Word: lymph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slender nematode worms, three to four inches long, breed in the lymph spaces of the afflicted. Their larvae swarm through the blood stream. The kind prevalent in the West Indies and as far north as Charleston, S. C., crowd to the internal organs during daylight. At night they wriggle among the blood corpuscles until they reach the blood vessels close to the skin. Along comes a mosquito. It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae...
...larvae develop within the mosquito. Later the insect bites another human, disgorging at the instant one or more tiny worms. They burrow into the victim, seek out a lymph node, breed. Batches of them snarl themselves in the lymph passages causing inflammation, which blocks the free passage of lymph through the body. It backs up, causing swellings, particularly of the legs and groin in the Antilles. Affected parts grow massy. The skin thickens and crinkles like an elephant's. Hence the name elephantiasis for one aspect of the disease...
...general public by journalistic interpretation of a weighty article in last month's issue of Medizinische Klinik (Berlin). He de scribed very technically how he crushed the brains of tree frogs and from the juice se cured an extract which he called centronervin. That extract, when injected into the lymph systems and thence into the blood stream of live frogs stimulated them remarkably. It toned up their muscles, made them stronger, especially it seemed to speed up their reactions. Treated frogs saw flies more quickly than normal frogs, caught more of them. Brain juices of rats, dogs and cows caused...
Hunters may fear that they have tularemia if they suddenly feel sharp chills and sweats, if at the same time they have severe headaches, aching pains in the back, hands and feet, prostration. Vomiting, diarrhea and delirium are other signs. Ulcers and swollen lymph glands usually develop...
...catastrophe ensues. . . . The city dies. The nation without the vital lymph of youth and new generations, cannot resist and, being composed of cowardly old people, must necessarily fall a prey to younger peoples knocking at its deserted frontiers...