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Acknowledgements for Chapter 1

Figure M1.1.1
Reproduction kindly provided by the Wellcome Institute Library, London

Figure M1.1.2
Reproductions of some of the illustrations in Metchnikoff's book Comparative Pathology of Inflammation (1893).

Figure 1.3
Courtesy of Dr D McLaren

Figure 1.4
The slides from which illustrations (a) (b) (d) (e) (f) (i) and (j) were reproduced were very kindly provided by Mr M Watts of the Department of Haematology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School; (c) was kindly supplied by Professor J J Owen (g) by Professors P Lydyard and G Rook; (h) by Dr Meryl Griffiths; and (k) by Professor N Woolf.

Figure 1.8
Courtesy of H Valdimarsson

Figure 1.9
Courtesy of Dr H Valdimarsson

Figure 1.11
Based essentially on Law, S H A and Reid K B M (1998) Complement, figure 2.4 IRL Press, Oxford).

Figure 1.13
Courtesy of Professor J Tranum-Jensen and Dr S Bhakdi

Figure 1.14
Courtesy of Drs D Lawson, C Fewtrell, B Gomperts and M C Raff from (1975) Journal of Experimental Medicine 142, 391.