Last week, frankly astonished by his findings, Dean Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard's School of Public Health went to Chicago to give a convention of the American College of Surgeons his explanation of the functioning of the lymphatic system.
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...
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