Note 116 — THE INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM WITH REGARD TO FORM AND METABOLISM (continued 3)

So-called genuine or innate immunity, in contrast to the immunity which is acquired, is of course a case of adaptedness only and not of adaptation. There also exists a high degree of specific adaptedness in some animals with regard to their faculty of coagulating blood. (See Leo Loeb, Biol. Bull. 9, 1905.)