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tions, sent out as pure amylopsin. Of course, it has still other bearings; upon the specificity of ferments, for instance, and upon the relation between the leucocytes and amylopsin in the enzyme treatment of cancer and tubercu­losis. Amylopsin might be regarded as the ferment-food of the leucocytes, in extension of the view previously ex­pressed by the writer in the Medical Record that amylopsin was the medium in which the leucocytes acted. By the use of the scientific imagination possessed by the writer. and of which Professor Leo Loeb recently wrote in the Medical Record (June 25, 1910, p. 1086; see Appendix B, p. 267), he considers that it is highly probable, not only that the leucocytes can convert amylopsin into an intra­cellular tryptic ferment, but that they can transform it into an inverting enzyme. The interesting subject may be left with the remark that once again it is a confirma­tion of the scientific truth of the words of Pasteur, that Science is Prevision.”

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