INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND NATURAL BODY DEFENSES

Duration: 11 min

Year Published: 1961

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Uses photomicrography, laboratory demonstration, and animation to illustrate the two groups of natural defenses which guard the body against disease. Explains that the outer body defenses include the skin, passages of the nose and throat, and stomach acids, and among the inner body defenses are lymph glands, the chemical antibodies, the spleen and liver, and white blood cells, which are shown ingesting and destroying bacteria.

Complete Record: Source: Coronet Interest level: jh-sh Guide: Guide Price: b&w $60, color $110 Format: sd b&w or color Catalog numbers: LC card Fi A 61-810

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)