Word: lymph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rendered the young woman inert. Dean Irving Samuel Cutter of Northwestern offered this explanation: "The first stages of encephalitis are sleep, paralyzing of certain cranial nerves, general weakness and acute inflammation chiefly affecting the grey matter in the midbrain region. The secondary effects are inflammation of the capillaries and lymph spaces in the brain proper, filling the spaces with cell debris and shutting off the brain's nourishment. This causes an atrophy, or sinking and withering...
...heart, the blood vessels and the kidneys work together in taking care of the fluids of the body. In good health, fluid swallowed as drink or inj food is absorbed from the lower intestine into the lymph system, into the blood stream. Most fluid which the blood does not require strains through the kidneys into the bladder. Any clogging of the kidneys causes a back pressure of blood in the arteries and heart...
...There may be no noticeable change in the primary mole. . . . But the clinical onset may be characterized by enlargement of lymph nodes draining the area. Advancement of the growth from this stage may be slow or rapid...
...Certain other organs-brain, thymus, bone marrow, dried gastric mucosa. dried lymph nodes-exert an inhibiting action on tar cancer development...
...Aside from those surgical disorders resulting from accidents, it is practically axiomatic that what the osteopathic physician calls a 'lesion' is a predisposing factor in the production of such disorders. Such a 'lesion' affects the circulation of blood and lymph and thus becomes responsible for producing in the tissues the point of lowered resistance in which germs locate and propagate. It is also responsible for a region of stagnant blood, or some-times of stimulated circulation, which may result in excess or defect or perversion of the growth or function in structures directly influenced...