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  1. 1845-1916. Russian scientist who discovered
  2. the function of white blood cells and
  3. phagocytes. After leaving Russia and joining
  4. Pasteur in Paris, he described how these
  5. `scavenger cells' can attack the body itself
  6. (autoimmune disease).
  7.