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The Defence System 17

second. This action continues even when we are asleep.
This intense activity occurs in periods of time which
from our viewpoint are very short. There is a significant
difference between the notion of time in our daily lives
and the biological time of our body. The span of one
second that represents a very short time period in our
daily life would pass for a very long time for many work-
ing systems and organs in our bodies. If all the activities
performed by all the organs, tissues and cells of our
body in one second were written down, the result
would be so inconceivable as to push the limits of the
human mind.
One vital system, which is involved in constant ac-
tivity, never shirking its duty, is the defence system. This
system protects the body from all kinds of invaders day
and night and works with great assiduity, just like a fully-
equipped army for the host body, which it serves.
Each system, organ, or group of cells within the
body represents a whole within a perfect labour distri-
bution. Any defect in the system ruins the order. And
the defence system is indispensable.
Would we be able to survive in the absence of the
defence system? Or what sort of life would we have if
this system failed to fulfill some of its functions?
It is not hard to make a guess. Some examples in the
world of medicine make clear how vital the immune
system is. The story of a patient cited in many related
sources shows how difficult life would be in case of any
defect in the defence system.
This patient was placed immediately after his birth
in a sterile plastic tent, which nothing was allowed to