The Organism as a Whole

From a Physicochemical Viewpoint

By

Jacques Loeb, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D.

Member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

With 51 Illustrations

G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London

Copyright, 1916 by JACQUES LOEB

To THE MEMORY OF DENIS DIDEROT Of the Encyclopédie and the Système de la nature

“He was one of those simple, disinterested, and intellectually sterling workers to whom their own personality is as nothing in the presence of the vast subjects that engage the thoughts of their lives.” John Morley. (Article Diderot, Encyclopædia Britannica.)