The Immune System

Nothing changes your priorities faster than an intestinal flu.

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FROM THE MOUTHS OF SCIENCE STUDENTS:

"For head cold: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat."

"To keep milk from turning sour: Keep it in the cow."

These comments come from test papers and essays submitted to science and health teachers by elementary, junior high, high school, and college students and compiled at the NEA Life Sciences Symposium, Kansas City, Kansas. As the originator noted, "It is truly astonishing what weird science our young scholars can create under the pressures of time and grades." Please note that the original spelling has been left intact.

Q: As what did the antibody go to the Halloween costume party?
A: As an "immunogobulin"

"[Louis Pasteur's]... theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction. How do you think that these germs in the air can be numerous enough to develop into all these organic infusions? If that were true, they would be numerous enough to form a thick fog, as dense as iron."
--Pierre Pochet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse