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germs. This power is not confined to the white cor- 

 puscles, however, but is true of every cell in the body. 

 The white corpuscles are perhaps of least importance 

 in this particular. Millions of live germs enter the 

 system every day. They are always dead when elimi- 

 nated from a healthy body. This is a fact which every 

 bacteriologist understands. The secretions of every 

 organ in the body, and of all the tissues, have the 

 power to destroy germs. The cells of the digestive 

 organs, those which furnish the digestive fluids, are far 

 more powerful in destroying germs and neutralizing 

 poison than the white corpuscles, yet the bacteriologist 

 would have use believe the white corpuscles alone 

 possess this power. Take a consumptive; usually the 

 diseased lungs are literally loaded with germs, and as 

 fast as the lung tissue is destroyed it is expectorated, 

 and millions of germs are swallowed. They are 

 poured into the stomach in great numbers; it cannot 

 be otherwise. No one pretends and even the bacteri- 

 ologists do not claim that the white corpuscles or cells 

 follow the germs into the stomach and destroy them. 



Do the germs cause disease of the digestive tract? 



No, everyone understands that consumption of the 

 digestive tract is seldom met with, even in those who 

 have consumption of the lungs. 



Are the germs eliminated alive? 



No, the bacteriologists themselves tell us germs are 

 always dead when eliminated. 



Then, if they are dead and the white corpuscles do 

 not kill them, what does? 



