Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-13
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ed the life story 81 4 malaria germ. Here
10 the germs description of q fight with
the phagocytes: Just then 1 lot Of out
newborn brothers began crowding upo1
us from behind, and when we turned IL
demonstrate we saw away to the rear y
great commotiop. A fight and. q retreat. /.
were going on It was slaughter Of the !;
most horrible kind. There, At the head IT (
tide OF blood were, columns Of phago-5
cytes cutting into the rear guard 6f: mala
ria germs, killing them. swallowing them i
whole and growing lustier q the process
went on. 1t was an awful spectacle. 8
hung back, fascinated. a phasocyts
would race down the current withAswtft I
overland stroke reach out and grasp .
microbe from behind. Then the farni Of
the phagocyte would shorten 4ndssas Il
seemed TO me, retreat into the whits
monsters interior, dragging the germ
with il. Sometimes a phagocyte would .
grow facetious and would bump against ?
1 poor germ - though shoulderinB him
out Of the road. Away would 20 the poor
germ. swimming fast in order to avoid
the encounter. but his enemy would then
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middle and with a slow motion going in :
side out like Z glove and actually taking
the germ in with him. Ugh! | should
have remained there in q sheer spell il
my companion had not pulled me along
with him. .''
."'Make for a red blood CELL he called :,
as we went forward, II ~,
what said l, "a red cell? We have
lust come from ONE
"'Never mind. he replied. Find q red
cell and eat your way inside. 1t is our
only chance. See. the others are doing
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Sure enough, many Of my brethren
had selected good red blood cells and
were penetrating the skin and climbing
inside to escape the phagocytes. 1t seem,
ed to me so unfortunate, just as we had
gained our freedom, but it was better
than death. So we looked for cells. Ev.
cry cell we came to, however, was being
occupied, and it seemed to me that the
phagocytes were gaining on us when my
companion suddenly pulled me to one
side and cried:
"'Look out! Look out! Keep away
from that current near the center there.
1t is worse than death!
"'What is it?' cried. for could SEE
nothing.
"'Don't you seeT he said, hugging the
wall Of the tunnel, there it is. that dis
colored streak running near the center OF
the stream. 1t is caused by what mel
call quinine. and it is deadly il you swim
in it,
"'How does it affect you" asked.
elf, you swallow it. it numbs you
makes ynu - ~. Nc T s,,oti''.-s+upefes
and L:py"nts you climbing into a red,
blcod cel!-it is living death and the
friend Of TIE nh::;rytcs,'
II sh':tllr'cd ana swan on. At the end
Of s@vc1lkt opening my friend darteo
to az, side and seized red blood celI
viii :: "s urocc.pird. lie began work
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i 80 dhy hr.t:::.:" he said. Here ID
~:.e, , s..>r,. - :. work to do. Hopt
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