Word: lymph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stimulates the linings of bloodvessels, lymph channels and certain organs to produce substances which defend a person against the disease from which he happens to suffer...
Still curious about teeth although he has filled them for 40 years, Columbia University's Professor Charles Francis Bodecker proved what few other dentists suspected-that the multitude of very fine passages in the hard dentin and enamel are filled with a fluid which he named "dental lymph...
...Dental lymph, he told the New York State Dental Society at Syracuse last week, apparently nourishes teeth, keeps them supplied with the mineral salts which make them hard and impervious to bacteria and bits of food which cause decay. Malnutrition is one of the factors which disturbs this protective activity of the dental lymph. Therefore, to keep teeth sound, general good health is as important as brushing the teeth. But especially if health is below par, then it is very important to keep mouth and teeth clean...
While studying the lymphatic system. a festoon of glands and channels which drains all the tissues of the body and parallels the blood system, Dr. Drinker observed that inflammation in a wound blocks the lymph channels in that part of the body. This blockade does two things. It causes substances, whose constituents Dr. Drinker confessed he does not know, to accumulate in the wound. These substances cause scars. The blockade also prevents the free flow of lymph to the site of the wound. Lymph, in some manner which Dr. Drinker still is trying to learn, destroys germs...
...This analysis of lymph function," concluded astonished Dr. Drinker, "leaves us with the idea that the lymphatic system is organized solely as a bulwark against the natural development of tissue abnormality and against infection...