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Metschnikoff^[81] and Matschinski found, after injections of the bacilli of tetanus, or of diphtheria, the greatest number of them in the ovaries, or in the testicles, of the animals. It is also of great interest that Lingard^[82] found that the subcutaneous injection of testicular extracts into cattle induces a resistance to infection from bovine plague, against which other cattle can also be rendered immune through the serum of the treated animals—which seems very important to us. Brown-Sequard and d’Arsonval employed testicular extracts with good result in tuberculosis, and Uspenski in cases of Asiatic cholera.^[83]

In the chapter on the treatment of old age by organic extracts, we submit evidence showing that infectious diseases have been treated successfully by several authors by these extracts. Many others have also shown that spermin, prepared by Professor Poehl from the testicles of various animals, has also a marked effect against different infectious diseases, sometimes even in cases of desperate septicæmia. It has been shown by Professor Loewy and Dr. Richter, that after giving spermin there is at first a great diminution of the leucocytes in consequence of leucolysis, which is soon followed by hyperleucocytosis, and at the same time there was considerable increase of alkalinity in the blood.^[84]