The immune system protects the body from invading disease-causing organisms, or pathogens. Pathogens and other non-self molecules are antigens  foreign molecules recognized by the immune system, stimulating an immune response. The majority of infections by pathogens occurs in mucous membranes of our body. Skin, which excludes most pathogens from entering the body. 2  Cilia in mucous membranes, which sweep out airborne pathogens and dust. 3  Tears, nasal secretions and saliva, which contain bacteria-destroying enzymes. 4  Phagocytic cells, called neutrophils, macrophages, and dendritic cells.
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection.
Lilliput and Blefuscu. Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel eight hundred yards wide.