Show BENION BENIGN MICROBES the war they wage with pernicious bad bacilli ia in Haman itys midst newcastle New atile chronicle the revelations of the microscope a as to the existence of myriads of microbes mic robea robes in our bodies as well as in all that we eat and drink has caused timid people much anxious wonderment as to why those creatures are not more ini injurious urious and distractive than they actually are writing to the speaker sir henry roscoe explains how it is that even the deadliest of these microbes mic robes robess may be found in the mouth or other parts of the body and yet their host bo be perfectly health healthy the question is not one of the mere presence of these organisms in the sya system tem but entirely one as 03 to whether or not they find their way into the blood if the they y do noarl not alt is well if they do the most serious trouble follows working with the microscopy mier micro in at Past eurs laboratory in paris a russian R assian physician brys ician M koff has E been en able to discover the secret of the importance of the microbe to penetrate into the blood these most recent investigations show that there are certain cells contained in the blood of all the higher ani animal termed phagocytes and identical with the well known white blood corpuscles corpus cles which are endowed with the power of inde pendent motion and not only walls der inside but even make their way through the tissue and pursue devour and digest any bacilli whether poisonous or not with which they come i in n contact this is in reality the true battle of life which though hitherto unobserved is constantly going on within the body these phagocytes which are the watchful guardians of the b body ody attack and annihilate the baccili before they can cart pene penetrate the blood tissues so long as they remain on guard the tho body is safe from attack bu but t should by any cause relax their r v vigilance if clauce then t the he i invading arm army y 0 of parasites would pass into the system and destroy life either by the numerous mechanical lesions which it produces or r by ly the poison which it secretes this r b is apparently independent life of the cell within the 0 organism agalli am is one of the most marvellous marcellous marv ellous revelations of modern cence as well Is jis a remarkable illustration of the extreme nicety of f the balance of nature |