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...function and importance of tonsils are much mooted points. Some physiologists claim that the tonsils supply a secretion necessary for the body yet their being cut out causes no unusual symptoms. Others maintain that the tonsils catch bacteria and prevent them getting into the system. Still others show that the tonsils are excellent breeding places for germs. Most agree that their removal does good in many instances, harm...
...Vaccine (in the special sense) contains dead or weakened bacteria which stimulate the blood to kill active germs. Scrum is the fluid of immune blood obtained after coagulation. It contains antitoxins which counteract the poison produced by a specific bacterium. The three terms are often loosely used as equivalents...
...Cleveland, Assistant Professor of Protozoology, to permit him to study the relation of protozoa in vivo and in vitro to bacteria, and the life cycles of amoebae...
...firefly and the glowworm blink their lights? How does the jellyfish called ctenophore and the tiny, multitudinous noctiluca flash in the sea? And two score other fish, insects, plants, and bacteria...
...post-poned to next June for further debate the so-called "minorities question." 2) They applauded announcements by Germany's fat Dr. Stresemann and Poland's lean August Zaleski that these nations are now "ready" to ratify the international protocol prohibiting employment of poison gas and bacteria as war weapons...