Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Scavengers of the Body. [ARTICLE]

Scavengers of the Body.

Floating about the body with the blood are numerous cells which seem to go around on their own hook. In the lungs they are found in great numbers. When they come across any disease germ or other foreign particle, they eat it up or carry it away to some place where it cannot do any harm. Thus they serve the purpose of scavengers. Unfortunately, so many wicked germs are floating about in the dust that occasionally th f make their way into the system of a heelthy person and cause trouble. Most dreadful of all such micro-organisms ia the bacillus of consumption, which breeds in the human lungs and destroys them. Cholera has been exciting much dismay of late, but it is a complaint of trifling importance compared with consumption. In Europe 3,000 persons die every day of consumption, while in the United States the same disease kills 100,000 people a year.—[Washington Star.