in infective diseases (1907)
The nature of man

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