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...LYMPH DRAINAGE. Many of the powerful antibodies against foreign protein are carried by lymphocytes, white blood cells circulating principally in the lymphatic system. Dr. Murray reported on a method in which a plastic tube is inserted in the thoracic lymph duct just above the collarbone. The lymph drains out by gravity into a plastic bag. With good drainage, up to 32 billion cells are removed daily, for as long as four months. They are separated from the lymph fluid by centrifuge, and the fluid is reinfused into the patient through an arm vein. With a well-drained lymph system, said...
...ANTILYMPHOCYTE TREATMENT. One way to depress white-cell and antibody activity is to introduce antibody against the lymphocytes themselves. So thymus glands, spleens and lymph nodes are removed from human cadavers, and the extract is injected into horses. The horses' rejection mechanism goes to work and makes particles active against the human lymphocytes. The horses are later bled, antilymphocyte serum is extracted, and may be further refined to a globulin fraction. At the University of Colorado, a team headed by Dr. Thomas Starzl has performed 19 successful transplants since last June; given antilymphocyte globulin, the patients have got along...
...experiencing chest pains, Ruby at first received treatment for a virus at the jail, was hospitalized only after he assured Sheriff William Decker that he was feeling "not worth a damn." Though the precise source of Ruby's cancer remained undetermined, tests showed a malignancy in a lymph node in his neck and a cluster of nodules in the chest and lungs. So far advanced is the cancer that doctors ruled out surgery and radiation, instead gave Ruby regular intravenous doses of 5-fluorouracil, a drug that starves cancerous cells and, when successful, slows the deadly spread...
...Jack Ruby, 55, in serious condition at Dallas'Parkland Memorial Hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous lymph node from his chest; Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 66, recovering in London's King Edward VIFs Hospital following an unspecified abdominal operation; Joseph P. Kennedy, 78, resting in Boston's New England Baptist Hospital after an operation to remove lesions from his chest; and Actress Sina Lollobrigida, 38, feeling much better following treatment in Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital for severe intestinal inflammation that resulted, she said, from eating an unwashed apple in Mexico...
...theory not only seems to offer a satisfactory explanation of the origins of Meniere's disease, but has also led to the development of an oral drug that appears to control the symptoms. The theory is that Meniere's begins with an accumulation of lymph fluids in the inner ear, apparently as the result of changes in circulation. The excess lymph, which causes the tinnitus and dizziness, can be dissipated by restoring this "microcirculation." Histamine, one of the body's cellular hormones, will do the job, but it is so powerful that it must be used with...