Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — A Plea for the Phagocyte. [ARTICLE]

A Plea for the Phagocyte.

Dr. Ewing, a St. Louis physician, has raised a voice of protest against the-surgical propensity of the use of the knife on the tinsils. For a long time it was the vermiform appendix which was only in the way, but lately, owing perhaps to a growing incredulity in the public mind, surgery has turned more to the tonsil as (lie superfluous thing which is capable of doing a great deal of harm anil absolutely incapable of doing any good. Dr. Ewing insists that the tonsils make a nesting place for the phagocytes, that class of good microbes which gets into the blood and fight" great battles there with the had microbes who infest our systems. The tonsils, says Dr. Ewing, are recruiting station at which the phagocyte armies are enlisted and from which they march away to fight for our lives. If we remove tile tonsils obt or the rising generation, tlie r/sing generation may be left without phagocytes to fight their battles for them, and will fall victims to the armies of evil microbes who will then attack them unresisted. Race suicide! •-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.