{"product_id":"2940148980414","title":"Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916","description":"This edition features\u003cbr\u003e • potrait\u003cbr\u003e • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE  \u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e1845. Panassovka — Metchnikoff’s parents — Country life in Little Russia  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003eMetchnikoff’s brothers and sister — Childish characteristics \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003e1850. Journey to Slaviansk — The coach attacked by peasants  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003cbr\u003e1851. Departure for Kharkoff — Town life  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V\u003cbr\u003e1853-1856. Leo Metchnikoff’s illness — Private tutors — Botanical studies — A memorable birthday  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI\u003cbr\u003eAncestors of the Metchnikoff family — The great “Spatar” — Leo Nevahovitch  \u003cbr\u003e[xvi]CHAPTER VII\u003cbr\u003e1856-1861. The Kharkoff Lycée — Bogomoloff and Socialism — Atheism — Natural History studies — Private lodgings — Private lessons in histology from Professor Tschelkoff — A borrowed microscope — First article — Italian opera — The gold medal  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII\u003cbr\u003eAn early love — A schoolfellow’s sister — A pretty sister-in-law  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX\u003cbr\u003e1862. Journey to Germany — Leipzig, Würzburg — A hasty return  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X\u003cbr\u003e1863. Kharkoff University — Physiology — The Vorticella — Controversy with Kühne — The Origin of Species — Gastrotricha — University degree  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI\u003cbr\u003e1864-1866. Heligoland — Giessen Congress — Leuckart — Visit to Leo Metchnikoff at Geneva — Socialist gatherings — Metchnikoff’s discovery appropriated by Leuckart — Naples — Kovalevsky — Comparative embryology — Embryonic layers — Bakounine and Setchénoff — Cholera at Naples — Göttingen — Anatomical studies — Munich; von Siebold — Music — Return to Naples — Intracellular digestion  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII\u003cbr\u003e1867-1868. Petersburg — Baer Prize — Return home — Friendship with Cienkovsky — Odessa — Naturalists’ Congress at Petersburg — Departure from Odessa — Zoological Lecturer’s Chair at Petersburg — Messina — Enforced rest — Reggio — Naples — Controversy with Kovalevsky — Visit to the B. family — Mlle. Fédorovitch — Educational questions — Difficulties of life in Petersburg  \u003cbr\u003e[xvii]CHAPTER XIII\u003cbr\u003e1868-1873. Slight illness — Engagement to Mlle. Fédorovitch — Marriage — Illness of the bride — Pecuniary difficulties — Spezzia — Montreux — Work in Petersburg University — The Riviera — Cœlomata and Acœlomata — St. Vaast — Panassovka — Madeira — Mertens — Teneriffe — Return to Odessa — Bad news, hurried journey to Madeira — Death of his wife (1872) — Return through Spain — Attempted suicide — Ephemeridæ  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV\u003cbr\u003e1874. Anthropological expedition to the Kalmuk steppes — Affection of the eyes — Second expedition to the steppes — The eggs of the Geophilus  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV\u003cbr\u003e1875. Studies on childhood — The family in the upper flat — Lessons in zoology — Second marriage — Private life — Visit and death of Lvovna Nevahovna — Conjugal affection  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI\u003cbr\u003e1875-1880. Metchnikoff at the age of 30 — Lecturing in Odessa University, from 1873 to 1882 — Internal difficulties — Assassination of the Tsar, Alexander II. — Further troubles in the University — Resignation — Bad health: cardiac symptoms — Relapsing fever — Choroiditis — Studies on Ephemeridæ — Further studies on intracellular digestion — The Parenchymella — Holidays in the country — Experiments on agricultural pests  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII\u003cbr\u003e1881-1882. Death of his father- and mother-in-law — Management of country estates — Agitation and difficulties — Departure for Messina with young brothers- and sisters-in-law  \u003cbr\u003e[xviii]CHAPTER XVIII\u003cbr\u003e1883. Messina — Inception of the phagocyte theory — Encouragement from Virchow and Kleinenberg — First paper on phagocytosis at a Congress at Odessa in 1883 — The question of immunity — Article in Virchow’s Archiv, 1884  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX\u003cbr\u003e1884-1885. Ill-health of his wife and sister-in-law — Journey to Tangiers through Spain — Villefranche — Baumgarten criticises the phagocyte theory  \u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XX\u003cbr\u003e1886. A Bacteriological Institute in Odessa — Unsatisfactory conditions","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108956848368,"sku":"2940148980414","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148980414_p0.jpg?v=1763711248","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148980414","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}