To see all this as it is shown before us here is to
realise that we are in the presence of an unknown world, a world
infinitesimally small, but as real and as complex as that about
us. With the cinematograph and the ultra-microscope we can see
what no other forms of photography can reproduce.
"I have secured these pictures so that I can better mass up the
evidence against a certain person in this room. For in the blood
of one of you is now going on the fight which you have here seen
portrayed by the picture machine. Notice how the blood corpuscles
in this infected blood have lost their smooth, glossy appearance,
become granular and incapable of nourishing the tissues. The
trypanosomes are fighting with the normal blood cells. Here we
have the lowest group of animal life, the protozoa, at work
killing the highest, man."
Kennedy needed nothing more than the breathless stillness to
convince him of the effectiveness of his method of presenting his
case.
"Now," he resumed, "let us leave this blood-sucking, vampirish
tse-tse fly for the moment.
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